You go to a Rico Nasty show and there’s gay people, trans people, white people and black people all in the mosh pit together, and it’s beautiful. Kenny Beats Read Quote
Greedo taught me a lot. I don’t say that about every artist. Some artists might teach me stuff musically, but Greedo taught me stuff about being a man and being a musician and being a creative, and being different from other people. Kenny Beats Read Quote
The real producers back in the day didn’t sit there and play every single instrument. They made sure the record had the best performance out of everyone involved possible. Kenny Beats Read Quote
Many times you make music and someone decides to try and pick the best of everything. But if you wait, you sometimes fall out of love, or a song doesn’t speak to you anymore, so you lose the moment. Kenny Beats Read Quote
By the end of high school, I was interning for no school credit, no money, no nothing, for Jonny Shipes. He was my first entry into going to XXL, being around rappers, meeting Yams and A$AP. Kenny Beats Read Quote
Lil Jon was definitely a pioneer for some of the punk-rap acts we see now. He showed you could scream on a song and still have a hit on the radio. Kenny Beats Read Quote
The point of ‘777’ is for the world to hear adult Key. Your favorite new rapper’s favorite rapper, grown up. My job was to lay any canvas he needed at any given moment. Kenny Beats Read Quote
I never was able to pay any type of bill doing the music that I was instinctually was making ’cause I loved it. I had to kind of pivot into doing the stuff that someone had taught me about to really get on my feet. Kenny Beats Read Quote
