Zaytoven

Trap music, to me, is hustling music.

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Music is about feeling.

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

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When I was a youngster, I might have been about 17 or 18 when I first started making beats.

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I can do R&B, pop, gospel... whatever genre of music that's out.

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

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

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The music business, a lot of times, has a big finesse mentality to it.

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

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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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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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The reason I still go play the organ at church every Sunday and dedicate my talents to God first is because I…

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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…

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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…

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When you take your music around to your people in the city or your label, and don't nobody like it, but you…

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We did 'Bricks' and 'Ridiculous' all in one day. Gucci came here, like, 8 in the morning - we were done 4…

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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…

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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…

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Just the instrumentation of the whole 'Beast Mode' made people open up and respect me in a whole other way. With Gucci,…

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When my dad retired, he moved to Georgia, but I stayed in California. I was in San Francisco: that's where I first…

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I've been doing two things my whole life: I've been cuttin' hair, and I've been playing the organ at church. Those two…

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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…

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'So Icy' is always going to be one of my favorites because this is a song that blew my mind. I was…

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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…

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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…

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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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I play the piano, but I'm not classically trained.

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

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

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

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

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When me and Gucci sit down, I make tracks real fast, and he can write songs real fast.

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

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Most artists value my opinion a lot, and I think that's due to 'Beast Mode.'

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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…

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I use a lot of piano riffs in my production, and someone who I was working with said that I played so…

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I like V-Nasty a lot, and I know anytime I like an artist and the majority of people really don't like her,…

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

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