“If I tell you purple look good on you, and you ain’t never wore purple, your favorite colors are red and green, and you’re like, No man, these my colors. You won’t know purple is your color until you try it on.”
― Mike Will Made It
“Future is my brother. He has no idea how big what he does is.”
― Mike Will Made It
“I’ve just got to keep a balanced head and stay focused.”
― Mike Will Made It
“For ‘Black Beatles’ to be so true to us and our sound – we weren’t chasing a sound – it solidifies that the world is ready for us and what we have to come.”
― Mike Will Made It
“I was able to bring Gucci and Rae Sremmurd on a track together. It was crazy because it seemed like it was destined to be.”
― Mike Will Made It
“Putting together a hit record is like putting together a puzzle.”
― Mike Will Made It
“When I was still at Interscope, I told them about Rae Sremmurd and we were talking about signing them. I was like, ‘This is the hood Backstreet Boys, the black *NSYNC. This is the most ratchet pop is gonna get and this is the most pop hip-hop is gonna get.’”
― Mike Will Made It
“I’m a producer, not just a beatmaker but a producer.”
― Mike Will Made It
“I’m always that dude that’s looking for the next thing.”
― Mike Will Made It
“Me and Miley just clicked. She has good ideas. She’s real creative.”
― Mike Will Made It
“We Can’t Stop’ has so many different vibes to it. She sounds country; the beat has these live, knocking drums; and then it has these pop melodies. It’s a feel-good record.”
― Mike Will Made It
“I just want to change the game.”
― Mike Will Made It
“We Can’t Stop’ was the first song we did. We didn’t try to reach and be too ‘hood:’ It’s hip-hop-influenced, but Miley’s a pop singer, and she’s going to have country in there.”
― Mike Will Made It
“With ‘HUMBLE.,’ I knew that beat was going to capture a moment. It just felt real urgent.”
― Mike Will Made It
“I do it all, man. I produce, I do my own wardrobe and my own ironing, too!”
― Mike Will Made It
“People told me that Miley’s ’23’ wasn’t hip-hop. Let me tell you, she went in and owned that track.”
― Mike Will Made It
“When people question me about whether something is hip-hop, I ask them, ‘Does it sound hard? Does it hit home? Is it raw and real?’ If it is, I did my job. And you can call it whatever you want.”
― Mike Will Made It
“A lot of times, older people don’t get the new generation.”
― Mike Will Made It
“With rapping, that’s just another form of expressing your music. Whether you’re going to rap, you’re going to sing, it’s whatever you want.”
― Mike Will Made It
“As far as rapping goes, as long as you are telling the truth and you have a good flow, then you win.”
― Mike Will Made It
“Pharrell is a legend.”
― Mike Will Made It
“It’s important to show the new generation that soundtracks can be just as exciting as traditional albums if put in the hands of the right curator.”
― Mike Will Made It
“Jimmy Iovine, he pretty much started off as an engineer and a producer, and then he started up a label. Then he built his label to have big artists like Dr. Dre and 50 Cent. Then he started up a headphone company and made it a billion dollar business. He’s a genius to me.”
― Mike Will Made It
“Jimmy Iovine has been telling me since 2012 that I needed to start my own label with my own artists. This was when he first met me and ‘Bandz a Make Her Dance’ was first taking off.”
― Mike Will Made It
“I wanted to find raw talent and help build it from scratch. I wanted to build from rags to riches. That’s the way Ear Drummers did it. We took over the music industry from my mom’s basement. That’s why my first album is going to be called ‘Made It Out the Basement.’”
― Mike Will Made It
“You can scroll through my iTunes and I’ve got everything. I’ve got Ace Hood, Alt-J, Annie Lennox, Arctic Monkeys, Beanie Sigel, the Beatles, Beth Hart, Big Sean, Bob Dylan, Bon Iver, Chief Keef, Coldplay, the Flaming Lips, Mariah Carey, Miley Cyrus, Nicki Minaj, OutKast, Pet Shop Boys, Peter Gabriel, the Smiths, and the list goes on from there.”
― Mike Will Made It
“God has blessed me with something. One day, I do see myself being like Jimmy Iovine. I’m trying to build an empire.”
― Mike Will Made It
“Juicy J was always one of my favorites. For one, he was a producer and I just used to love how he came on his verses every time.”
― Mike Will Made It
“Drake is damn near the best with melodies.”
― Mike Will Made It
“I love the grind. Gucci taught me to never stop working.”
