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• ‟ When I was cutting hair, I felt like that was my trap. I started selling haircuts. I started selling beats; that's me trapping. So trap music is like hustling music to me.

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• ‟ I started producing in California, and they called it mob music. When I moved to Atlanta, the sound was different. People in Atlanta didn't like to rap over West Coast beats. So I had to make adjustments to what was going on in the South.

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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 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.

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• ‟ 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.

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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 I did a full album with Lecrae that's the number one Christian album. It's super-big for me.

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• ‟ A lot of people want to blow up as a producer, but what helps you blow up as a producer is an artist that matches well with your music. When that artist gets popular and blowing up, and people start knowing them, that's when they start knowing you.

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• ‟ I listen to a lot of music... but there still hasn't been a project yet that touches me like 'Beast Mode' has.

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• ‟ When I actually first moved to Atlanta, I was cutting hair. I was making beats and making music out in the Bay Area. But I came here to make - you know, I had to get my barber license, so I was cutting hair.

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• ‟ People looked at me - people still look at me - as 'this is Gucci Mane's producer.' But the music that me and Future put together was so different than what me and Gucci do, it just made people look at the music like, 'Hold on - Zaytoven is the real deal.'

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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, 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.

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• ‟ I think that the sound that the world knows as trap music is the sound that Gucci and I created.

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

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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 really like it, and you like, 'Dang, these folks don't hear what I hear.'

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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 big dogs. I didn't think they listen to my music or even know who I am.

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• ‟ 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.

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• ‟ Trap music, to me, is hustling music.

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• ‟ I was listening to Young Jeezy and Shawty Red, and to me, the trap music they had was something special.

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• ‟ Music is about feeling.

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