Metro Boomin Quotes

My job is to make beats and make something hot.

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

My son is a hip-hop producer.

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 probably started trying to make beats at around 12.

I started making beats in high school.

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

I became this dorky 15-year-old, in my bedroom all the time with crossed eyes, staring at my computer. It was all drum loops, R&B and pop - silly songs that I hope to God no one ever hears. But that's what got me in to music.

There's an open door now more than ever to be making any type of beats that you want.

J Dilla is the top producer of all time, in my book, alongside Timbaland and Pharrell. Then DJ Mustard.

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

I'm a hip hop dude who loves scoring for film.

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

I wanted to be a great producer so I studied great hip-hop producers, but also stuff beyond that: Phil Spector, David Axelrod, Gamble and Huff. They're equally as influential to me as Dilla, Premier, and Pete Rock.

When I was in middle school, that's when I first started making beats. I was maybe 14, 16, something like that.

I've been working a lot with No I.D. and Hit-Boy.

I started producing when I was listening to The Diplomats. The first time I heard Cam'ron was 'Dead or Alive.'

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

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.

I've been producing since the early stages of Gym Class Heroes. A lot of the songs on the first 'Papercut Chronicles' were actually beats that I made.

I get some heat for what English people call 'overproduction.' I don't think my older stuff was overproduced, but I do think that sound has dated.

I think I prefer producing a little more than DJing because you have more freedom, you can make anything you want; it doesn't necessarily have to be four to the floor. You can go more with your mood, or the atmosphere that you're in.

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'.

Honestly, a lot of pop records have beatboxing. Timbaland beatboxes on his tracks. Justin Timberlake beatboxes.