When people are saying something to you, you gotta listen to them. — Kenny Beats Communication Copy Share Image
Every time I'm working on something, I'm extremely excited about it. — Kenny Beats About Copy Share Image
Greedo is one of the most important California artists of our generation. — Kenny Beats California Copy Share Image
I'm a very self-sufficient person, much like a lot of people I work with. — Kenny Beats People Copy Share Image
Making assumptions taught me a lot as a producer, because it's something I never do now. — Kenny Beats Assumptions Copy Share Image
Being genre-bending doesn't really cross my mind. I don't consider anyone I work with a specific genre. — Kenny Beats Being Copy Share Image
The biggest thing Rick Rubin taught me is that you don't get any extra credit by doing everything yourself. — Kenny Beats Credit Copy Share Image
I heard Idles and was like this is all I want to work on, this is all I want to do, these… — Kenny Beats Best Copy Share Image
When I make a lot of really good music with someone, I want to let the world hear it right now; unfiltered.… — Kenny Beats Complicated Copy Share Image
By the end of high school, I was interning for no school credit, no money, no nothing, for Jonny Shipes. He was… — Kenny Beats End Copy Share Image
Many times you make music and someone decides to try and pick the best of everything. But if you wait, you sometimes… — Kenny Beats Best Copy Share Image
People will go through 50 beats from a producer and pick the best ones, go make a song on that beat. That's… — Kenny Beats Best Copy Share Image
Greedo taught me a lot. I don't say that about every artist. Some artists might teach me stuff musically, but Greedo taught… — Kenny Beats Art Copy Share Image
I think a lot of people make a big misstep when they assume what an artist is going to be interested in,… — Kenny Beats Art Copy Share Image
I always had this ego where if I ever wanted to come back to doing rap, I could do that. That was… — Kenny Beats Always Copy Share Image
Since he was 17 years old in Atlanta, I think people always knew that there was something different about Key. He's obviously… — Kenny Beats Adapt Copy Share Image
I got way more songs with Key! than Greedo, but I met them via each other, they Facetimed me at 6 A.… — Kenny Beats Key Copy Share Image
I feel like I wasn't making music that meant anything to me until I was 26 years old, so I'm realizing that… — Kenny Beats Five years Copy Share Image
You need to make people think about society in a less literal and more primal way. It's about using the least amount… — Kenny Beats Bass Copy Share Image
The real producers back in the day didn't sit there and play every single instrument. They made sure the record had the… — Kenny Beats Best Copy Share Image
At the end of the day I'm not just sending beats in. I'm mixing the song. I'm recording the song. I'm engineering… — Kenny Beats Day Copy Share Image
I am friends with the most amazing musicians that can do pop, rap, punk and jazz. — Kenny Beats Amazing Copy Share Image
I started a group called Loudpvck, which I do by myself now, and toured the whole world. — Kenny Beats Group Copy Share Image
I was working for Johnny Shipes in New York when I was 17 years old, getting beats off. — Kenny Beats Johnny Copy Share Image
Key! is the greatest rapper alive. I honestly, truly believe that no one is as effortless, weird, and creative, and themselves as… — Kenny Beats Alive Copy Share Image
I've never seen Key think about how he was going to act on a song. He just is whoever he is that… — Kenny Beats Day Copy Share Image
Lil Jon was definitely a pioneer for some of the punk-rap acts we see now. He showed you could scream on a… — Kenny Beats Now Copy Share Image
I had to learn how to bring the best outta Key! by learning what's going on with him. That's how I approach… — Kenny Beats Art Copy Share Image
You go to a Rico Nasty show and there's gay people, trans people, white people and black people all in the mosh… — Kenny Beats Beautiful Copy Share Image
The point of '777' is for the world to hear adult Key. Your favorite new rapper's favorite rapper, grown up. My job… — Kenny Beats Canvas Copy Share Image
I never was able to pay any type of bill doing the music that I was instinctually was making 'cause I loved… — Kenny Beats Feet Copy Share Image
I get hit up all the time from every verified rapper with 1,000,000 followers like, 'Yo bro! You got the sauce right… — Kenny Beats Bro Copy Share Image