Everything I make as a producer, I visualize it as a DJ first. And all those beats, I test them as a DJ.
Nothing beats a great smile.
I hate going to the gym, so sweating outdoors sure beats sitting on a stationary bike staring at my navel.
I grew up poor in crappy situations... various crappy situations. What kept me sane was reading and music. I had so many different literary tastes growing up, be it fiction like Stephen King or Piers Anthony or non-fiction like reading Hunter S. Thompson essays or reading the Beats. I was a huge fan of the Beat movement.
Winning isn't everything, but it beats anything in second place.
Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.
We're living in a world where Google beats Gallup.
In Jamaica, them always have throwback riddims, recycled old beats, and the hardcore reggae scene is always present. You have faster stuff like the more commercialized stuff, but you always have that segment of music that is always from the core, from the original root of it.
Pale Death beats equally at the poor man's gate and at the palaces of kings.
I always have my Beats by Dr. Dre headphones turned up high. I'll probably be deaf by age 50.