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I feel like Rae Sremmurd is just a whole new sound culturally. People don't understand, but they learn to understand. The melody choice is different and everything.
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I feel like when I came in the game, I was more focused on like, 'yo how many times can I get on the radio?'
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I used to be with Gucci every day. School nights, I was with Gucci going to all the different clubs, going to his video shoots. Just moving around with him is how I met a lot of different artists like 2 Chainz and Shawty Lo and other people I work with now.
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Juicy J was always one of my favorites. For one, he was a producer and I just used to love how he came on his verses every time.
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God has blessed me with something. One day, I do see myself being like Jimmy Iovine. I'm trying to build an empire.
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You can scroll through my iTunes and I've got everything. I've got Ace Hood, Alt-J, Annie Lennox, Arctic Monkeys, Beanie Sigel, the Beatles, Beth Hart, Big Sean, Bob Dylan, Bon Iver, Chief Keef, Coldplay, the Flaming Lips, Mariah Carey, Miley Cyrus, Nicki Minaj, OutKast, Pet Shop Boys, Peter Gabriel, the Smiths, and the list goes on from there.
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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.'
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It's important to show the new generation that soundtracks can be just as exciting as traditional albums if put in the hands of the right curator.
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As far as rapping goes, as long as you are telling the truth and you have a good flow, then you win.
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With rapping, that's just another form of expressing your music. Whether you're going to rap, you're going to sing, it's whatever you want.
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People told me that Miley's '23' wasn't hip-hop. Let me tell you, she went in and owned that track.
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With 'HUMBLE.,' I knew that beat was going to capture a moment. It just felt real urgent.
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We Can't Stop' was the first song we did. We didn't try to reach and be too 'hood:' It's hip-hop-influenced, but Miley's a pop singer, and she's going to have country in there.
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We Can't Stop' has so many different vibes to it. She sounds country; the beat has these live, knocking drums; and then it has these pop melodies. It's a feel-good record.
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When I was still at Interscope, I told them about Rae Sremmurd and we were talking about signing them. I was like, 'This is the hood Backstreet Boys, the black *NSYNC. This is the most ratchet pop is gonna get and this is the most pop hip-hop is gonna get.'
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I was able to bring Gucci and Rae Sremmurd on a track together. It was crazy because it seemed like it was destined to be.
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For 'Black Beatles' to be so true to us and our sound - we weren't chasing a sound - it solidifies that the world is ready for us and what we have to come.
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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.
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I don't spend a bunch of money on jewelry or sunglasses, because I lose them a lot.
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A Red camera is the best. When I started shooting videos, I had to pay ten thousand dollars just to rent one. I was like, 'I do all these music videos, and I still don't own a Red camera?' So I spent about a hundred thousand dollars to buy one. My own bread. Boom!
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When I do music I don't think about urban music, pop or country, I just think about a good song.
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I do it all, man. I produce, I do my own wardrobe and my own ironing, too!
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That's what music is all about, vibes. That's what makes people react and relate to a song, what makes it soulful.
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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.
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I wouldn't say money can buy happiness. Happiness starts with yourself. Money can buy a smile, though.
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2 Chainz and I have a history. It's always an honor and pleasure working with him, because it seems like everything we do is dope. We just have that organic chemistry.
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Me and Future, we did 'Dirty Sprite,' 'Ain't No Way Around It,' 'Turn on the Lights.' Every time we record, we're setting bars.
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I don't put myself in any box or say that I can't work on any kind of music. I'm not just a producer that only makes urban music.
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Jimmy Iovine has been telling me since 2012 that I needed to start my own label with my own artists. This was when he first met me and 'Bandz a Make Her Dance' was first taking off.
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When people question me about whether something is hip-hop, I ask them, 'Does it sound hard? Does it hit home? Is it raw and real?' If it is, I did my job. And you can call it whatever you want.
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I have a 200-song catalogue in the streets and I never got any money off that.
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I'm looking at EarDrummers like a boutique label, like an Interscope or a Def Jam.
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Jimmy Iovine, he pretty much started off as an engineer and a producer, and then he started up a label. Then he built his label to have big artists like Dr. Dre and 50 Cent. Then he started up a headphone company and made it a billion dollar business. He's a genius to me.
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