Kenny Beats Quotes

Kenny Beats

Profession : Producer

Birth : May 10, 1991

The point of '777' is for the world to hear adult Key. Your favorite new rapper's favorite rapper, grown up. My job was to lay any canvas he needed at any given moment.

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You go to a Rico Nasty show and there's gay people, trans people, white people and black people all in the mosh pit together, and it's beautiful.

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I played guitar since I was 9 years old, drums since I was 11.

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Rap music's the only thing that ever mattered.

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By the end of high school, I was interning for no school credit, no money, no nothing, for Jonny Shipes. He was my first entry into going to XXL, being around rappers, meeting Yams and A$AP.

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The real producers back in the day didn't sit there and play every single instrument. They made sure the record had the best performance out of everyone involved possible.

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I had to learn how to bring the best outta Key! by learning what's going on with him. That's how I approach every artist I work with, period.

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I was working for Johnny Shipes in New York when I was 17 years old, getting beats off.

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I started a group called Loudpvck, which I do by myself now, and toured the whole world.

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I got way more songs with Key! than Greedo, but I met them via each other, they Facetimed me at 6 A. M. in Atlanta, wearing sunglasses. Key! said, 'You and Greedo doing a whole project.' And I was like, 'Alright.' Then they hung up on me.

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I've been doing music in some form since I was seven years old.

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I started making beats in high school.

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At the end of the day I'm not just sending beats in. I'm mixing the song. I'm recording the song. I'm engineering the song. I'm in the studio helping with the songwriting. I'm doing the whole beat - every single piece of it is me.

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Key! is the greatest rapper alive. I honestly, truly believe that no one is as effortless, weird, and creative, and themselves as he has been for years and years.

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I think a lot of people make a big misstep when they assume what an artist is going to be interested in, so I try to just take that out of the equation and make sure whenever I'm talking to people about their music, I'm getting all my context clues from that - and then we go to work.

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I always had this ego where if I ever wanted to come back to doing rap, I could do that. That was not true. I would get stuck, I would be in a room and someone would ask me for something and I didn't have it.

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The biggest thing Rick Rubin taught me is that you don't get any extra credit by doing everything yourself.

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I'm a very self-sufficient person, much like a lot of people I work with.

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Most of these producers have an agenda of what they want to push or what they think will be hot for someone. I don't have an agenda. My agenda is to take someone and bring out their dreams, what they're hearing in their head.'

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When people are saying something to you, you gotta listen to them.

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