Valee

“I don't want to make videos that come out looking like commercials or movie trailers.”

“I'd love to be a NASCAR driver because they're, like, in their forties and fifties.”

“People say it's a quiet flow, that it sounds like I'm in a library. That could have come from when I was living in my old place, a nice loft. I was the youngest person in the building, and I would be working alone on my music. I would get emails two or three times a month about 'loud' music, so I became quieter and quieter about making beats.”

“I, for certain, don't mind my son doing music.”

“Basically, coming up, listening to Cash Money and Master P, and my mother would listen to Sade and Erykah Badu, things like that. I didn't like that music back then, but now, I guess, to look for soothing music or tones, you know, I would look to that, and I would love to do something with Sade or Erykah Badu.”

“I do like 'The Truman Show.'”

“My goal for the rap game is just to make a lot of really dope music. That's really where I keep my mindset at: Just being obsessed over making something crazy and new every day.”

“I want to work very hard on music, put out a lot of nice product - good quality product - and then just help people out, like a Gucci Mane, like a Future... like a Prince, like a Michael Jackson.”

“I was always into different stuff: custom cars, electrical, construction, tattooing, decor, you name it.”

“I rarely like the music I make. It's like nothing's good enough. I just stay in my head, waiting on the next best beat, so I can do something better than what I did.”

“I've always wanted to pull my classic car up directly to my kitchen, get out, and leave the groceries right there.”

“You can't be an artist while you're producing, because you'll be over-critiquing the producer part.”

“I just felt proud of being able to tell my mom that 'Ye reached out. He saw that I built on my own with a small team.”

“I do my own tattoos.”

“My last name is Taylor. So in school, every time we got a project, I'm at the end. So I get to see the whole class do their project. Then, when it comes time to do mine, of course I'd pass, and the teacher wouldn't have too many questions.”

“I like to work smart and make music that people want to hear - just finding ways to not get on people's nerves when I'm coming through their ears.”

“A lot people don't know that Mannie Fresh is one of my favorite producers because I used to just be fascinated with how he would be producing stuff. He'd be silly, too, when he raps.”

“I'm real easygoing.”

“I really only make my own beats when I feel like I can't wait on somebody, or it's taking too long to get a nice beat to rap on.”

“A lot of times, I like to do nothing.”