I was DJing for this party promotion called 1st Flight Entertainment, having to DJ on the weekends and then also going to school in the same week. So I just figured out how to balance that, then make beats on the side too.
Some of the artists I've been working with it's been just work, you know what I'm saying? But in the industry I feel like the relationship is stronger than the work sometimes.
There's a lot of entrepreneurs out here who are in school, who just don't know what's next, or can't figure out what direction they should go in. And me graduating motivates them.
Music was my way out. School was the plan B, just in case music didn't work out. I didn't know it was gonna work out. I just felt like, 'If I'm doing these two things, something's going to get me up there. Something's going to make me successful.'
When I DJ, I got my own catalog to play in the club. I'm spinning my own records like it's my own show.
Yo Gotti had some influence on me for sure. I would say Three 6 Mafia, too.
People like my beats because of the crazy flow with the hi-hats and the bass.
I'm working with a lot of artists.
I'ma be on a lot of projects and hopefully I get to work more on my own project, too.
I get advice from all the producers who have come out of Memphis. They just give me advice on the business side, because that's most important besides the actual music. Just staying at a point I know I can't mess myself up. I just got to be put up on game about it. Drumma Boy and Memphis Track Boy taught me a lot.
I grew up in the area where we had Three 6 Mafia, and Playa Fly, and 8Ball & MJG. My parents and my family used to listen to it. I learned from them there, and got more into it - listening to the beat of songs, and just learning more about music.
I was like 13, 14 years old. I had a Rock Band mic, and I used to record music and put it on YouTube and DatPiff. Then I started getting to producing my own music because I didn't want to keep rapping on beats I was getting on SoundClick.
Man, Dr. Dre just inspired me so much. Just him personally, outside of music, too. You know, him doing the whole Beats thing... People like him, they set the bar high for me to set the bar even higher, you know? It's more than just music when it comes to building a foundation and building your empire.
When you got a personal relationship with somebody, it's easier to work with someone.
You gotta trust a person to work with 'em.
It just so happened that the sound I've developed has the Memphis origins to it that made Drake wanted to work with it.
Whatever you make from music, you invest that right back into what you want to get into in life.
Yeah, I got a lot of inspiration from Three 6 as far as my sound.
