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" When me and Gucci sit down, I make tracks real fast, and he can write songs real fast. "
Zaytoven
Fast
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Real
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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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" 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. "
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" I can do R&B, pop, gospel... whatever genre of music that's out. "
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" 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. "
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" I started with the organ and drums, and I later got into drum machines as a teenager. "
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" 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. "
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" I've been doing this since 'So Icy' back in 2005. "
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" When your dad is a preacher and your mom is a choir director and you're in church all the time, as a youngster, you've got to find something to do. That's where my musical background comes from. "
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" 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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" 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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Like
Started
Hair
" When I was a youngster, I might have been about 17 or 18 when I first started making beats. "
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First
" I started producing in California, and they called it mob music. When I moved to Atlanta, the sound was different. People in Atlanta didn't like to rap over West Coast beats. So I had to make adjustments to what was going on in the South. "
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" Trap music, to me, is hustling music. "
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" I can show these folks I can do more than just the 'trap.' But what I realized is the trap is what they really recognize me for - that's what they want to hear. "
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" It always surprises me and always makes me proud when I see people that I know I worked with at the house in the basement on TV being superstars. "
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Proud
Always
Know
" I listen to a lot of music... but there still hasn't been a project yet that touches me like 'Beast Mode' has. "
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Listen
Project
Music
" 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. "
Zaytoven
Good
Someone
Sound
" 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. "
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Military
I Was Born
Church
" 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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" I'm a church musician. I play gospel music; that's what I do. I never had a chance to produce gospel music, and I did a full album with Lecrae that's the number one Christian album. It's super-big for me. "
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" 'Birds of a Feather' is on Netflix, and it did big for me. For me, it was a trial and error thing. I never thought about being an actor. I just felt like, in the music industry now, anything you said can go. So now it's a part of what I do. I make movies now. "
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" 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. "
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Know
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You
" Just the instrumentation of the whole 'Beast Mode' made people open up and respect me in a whole other way. With Gucci, I don't use as many instruments. I don't play the piano as much because that's not really the style of music that me and Gucci have built. "
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Respect
Me
People
" I'm content with what I've got from the industry, even though sometimes it seems like I might not get the proper credit. "
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Content
Credit
Got
" 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. "
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Doing
Song
School
" There's no record that you done heard me produce that I spent more than ten minutes on. "
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Done
" 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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" When I think of trap, I think of something that is unrehearsed. It's something that's edgy, not too well put together. "
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