Smokepurpp Quotes

I've been making beats since I was, like, 12.

A lot people don't know that Mannie Fresh is one of my favorite producers because I used to just be fascinated with how he would be producing stuff. He'd be silly, too, when he raps.

I started making beats in high school.

Sampling is very important for me. It's the backbone of hip-hop.

You should find the dopest producer in your area, and that producer is always going to want songs written to his beat.

In high school I was making beats for my friends and for myself and rapping over them.

I'd met Dr Dre, he was thinking about his next album, we talked a little and he said, 'Let me give you some of these loops and see what you come up with'.

I'll hear a beat and think, 'How can I make this a banger?' I'll write the lyrics on my phone or on a piece of paper, and either way, it's going to be a slapper.

I get the music, I get the beats. And I go to the studios and write the lyrics.

With '5 Boroughs,' we were each working on beats, sitting in front of our laptops and samplers.

I try to make music, all kinds of music, whether it be singing or rapping.

I love sampling, and RZA loves sampling, too.

I'm used to producing all of my projects, doing all the beats, and writing all the hooks.

I started making beats when I was 13.

I must have 300 songs unreleased or unrecorded, lying around. I'm a production machine, it never stops.

I probably started trying to make beats at around 12.

I've been a DJ since I was about 13, and I started out as a hip-hop DJ. So I was always playing records that would just get people going. I was just doing parties and high school dances and whatever, and then, progressively, I started making my own music, writing little songs here and there, but it was never anything crazy.

When you're sitting in the basement trying to get on, you have no choice - you've gotta figure out how to make a song: 'I've gotta bang on these buttons until it sounds good.'

I wanted to rap, but I needed beats. I couldn't buy any, so I just made my own.

I used to re-create the beats that I heard.

My job is to make beats and make something hot.

This is the most fun thing in the world to me, making music. Sitting down, I can make songs and not leave the booth, ever, and I love it.

I'm intrigued on how music is made, that's how I started getting into it. Of course I've been in the booth before, just joking around to see how it is, and I'll make a couple of beats here or there and help my artists out. But other that, I'll stick to listening.

I love doing the music. I love programming beats and kind of working on the music as much, if not more, than the actual rapping.

I grew up writing songs in my room on GarageBand, and I would make the beats just out of layering my vocals over and over again. Very Imogen Heap-inspired.