38 Quotes by Tay Keith

Most people when they rap usually have their homies in the studio who rap with 'em, but they homies don't usually be producers.

I was DJing for this party promotion called 1st Flight Entertainment, having to DJ on the weekends and then also going to school in the same week. So I just figured out how to balance that, then make beats on the side too.

Some of the artists I've been working with it's been just work, you know what I'm saying? But in the industry I feel like the relationship is stronger than the work sometimes.

I want to prove that you can go to school and still chase your dream, too.

There's a lot of entrepreneurs out here who are in school, who just don't know what's next, or can't figure out what direction they should go in. And me graduating motivates them.

Music was my way out. School was the plan B, just in case music didn't work out. I didn't know it was gonna work out. I just felt like, 'If I'm doing these two things, something's going to get me up there. Something's going to make me successful.'

When I DJ, I got my own catalog to play in the club. I'm spinning my own records like it's my own show.

I actually got to work with TM88. He was one of my big influences as far as producing. It was pretty cool. I had met him in California at the crib and it was one of those random meet-ups and we got to working from that point on.

Yo Gotti had some influence on me for sure. I would say Three 6 Mafia, too.