Metro Boomin Quotes

I started making beats when I was 13.

When I started making beats in the 7th grade – even through middle school and high school – I admired a lot of Shawty Redd, stuff like that, that real dark, trap sound.

Future is different from a lot of artists just because of his work ethic.

Makonnen is a good dude. It’s just good energy when he‘s around.

People like Tay Don, Don Cannon, and OJ Da Juiceman – those were the core people that I rock with. And I still rock with them.

A lot of people are programmed to think, ‘Oh, I want to do this, but I also want this.’ It’s like they want everything. You want your cake, and you want to eat it, too. Even though I guess you’re supposed to eat cake, but I never really get that saying.

I naturally, when I make beats, aim for a darker tone just because I’ve always preferred those types of feelings.

My name is Leland Tyler Wayne. My mom wanted to give me a name where, no matter what I wanted to do, I’d be able to do it. An astronaut. President. Whatever.

I’m heavily influenced by a lot of people like Dre, Pharrell, and Kanye. They’re all big-time tastemakers and trendsetters, just for culture, period. So I strive to do that as well.

On Christmas, when I was 13, my mom got me my first laptop. I downloaded it, FruityLoops, cause I had heard about it, and started messing around.

I’m always going to be heavy in producing. It’s always going to come first. It never can’t come first.

I grew up in St Louis, just with my mom.

Ain’t nothing wrong with college, but I just feel like everyone‘s paths are different.

Really, I just sit down, mess around, and play with sounds.

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.

Coming up, a lot of people I looked up to had a signature sound, but I came up, and I was always in search of one, trying to find it, trying to create one. I was never really able to have a creative signature sound, you know?

I stay positive, keep positive energy to myself.

Growing up, flute riffs was big in rap back then. It’s what I listened to.

You hear what Thug says in his songs – the musical level of it is so crazy that it doesn’t register with some people, so they call it trash. But anybody who loves music can appreciate what he’s doing.

I’m glad ‘Honest‘ came out right after ‘Karate Chop,’ because I don’t want to be seen as a one-hit wonder.

If I stay negative in negative energy, that’s what’s gonna come back.

I plan on making my mark on the legacy of hip-hop, period, but also in Atlanta production because there’s a lot of history there.

There’s always something in Atlanta that’s so far from people’s comfort zone.

Future’s like an older brother to me, and Thug’s more like a brother my age.

I try to take elements from all kinds of music. Even if I’m listening to anything off the wall, like Britney Spears, there might be a certain way someone did something, that I can feel, in some hip-hop flavor.

Any piece of music or album or anything – I don’t care what genre – in the States, a piece of it came through Atlanta somehow.

I’m real big on making sure everything is right and taking my time.

A lot of rappers are stars, but people like Drake and Lil Wayne, those are superstars.

Me and Future recorded so many songs that as soon as we did ‘Honest,’ I liked it a lot, but I didn’t see it as a single. But he just kept talking about it after we did it like, ‘Man, this is big. This is big. It’s gonna be a single.’

The main thing about being a producer and not a beatmaker, the difference is the ear.

In high school, for two years, I made all my beats on earbuds. I’d just guess, so the frequencies would be all off.

Wiz is a cool guy, humble guy, down to Earth guy. You would really think he was just a regular guy if you didn’t know who he was. But he still has a superstar aura about him.

You would think I’m mad or depressed all the time, but that’s not the case at all.

When Thug hears a song, he knows how the whole shape of the thing goes. He can nudge the whole frame to the left to make it offbeat and sound how he wants it to sound.

School is the same as producing: If you want to make it far, there are a million, trillion people trying to do the same thing. If you’re not in over-grind mode, it’s probably not going to work the way that you want it to.