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Before I got my big hit, I was selling beats for $500.
I plan to retire at 50. When I’m done, I ain’t touching no more keyboards.
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.’
It just so happened that the sound I’ve developed has the Memphis origins to it that made Drake wanted to work with it.
I feel like artists like Three 6 Mafia and 8 Ball and MJG reached a point in their careers where they were hot and underground.
You gotta trust a person to work with ’em.
You know, as I’m progressing with my sound, I just realize when you got a simple sound with crazy percussion in the beats, it makes it. It kinda shapes my sound when it comes to what makes a Tay Keith beat.
When I first started, all I had was the laptop and some cheap headphones. I ain’t have no speakers. You know, no Rocket speakers or no MPC. No keyboard, none of that. It just was the laptop and the headphones. Going from there, it just teaches you a lot.
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.
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.
I always knew music was gonna be my outlet, I just didn’t know when, or how it was gonna happen.
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.
I’m working with a lot of artists.
Most people when they rap usually have their homies in the studio who rap with ’em, but they homies don’t usually be producers.
I don’t want to be labeled as just a producer. Producers have little control and they get little respect. And I’m a man of respect.
As far as Memphis being underrated, I feel like a lot of people have slept on Memphis music when it comes to breaking through into the mainstream.
People like my beats because of the crazy flow with the hi-hats and the bass.
I used to put like, ‘Yo Gotti type beats,’ ‘Future type beats’ on YouTube. And uhh, I started getting paid off YouTube. Like YouTube started giving me Google AdSense checks.
We need more Memphis culture in the industry.
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.
When I hit 50, I want to go be a professor.
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.
Yeah, I got a lot of inspiration from Three 6 as far as my sound.
I actually got to work with TM88. He was one of my big influences as far as producing. It was pretty cool. I had met him in California at the crib and it was one of those random meet-ups and we got to working from that point on.
I want people to see me as the entrepreneur, the boss, the public figure, the person who motivates.
