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" What's so crazy is I always looked at Jay Z and guys on the caliber of Jay Z like they just the big dogs. I didn't think they listen to my music or even know who I am. "

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" Guys like Future and me, we help create and shape the sound of music - not just Atlanta music, but music all over. If you really pay attention to the music being made, a lot of that is very heavily influenced by the stuff that we created. I listen to so many songs that's like, 'Damn, this sounds like my music!' "

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You

Help

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

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Listening

Music

" I like to introduce people to each other, especially in the hip-hop community. "

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Hip-Hop

Community

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

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Rap

Time

" When I was cutting hair, I felt like that was my trap. I started selling haircuts. I started selling beats; that's me trapping. So trap music is like hustling music to me. "

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Started

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. "

" The most memorable part of filming 'Finesse,' I'd have to say, was the kissing scene. It was just so odd for me. "

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Odd

Say

" 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. "

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Night

Crazy

" 'So Icy' is always going to be one of my favorites because this is a song that blew my mind. I was just making beats for the fun of it. I went to the club and heard the song being played, so I asked the DJ to stop playing the song, and the whole club started rapping word for word. "

" 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. "

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Career

Almost

" I'm the type of guy, I make a lot of different beats, but sometimes I might stick to a sound for a little while. "

" I started with the organ and drums, and I later got into drum machines as a teenager. "

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

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

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Feeling

Than

" Future is a real workaholic, so he's the type of guy that's gonna do more than enough songs to make sure you got everything you need. "

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Future

Need

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

" A lot of people want to blow up as a producer, but what helps you blow up as a producer is an artist that matches well with your music. When that artist gets popular and blowing up, and people start knowing them, that's when they start knowing you. "

" When Zaytoven and Future are working together, then Future's not working on no other tracks, and Zaytoven's not making no beats for nobody but Future. "

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

" 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. "

" Gucci is a guy that promoted me to the fullest. It don't matter where we go. "

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Gucci

Where

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

" I was a military brat. My dad was in the military, so I was born in Germany. I moved around a lot; I was in church a lot. "

" It's been a blessing that I can provide for my family just by doing music. I never thought this would ever be my occupation. "

" You listen to something like 'Beast Mode,' and it's almost like looking at a pretty painting. "

" 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. "

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Thought

Always

" I almost never pitch myself. Me being an independent producer, never having a manager and never being signed, I pretty much just did my own thing: go out and search for the new talent, and when the new talent blows up, it just kinda brings everyone else to me. "

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Myself

Talent

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I listen to a lot of music... but there still hasn't been a project yet that touches me like 'Beast Mode' has. "