Words matter. These are the best Big K.R.I.T. Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
You’ve got to keep being 100 percent, keep doing what’s best for you and your legacy, and then build and help other people around you, too.
Sample clearances and roll-out plans is what separates mix-tapes & albums.
There’s no real network, and every city in Mississippi is so spread out, so it isn’t easy to drive around and pass out CDs. So when an artist from Natchez or Gold Coast or Meridian breaks out, they already know exactly what kind of artist they want to be. The grind and the hustle is just so adamant.
Favorite cereal is Cinnamon Toast Crunch.
People know, lyrically, I go in, and you should never take me lightly on any record.
With some of the samples that I chose to use, tracking down the person that owns the publishing has become a task.
I’m in competition with myself, and I’m always going to challenge myself.
I think doing a record with B.B. King allowed me the opportunity to blend two different generations across the board and make a song that I hope is extremely impactful.
If you goin’ to work, you gonna put my album on. If you happen to be makin’ an hour-and-a-half drive, you gonna put my album on, because people spend more time in their car then they do in clubs.
I never lost my faith.
I have to feel like my grandmother was my first mix engineer.
I learned a lot while working on ‘Live From the Underground.’
The things that I leave creatively are going to stay here long past me. That’s the reason why the album is called ‘4Eva Is a Mighty Long Time.’
My music is definitely considered the kind of music you play in your car, that gets you from Point A to Point B. So, I understand how important it is to press up my music and give it out, hand-to-hand, just as much as it is to give it out on the Internet.
With music, it’s a therapy for me. So whatever I’m dealing with at the time, I talk about it when I rap.
I’ll say one of my all time favorite albums would have to be Willie Hutch, ‘The Mack.’
On ‘Krit Wuz Here,’ I had a record called ‘Return Of 4eva’ on it. And then that launched me into doing the actual ‘Return Of 4eva’ project, and ‘Return Of 4eva’ had a song called ‘4eva And A Day.’ So it’s like, all of my music has somehow tied into the entire story.
I’m used to producing all of my projects, doing all the beats, and writing all the hooks.
In my house, I don’t just always listen to rap.
It’s a lot of people that died for me to have the opportunity that I have now, just the freedom. It shouldn’t be forgotten as far as the past is concerned.
Get to the point where the songs sum it all up, and creatively, I’m just like, ‘This is it.’ I’ve also learned how to be patient and not really try to overproduce anymore. I used to add instruments, keep adding instruments, but nowadays – I know better now. I know how to let the track breathe.
Sometimes you think you didn’t win, and you focus so much on that instead of really looking at it from the perspective of it not being your time yet.
When you say, ‘Man, what kind of music does Outkast make?’ You be like, ‘They make Outkast music.’ What kind of music does N.E.R.D. make? They make N.E.R.D. music. I want to be one of those people, because there’s so many layers to the music I create that I don’t want people to expect me to do one thing.
To be able to work with Bun B and be able to have a conversation, and the insights the OG has, and really be able to get just advice from him, is amazing.
I worked on ‘Cadillactica’ with the mind to not sample as much and focus on creativity.
I always wanted to prove myself. I think I naturally can’t help but want to do something and push the boundaries.
If I could have stayed independent from the jump, then, maybe, things would have been different. ‘Return of 4Eva’ would have been an album instead of a mixtape.
I’m thankful for all the support I’ve received over the years.
Musically, I’m always gonna take it a little farther, and Lord willing, people are gonna get that and understand that: that there’s not really one genre I’m trying to be in, but just as a producer, as a writer, as an artist, that I’m planning on going farther.
Dealing with business and trying to create never mixes for me.
