Why Zaytoven's Legacy Will Live Forever | Documentary | Red Bull Music

[Music] when I was young I started playing music in the church my dad is a minister my mom was the choir director me being a guy that doesn't use profanity not smoking not drinking it I didn't think I could making it as one of the number one trap producers in the rap game [Music] [Music] [Music] trap music it's like I feel like it's like people from the struggle we came from not having anything we came from then on EBT being poor there's a little community so the only thing we knew how to do is rap so that's why we call the track we know how to sell dope that's that's the struggle so people talk about and then that just became cool where everybody wants to do it so now it's like it's his own genre music the same song started it Peter chapter there won't be no trapped me with I slave something to try music equals eight oh that's it you can't name a rep then they've been through a lentil came through the south wall doing anything and popping and ain't got no song was a talker y'all gotta start coming gucchi Oh J fresh migos future work with Nicki Minaj down there anybody who was hot in Atlanta at the time was in that basement man from 10 o'clock to when I got up to go to work in the morning here people here I'm making music these basement right here and polluted and I was listening to rap music when I wasn't allowed to listen to rap music I had to sneak in listen to it but my parents did I mean listening to music with profanity and all that in my early favors would had to be dr. Dre the chronic album and it was so rough and rugged the language was just so terrible that I was like man I got to sneak and listen to this it never was the words really it was just how they put the music together that had me addicted to it before the people ever came over here it was just him and his brothers just making music and it just started evolving until they just turned into like they mom my house is just a spot so everybody want to go record his name on my house we go into the basement now this is where the studio used to be they've used to have his big music mixing board or whatever you want to call it right back here was the mic booth famous maybe this bring back memories right here you type what gucci mane early stuff yo gotti Rocco all those guys you'll see them in this mic booth you're seeing me in this booth right here this is what they did called mom's basement when I first actually went to Zay told me mom house and find out they had a recording studio in the basement it was like shocking I thought we was gonna pull up that saw me know like a building with a suite in and there's a woman pulled up at the how like okay we show mama house they were coming all kinds of the night the street was getting full with cars and driveway was getting full with cars he got busy House Rules Xavier knew and no-smoking was one of them indefinitely in the house I'm thinking his studio was smoking drink so I fired it up in there and she can't fight it down no drinking in the house no weapons no cursing my dad was just retired from the military so he was militant he the guy to come down say hey man this ain't no studio hey I come and turn all this stuff off so you got almost had to tiptoe around my dad cuz you know he really get it you know at first my race was like twenty five out of the hour I had little mixing raised I think for $100 I used to have a barber chair sitting right here I was selling haircut to you know a lot of artists might want to come and get that haircut why they here is the little barber chair the whole set up like a real barber shop in this studio that you could hail here to I felt like being a barber was definitely one of the ways I was gonna make my money and survive that's how I hustled and made a living without having to go work at Burger King McDonald's or whatever [Music] everybody know what you getting it till you come as a basement it's gonna be work but at the end of the day we're gonna make it fun the workflow was like ridiculous like you talk about knocking out songs like we was knocking out songs like left and right it was like boot camp for like up-and-coming artists wealthfront clearly never knew it for real and too many people were successful with doing nothing finds a basement gave me an opportunity well I can go someone would call I ain't got to go and stay out his high money to record they got the studio's they recorded me say got the beats they got all the powerful people coming in he made people believe that we all can achieve and we believe I think what he was doing playing in the church working at the barbershop coming here and making Beach and just having people meet him here I mean it was like we were all one big happy family as soon as you came in that house they had violated spiritually had developed it to be so conducive to carry that kind of background of people that would come in there and that's why that place is so special [Music] gucci mane was one of the first ones that was here he's been a lot of time here certain people you just started gelling with and start wanting to see more on gucci with one of those guys that was born to be a star and on top of that he was just like the crime is treated dude I ever seen in my life and Gucci was dope you know and he was a workaholic every morning say what you doing today you notice 7:30 8 o'clock in the morning you up yet I cool on brush my teeth I'm gonna come over so he put a bead on and Gucci go crazy oh man no he like a real MC he wants you to listen to his burst what you think and then they'll just sit in there and write that combination of those guys working together in that basement created that sound that is just undeniable right now slice of potato truck when I started doing music Jill Gucci it was the birth of a certain sound of trap music it's me making a beat in five minutes the bass might be too loud you barely can hear the clout the pianos too low Gucci saying stuff that you can't hardly understand he off tempo they added a certain Street toward a certain trap to it it's our rough [Music] we're definitely one of the first guys to bring imperfection into trap music when I first went down in the basement with him his wiring was all jacked up you know I'm saying and it's crazy because it gave him a distinct sound it sounded like it just came straight out of the trashcan that was a certain type of trap music that's different than what young jeezy and T I was doing cuz they was making real quality music we was doing it it was just