Zaytoven Quotes

Yeah, I like Three Six Mafia and stuff like that.

Crunk music is the music of the South, it pervades every club and nightclub not only in America, but all over the world.

Before Lil Jon and The Eastside Boyz, nobody ever said, 'I'm a crunk artist. I make crunk music.'

We grew up listening to music like that: we grew up on the snap music, grew up off the trap music, grew up on all the South sound.

I'm listening to early Cash Money, I'm listening to Juvenile, I'm listening to Waka Flocka, I'm listening to Lil B, I'm listening to Brandy, Kanye - that's my home playlist.

I'm a Southern guy, so Jeezy, T.I., and Outkast are always playing on my iPod.

Atlanta, to me, has the sauce as far as urban music is concerned.

I like a lot of ratchet, trap music. Definitely 21 Savage. We need some music like that. ManMan Savage. A lot of the Atlanta scene. But Philly, too.

I really loved crunk. I loved the extreme nature of it, how repetitious it was, and how these basic, angry chants would just be repeated over and over again.

I grew up on Geto Boys and of course UGK, who put my hometown of Port Arthur, Texas, on the map. I was about Goodie Mob and OutKast too.

Atlanta is a very good scene for the type of music I'm making. The biggest radio stations are all trap or rap stations. All the clubs are just based around this music and just the southern sound, that's what I really love about the city.

I've been doing this since 'So Icy' back in 2005.

Real hip-hop is Migos, Future.

The album that defined my childhood was probably Ella Fitzgerald's 'Greatest Hits,' whereas my half-sister, who didn't have the same conservative upbringing, was listening to Cash Money and crunk.

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

Yo Gotti had some influence on me for sure. I would say Three 6 Mafia, too.

I'm still going to sing these songs because trap is a type of music very popular in the streets, and people want to hear it.

I was listening to Young Jeezy and Shawty Red, and to me, the trap music they had was something special.

When I put out 'Toot It and Boot It,' did anything sound like that?

I appreciate Drake's music, I appreciate Future's music, I appreciate Lil Durk's music. I appreciate Uzi, Meek Mill, I appreciate Migos.

When we came out, they just labelled us 'ratchet music' cos we said 'ratchet' a lot. Ratchet means that's it's ghetto, but I would just call the music we're making just good music.

The people we grew up watching and listening to - Outkast, Gucci Mane, Hot Boys, Lil Wayne, Master P - all that type of stuff, we took those styles and made it our own.

Yeah, I got a lot of inspiration from Three 6 as far as my sound.

A trap lord is basically the lord of the trap, and my trap is rap.

I'm a fan of the mythos of Atlanta hip-hop, and it's something I grew up imagining. It was very interesting to get there and see the real version of this world and then reconcile the differences between what's presented as Atlanta hip-hop to the rest of the world and what the real, breathing version of it is.