Record Producer Quotes

“I'm a blowfish. I'm not a shark, I'm a blowfish. So that perfect example about me hitting my head, it's like a blowfish. I wasn't coming out of my house going to a paparazzi's house to attack them. I'm defending my family in front of my own house. I'm defending my name as someone's screaming something negative at me. That's a blowfish. People have me pinned as a shark or a predator in some way, and in no way am I that. I wouldn't want to hurt anyone. I want to defend people. I want to help people.”

“From what I remember, I remember always being a big fan of Kardinal Offishall. He just had that different flow and different flavor. He put himself on the record and that's the type of energy that we love.”

“I cut off my ears before i hear your advice and vice versa”

“[Drizzy] reached out to me through Chase N Cashe, they're brothers, they're one. Chase N Cashe made the connection, played some of my music and he [Drake] got up on it, got interested in the music and just reached out and said "You know what, let's work."”

“You can't change where you from. You can't take a person out of their zone and expect them to be somebody else now that they in the record industry. It's gonna take years. Years of travelling. Years of meeting people. Years of seeing the world.”

“I'm only as good as my last word, my last hook, my last bridge.”

“The moment I made that decision to get in the studio and actually work and study the culture of hip-hop, then everything just started to open up and blossom for me.”

“Tupac, Biggie, Jay. Your usual suspects. These were the people that was played in my household.”

“Hip-hop is not the problem, our reality is the problem.”

“Just let me be me, That's the only way I know.”

“Before finding music, I didn't have too many aspirations. I wanted to hang out, make a little money from whatever I had to do.”

“It's a long time coming as far as the work that I put in. Now I know that I got the stamp but what counts is what comes behind. That's what's really important. Upholding that stamp and not only keeping the energy my way but also spreading that energy out to other artists that are coming up on the West Coast.”

“Although the butterfly and the caterpillar are completely different, they are one and the same.”

“My pops and my mom started playing Marvin Gaye and the Isley Brothers and all these people, but at the same time, they always had Snoop on right behind it in the same mix.”

“I'm the No. 1 artist in the world right now ... I am the No. 1 human being in music.”

“For me to say I wasn't a genius I'd just be lying to you and to myself”

“I know how to swim through backlash. I can tread water through backlash... If anything, that's all giving me power.”

“If you talking 'bout classics, do my name get brought up?”

“To use is necessary. And if you can't be used, then you're useless.”

“If you see a black family, it's looting, but if it's a white family they are looking for food.”

“I gave him his first TV and he needs to remember that.”

“If we go on your iPhone and go to the dictionary and look up 'humble,' 80 per cent of the definition is negative. It's a controlling word. It's a way to control the masses and to control the sheep.”

“The most genius thing about the way I create is to create with other geniuses.”

“My goal, if I was going to do art, fine art, would have been to become Picasso or greater.”

“I fervently believe that, as someone has said before, "When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change." I want to help change the way young people look at school, and hence, the way they look at their futures.”