Tay Keith

Musician

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I'm working with a lot of artists.

You gotta trust a person to work with 'em.

As far as Memphis being underrated, I feel like a lot of people have slept on Memphis music when it comes to breaking through into the mainstream.

I'ma be on a lot of projects and hopefully I get to work more on my own project, too.

I feel like artists like Three 6 Mafia and 8 Ball and MJG reached a point in their careers where they were hot and underground.

When you got a personal relationship with somebody, it's easier to work with someone.

Whatever you make from music, you invest that right back into what you want to get into in life.

I always knew music was gonna be my outlet, I just didn't know when, or how it was gonna happen.

Whatever you make from music, you invest that right back into what you want to get into in life.

I feel like it took artists like Pimp C and Andre 3000 with 'International Players Anthem' - I feel like it took the Memphis sound to a certain peak but it never really broke into the mainstream.

When I first started, all I had was the laptop and some cheap headphones. I ain't have no speakers. You know, no Rocket speakers or no MPC. No keyboard, none of that. It just was the laptop and the headphones. Going from there, it just teaches you a lot.

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.'

I don't want to be labeled as just a producer. Producers have little control and they get little respect. And I'm a man of respect.

I feel like artists like Three 6 Mafia and 8 Ball and MJG reached a point in their careers where they were hot and underground.

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

I talk to Drake all the time.

I grew up in Memphis, Tennessee, born and raised. It was hard. I stayed with my momma, then I ended up moving with my daddy.

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.

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

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