― Mike Will Made It
“I used to be with Gucci every day. School nights, I was with Gucci going to all the different clubs, going to his video shoots. Just moving around with him is how I met a lot of different artists like 2 Chainz and Shawty Lo and other people I work with now.”
― Mike Will Made It
“2 Chainz and I have a history. It’s always an honor and pleasure working with him, because it seems like everything we do is dope. We just have that organic chemistry.”
― Mike Will Made It
“I’m just expanding my sound and making it bigger.”
― Mike Will Made It
“Whoever has a next-level ear needs to be an Eardrummer.”
― Mike Will Made It
“I feel like when I came in the game, I was more focused on like, ‘yo how many times can I get on the radio?’”
― Mike Will Made It
“I feel like Rae Sremmurd is just a whole new sound culturally. People don’t understand, but they learn to understand. The melody choice is different and everything.”
― Mike Will Made It
“I love being in the studio.”
― Mike Will Made It
“I did ‘We Can’t Stop’ for Rihanna, but it never worked. Every time I would play ‘We Can’t Stop’ I was like ‘this is the new ‘Party in the U.S.A.” I was like OK if I keep saying this is the new ‘Party in the U.S.A.,’ why don’t I go to the girl who did ‘Party in the U.S.A.?’”
― Mike Will Made It
“In 2011, a lot of people didn’t even know I did ‘Tupac Back.’”
― Mike Will Made It
“2012, I feel like I was still grinding. It was a good year for me, but that was my year breaking down the barriers. It was like my introduction.”
― Mike Will Made It
“I don’t put myself in any box or say that I can’t work on any kind of music. I’m not just a producer that only makes urban music.”
― Mike Will Made It
“I like making dope music.”
― Mike Will Made It
“I wanted ‘Formation’ to be a woman empowerment song, but Beyonce made it into a culture empowerment song.”
― Mike Will Made It
“I really like coming across all types of different music, and hearing new things.”
― Mike Will Made It
“I want to work with anybody original.”
― Mike Will Made It
“If you put your time and energy into developing creatively, that’s where you’ll go.”
― Mike Will Made It
“Once you start getting money, it relieves your stress of worrying about how you’re going to pay your next bill. It’s more like another stress of how many bills you have to pay.”
― Mike Will Made It
“I wouldn’t say money can buy happiness. Happiness starts with yourself. Money can buy a smile, though.”
― Mike Will Made It
“I like blessing others around me. When you work hard, it’s just dope to give back to the people around you.”
― Mike Will Made It
“I don’t spend a bunch of money on jewelry or sunglasses, because I lose them a lot.”
― Mike Will Made It
“I didn’t have no college friends. All the artists the college folks were listening to were my homies. I was leaving class, literally, to record with them.”
― Mike Will Made It
“That’s what music is all about, vibes. That’s what makes people react and relate to a song, what makes it soulful.”
― Mike Will Made It
“Me and Future, we did ‘Dirty Sprite,’ ‘Ain’t No Way Around It,’ ‘Turn on the Lights.’ Every time we record, we’re setting bars.”
― Mike Will Made It
“You can’t please everybody. As long as you make dope music, you’re gonna have your fans.”
― Mike Will Made It
“That’s the most important part of all the music I produce: making sure the artist is bringing themselves out in the music.”
― Mike Will Made It
“I feel like soccer brings another dynamic to the city, it makes it more eclectic… I feel like it opens doors for people who grew up playing soccer here their whole life. We’ve got some rings on the way, trophies on the way, and we’re gonna win, and we’re gonna stand behind Atlanta United just like we stand behind everything else out of Atlanta.”
― Mike Will Made It
“This is the city of the underdog champion, so they want to see the next person out of their city blowing up and making I feel like, man, Atlanta’s a big city, but it’s so small.”
― Mike Will Made It
“You wanna champion someone from your city and it blows it up.”
― Mike Will Made It
“I have a 200-song catalogue in the streets and I never got any money off that.”
― Mike Will Made It
“Kanye is one of my favorite producers and artists.”
― Mike Will Made It
“I love Atlanta.”
― Mike Will Made It
“No teacher ever skipped the student process… if you want to be a leader, you have to be a follower first.”
― Mike Will Made It
“When I tried to send him beats in 2010, he told me I was too expensive for him. I told Future we had to work together, that it would be beneficial for both of us, that we didn’t have to worry about the money.”
― Mike Will Made It
“We Can’t Stop’ – everyone said that it wasn’t going to work on pop radio, because it didn’t have an EDM-type beat. But it went to No. 2 on Billboard and No. 1 on iTunes.”
