Gnash Quotes

I'm not just a rapper. I like to produce music.

I consider myself more of a producer and a musician than a DJ.

I'm more of an artist and a songwriter than I am a DJ. That word seems a little bit - well, it doesn't really describe what I do.

I never really made a full album in Los Angeles before.

Music is also a part of who I am so I'm thinking about recording an album.

I'd been DJ-ing in these clubs in N.Y. and I hated everything that was coming out. So I decided I would make it myself. People were making mash-ups or remixes, but I was extra bored, so I actually started remaking these records from scratch.

I've been DJing mostly, and most DJs end up producing. That's just me.

My brother makes beats, and I DJ.

I guess we decided to make a new record 3 years ago when Nancy was done scoring for Almost Famous.

Drums isn't my one thing anymore. I love to produce. I love to make tracks, write tracks, produce tracks, and I can't just sit back as a drummer anymore.

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

DJing is how I got into So So Def.

I could blow up from making a beat or I could blow up from making a song.

Back in Korea, I'm always in the studio with YG people. I'd be given a song, and I'd cut it.

Obviously, with me being a DJ, I have a love for music. One day I was like, 'OK. I'm tired of playing everybody else's music. I rather play my music.' So, that's kind of how the whole me doing music thing started.

When I make albums, I do a lot of songwriting but not necessarily a whole album.

I had a boom box with a dual cassette deck and a mic, so I used to make pause tapes. I think a lot of people started like that because it was all I had. I would just take rap records that I liked and just loop the beat by pressing pause and record and make, like, five minutes of these beats.

I started making beats in high school.

As a producer and DJ, I just like makin' great music and hot records for the club.

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

I'm always going to do that - record and make music.

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

Everything I make as a producer, I visualize it as a DJ first. And all those beats, I test them as a DJ.

I did record a bunch of stuff, but the thing that usually stops me from doing that is that I'm a terrible singer. I made a bunch of instrumental music, and it feels really good, but just as a singer, I'm not good.

My first album was completed in three months.