Metro Boomin Quotes

Metro Boomin

Profession : Producer

Birth : September 16, 1993

Really, I just sit down, mess around, and play with sounds.

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Me and Future recorded so many songs that as soon as we did 'Honest,' I liked it a lot, but I didn't see it as a single. But he just kept talking about it after we did it like, 'Man, this is big. This is big. It's gonna be a single.'

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There's always something in Atlanta that's so far from people's comfort zone.

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I like my name. If somebody wants to call me Leland, that's cool.

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Coming up, a lot of people I looked up to had a signature sound, but I came up, and I was always in search of one, trying to find it, trying to create one. I was never really able to have a creative signature sound, you know?

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You would think I'm mad or depressed all the time, but that's not the case at all.

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When I came up, one of my favorite groups and producers was Three 6 Mafia.

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I naturally, when I make beats, aim for a darker tone just because I've always preferred those types of feelings.

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I'm always going to be heavy in producing. It's always going to come first. It never can't come first.

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Growing up, flute riffs was big in rap back then. It's what I listened to.

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In high school, for two years, I made all my beats on earbuds. I'd just guess, so the frequencies would be all off.

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That's what helps me in my career: I know how to relate to people, knowing what they want.

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I'm glad 'Honest' came out right after 'Karate Chop,' because I don't want to be seen as a one-hit wonder.

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I try to take elements from all kinds of music. Even if I'm listening to anything off the wall, like Britney Spears, there might be a certain way someone did something, that I can feel, in some hip-hop flavor.

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A lot of people are programmed to think, 'Oh, I want to do this, but I also want this.' It's like they want everything. You want your cake, and you want to eat it, too. Even though I guess you're supposed to eat cake, but I never really get that saying.

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Future is different from a lot of artists just because of his work ethic.

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People like Tay Don, Don Cannon, and OJ Da Juiceman - those were the core people that I rock with. And I still rock with them.

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Two people making a beat is really like one person making a beat. But you have another person's brain. So what might sound good to you, they could flip it a different way. It's really a collaborative effort, really.

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I met Kendrick, and we were in the studio. He picked a bunch of beats out; that was great. He's a great guy - we vibed out for the day.

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Any piece of music or album or anything - I don't care what genre - in the States, a piece of it came through Atlanta somehow.

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