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I started producing for Pump - I produced his first songs. 'Lil Pump,' 'Elementary,' 'Johnny Dang' - all that I produced.

I had completely changed from being a mixtape DJ to being a producer and working with Nas and stuff like that.

Dr. Dre, my oldest brother, he paved the way for me and Snoop to get a chance to get into the studio. I asked him to show me how to work the MPC-60... I was about maybe 17, 18, right around there.

Hip-hop has survived as a sonic practice more than anything else. It's an approach to music-making based in sampling and rhyming over beats, that's proven far more versatile than its detractors thought it would.

I got started in 1995, working in a group called The Cash Money Click.

When Rick Ross made 'Hustlin',' Rick Ross also helped those producers become some of the biggest producers in the world.

I used to make demo tapes with cats that rocked with Russell Simmons and people like that. The history goes so far back; I've always been really focused on writing dope rhymes.

I'm a hip-hop showrunner.

I can do every type of music, but hip-hop was my way into the game.

For Odd Future, I only made beats for Mike G. With the Internet, I'm part of a production team making tracks for me to sing over.

On the low, I've been in Kanye's studio, No Name, out in L.A.

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

Working with 50 Cent was great, you know what Im saying? It was just great to work with 50 Cent.

My brother's been producing rap music and hip-hop for maybe 10 years.

I always wanted to be one of the hottest rappers.

Well, Eminem, you know, I know him longer. Ive been signed to his label since 2001 and he's a good friend.

I used to record but just in my own studio or in my friend's back when I toyed with the idea of being a rapper.

The music industry is something that I'm still trying to understand. With acting, I've been doing it for so long that I understand every aspect of it for the most part - there are obviously still more aspects that I need to learn - but I have a grasp on it. With music, I'm still learning. I'm still getting used to it.

I was making crappy beats since I was, like, 17 or 18, using Florida rappers, where I'm from. Then I started DJ'ing because I just wanted to have a new job.

No, I mean we'd all definitely involved in the music business someway or another, because we're all living with it, and in it, and also we've got all sorts of things we would like to do.

My passion is music, you know, and music influences culture, influences lifestyle, which leads me to 'Roc-A-Wear'. I was forced to be an entrepreneur, so that led me to be CEO of 'Roc-A-Fella' records, which lead to Def Jam.

Guru's like Tupac. He just records and records and records.

I was a rapper. The reason I stopped rapping was because I realized that people wanted guys like Puff Daddy. That's not what I do. I quit. That was it. I had to sacrifice for my choice. I said, 'Forget it. I'll be a producer.' Nobody was going to make me do anything.

We recorded 'Chopper City in the Ghetto' in a house that we was living in.

I actually met The Game in my hood on Crenshaw and Slauson. I was outside on the block with 20 of my homies. I see the Range Rover, and we all walked up to his car. I handed him my CD.