Kenny Beats Quotes

My job is to make beats and make something hot.

I've been making beats since I was, like, 12.

I probably started trying to make beats at around 12.

Sampling is very important for me. It's the backbone of hip-hop.

When I was in middle school, that's when I first started making beats. I was maybe 14, 16, something like that.

I would get out of school and go straight to my computer to create beats.

Premier came into the picture when were starting to make our own beats and all that.

There's a difference between a beatmaker and a producer.

I used to re-create the beats that I heard.

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

My brother's been producing rap music and hip-hop for maybe 10 years.

My brother makes beats, and I DJ.

There's an open door now more than ever to be making any type of beats that you want.

I've been more and more into production lately, and I really, really love that. I love recording.

You can call me a beat-maker, but I'm a record producer.

All the Public Enemy albums, I knew what records they were sampling but was like, 'How'd they construct it like this?!'

I wanted to rap, but I needed beats. I couldn't buy any, so I just made my own.

I became this dorky 15-year-old, in my bedroom all the time with crossed eyes, staring at my computer. It was all drum loops, R&B and pop - silly songs that I hope to God no one ever hears. But that's what got me in to music.

I've always had a fascination with making your own music but never have been skilled enough to play the instrument, so to be able to make music without the ability was awesome.

Everything I make as a producer, I visualize it as a DJ first. And all those beats, I test them as a DJ.

I think I prefer producing a little more than DJing because you have more freedom, you can make anything you want; it doesn't necessarily have to be four to the floor. You can go more with your mood, or the atmosphere that you're in.

I'd met Dr Dre, he was thinking about his next album, we talked a little and he said, 'Let me give you some of these loops and see what you come up with'.

My son is a hip-hop producer.

I guess we decided to make a new record 3 years ago when Nancy was done scoring for Almost Famous.

There was this cereal, and it had a special promotion with a CD inside the box that had a really simple music-making program on it. I got it, and that opened my mind to being able to make music on a computer and seeing all the different layers.