Killer Mike Quotes

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.

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

I feel like Turbo helped me grow. It's the way we just lock in. His mind is set to where he'll start making beats to my flow and my sound. He's not an engineer, but he knows how to record.

If you got a vibe with a producer I think you should go full-fledged instead of being satisfied with two songs.

Gunna was the second person I ever made a song with.

My first album after 'American Idol' I did with Desmond - we paid for it together, and we literally were together working on it every day for a year and half, just writing. We wrote in New York, Nashville, L.A., Sweden - we wrote with some other amazing songwriters like Diane Warren, too.

I'd love to collaborate with Drake. I think he's awesome.

I'd like to collaborate with Jay-Z and Mary J. Blige.

I really had a great time working with 'Modest Mouse,' just because of the people. I loved writing songs with Isaac Brock, and Jeremiah Green is probably my favorite musician that I've worked with.

I do a lot of co-writing with my producer RedOne, and then a lot on my own. I just like to be creative.

I'd love to do a collaboration with an Ellie Goulding or a female English artist - Laura Marling or something. Somebody cool that I could have a good vibe with and maybe sing a duet with.

The race factor was just a minuscule part of what I was doing with Eminem. It was really about the music and how well we worked together.

'Welcome to Atlanta' was a song I wanted to do on my first album. The idea was for me and Outkast to do it, but I could never come up with a beat for us to do it. Outkast beats and my beats were very different.

I'ma work with Kanye. I'ma try my damndest.

I've always wanted to collaborate with Shawn Mendes, he's an amazing artist, but the thing with Shawn is that I won't collaborate... me just sending some beats. It has to be in the studio where we'd both be there recording together.

Dudes I work with have to be like-minded to where I just hand them a beat that has a chorus and they can do with them what they gotta do. If they can't do that, I usually don't work with 'em.

When me and Gucci sit down, I make tracks real fast, and he can write songs real fast.

I did a track with Khao, out of Atlanta, who's worked with T.I. Did a track with Maylay, who did a lot with John Legend's album. I got in the studio with Kanye West; we did a song. The dedication for the career takes a lot of work, but if you love it, it's worth it.

Snow Tha Product was dope. She wanted me on a song, so I did it for her. I ain't charge her nothing.

Anytime Pump and I make a track together, it's always crazy.

I wanna do a song with Macklemore. I really wanna do a song with him.

Drake is one of my favorite artists, so it would definitely be a honor to make a track with him.

I really don't believe in going too far out of your way to hunt down somebody to do a song.

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.