Mike Will Made It Quotes

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

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.

A lot of the hip hop artists don't write music. They write words.

I was really inspired, working with Odd Future.

I wanted to write songs from the ground up, I wanted to sit at a piano and build around that. But I still have a lot of love for hip-hop, so I want to do more collaborations in that sense.

I started by producing, and the rapping came second to that, because I wanted to fill out the beat.

I want to write just as much as Kanye may have for whomever Kanye has written for.

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

'Trap House' is one of my favorite songs off '300 Days 300 Nights' mixtape, I sent it to Thug, he loved it and knocked it out on the spot in Atlanta.

I write most of my own lyrics for my album and I am helping to produce some of the songs as well.

The act of song writing and recording became one and the same to me; because I essentially recorded everything I did from the day I began trying to write songs. I've always had a lot to say. I'd always written poems.

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

I would collaborate with James Franco as a rapper any day.

As long as I'm around the cats in the hip hop scene, they'll throw me a track and I'll write a rap over it.

The thrill of hearing your own voice recorded is still there, I still love it, going into the studio and thinking how can I sing this song and between the producers and the musicians you find a way of doing it.

The record Clef and I did was just sitting there. So I said, Clef, I got a record, hit a verse on it. He just went in, messed around and ended up doing the hook too.

That's what I like to do, I like to make songs.

Nothing on 'Relapse' and very little on 'Recovery' was produced by me.

Making records should be fun.

It's hard to know exactly what it sounds like to me. I'm in the studio and I write it. and that's it.

Quentin Tarantino is a hip-hop artist. I told him, 'You're hip-hop!' You keep seeing surprises, and a clip here and there, because Quentin is hip-hop. A hip-hop artist will drop a single, leak something over here, and drop something over there 'cause he knows it's hot. He's on the spot with the way he does things.

I wrote my first song, 'Conversion', to this little hip-hop instrumental. I went to an open-mic, plugged my iPod into the P.A., and sang over the beat.

I record stuff all the time, like little vocal things. I write random things down... Sometimes I just get things stuck in my head and I record them, and that actually becomes a song quite a lot of the time.

I used to record but just in my own studio or in my friend's back when I toyed with the idea of being a rapper.

Every time I do an album, I say, 'That's the last one.'