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.
I love catching, being involved in every pitch of the game; obviously, it beats you up both mentally and physically.
The man does not beat your head because you got a Cadillac or because you got a Ford; he beats you because you’re black!
It’s not what Apple and Beats are doing today. It’s what we believe pairing the two together can produce for the future.
To me, nothing beats McDonalds and a scary movie at home.
I don’t like rock opera with back beats.
‘Welcome to Atlanta’ was a song I wanted to do on my first album. The idea was for me and Outkast to do it, but I could never come up with a beat for us to do it. Outkast beats and my beats were very different.
The worst of the action films are the ones where everything is one shout from beginning to finish. And there’s no differentiation between beats, like small or big, or quiet or expansive. It’s all just one loud shout.
I’m confident a good Liam Smith beats a good John Thompson.
I hate going to the gym, so sweating outdoors sure beats sitting on a stationary bike staring at my navel.
I started playing drums at about seven or eight. My mom used to let me play with the pots and pans, and instead of telling me to stop like most moms would, she just let me do it. So the noise kind of turned into music. From that point on, musically, that’s what I want to do: start creating beats.
I met Kendrick, and we were in the studio. He picked a bunch of beats out; that was great. He’s a great guy – we vibed out for the day.
Nothing beats hard work.
I’m not so much into the beats. I’m more into the spiritual side of the music.
If I get back into theater, I think I’d want to do a play. I enjoy singing, but it beats me up a bit. I get super paranoid and self-conscious about my voice.
I love to talk about the drums and music. I started playing drums when I was probably six and played a lot until I was about ten or eleven years old. So, I guess five or six years where I played. I had a drum set at home, and I would just bang on it. I’d even go on the Internet and study basic beats and so forth.
I’d be making beats pretty much every day after school and it just grew and grew. I wasn’t precious about my music. I just loved creating and putting stuff out there.
That’s why I’m very proud of being American. I’m proud to pay taxes. I pay a lot of taxes, but it sure beats the alternative.
I take every rep personally. If somebody beats me, I’m going to take that personally.
In Jamaica, them always have throwback riddims, recycled old beats, and the hardcore reggae scene is always present. You have faster stuff like the more commercialized stuff, but you always have that segment of music that is always from the core, from the original root of it.
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 love hip-hop, and I like the beats the most.
Women in music have always been associated with pop – with prettiness, theatricality, melodic hooks and dance beats.
When I was in the 10th grade, I decided to run for a position on the student council with the campaign slogan ‘Nuthin but a Boz thang,’ so you might say joining Beats Music is like coming full circle.
People don’t understand how long it really takes to find beats. Sometimes they’re not all the way there, but it’s elements in them I love. Then I get to take them to get chopped up. Ye got to cook over a few of them.
There are mad people out there with good beats.
I started producing in California, and they called it mob music. When I moved to Atlanta, the sound was different. People in Atlanta didn’t like to rap over West Coast beats. So I had to make adjustments to what was going on in the South.
I like Atlanta a lot but no place beats my house. I just like the Black success in Atlanta. I loved being surrounded by that.
I try to be straightforward and honest with my kids, and I believe nothing beats good old hard work.
People like my beats because of the crazy flow with the hi-hats and the bass.
Every person I meet is a rapper, DJ, or makes beats.
I get music from odd places that I assume are fairly typical at this point. I’ll just go on iTunes, go to EDM and just look at the Top 100, or I’ll go on the Beats app and look on the playlists that are sort of curated.
Many people think voice over artists just read, there’s much more to it. Without acting beats, scene study and improving skills, you won’t make it.
I think hip-hop is really fun right now… and that’s why people are using dance beats and singing more.
I think the idea of fact-checking, I think the idea that you come up through a system where you know how to cover night cops, and then you go on, and you go on to various beats, including writing obituaries, and you get names right, you know how to spell them, really has some advantages to it.
Before ‘The Vampire Diaries,’ I was making beats, which is how I got will.i.am’s attention, and I went on tour with him.
On ‘Utopia,’ I mix sick beats with ethereal elements while trying to keep the focus very much on the songwriting. If you strip any of these songs down to just the vocal and a piano, there’s a real song in there.
I really wanna make hip-hop music, but I don’t know how to use any of the tools. Electronic, computer skills, I don’t have those for engineering or making beats. I don’t know how to use a sampler well. I don’t know how to use any of these things.
I naturally, when I make beats, aim for a darker tone just because I’ve always preferred those types of feelings.
I have a lot of respect for who beats me and that’s it.
But nothing beats a Woody Allen film on a Sunday night, with a glass of wine and some leftovers.
This perception that a good captain is someone who beats his chest and roars like a lion and gives big Churchillian speeches, that’s just not what leadership is about for me.
I’m most proud that I thought of Beats at 55.
When you talk or write or film, you work with the music inside you, the music that formed you. Different generations have different musics in them, so whatever they do, it’s going to come out differently, and it will speak in beats of their own generation.
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.
From ‘The Money Store,’ ‘I’ve Seen Footage’ seems to run the beats from Tone Loc’s ‘Wild Thing’ and Salt-n-Pepa’s ‘Push It’ through a rusty meat grinder.
It was incredible to have J Dilla in your dining room making beats – it was one of the greatest experiences I’ve had.
I picked up the guitar when I was about 14 or 15 maybe, and then I started just messing around with loops on GarageBand, and just building my own beats in my bedroom and then just releasing that on SoundCloud.
Nothing beats novel writing because it’s complete expression of you. You just control everything. Not even a movie director has that level of control.
I wanted to be a doctor at one point and I also wanted to be a pilot. I think if you grow up in a dodgy area, reality often beats down those ambitions as you get older. But with me that never really happened.
When I was at the ‘Philadelphia Inquirer,’ I was promoted nine times in my first 13 years. I ultimately went from general assignment to beats on St. Joe’s and Temple, to backup writer, to NBA writer, to NBA columnist, to, ultimately, in 2003, to general sports columns.
All the ‘Scarface’ beats that you hear Mobb Deep sample, that was my idea.
I’m not into just one thing; I always felt like I had to have my hand in everything revolving around what I do, whether it’s directing videos, making beats, making music, performing.
I think it’s good that producers are showing more ways to show their artistry and be more the artist, you know? Not just the producer in the back making the beats.
She hits me and she beats me and she drinks. My mom is an alcoholic.
Biology always beats will power.
I love it when the best team beats the best players.
Take some elocution lessons; you can joke with Ebonics, but the truth is, nothing beats the King’s English. Learning how to speak properly, and the art of delivery can take you very far in life!
Everything repeats itself. There ain’t but so many notes on the scale, there ain’t but so many chord changes, for real, and there ain’t but so many beats. So things come back to you a different way. Don’t matter what they call it.
I have a superstition about saying too much about what I want to happen, just in case it all disappears, or someone else comes along and beats me to it.
Why did they do it? Beats the hell out of me. I was just a scared kid from Kentucky, and these guys had been up in the majors for a while. I guess it was because I was just such a helluva nice kid – if you’ll accept that.
The reason I took on directing a film myself was because, no matter how skilful a director was or how much I liked the film, there’d always be beats where I’d go, ‘Oh… well, that’s skilful, in a way, but it doesn’t get the flavour I’d intended in the script.’
