Top 25 Tay Keith Quotes

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

Man, Dr. Dre just inspired me so much. Just him personally, outside of music, too. You know, him doing the whole Beats thing… People like him, they set the bar high for me to set the bar even higher, you know? It’s more than just music when it comes to building a foundation and building your empire.

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

I plan to retire at 50. When I’m done, I ain’t touching no more keyboards.

I talk to Drake all the time.

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

I was like 13, 14 years old. I had a Rock Band mic, and I used to record music and put it on YouTube and DatPiff. Then I started getting to producing my own music because I didn’t want to keep rapping on beats I was getting on SoundClick.

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.

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’m working with a lot of artists.

It just so happened that the sound I’ve developed has the Memphis origins to it that made Drake wanted to work with it.

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.

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

You gotta trust a person to work with ’em.

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

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 hit 50, I want to go be a professor.

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.

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

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.

I grew up in the area where we had Three 6 Mafia, and Playa Fly, and 8Ball & MJG. My parents and my family used to listen to it. I learned from them there, and got more into it – listening to the beat of songs, and just learning more about music.

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

People like my beats because of the crazy flow with the hi-hats and the bass.

Yeah, I got a lot of inspiration from Three 6 as far as my sound.

We need more Memphis culture in the industry.