Travie McCoy Quotes

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

I've always had a lot of creative impact on the music with Timbaland.

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

J Dilla is the top producer of all time, in my book, alongside Timbaland and Pharrell. Then DJ Mustard.

I co-produced 'Boyfriend' by Justin Bieber and worked on Labrinth's album, so I've been keeping busy.

My job is to make beats and make something hot.

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 never really made a full album in Los Angeles before.

It's just that back then we didn't know that was considered being a coproducer. I would sit on the side and say what I wanted musically, but at the time we thought if you aren't the one playing it, you don't get the credit. Now you'll start seeing my name listed as producer.

When I'm in the studio, I don't finish the song and say, 'That's going to be a big ringtone.'

I'm singing background on one of Blondie's songs on her new album.

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

I actually enjoyed making 'Tango In The Night.'

From the end of 2015 to the start of 2016, I was always at the studio with Mustard, just figuring out a sound.

One of my favorite things is producing other artists because, in many ways, it's a lot more freeing than working on your own music.

I'm used to producing all of my projects, doing all the beats, and writing all the hooks.

Back in Korea, I'm always in the studio with YG people. I'd be given a song, and I'd cut it.

A lot of people have been sending me beats, I've just been getting it in.

I make popular music but I'm not necessarily a pop produce.

As for song recordings - well, that's something that just happens. I've been working with music directors like Harris Jeyaraj sir, A. R. Rahman sir, and the experience is great.

I'm not just a rapper. I like to produce music.

The first musical stuff I worked on was after the tour for 'Swing Lo Magellan' had ended and I didn't really know what else to do. I didn't know what music I would write. I just did work for other people - arranging, producing, writing - and all of that seemed to be in L.A.

I've been working a lot with No I.D. and Hit-Boy.

When I started making music, I just wanted to be the producer who sang the hooks. I wanted to be Pharrell, honestly, the one who made the beats and was in the music video with the girls.

When I started making songs, some of them read as mixtape-y, and some of them read as album-y.