MUSTARD

My real name is Dijon. My mom named me Dijon, so everybody used to call me Mustard.

Sam Smith is amazing.

As long as you have a percentage of a song, that lasts forever. You have to study the business. Don't just be in it for money. You have to understand what you're in it for, then get your money.

Anytime anyone of my friends in my camp, if we argue, we gonna fight for real.

'Ratchet' has a lot of meanings. You can be a bad ratchet or a good ratchet. You can have fun, be ghetto, and get ratchet.

I could do beats with a million sounds, and I could do beats with two sounds. Which one is going to make the most sense, and which one is going to sell the most records? Most of the time, it's the simplicity.

I create my music so you can go to the club and have fun.

I think my set is more so mixed in everything. It's not just EDM.

My cousin went to jail, and I was like, 'I don't wanna spend my life in jail.' So I just started DJing, and that was my out.

I wanna compete; I wanna be the best at whatever I do.

It's just dumb: how you can have the number 1 record in Los Angeles and not have the number 1 record in New York? It's crazy.

Any man can take a sucker punch, but if you get slapped, it's other repercussions to that.

I feel like having a son made me go harder and work harder. And now that I got a daughter, it's the same grind, staying focused on what I have to do for them.

With me and YG, he could rap a hook, and I could make a beat around it. Ten minutes, we done.

I think it's good that producers are showing more ways to show their artistry and be more the artist, you know? Not just the producer in the back making the beats.

I just wanted to do my own albums where nobody could tell me what to do. Roc Nation was the perfect fit because I could do what I wanted to do.

Everybody in the West Coast always like to hear YG, RJ, and Mustard together.

Me and my little cousin DJ John John, we used to always be DJing in the house. We never took it seriously.

I want my hands in all the pots and not just one. I want to make the right moves that'll put me in the right place.

I wanna be involved in everything, not just one thing.

I hear a lot of people saying my stuff sounds the same. When you're in my position, people come to you to give them the same sound in a different type of way.

Now I have a business, artists to take care of. I want to make sure everything's going right, because at the end of the day, it's my name.

I actually care about my shows.

Don't let this music industry or any industry come between friendship. Just stay focused on your goals.

Don't just be a mystery to your kids. You need your kids to know you and know they can call you whenever they need you.