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“I don't want to be on the mic, man. I want to stay producing.”
“At the end of the day, I was listening to the big homies and they were saying, 'Yo, man, you got talent, man, stay off the streets.'”
“I used to grind. I be telling people, you don't grind, you don't sell. I was like 15, 16 getting dropped off in the city by myself, with my own beat CDs.”
“People told me that Miley's '23' wasn't hip-hop. Let me tell you, she went in and owned that track.”
“I first heard Trouble in 2008. At that time I was on my grind, trying to work with all the next-up artists. I had sent him a couple beats; he had done a couple songs. We was always around the same age.”
“If you put your time and energy into developing creatively, that's where you'll go.”
“With 'HUMBLE.,' I knew that beat was going to capture a moment. It just felt real urgent.”
“A lot of times, older people don't get the new generation.”
“This is the city of the underdog champion, so they want to see the next person out of their city blowing up and making I feel like, man, Atlanta's a big city, but it's so small.”
“You can't please everybody. As long as you make dope music, you're gonna have your fans.”
“I love being in the studio.”
“I used to listen to songs on the radio and play that junk back on that little keyboard.”
“I like everything rare - cars, shoes, clothes.”
“I'm just trying to follow the footsteps of God. I don't question him. Just keep moving. He never fails. He always amazes me. It's like, damn, the sky isn't the limit.”
“I wanted to find raw talent and help build it from scratch. I wanted to build from rags to riches. That's the way Ear Drummers did it. We took over the music industry from my mom's basement. That's why my first album is going to be called 'Made It Out the Basement.'”
“Those are two artists that I worked with real closely. Me and Miley are real close, me and Future are real close.”
“Pharrell is a legend.”
“The 'trap' sound is a sound from the city. We've always liked music with bass. We've always liked old schools with big speakers in the trunks. We like our music loud. We've always had a nightlife scene in Atlanta.”
“We Can't Stop' - everyone said that it wasn't going to work on pop radio, because it didn't have an EDM-type beat. But it went to No. 2 on Billboard and No. 1 on iTunes.”
“I like blessing others around me. When you work hard, it's just dope to give back to the people around you.”