Zaytoven Quotes:- Zaytoven (born January 12, 1980) is a German-born American record producer of trap, DJ, and keyboardist from Atlanta, Georgia. He has released collaborative projects with artists including Usher, Future, Gucci Mane, and Lecrae. He has also produced songs for artists such as Chief Keef.
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For a producer, I’ve been behind the scenes my whole career.
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When your dad is a preacher and your mom is a choir director and you’re in church all the time, as a youngster, you’ve got to find something to do. That’s where my musical background comes from.
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In Atlanta, I went to barber school. That’s how I met everyone I know in Atlanta, by cutting hair.
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I’m the type of guy, I make a lot of different beats, but sometimes I might stick to a sound for a little while.
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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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When I was a youngster, I might have been about 17 or 18 when I first started making beats.
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When people wanna come to buy beats or wanna record a song, I’m trappin’.
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When you take your music around to your people in the city or your label and don’t anybody like it, but you really like it, and you like, ‘Dang, these folks don’t hear what I hear.’
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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.
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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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I feel like every time I make a beat, and the Migos rap on it, it’s gonna be fire.
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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 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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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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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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Greatest Quotes by Zaytoven
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.
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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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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.
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Trap music, to me, is hustling music.
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When I think of a trap, I think of something that is unrehearsed. It’s something that’s edgy, not too well put together.
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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 I and Gucci have built.
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Most artists value my opinion a lot, and I think that’s due to ‘Beast Mode.’
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I have a church background. I’ve been playing piano and keyboard and organ all my life in the church.
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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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The reason I still go play the organ at church every Sunday and dedicate my talents to God first is that I feel like that’s the reason why I’m who I am today.
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Anything that I 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 started with the organ and drums, and I later got into drum machines as a teenager.
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I play the piano, but I’m not classically trained.
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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 sounds like Beethoven.
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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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When I and Gucci sit down, I make tracks real fast, and he can write songs real fast.
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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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Latest Zaytoven Quotes And Sayings
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 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’ve been doing this since ‘So Icy’ back in 2005.
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I almost never pitch myself. Me being an independent producer, never having a manager and never being signed, I pretty much just did my own thing: go out and search for the new talent, and when the new talent blows up, it just kinda brings everyone else to me.
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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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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 you work with Drake, you don’t really work with Drake. You send him the song, he raps on it, then y’all done worked together. So it ain’t like me and him sitting in the studio.
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The future is a real workaholic, so he’s the type of guy that’s gonna do more than enough songs to make sure you got everything you need.
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Guys like Future and me, help create and shape the sound of music – not just Atlanta music, but music all over. If you really pay attention to the music being made, a lot of that is very heavily influenced by the stuff that we created. I listen to so many songs that are like, ‘Damn, this sounds like my music!’
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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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When I approached my own movies, I went in it real innocent. I didn’t pay attention to anybody 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 like to introduce people to each other, especially in the hip-hop community.
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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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Future’s the guy, like, where, if I send him some beats while he on the road, and there’s a pack of beats that he really likes if there’s a new vibe or new wave, he’s like, ‘Man, keep feeding me more. Feed me more of this every day.’
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