The high school Zaytoven attended didn’t have a marching band, so he and a classmate played songs they heard on the radio. It was just me playing music.”īy the time Zaytoven, then an aspiring rapper, got to high school, Bay Area hip-hop legend JT The Bigga Figga ran across the young, wavy-haired keyboard prodigy performing during a football game. “I was in church every day almost, so I had to find something to do,” Zaytoven said. Born in Frankfurt, Germany on an army base to a minister father and choir director mother, Zaytoven grew up in San Francisco, starting out as a drummer before taking up organs and keyboards. That sense of camaraderie is actually how Zaytoven earned his glory. They take what’s already been given, and they make me part of what they got going on.” “It’s wonderful to see these young guys come in ‘cause they bring something new to the table,” Zaytoven said prior to this year’s BMI R&B/Hip-Hop Awards.
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Despite criticism from some hip-hop purists about trap music’s minimal production courtesy of computer software and its sometimes gibberish-sounding lyrical cadences, Zaytoven praises the new class of hip-hop for turning the musical tide. It pleases the Grammy Award winner to witness the Southern hip-hop subgenre and its roster of artists (i.e., Future, Young Thug, Young Dolph and 2 Chainz) ascend to massive digital followings and platinum-certified streams. Needless to say, Zaytoven, 37, is arguably trap music’s de facto talent scout and big brother. Eight years later, an unknown trio-turned-chart-toppers named Migos introduced their staccato rhyme scheme on their intergalactic-flavored debut single “Versace,” another Zaytoven-produced banger filled with his signature MPC drum machine tip-taps and warped keyboard chords.
When trap music’s elder statesman Gucci Mane released his debut single “Icy” in 2005, it was the song’s producer Xavier “Zaytoven” Dotson who convinced the unapologetic Atlanta rapper to concentrate on a career in music.
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