I was able to bring Gucci and Rae Sremmurd on a track together. It was crazy because it seemed like it was destined to be.

Putting together a hit record is like putting together a puzzle.

When I was still at Interscope, I told them about Rae Sremmurd and we were talking about signing them. I was like, 'This is the hood Backstreet Boys, the black *NSYNC. This is the most ratchet pop is gonna get and this is the most pop hip-hop is gonna get.'

Me and Miley just clicked. She has good ideas. She's real creative.

We Can't Stop' has so many different vibes to it. She sounds country; the beat has these live, knocking drums; and then it has these pop melodies. It's a feel-good record.

We Can't Stop' was the first song we did. We didn't try to reach and be too 'hood:' It's hip-hop-influenced, but Miley's a pop singer, and she's going to have country in there.

With 'HUMBLE.,' I knew that beat was going to capture a moment. It just felt real urgent.

People told me that Miley's '23' wasn't hip-hop. Let me tell you, she went in and owned that track.

A lot of times, older people don't get the new generation.

With rapping, that's just another form of expressing your music. Whether you're going to rap, you're going to sing, it's whatever you want.

As far as rapping goes, as long as you are telling the truth and you have a good flow, then you win.

Pharrell is a legend.

It's important to show the new generation that soundtracks can be just as exciting as traditional albums if put in the hands of the right curator.

I wanted to find raw talent and help build it from scratch. I wanted to build from rags to riches. That's the way Ear Drummers did it. We took over the music industry from my mom's basement. That's why my first album is going to be called 'Made It Out the Basement.'

You can scroll through my iTunes and I've got everything. I've got Ace Hood, Alt-J, Annie Lennox, Arctic Monkeys, Beanie Sigel, the Beatles, Beth Hart, Big Sean, Bob Dylan, Bon Iver, Chief Keef, Coldplay, the Flaming Lips, Mariah Carey, Miley Cyrus, Nicki Minaj, OutKast, Pet Shop Boys, Peter Gabriel, the Smiths, and the list goes on from there.

God has blessed me with something. One day, I do see myself being like Jimmy Iovine. I'm trying to build an empire.

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.

Drake is damn near the best with melodies.

I used to be with Gucci every day. School nights, I was with Gucci going to all the different clubs, going to his video shoots. Just moving around with him is how I met a lot of different artists like 2 Chainz and Shawty Lo and other people I work with now.

I'm just expanding my sound and making it bigger.

Whoever has a next-level ear needs to be an Eardrummer.

I feel like when I came in the game, I was more focused on like, 'yo how many times can I get on the radio?'

I feel like Rae Sremmurd is just a whole new sound culturally. People don't understand, but they learn to understand. The melody choice is different and everything.

I love being in the studio.

I did 'We Can't Stop' for Rihanna, but it never worked. Every time I would play 'We Can't Stop' I was like 'this is the new 'Party in the U.S.A.'' I was like OK if I keep saying this is the new 'Party in the U.S.A.,' why don't I go to the girl who did 'Party in the U.S.A.?'

In 2011, a lot of people didn't even know I did 'Tupac Back.'

2012, I feel like I was still grinding. It was a good year for me, but that was my year breaking down the barriers. It was like my introduction.

I like making dope music.

I wanted 'Formation' to be a woman empowerment song, but Beyonce made it into a culture empowerment song.

I really like coming across all types of different music, and hearing new things.

If you put your time and energy into developing creatively, that's where you'll go.

Once you start getting money, it relieves your stress of worrying about how you're going to pay your next bill. It's more like another stress of how many bills you have to pay.

I like blessing others around me. When you work hard, it's just dope to give back to the people around you.

I didn't have no college friends. All the artists the college folks were listening to were my homies. I was leaving class, literally, to record with them.

You can't please everybody. As long as you make dope music, you're gonna have your fans.

That's the most important part of all the music I produce: making sure the artist is bringing themselves out in the music.

I feel like soccer brings another dynamic to the city, it makes it more eclectic... I feel like it opens doors for people who grew up playing soccer here their whole life. We've got some rings on the way, trophies on the way, and we're gonna win, and we're gonna stand behind Atlanta United just like we stand behind everything else out of Atlanta.

This is the city of the underdog champion, so they want to see the next person out of their city blowing up and making I feel like, man, Atlanta's a big city, but it's so small.

Kanye is one of my favorite producers and artists.

I love Atlanta.

Future is my brother. He has no idea how big what he does is.

When I tried to send him beats in 2010, he told me I was too expensive for him. I told Future we had to work together, that it would be beneficial for both of us, that we didn't have to worry about the money.

I like to listen to the Police, Sting, Queen, Pet Shop Boys.

I want to make sure that I sign dope artists, old and new, just to make sure that we come up with something new and creative.

Sometimes I feel like I represent for the misunderstood.

Future was always the person to knock out multiple bangers in one night.

I can work with all these different kinds of artists and still be able to come up with huge records. Not just cool records, but game-changing records.

I really believed in 2 Chainz, I really believed in Future, and I was going to the studio with them every single day.

I'm just trying to bring the sound from Atlanta over to the mainstream radio in a way that everybody can enjoy.

It started off with me being all the way influenced by Atlanta and southern music but I knew my sound had to grow - I started learning melodies.