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" When people wanna come buy beats or wanna record a song, I'm trappin'. "
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" 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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" I started with the organ and drums, and I later got into drum machines as a teenager. "
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" If you know Gucci Mane, controversy is always surrounding Gucci. "
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" If you listen to my early music, I didn't know how to mix. I barely knew how to record for real, and I didn't care. "
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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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" Atlanta can do crunk music, it can do snap music, it can do swag music. Atlanta has it all. "
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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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" Future's the guy, like, where, if I send him some beats while he on the road, and there's a pack of beats that he really like, if there's a new vibe or new wave, he's like, 'Man, keep feeding me more. Feed me more of this every day.' "
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" For a producer, I've been behind the scenes my whole career. "
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" 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. "
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" If I'm spending more than 15 minutes on a beat, I'm not feeling it. "
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" When I work with Future, it's almost like a work of art. "
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" 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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" 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 can do R&B, pop, gospel... whatever genre of music that's out. "
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" 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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" Trap music, to me, is hustling music. "
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" When I approached my own movies, I went in it real innocent. I didn't pay attention to nobody else's score. I was just going to do it with how I feel it should sound. To me, that's how you create new things. "
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" In Atlanta, I went to barber school. That's how I met everyone I know in Atlanta, by cutting hair. "
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" 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. "
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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 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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" 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. "
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" 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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" 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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" 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. "
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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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" I know it sounds funny coming from me, 'cause I produced it, but that's one of my favorite bodies of work. That's what 'Beast Mode' was when it came out and still is. "
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" I feel like every time I make a beat, and the Migos rap on it, it's gonna be fire. "
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