― Mike Will Made It
“I like to listen to the Police, Sting, Queen, Pet Shop Boys.”
― Mike Will Made It
“I want to make sure that I sign dope artists, old and new, just to make sure that we come up with something new and creative.”
― Mike Will Made It
“Sometimes I feel like I represent for the misunderstood.”
― Mike Will Made It
“Future was always the person to knock out multiple bangers in one night.”
― Mike Will Made It
“I can work with all these different kinds of artists and still be able to come up with huge records. Not just cool records, but game-changing records.”
― Mike Will Made It
“When I do music I don’t think about urban music, pop or country, I just think about a good song.”
― Mike Will Made It
“I really believed in 2 Chainz, I really believed in Future, and I was going to the studio with them every single day.”
― Mike Will Made It
“I’m just trying to bring the sound from Atlanta over to the mainstream radio in a way that everybody can enjoy.”
― Mike Will Made It
“It started off with me being all the way influenced by Atlanta and southern music but I knew my sound had to grow – I started learning melodies.”
― Mike Will Made It
“Matter fact, my girl complains about how much I’m in the studio working. But she sees the results as they roll out.”
― Mike Will Made It
“I like everything rare – cars, shoes, clothes.”
― Mike Will Made It
“The ‘trap’ sound is a sound from the city. We’ve always liked music with bass. We’ve always liked old schools with big speakers in the trunks. We like our music loud. We’ve always had a nightlife scene in Atlanta.”
― Mike Will Made It
“I’m creative so I’m always gonna create.”
― Mike Will Made It
“I used to listen to songs on the radio and play that junk back on that little keyboard.”
― Mike Will Made It
“At the end of the day, I was listening to the big homies and they were saying, ‘Yo, man, you got talent, man, stay off the streets.’”
― Mike Will Made It
“If you’re a super-producer, you can produce whatever you want to produce. That’s where I’m at.”
― Mike Will Made It
“A Red camera is the best. When I started shooting videos, I had to pay ten thousand dollars just to rent one. I was like, ‘I do all these music videos, and I still don’t own a Red camera?’ So I spent about a hundred thousand dollars to buy one. My own bread. Boom!”
― Mike Will Made It
“I first heard Trouble in 2008. At that time I was on my grind, trying to work with all the next-up artists. I had sent him a couple beats; he had done a couple songs. We was always around the same age.”
― Mike Will Made It
“At the beginning of my career before anything started propelling, I used to blow up everybody. I was trying to work with whoever got next.”
― Mike Will Made It
“With Yo Gotti ‘Rack It Up,’ that was him hitting me like, bro, I’m about to put out a single next month, I want you to produce it.”
― Mike Will Made It
“I’m just trying to follow the footsteps of God. I don’t question him. Just keep moving. He never fails. He always amazes me. It’s like, damn, the sky isn’t the limit.”
― Mike Will Made It
“A lot of people slept on Rae Sremmurd.”
― Mike Will Made It
“I’m looking at EarDrummers like a boutique label, like an Interscope or a Def Jam.”
― Mike Will Made It
“It doesn’t matter if it’s platinum or 10-times platinum – it’s a certification that lets me know that I’m not wasting my time in the studio. That being said, I don’t let those certifications run my life.”
― Mike Will Made It
“If I get a Grammy, that would be dope.”
― Mike Will Made It
“I’m not really the type that likes to put out a project just to say I’ve put it out – I like to make them count.”
― Mike Will Made It
“Yeah, I co-directed ’23.’ Yeah, the whole concept of the video… Even with that video, I feel like it’s not a video that you can get sick of. You can always go back and watch that and it’s fresh.”
― Mike Will Made It
“I’m so into making music and being behind the scenes. I’m such a visionary person that I don’t see myself being the person in front of the camera or the person in front of the mic.”
― Mike Will Made It
“I don’t want to be on the mic, man. I want to stay producing.”
― Mike Will Made It
“Those are two artists that I worked with real closely. Me and Miley are real close, me and Future are real close.”
― Mike Will Made It
“It’s like I have three different brains.”
― Mike Will Made It
“Miley Cyrus is the new Madonna.”
― Mike Will Made It
“When you’re on top, you’re going to get flack for anything.”
― Mike Will Made It
“Tupac Back’ was the first single I had, but prior to that I already had 20-something songs in the street.”
― Mike Will Made It
“I used to grind. I be telling people, you don’t grind, you don’t sell. I was like 15, 16 getting dropped off in the city by myself, with my own beat CDs.”
― Mike Will Made It
“I don’t sleep.”
― Mike Will Made It
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