Smokepurpp Quotes

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

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.

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

For Odd Future, I only made beats for Mike G. With the Internet, I'm part of a production team making tracks for me to sing over.

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

I originally wanted to be a rapper and musician.

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

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

Working with 50 Cent was great, you know what Im saying? It was just great to work with 50 Cent.

I never really made a full album in Los Angeles before.

My mom eventually told me if I wanted to be in the music industry, I should start writing my own songs. At that time, I was in junior high and had no idea where to start - I was writing joke rap songs with friends. Eventually, I wrote my first song in high school, and my mom took me to go record it with one of her band member friends at his house.

I have been with the record company and Tommy was there doing records with other people.

If I'm not putting out music, I'mma be producing for everybody. I got an artist named Mike Slice. He's nice, and he's real good. I'm doing a bunch of production for all the artists in the industry because I'm as much as a producer as I am an 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.

I'm a songwriter and I'd love to make that a part of my career.

My producer, Michael Knox, he's kind of my eyes and ears on Music Row. While I'm out on the road, he's looking for songs, and then he and I will get together and go over songs.

I often thought that if I had been working with Mark James at American Studios, I would have had a pop hit before I ever moved out of Memphis. But that didn't happen.

All I've ever wanted to do was play music and go on the road and make records.

I got started in 1995, working in a group called The Cash Money Click.

I've just signed a contract to make records in Nashville. It won't amount to much at first, but after a year or so, I will really be in the money.

I stopped writing lyrics down on paper after me and Jay-Z did 'Money In the Bank.' They're something I just hold in my mind.

Some people see Jermaine Dupri as a producer, and they don't really know what the songwriting skills are.

When Rick Ross made 'Hustlin',' Rick Ross also helped those producers become some of the biggest producers in the world.

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.