Washed Out Quotes

I'm a Southern guy, so Jeezy, T.I., and Outkast are always playing on my iPod.

Crunk music is the music of the South, it pervades every club and nightclub not only in America, but all over the world.

I'm listening to early Cash Money, I'm listening to Juvenile, I'm listening to Waka Flocka, I'm listening to Lil B, I'm listening to Brandy, Kanye - that's my home playlist.

With me being form the South, I wanted to make this album like a G Unit.

I grew up on Geto Boys and of course UGK, who put my hometown of Port Arthur, Texas, on the map. I was about Goodie Mob and OutKast too.

I'm a dirty south goon - damn right, I ain't no West coast gangster.

My mom was a big UGK fan.

All the rappers in rave music are like the sloppy seconds of rappers who couldn't make it.

Juicy J was always one of my favorites. For one, he was a producer and I just used to love how he came on his verses every time.

'Hood Rich' was super important to Cash Money.

Yeah, I like Three Six Mafia and stuff like that.

Before Lil Jon and The Eastside Boyz, nobody ever said, 'I'm a crunk artist. I make crunk music.'

I like a lot of ratchet, trap music. Definitely 21 Savage. We need some music like that. ManMan Savage. A lot of the Atlanta scene. But Philly, too.

Real hip-hop is Migos, Future.

We are creating the new Atlanta, along with Rich Homie Quan and Young Thug. We bring the spaghetti, put it in the bowl, mix it together, and we make the new Atlanta.

Mike Jones, Ying Yang Twins, then a little later, Wiz Khalifa and Meek Mill, too. It was the repetitive stuff with Mike Jones when he would give out his number, and I also like his style. Back then, actually, I still think du-rags, grillz, and stuff like that are cool.

Every generation wants that real hip-hop. And I've always been able to bring that.

I really got deep into downloading music when I moved to the South and got a computer. So I was downloading the The Diplomats, AZ, Half-A-Mil, 40 Cal.

We grew up listening to music like that: we grew up on the snap music, grew up off the trap music, grew up on all the South sound.

Atlanta can do crunk music, it can do snap music, it can do swag music. Atlanta has it all.

The people we grew up watching and listening to - Outkast, Gucci Mane, Hot Boys, Lil Wayne, Master P - all that type of stuff, we took those styles and made it our own.

'Bling Bling' was originally a Big Tymers song.

I'm a fan of the mythos of Atlanta hip-hop, and it's something I grew up imagining. It was very interesting to get there and see the real version of this world and then reconcile the differences between what's presented as Atlanta hip-hop to the rest of the world and what the real, breathing version of it is.

When I first heard hip-hop I thought it was rubbish because I didn't understand the concept of people talking over music.

When I started getting into West Coast rap - The Game, then I started studying a lot of Tupac Shakur and watching his interviews.