Swae Lee Quotes

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

Sometimes, I make 50 songs and pick out the best 10. I've been in the studio all day, all night, making the beat, writing the raps. You never know what's gonna be a hit.

When I am seriously composing, sometimes a phrase will come into my head, a catch phrase. When I was writing pop songs for a few years, as a career, separate from my folksinging career, I used to write songs for pop singers.

I write a lot of my own music. I usually go in with a producer, and every now and then there will be another writer in the room.

A lot people don't know that Mannie Fresh is one of my favorite producers because I used to just be fascinated with how he would be producing stuff. He'd be silly, too, when he raps.

On 'PG-13,' the way I wrote that is that I would get my tracks ahead of time and then I would write for them, and I wrote fairly quickly.

I'm always making beats, and when I can hear Ezra singing on one of them in my head, I send it to him. That's one of the ways that we've always worked together.

I tend to start with a full set of lyrics, and then my producer, Joel Little, and I work on the music collaboratively.

In high school I was making beats for my friends and for myself and rapping over them.

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'.

I get the music, I get the beats. And I go to the studios and write the lyrics.

I started writing rhymes first and then put it to the music. I figured out I could lock it to the beat better if I heard the music first. I like to get a lot of tracks, put the track up and let the music talk to me about what it's about.

I do always the music before the lyrics. The story or an idea for the lyrics appears during the composing process normally, but some other times I already have a strong idea of the story I would like to sing before any music comes to my mind.

I could blow up from making a beat or I could blow up from making a song.

Beats are really inspiring. They always make me want to write something over them.

I feel like every time I make a beat, and the Migos rap on it, it's gonna be fire.

Before I started writing for myself, I was writing country records, and they were coming out dope.

I played around with GarageBand before, but I'd never actually made a proper song. So it was getting into the studio with him where I made my first proper song. I've always loved creative writing, so I had done that as well.

I'm always interested in writing. I keep music in journals on an everyday basis. I'm always looking for ideas that can be music.

I started listening to The-Dream a lot. That's when I really got into writing songs. I like the way he put lyrics and makes his songs. So I was like, 'All right,' and I just started writing. That's when I started wanting to be a songwriter.

When I make albums, I do a lot of songwriting but not necessarily a whole album.

In the past, my process would start with a sample of another song, and I'd chop it up and use that as the basis of the song that I was making.

I grew up writing songs in my room on GarageBand, and I would make the beats just out of layering my vocals over and over again. Very Imogen Heap-inspired.

I've been producing since the early stages of Gym Class Heroes. A lot of the songs on the first 'Papercut Chronicles' were actually beats that I made.

Sometimes I get ideas for lyrics in anyplace, but I work a lot in the studio. So I collect little bits of lyrics. I go through the box of lyrics I have and see if something fits.