I had to learn how to bring the best outta Key! by learning what’s going on with him. That’s how I approach every artist I work with, period. Kenny Beats Read Quote
Most of these producers have an agenda of what they want to push or what they think will be hot for someone. I don’t have an agenda. My agenda is to take someone and bring out their dreams, what they’re hearing in their head.’ Kenny Beats Read Quote
I think a lot of people make a big misstep when they assume what an artist is going to be interested in, so I try to just take that out of the equation and make sure whenever I’m talking to people about their music, I’m getting all my context clues from that – and then we go to work. Kenny Beats Read Quote
When I make a lot of really good music with someone, I want to let the world hear it right now; unfiltered. I don’t think it has to be more complicated than that. Kenny Beats Read Quote
I always had this ego where if I ever wanted to come back to doing rap, I could do that. That was not true. I would get stuck, I would be in a room and someone would ask me for something and I didn’t have it. Kenny Beats Read Quote
At the end of the day I’m not just sending beats in. I’m mixing the song. I’m recording the song. I’m engineering the song. I’m in the studio helping with the songwriting. I’m doing the whole beat – every single piece of it is me. Kenny Beats Read Quote
I was working for Johnny Shipes in New York when I was 17 years old, getting beats off. Kenny Beats Read Quote
The biggest thing Rick Rubin taught me is that you don’t get any extra credit by doing everything yourself. Kenny Beats Read Quote