something totally different it was just like unpolished the sound of trap music that's known today by the younger generation is what me and Gucci created Gucci man who was one of the roughest guys I ever met in my life but this is my main guy this is a guy with 24/7 now how did we click so much I don't know I feel like this guy really putting me in position but I guarantee it was definitely a spark when you introduced me to other people I mean big-time rappers or guys that's in the streets you know the first thing you say Amen is a tolling this is my produce him cuz he'll drink him smoke just like run you ain't gotta say all that but it was something for him to brag on this is a guy that every Street guy they look up to him and he looks at me and brags about hi I learned that guy's like that that's in that lifestyle there my other people for being themselves and it gave me the confidence to be like you know what I'm in the right place and I'm doing the right thing [Music] when I think about as a token record the first thing I think about it him playing at Dan keyboard everybody can make a beat but they imagine imagine with them Keith their musician like then what he do my son had got mimicked so much every time I listen to the radio if I listen to a mix tape it's like Danny knows this B's I was making so I said well let me start adding stuff I feel like these guys can't do this stuff sound like church every time the man says he and I hit church I hate God worship we've been booked in places like Nashville as soon as we get out of there two o'clock in the morning everybody's drunk but him we got a smash the guys back to Atlanta why cuz this Sunday morning he gonna go right in church and do his consistent duties I am the lead musician of the church and I have been here for about 11 years you know it's always a place for me to go to to get back balance and focus [Music] people have asked me how do you let him go out you know do secular music you know and coming to church on Sunday morning and play well I don't see him doing anything other than making beats you know don't you go through our secular job every day he tell you he got to do something with his church like practice that's what it is you ain't gonna be able to talk him out of it you know bill Pam not to go do it I believe it was Snoop Dogg was in his house and it was recording or something and he got up and left and then he got back and it was like what did you go you say I had to go play for my church if the music stuff got taken away from me tomorrow it's like oh that's cool you know wait I don't know how I will function if I feel okay now you can't go to church no more for rest of your life I think my parents opening up the doors for everybody to come in no matter what they look like and what they smelled like weed whatever it's a part of ministry they can't relate to a church or a pastor but they can relate to a young guy that's making music they listen to his faith it influences everything about him if I say he's an old soul so even at a young age he was much more mature this music stuff wasn't never a dream or something I was you know striving to be in or I'm you know when I get older I would be a producer or none of that stuff I just feel like you know God put me in his position maybe because of my character or maybe because I'm the type of person that can influence other people in a certain way you know a lot of these guys they mama might be in church a lot it might have been made to go to church when they was young you know they just might have kind of started living a different lifestyle you know the church is like the backbone of the community the in the church they meet somewhere in the middle because it's all still a certain life that somebody's living it's still ups and downs that people gotta go through so a lot of these guys is rapping or been selling dope or doing whatever they still got a heart and they still got a soul bankroll has been a part of our family since he was a young boy he was just like a blip permanent fixture really because he was always around fresh heels a guy that if I'm going down to see my grandma Columbus he ride with me we just rot with each other so much that you know we would each other all the time [Music] [Music] I remember hearing about Bank Road being shot I was like what for real so to hear that oh he didn't make it it broke my heart he was just over here two days ago what you mean it was really rough at the funeral it was after the funeral and weeks and weeks to come you know he didn't say a whole lot but you could tell there was a huge void in French that was really close I was more closer than my own father died because we use around each other every single day [Applause] playing with the keys out I felt like bankroll fresh was gonna be one of the biggest guys in the gang bro was a very talented artist that he has do great potential studio family we never thought that Banquo believe that early there's not too many days that go by where he just stops and just had to just grab itself thinking about what happened or what could have been or what should have been there's some real Street booze in his music industry and I think they in it and a real passionate about it because they trying to get out of the street this is what he told me one time he said Thompson is not about money it's all about relationship you know even though money is a part of it is really really really about relationship because all that stuff that we got could be gone I feel like my job is to be the example it's just me trying to live a certain way and that's so much it's talking about it I didn't never want to be the guy with man you need to do this or you need to do that because a lot of times you can push people away I look at Gucci today and I look at his lifestyle than the way he is that lets me know lives changed God didn't give us the gift of just to hold on to it for ourselves and just use it whenever we think we need it it's for us to spread it give it to other people [Music] [Music] you [Music]

Channel: Red Bull Music

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Keywords: Red Bull Music, the note, zaytoven, red bull music academy, trap music, trap, hip hop, rap, rap music, gucci mane, bankroll fresh, ATL, atlanta, atlanta rap, migos, future, beats, producer, production, recording, documentary, music documentary, noisey, boiler room, pitchfork, resident advisor, music, red bull, hiphop, culture, zaytoven music

Id: 5NpmuZYcotQ

Length: 17min 10sec (1030 seconds)

Published: Fri Apr 20 2018