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" Al Nuke is almost like a real brother to me. Our chemistry is crazy because we're like night and day, but we blend so well. "
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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 the morning the next day. "
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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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" To me, my studio is my trap house. That's where I trap out of; that's where I hustle. That's where I make my money. "
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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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" I know it sounds funny coming from me, 'cause I produced it, but that's one of my favorite bodies of work. That's what 'Beast Mode' was when it came out and still is. "
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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 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. "
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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 just going to do it with how I feel it should sound. To me, that's how you create new things. "
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" I can show these folks I can do more than just the 'trap.' But what I realized is the trap is what they really recognize me for - that's what they want to hear. "
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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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" The most memorable part of filming 'Finesse,' I'd have to say, was the kissing scene. It was just so odd for me. "
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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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" When I work with Future, it's almost like a work of art. "
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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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" 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. "
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" I've been doing this since 'So Icy' back in 2005. "
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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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" 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 can do R&B, pop, gospel... whatever genre of music that's out. "
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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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" I'm content with what I've got from the industry, even though sometimes it seems like I might not get the proper credit. "
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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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" The music business, a lot of times, has a big finesse mentality to it. "
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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've been doing two things my whole life: I've been cuttin' hair, and I've been playing the organ at church. Those two things are what I looked at as my life: this is how I'm gonna make my money, this is how I'm gonna make my living... It helped me to be stable in what I do. "
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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, I know it's something special. That's the same way I felt about Gucci. "
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" When I was in high school, the girls used to tell me I looked like Usher, so to be doing a song with Usher was mind-blowing. "
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" 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. "
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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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" 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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