Zaytoven Quotes

Zaytoven

Profession : Musician

Birth : January 12, 1980

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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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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It's been a blessing that I can provide for my family just by doing music. I never thought this would ever be my occupation.

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When Zaytoven and Future are working together, then Future's not working on no other tracks, and Zaytoven's not making no beats for nobody but Future.

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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 trap, I think of something that is unrehearsed. It's something that's edgy, not too well put together.

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If you listen to my early music, I didn't know how to mix. I barely knew how to record for real, and I didn't care.

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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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If I'm spending more than 15 minutes on a beat, I'm not feeling it.

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When I work with Future, it's almost like a work of art.

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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 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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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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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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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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'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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You can always know, when it comes to a Gucci Mane or Migos project, there is no such thing of them putting out a project without me being a part of it. These are guys that I'm really close with, and we built a sound together, and we got a certain chemistry.

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