Syd Quotes

I started producing for Pump - I produced his first songs. 'Lil Pump,' 'Elementary,' 'Johnny Dang' - all that I produced.

I would say my dream collaboration would probably have to be with Drake. I think he is an amazing artist.

Dr. Dre, my oldest brother, he paved the way for me and Snoop to get a chance to get into the studio. I asked him to show me how to work the MPC-60... I was about maybe 17, 18, right around there.

'Cruise Control' was the first track me and Wiz Khalifa ever did. I made the beat on that, and I played guitar on it.

I had completely changed from being a mixtape DJ to being a producer and working with Nas and stuff like that.

I wanna do a song with Macklemore. I really wanna do a song with him.

When I came in the game, it was just me making beats in Inglewood at YG's house; it wasn't nobody to help me.

You should find the dopest producer in your area, and that producer is always going to want songs written to his beat.

I used to record but just in my own studio or in my friend's back when I toyed with the idea of being a rapper.

Hip-hop has survived as a sonic practice more than anything else. It's an approach to music-making based in sampling and rhyming over beats, that's proven far more versatile than its detractors thought it would.

With '5 Boroughs,' we were each working on beats, sitting in front of our laptops and samplers.

You know that I can make hits. You know I can do all these rap records.

I'ma work with Kanye. I'ma try my damndest.

We recorded 'Chopper City in the Ghetto' in a house that we was living in.

When Quavo was out doing sports, I was in the studio, what we call the bando, making music, going hard.

With Yo Gotti 'Rack It Up,' that was him hitting me like, bro, I'm about to put out a single next month, I want you to produce it.

We work pretty fast. I might be working, and I might knock out two, three songs. Quavo might come in two, three himself. Offset might come and do the same.

Gunna was the second person I ever made a song with.

Alex Tumay is a recording engineer who works a lot with Young Thug and a load of other rappers, like Quavo. I'm just a fan of his work.

I've worked with incredible producers in the past, but when me and El-P got in a room, there was no way I was going to let off his head because not only was he one of the greatest producers I heard, he was one of the illest rappers I had ever heard.

It just so happened that the sound I've developed has the Memphis origins to it that made Drake wanted to work with it.

I wanted to write songs from the ground up, I wanted to sit at a piano and build around that. But I still have a lot of love for hip-hop, so I want to do more collaborations in that sense.

On the low, I've been in Kanye's studio, No Name, out in L.A.

I'd love to work with Drake; I'd love to work with Frank Ocean, Jay Z, and Kanye. The list is endless.

It wasn't until 9th grade that I got into music. This guy in school heard me singing around the hallway to girls and stuff. The girls liked it. One day, he was like, 'Come to my crib. I got a studio. Come and record a hook for me.' I recorded the hook on the 'Lovers & Friends' beat - Usher.