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1. 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.
2. I was listening to Young Jeezy and Shawty Red, and to me, the trap music they had was something special.
3. 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.
4. 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.
5. 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.
6. 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.
7. 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.
8. Anything that me and Gucci do is never thought out or planned real deeply. We always just go off of what we feeling. It’s sporadic.
9. 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.
10. When I think about ‘Beast Mode,’ that’s what I think about. I don’t think about just a hard project; they just created some art together.
11. When I work with Future, it’s almost like a work of art.
12. When Zaytoven and Future are working together, then Future’s not working on no other tracks, and Zaytoven’s not making no beats for nobody but Future.
13. Music is about feeling.
14. I’ve been doing this since ‘So Icy’ back in 2005.
15. Atlanta can do crunk music, it can do snap music, it can do swag music. Atlanta has it all.
16. I started with the organ and drums, and I later got into drum machines as a teenager.
17. What’s so crazy is I always looked at Jay Z and guys on the caliber of Jay Z like they just the big dogs. I didn’t think they listen to my music or even know who I am.
18. ‘So Icy’ is always going to be one of my favorites because this is a song that blew my mind. I was just making beats for the fun of it. I went to the club and heard the song being played, so I asked the DJ to stop playing the song, and the whole club started rapping word for word.
19. ‘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.
20. 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.