Zaytoven Quotes

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

Rap is something you can just throw on the skillet and fry up real quick. That's how it comes to me, my train of thought. It's like getting dressed - I don't have to sit down and stare at clothes, I just pick what I like and put it on. But rock, you gotta put it in the oven and let it bake.

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

On many different singles, I was able to marry my music with rappers who understood the natural bond between us.

I'd love to work with Drake. I got Drake beats.

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

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.

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

It would be fun to write with Adele, actually. She seems like a fun girl to write with.

I ran into Snoop one night. I was in the studio later, and I got this beat and thought he would sound great on it. I called him and he came right through that night.

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

I've always been a big fan of Kendrick's, but it's different when you hear him on your own production.

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

We work pretty fast. I might be working, and I might knock out two, three songs. Quavo might come in two, three himself. Offset might come and do the same.

Jay Z and Biggie and Nas always listened to my direction. They listened and they applied it and I also listened to their opinions and that's why the records came out so good.

I've worked with incredible producers in the past, but when me and El-P got in a room, there was no way I was going to let off his head because not only was he one of the greatest producers I heard, he was one of the illest rappers I had ever heard.

Oh man, I think Damian Lillard makes good music. He has bars.

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

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

Keith Richards has some sort of quote that says 'it takes two people to write a song,' and I'm of that school of thought, too.

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

Hi-Tek is on three or four songs on the new record.

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

Larry only ever wrote one song, and he wrote that with Tony Kaye, I think it was, from Yes.