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" Trap music, to me, is hustling music. "

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" I like V-Nasty a lot, and I know anytime I like an artist and the majority of people really don't like her, I know it's something special. That's the same way I felt about Gucci. "

" I approached my career like a rapper. I would go to every open mic, every studio session, bringing my beats. I would almost do exactly what a rapper would do to get on. "

" If I'm spending more than 15 minutes on a beat, I'm not feeling it. "

" When me and Gucci sit down, I make tracks real fast, and he can write songs real fast. "

" When I think of trap, I think of something that is unrehearsed. It's something that's edgy, not too well put together. "

" I'm always up for the challenge of doing more and doing different things. I love being inspired like a new producer all over again. "

" When my dad retired, he moved to Georgia, but I stayed in California. I was in San Francisco: that's where I first went from being a musician to making beats and producing. I was 18, 19. It started going pretty good for me out there in California, so I stayed in SF while my parents moved to Georgia. "

" When I think about 'Beast Mode,' that's what I think about. I don't think about just a hard project; they just created some art together. "

" I've been doing this since 'So Icy' back in 2005. "

" When I work with Future, it's almost like a work of art. "

" The reason I still go play the organ at church every Sunday and dedicate my talents to God first is because I feel like that's the reason why I'm who I am today. "

" I was listening to Young Jeezy and Shawty Red, and to me, the trap music they had was something special. "

" I feel like every time I make a beat, and the Migos rap on it, it's gonna be fire. "

" When you work with Drake, you don't really work with Drake. You send him the song, he rap on it, then y'all done worked together. So it ain't like me and him sitting in the studio. "

" Atlanta can do crunk music, it can do snap music, it can do swag music. Atlanta has it all. "

" When I actually first moved to Atlanta, I was cutting hair. I was making beats and making music out in the Bay Area. But I came here to make - you know, I had to get my barber license, so I was cutting hair. "

" I'm the type of guy where, if I see, like, 20 songs, I don't even wanna listen to one of 'em 'cause it's too much. "

" Anything that me and Gucci do is never thought out or planned real deeply. We always just go off of what we feeling. It's sporadic. "

" I have a church background. I've been playing piano and keyboard and organ all my life in church. "

" When I was in high school, the girls used to tell me I looked like Usher, so to be doing a song with Usher was mind-blowing. "

" I tell people that it's one thing to have the gift and the talent and work hard but another thing to have the favor of God in making it all work, and I think all those are factors. "

" When I was a youngster, I might have been about 17 or 18 when I first started making beats. "

" When people wanna come buy beats or wanna record a song, I'm trappin'. "

" I feel like I'm an okay piano player. To the music world, to people that's in the hip-hop culture, they probably look at me like, 'Zaytoven the greatest piano player in the world.' I'm okay. "

" Trap is being added to everything. It seems like every genre wants that bit of trap to what they're doing. "

" I think that the sound that the world knows as trap music is the sound that Gucci and I created. "

" Al Nuke is almost like a real brother to me. Our chemistry is crazy because we're like night and day, but we blend so well. "

" I use a lot of piano riffs in my production, and someone who I was working with said that I played so good that it sound like Beethoven. "

" My formula is not thinking about what I'm doing; it's about still having fun and making music. I don't go into the studio with a thought pattern or certain goals in mind - sometimes I'll start with drums, other times I'll start with the piano - but it's all done spontaneously, so nothing is premeditated, and nothing takes a long time. "