When my dad retired, he moved to Georgia, but I stayed in California. I was in San Francisco: that's where I first went from being a musician to making beats and producing. I was 18, 19. It started going pretty good for me out there in California, so I stayed in SF while my parents moved to Georgia.

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If you know Gucci Mane, controversy is always surrounding Gucci.

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There's no record that you done heard me produce that I spent more than ten minutes on.

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Gucci is a guy that promoted me to the fullest. It don't matter where we go.

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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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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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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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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 sound like Beethoven.

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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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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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'Birds of a Feather' is on Netflix, and it did big for me. For me, it was a trial and error thing. I never thought about being an actor. I just felt like, in the music industry now, anything you said can go. So now it's a part of what I do. I make movies now.

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

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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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I was a military brat. My dad was in the military, so I was born in Germany. I moved around a lot; I was in church a lot.

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

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