Music should be your escape.

I used to grind. I be telling people, you don't grind, you don't sell. I was like 15, 16 getting dropped off in the city by myself, with my own beat CDs.

Tupac Back' was the first single I had, but prior to that I already had 20-something songs in the street.

When you're on top, you're going to get flack for anything.

Miley Cyrus is the new Madonna.

Those are two artists that I worked with real closely. Me and Miley are real close, me and Future are real close.

I don't want to be on the mic, man. I want to stay producing.

I'm so into making music and being behind the scenes. I'm such a visionary person that I don't see myself being the person in front of the camera or the person in front of the mic.

Yeah, I co-directed '23.' Yeah, the whole concept of the video... Even with that video, I feel like it's not a video that you can get sick of. You can always go back and watch that and it's fresh.

I'm not really the type that likes to put out a project just to say I've put it out - I like to make them count.

If I get a Grammy, that would be dope.

It doesn't matter if it's platinum or 10-times platinum - it's a certification that lets me know that I'm not wasting my time in the studio. That being said, I don't let those certifications run my life.

A lot of people slept on Rae Sremmurd.

With Yo Gotti 'Rack It Up,' that was him hitting me like, bro, I'm about to put out a single next month, I want you to produce it.

At the beginning of my career before anything started propelling, I used to blow up everybody. I was trying to work with whoever got next.

I first heard Trouble in 2008. At that time I was on my grind, trying to work with all the next-up artists. I had sent him a couple beats; he had done a couple songs. We was always around the same age.

If you're a super-producer, you can produce whatever you want to produce. That's where I'm at.

At the end of the day, I was listening to the big homies and they were saying, 'Yo, man, you got talent, man, stay off the streets.'

I used to listen to songs on the radio and play that junk back on that little keyboard.

I'm creative so I'm always gonna create.

The 'trap' sound is a sound from the city. We've always liked music with bass. We've always liked old schools with big speakers in the trunks. We like our music loud. We've always had a nightlife scene in Atlanta.

Matter fact, my girl complains about how much I'm in the studio working. But she sees the results as they roll out.

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.

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