An instrumental album is something I've been wanting to do for a long time.
I always loved the way music made me feel. I did sports at school and all, but when I got home, it was just music. Everybody in my neighborhood loved music. I could jump the back fence and be in the park where there were ghetto blasters everywhere.
I just want people to hear the music the way it's suppose to sound, the way we meant for them to hear it. You sit in the studio all this time and make the music, tweak it, try to get it perfect. They should be able to hear it that way.
When I'm sitting in the studio, a mix isn't done till I feel it in my gut.
I don't take any shorts. I don't say, 'Okay, it's good enough.' I try to get exactly what I'm hearing in my head to the tape, and I won't let it move until then.
My father is the oldest of seven boys.
You got to realise that when I was 20 years old, I had a house, a Mercedes, a Corvette and a million dollars in the bank before I could buy alcohol legally.
I'd really like to do a movie, either as a producer or director. My ultimate fantasy would be to direct a movie and produce the entire soundtrack. I don't really see myself acting.
'Straight Outta Compton' is the album I'm least happy with. I threw it together in six weeks so we could have something to sell out of the trunk.
Eminem is just incredible. That's the word that comes to mind: 'incredible.'
I can remember when I was just, like, about four years old in Compton, and my mother would have me stack 45s, stack about ten of them, and when one would finish, the next record would drop. It was like I was DJ'ing for the house, picking out certain songs and so this song would go after that song.
I'm always going to talent scout and try to find new artists to work with.
In my opinion, some of the hip-hop records that come out, people are willing to compromise. I'm not.
I know sound, and this is what I'm going to stick to: what I know.
Everything in my life has been about sound and making music, so Beats represents just that - the improvement of sound and the dedication to everything I've been doing from the day I started.
There's actually a lot of producers that I like to listen to.
The original version of 'Nuthin' but a 'G' Thang' was made to a Boz Scaggs song; I can't remember the name of the song.
The reason 'Detox' didn't come out was because I didn't like it.
Wreckin' Cru was a DJ crew. They used to call it that because it was the guys that came in after the party was over and broke down the equipment. We eventually made a record, and we had the costumes on and what have you. Back then, everybody had their little getups, you know, like SoulSonic Force, UTFO.
It's always been difficult to make a good record. To be perfectly honest with you, it's really about the person that's pushing the buttons. No matter what type of equipment you have, you still have to have a certain talent to be able to make a good record.
You just have to find that thing that's special about you that distinguishes you from all the others, and through true talent, hard work, and passion, anything can happen.
It's always weird when people approach me to make an investment. I tell them, 'I don't need any more money. I'm good.' Then I wait for their expression. That part is entertaining, because people look at you like you're crazy when you say you don't need any more money. Who says that?
I've been living the American Dream for over 25 years - just being able to do what I do, be creative, and make money out of it. It's incredible.
In fact, I would advise against anyone doing reality shows. I won't be doing 'X Factor' just yet.
It's a very interesting thing because I can start mixing a song and leave the room and come back and maybe just slide one lever to a certain point, and it just - it's a certain feeling that it gives you when you know it's right.
Everything that I do is for sound goals. It comes from my gut. When I'm sitting in the studio, a mix isn't done till I feel it in my gut.
Black women are the strongest most hardworking people on earth.
It's entertaining to watch somebody break my music down or explain what he thinks I was thinking during the process of making these records. Because... he has no idea.
I don't ever see myself retiring totally from music, because I have a genuine love and passion for it.
I've sold a lot of records. Did I keep other artists from eating?
If you're not sincere with it, you shouldn't say anything at all.
I got Ice Cube his start. I also launched Eazy-E.
The difference between the headphones and making music, it's like, okay, I have a new business here that I'm proud of, but my soul still remains in the music-making process.
I sequence during the entire recording process. The sequencing changes as I'm recording and as I'm listening. From when I'm, like, four songs in, I start trying to figure out which song should come after which. Which is important, and it changes as the album goes.
People are always coming up to me, thinking I've got some magic wand that can make them a star and I want to tell them that no one can do that. Making hit records is not that easy. But it took me time to realize that myself.
Before now, I've always taken my mixes out to the car and listened to them in the parking lot. I still do that, but more so now I'm listening to it on the Beat box, and I think people should give it at least a listen and check it out and see what it is.
No matter where you are or what you're doing, it's always great if you don't have to get up and physically change the song that plays next.
Every person walking has some kind of talent that they can get on tape.
I've never considered myself a rapper. I know how to do it. I know how to make my voice project, and I know how to stay on beat and what have you, but I've never considered myself a rapper.
I had between 20 and 40 songs for 'Detox,' and I just couldn't feel it. Usually, I can hear the sequence of an album as I'm going, but I wasn't able to do that. I wasn't feeling it in my gut.
I can take a three-year-old and make a hit record.
I just want to get my music out and make sure that it's heard in the right way.
I've always hated authority from an early age. And authority have always hated me.
I'm never gonna stop music, it's like air to me.
I'm going to record forever.
I have tons of music stashed.
Sean 'P. Diddy' Combs is a hustler. In fact, he's what I call an extreme hustler.
No matter what type of equipment you have, you still have to have a certain talent to be able to make a good record.
I'd rather deal with Tipper than Bush. He's trying to kill everybody in jail.
