Mannie Fresh Quotes

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.

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'.

My brother makes beats, and I DJ.

I'm not blowing my own trumpet here, but I made a rap song 20 years ago with Afrika Bambaataa.

'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 like producing beats, and I like rapping, too. I have a program for the PC, and I can hook my keyboard to it.

A lot of people in my generation, we use hip-hop as a tool to compose.

I wanted to rap, but I needed beats. I couldn't buy any, so I just made my own.

When I was in middle school, that's when I first started making beats. I was maybe 14, 16, something like that.

I just sing over hip-hop beats, you know. That's what I've been doing. That's what I started in '09 in my dorm room.

All the 'Scarface' beats that you hear Mobb Deep sample, that was my idea.

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

I wrote songs with the guys from Air Supply for their record... So I was just writing songs.

It's much easier to have a diversified career as an electronic musician than it is as a drummer. Nothing against drummers. If you're a drummer, you just wait around for people to ask you to play drums. But if you have your own studio and can make music, you have the ability to approach music a lot differently.

Remixes come very quickly, because you already have the melody and the vocals. I have a great passion for music, so it doesn't matter to me if it's a remix or an original production. I don't think about it as, 'Well, I have to spend three hours on a remix or I have to do something all original.'

My brother's been producing rap music and hip-hop for maybe 10 years.

The first song I did was over a Chief Keef beat - 'Understand Me.' I did that in, like, 2011 or 2012, I think.

I produced a song for Bobby Vee called Get The Message.

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.

There are many collaborations I'd like to explore. One is to co-write a rap concerto with Eminem.

Honestly, a lot of pop records have beatboxing. Timbaland beatboxes on his tracks. Justin Timberlake beatboxes.

I would love to do a collaboration with Lil' Wayne. I would have loved to sing on his song, 'How To Love.' I wanted to do the remix to that song really bad.

I played more of an advisory role with Public Enemy. I really trusted them to make the music that they wanted to make, and the way The Bomb Squad worked with the... they created their whole own world of music.

My son is a hip-hop producer.

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.