DJ Khaled Shares the Guidance JAY-Z shared something that will always be with him: ‘My Life Changed’

Along with discussing his family and friendship with longtime partner Drake, the music producer also spoke up

DJ Khaled’s family now defines him, not his social standing or number of streams.

The music producer received a fresh lease on life after the birth of his first kid, Asahd, 6½, and he recalled that’s exactly what Jay-Z had told him would happen.

“It’s all for them,” 47-year-old Khaled stated to Variety on Wednesday during an interview for a cover story. “Everything, including our home, our vehicles, our watches, and the music we listen to… “Wait till you have a kid—that’s when life really starts,” Jay-Z advised me.

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“And my life changed as soon as my kids were born,” he continued. Not only these gifts, but also my way of thinking. Success is not determined by money. To be a mogul is not defined by money. True success, in my opinion, is happiness.”

Sons Asahd and Aalam, 3½, are shared by Khaled and his partner Nicole Tuck. He told PEOPLE in May about his meticulous morning ritual, which involves giving thanks to his family.

Khaled claimed he wakes up at 7:30 a.m., gets out of the shower at 8:15 a.m., and by 8:47 a.m., has dressed and applied “that cocoa butter all over me.” At 9:30 a.m., he leaves the house and heads to the golf course after bidding his family farewell with a kiss.

“I follow that both when I’m riding and when I’m not. since there is just one cycle. It’s called living a life of thankfulness every day,” Khaled said to PEOPLE.

“Even if you want to call it on-cycle or off-cycle, my life is making sure my kids are happy, making sure my queen is happy. And then after that, I do things to keep me inspired more because I’m inspired that they’re happy. Every day I wake up, I show my gratitude to God and my kids and my wife. That’s something I really do. I don’t talk it. I live it.”

Elsewhere in the Variety interview, DJ Khaled also opened up about his friendship with Drake — and said that they have bonded over their kids.

DJ Khaled for Variety.

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He called Drake’s family “beautiful” and revealed that his 5-year-old son Adonis “plays good basketball too” as he marveled over the “Knife Talk” rapper’s court in his Toronto home.

“That house is unbelievable because you gotta remind yourself that it’s a house,” said Khaled. “You’ll be in the basketball court, and then you’ll be in the studio, and then it feels like you’re walking an hour to get to the indoor pool or the club.”

He added that the home is “like a museum” and “you can get lost in there, for sure.”

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