Quotes by Metro Boomin - Page 1

I started making beats when I was 13.
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Beats
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I grew up in St Louis, just with my mom.
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Louis
St. Louis
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I stay positive, keep positive energy to myself.
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Positive
Energy
Positive Energy
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Really, I just sit down, mess around, and play with sounds.
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Mess
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Makonnen is a good dude. It's just good energy when he's around.
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Dude
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If I stay negative in negative energy, that's what's gonna come back.
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Energy
Negative
Negative Energy
Stay
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Future is different from a lot of artists just because of his work ethic.
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Work Ethic
Ethic
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Growing up, flute riffs was big in rap back then. It's what I listened to.
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Flute
Listened
Riffs
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Future's like an older brother to me, and Thug's more like a brother my age.
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Brother
Older Brother
Thug
Older
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There's always something in Atlanta that's so far from people's comfort zone.
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Atlanta
Comfort
Comfort Zone
Zone
Far
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Future's a workaholic. That's definitely the most hard-working artist I know.
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Hard-Working
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I wanted to rap, but I needed beats. I couldn't buy any, so I just made my own.
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Beats
Needed
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You would think I'm mad or depressed all the time, but that's not the case at all.
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Mad
Case
Depressed
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The main thing about being a producer and not a beatmaker, the difference is the ear.
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Difference
Ear
Main
Main Thing
Producer
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A lot of rappers are stars, but people like Drake and Lil Wayne, those are superstars.
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Wayne
Drake
Rappers
Lil Wayne
Superstars
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Ain't nothing wrong with college, but I just feel like everyone's paths are different.
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Paths
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I'm always going to be heavy in producing. It's always going to come first. It never can't come first.
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Heavy
Producing
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I'm glad 'Honest' came out right after 'Karate Chop,' because I don't want to be seen as a one-hit wonder.
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Glad
Chop
One-Hit
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I just think about how much worse something could be, and I'm like, 'Alright, cool, whatever.' I'm nonchalant.
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Alright
How Much
Worse
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I naturally, when I make beats, aim for a darker tone just because I've always preferred those types of feelings.
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Aim
Beats
Tone
Naturally
Darker
Preferred
Types
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In high school, for two years, I made all my beats on earbuds. I'd just guess, so the frequencies would be all off.
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Beats
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People like Tay Don, Don Cannon, and OJ Da Juiceman - those were the core people that I rock with. And I still rock with them.
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Cannon
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Any piece of music or album or anything - I don't care what genre - in the States, a piece of it came through Atlanta somehow.
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Atlanta
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I plan on making my mark on the legacy of hip-hop, period, but also in Atlanta production because there's a lot of history there.
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Atlanta
Legacy
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I met Kendrick, and we were in the studio. He picked a bunch of beats out; that was great. He's a great guy - we vibed out for the day.
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Beats
Great Guy
For The Day
Picked
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I just pretty much go to class, do my work, and go to my dorm and make beats. Or I pull up to a session. That's pretty much my day-to-day.
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Beats
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On Christmas, when I was 13, my mom got me my first laptop. I downloaded it, FruityLoops, cause I had heard about it, and started messing around.
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Christmas
Downloaded
Laptop
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Pac was real, and he put everything into that music with the passion, creativity, and the drive, and I feel like it's all one in the same with myself.
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Music Myself Passion
Drive
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You just need the ear. But the ear is something, I guess, that you can't buy. And I can't play the piano fluently, but I feel like my ear is my strong point.
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Buy
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Guess
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My name is Leland Tyler Wayne. My mom wanted to give me a name where, no matter what I wanted to do, I'd be able to do it. An astronaut. President. Whatever.
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Mom
Able
Astronaut
Give Me
President
Wanted
Wayne
Mom Me Name
Name
Whatever
Tyler
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When Thug hears a song, he knows how the whole shape of the thing goes. He can nudge the whole frame to the left to make it offbeat and sound how he wants it to sound.
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Offbeat
Frame
Hears
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When I started making beats in the 7th grade - even through middle school and high school - I admired a lot of Shawty Redd, stuff like that, that real dark, trap sound.
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Beats
Middle School
Admired
Grade
Trap
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Wiz is a cool guy, humble guy, down to Earth guy. You would really think he was just a regular guy if you didn't know who he was. But he still has a superstar aura about him.
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Cool Guy
Down To Earth
Superstar
Aura
Regular Guy
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One of the things I love about music and making beats is making something and watching someone's reaction, knowing you can do something to manipulate the way people move or act.
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Beats
Manipulate
Love Music People
One Of The Things
Reaction
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I'm heavily influenced by a lot of people like Dre, Pharrell, and Kanye. They're all big-time tastemakers and trendsetters, just for culture, period. So I strive to do that as well.
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Strive
Dre
Influenced
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I don't look at it as, 'Oh, I'm gonna keep making beats, and I'm gonna do that until I die.' But that's how some people look at it - gonna just keep making beats, get placement after placement.
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You hear what Thug says in his songs - the musical level of it is so crazy that it doesn't register with some people, so they call it trash. But anybody who loves music can appreciate what he's doing.
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Register
Trash
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Working with Thug and working with Future feels the same. They don't sound like each other, but their creative process and their level of talent is the same. Anybody who knows both of them would agree.
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Agree
Creative
Creative Process
Feels
Process
Sound
Talent
Anybody
Level
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I try to take elements from all kinds of music. Even if I'm listening to anything off the wall, like Britney Spears, there might be a certain way someone did something, that I can feel, in some hip-hop flavor.
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Certain
Elements
Flavor
Might
Spears
Wall
Music Feel Way
Music Feel I Can
Did
Britney
Britney Spears
Certain Way
Music Way Feel
Off
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Two people making a beat is really like one person making a beat. But you have another person's brain. So what might sound good to you, they could flip it a different way. It's really a collaborative effort, really.
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Flip
Collaborative
Two People
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School is the same as producing: If you want to make it far, there are a million, trillion people trying to do the same thing. If you're not in over-grind mode, it's probably not going to work the way that you want it to.
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School
Work People Way
Same
Far
Million
Mode
Producing
Same Thing
Trillion
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Coming up, a lot of people I looked up to had a signature sound, but I came up, and I was always in search of one, trying to find it, trying to create one. I was never really able to have a creative signature sound, you know?
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People Always Find
Search
Signature
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A lot of people are programmed to think, 'Oh, I want to do this, but I also want this.' It's like they want everything. You want your cake, and you want to eat it, too. Even though I guess you're supposed to eat cake, but I never really get that saying.
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Cake
Your People Never
Lot
Also
Oh
Too
Even
Guess
Programmed
Saying
Supposed
Though
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