Mike Will Made It Quotes

For ‘Black Beatles‘ to be so true to us and our sound – we weren’t chasing a sound – it solidifies that the world is ready for us and what we have to come.

Me and Future, we did ‘Dirty Sprite,’ ‘Ain’t No Way Around It,’ ‘Turn on the Lights.’ Every time we record, we’re setting bars.

I like making dope music.

I do it all, man. I produce, I do my own wardrobe and my own ironing, too!

I did ‘We Can’t Stop‘ for Rihanna, but it never worked. Every time I would play ‘We Can’t Stop’ I was like ‘this is the new ‘Party in the U.S.A.” I was like OK if I keep saying this is the new ‘Party in the U.S.A.,’ why don’t I go to the girl who did ‘Party in the U.S.A.?’

When I tried to send him beats in 2010, he told me I was too expensive for him. I told Future we had to work together, that it would be beneficial for both of us, that we didn’t have to worry about the money.

I’m looking at EarDrummers like a boutique label, like an Interscope or a Def Jam.

God has blessed me with something. One day, I do see myself being like Jimmy Iovine. I’m trying to build an empire.

People told me that Miley’s ’23’ wasn’t hip-hop. Let me tell you, she went in and owned that track.

Whoever has a next-level ear needs to be an Eardrummer.

At the end of the day, I was listening to the big homies and they were saying, ‘Yo, man, you got talent, man, stay off the streets.’

If you put your time and energy into developing creatively, that’s where you’ll go.

I’m so into making music and being behind the scenes. I’m such a visionary person that I don’t see myself being the person in front of the camera or the person in front of the mic.

Tupac Back‘ was the first single I had, but prior to that I already had 20-something songs in the street.

With rapping, that’s just another form of expressing your music. Whether you’re going to rap, you’re going to sing, it’s whatever you want.

A lot of people slept on Rae Sremmurd.

This is the city of the underdog champion, so they want to see the next person out of their city blowing up and making I feel like, man, Atlanta‘s a big city, but it’s so small.

Sometimes I feel like I represent for the misunderstood.

2 Chainz and I have a history. It’s always an honor and pleasure working with him, because it seems like everything we do is dope. We just have that organic chemistry.

Miley Cyrus is the new Madonna.

I’m creative so I’m always gonna create.

I feel like Rae Sremmurd is just a whole new sound culturally. People don’t understand, but they learn to understand. The melody choice is different and everything.

I really believed in 2 Chainz, I really believed in Future, and I was going to the studio with them every single day.

I’ve just got to keep a balanced head and stay focused.

You can’t please everybody. As long as you make dope music, you’re gonna have your fans.

I didn’t have no college friends. All the artists the college folks were listening to were my homies. I was leaving class, literally, to record with them.

Putting together a hit record is like putting together a puzzle.

I feel like when I came in the game, I was more focused on like, ‘yo how many times can I get on the radio?’

If you’re a super-producer, you can produce whatever you want to produce. That’s where I’m at.

I’m just trying to follow the footsteps of God. I don’t question him. Just keep moving. He never fails. He always amazes me. It’s like, damn, the sky isn’t the limit.

When people question me about whether something is hip-hop, I ask them, ‘Does it sound hard? Does it hit home? Is it raw and real?’ If it is, I did my job. And you can call it whatever you want.

When I do music I don’t think about urban music, pop or country, I just think about a good song.

I like everything rare – cars, shoes, clothes.

I want to work with anybody original.

2012, I feel like I was still grinding. It was a good year for me, but that was my year breaking down the barriers. It was like my introduction.

I just want to change the game.

A lot of times, older people don’t get the new generation.

It’s important to show the new generation that soundtracks can be just as exciting as traditional albums if put in the hands of the right curator.

In 2011, a lot of people didn’t even know I did ‘Tupac Back.’

I wanted ‘Formation‘ to be a woman empowerment song, but Beyonce made it into a culture empowerment song.

If I tell you purple look good on you, and you ain’t never wore purple, your favorite colors are red and green, and you’re like, No man, these my colors. You won‘t know purple is your color until you try it on.

Matter fact, my girl complains about how much I’m in the studio working. But she sees the results as they roll out.

A Red camera is the best. When I started shooting videos, I had to pay ten thousand dollars just to rent one. I was like, ‘I do all these music videos, and I still don’t own a Red camera?’ So I spent about a hundred thousand dollars to buy one. My own bread. Boom!

When you’re on top, you’re going to get flack for anything.