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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. "

Zaytoven

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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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" 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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" 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. "

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

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" 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'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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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.' "

" In Atlanta, I went to barber school. That's how I met everyone I know in Atlanta, by cutting hair. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" If you know Gucci Mane, controversy is always surrounding Gucci. "

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

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

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

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

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" There's no record that you done heard me produce that I spent more than ten minutes on. "

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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. "

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

" 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. "

" Now, I made the most money I ever made in my life with 'Papers' - I think my first check was like $101,000, my folks couldn't even believe. At this time, this is like 2010, I'm still in the barbershop cutting hair, still being the regular Zaytoven because I felt like after 'Papers,' it wasn't going to get any bigger than that. "

" For a producer, I've been behind the scenes my whole career. "

" Music is about feeling. "