Rico Nasty Quotes

But my role is to just apply the skills I've learned over the years: you listen to the guitar, you listen to the vocal melodies, you listen to the rhythm, and you come up with something that helps you take the song somewhere.

I don't think I really make singer-songwritery-type music - it's not my strong point.

Keep in mind, you can use Auto-Tune and you can know how to work it perfectly, but you still have to know how to write a good song.

A great song has to stand on its own, just singing and playing, and the rest is frosting. But you have to pay attention to the frosting.

The producer should decide what kind of music is being made, what it's going to sound like - all of it: the why, when, and how.

For me, it's always just about playing the song and recording it and giving it what it needs as a song.

For me, honest critique is not all about your feelings and your ear. Honest critique is sitting down with an album that you may not put on in your spare time, and really digging into that album, so you can talk about the beat selection.

As a songwriter, I've always loved to tell stories. But in my band, it was always about what would make sense for a band to put out.

I love to work with producers who are very good with their chord progressions.

I started by producing, and the rapping came second to that, because I wanted to fill out the beat.

When making any record, a producer has a list of things you hope an artist brings to the studio. Songs that are strong even without the bells and whistles.

I know melody. I know rhythm; I know bass guitar; I know the piano. I know everything about music that helps build the music that go along with creating the whole art form, you know what I'm saying?

I write most of my own lyrics for my album and I am helping to produce some of the songs as well.

When I walked into the studio, the chorus of 'Nobody Love' was already set. For me, the challenge was to make it have depth.

Plus, we spend most of our time writing music. Most of the time is spent in the studio in my house.

I'm not really into the whole lyrics thing; I just like to make music that people like to listen to.

I think it's his perception of knowing how to make a record build, keeping the integrity of the song in the music and really adding a lot of musical elements to compliment my voice and to compliment the song.

I think you can have the greatest lyrics in the world and if it doesn't have the best tune in the world it will suck. I mean if the music wasn't important it would just be a poem.

So I'll set a cycle in motion and pop it into record and I'll lay down a drum pattern, a bass line, a keyboard and guitar part, and once the groove is going I launch into the song and sing my song over the top.

A right balance between music and lyrics is important. Music complements lyrics.

Aretha Franklin's 'Let Me in Your Life' is one of the few recent R&B albums that places the emphasis entirely and deservedly on a voice. Many R&B producers have been making records on which the singer is outshined by the song, the arrangement and the sound.

I sit and write songs alone and then get together with people to help me flesh it out into a recording.

When you're making a record, you try to achieve stylistically what fits on you. Like a good old coat, you know what I mean?

I've just been recording mostly acoustic stuff, drums, and sax, and electric guitar. I'm just still writing songs and what not.

Doing the instrumental thing, you're really looking for the power of the melody to carry the record.