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" A lot of improvisation and freedom went into 'Pinata.' "
Freddie Gibbs
Freedom
Lot
Improvisation
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" This is the land of getting over. The land of second or even third chances; the land of doing whatever you have to do by any means necessary in order to fulfill the American Dream. "
Freddie Gibbs
You
American
American Dream
" Different rappers got different talents. It's like X-Men. "
Freddie Gibbs
Got
Different
Talents
" I'd be quiet as a mouse if I didn't have the correct feeling about my music. I feel like I'm able to talk about it and say I'm one of the best because I think I got the music to back that up. I got the live show to back that up. That's all that matters. "
Freddie Gibbs
Live
Think
Music
" Eminem heard my music, and he didn't wanna take a meeting with me. "
Freddie Gibbs
Heard
He
Meeting
" I've been engulfed in sports since I was a 2-year-old; I picked up any kind of ball - a basketball, baseball, football - I just loved to play something. I loved the energy of being in arenas and watching the game on TV. "
Freddie Gibbs
Baseball
Energy
Game
" My father took me to a lot of sports events as a child, and our TV stayed on ESPN. "
Freddie Gibbs
Child
TV
Sports
" I remember I used to go school with guys who couldn't afford notebooks, pens, paper: the necessary tools needed in order to survive in school. It's a lot of kids in Gary who are at a disadvantage without that. "
Freddie Gibbs
Tools
Paper
Remember
" I tried to watch 'Inception,' but I fell asleep. "
Freddie Gibbs
Asleep
Tried
I Tried
" I'm not a big video game dude though, but I like 'Madden.' "
Freddie Gibbs
Video
Big
Dude
" I want to be one of the most versatile rappers in the game. "
Freddie Gibbs
Most
Rappers
Versatile
" I don't like pre-written raps; I think it makes the song better if you listen to the beat first. In a sense, you have to make a marriage with the beat. I ride the beat, hear the flow of the drums, get the melody of my flow, and then from that point, it's a process of what I want to say. "
Freddie Gibbs
Marriage
Think
Song
" I feel like with a lot of Madlib's beats, they are made for storytelling. I feel like when I'm working on stuff with him, I can really get into the storytelling aspect mode of my flow. "
Freddie Gibbs
Working
Flow
Feel
" I've been interested in basketball since I was a little kid - like, 3. The Bulls were my team. If you grew up in Gary, the Bulls were everybody's team. "
Freddie Gibbs
Like
Kid
Basketball
" I had a nightmare that I was mopping floors and that this Freddie Gibbs thing was all a dream. "
Freddie Gibbs
Nightmare
Had
Floors
" My TV stays locked at 'SportsCenter.' That and 'Pardon the Interruption.' "
Freddie Gibbs
Stays
Interruption
Locked
" Sports is one of the keys to my life. It definitely kept me out of a lot of trouble and gave me a lot of discipline. "
Freddie Gibbs
Sports
Me
Life
" Ninety percent of the general public aren't gangstas, so all of the rappers aren't going to be gangstas. "
Freddie Gibbs
Rappers
Public
Percent
" I started hustling in early adolescence. "
Freddie Gibbs
Adolescence
Early
Hustling
" I like good music, whichever lane it comes out of. As long as it's dope, that is all that matters with me. "
Freddie Gibbs
Me
Good
Music
" I don't like rap that doesn't have a story behind it. "
Freddie Gibbs
Behind
Story
Rap
" My mom had me at a young age, like 20, and she was the oldest child. All her brothers were seven and 10, so I was like a younger brother more so than the oldest child. I was the younger brother to all my uncles, so they were going through their childhood and their teenage years, and I was right there. "
Freddie Gibbs
Brother
Me
Childhood
" I've always played that role in my family: the breadwinner. "
Freddie Gibbs
Family
Role
Always
" I love Lil Wayne. I grew up on the Hot Boyz. "
Freddie Gibbs
I Love
Hot
Grew
" Stuart Scott was a hero. "
Freddie Gibbs
Stuart
Hero
Scott
" Just give me a mic, and I'll rock it. "
Freddie Gibbs
Give
Just
Me
" I'm from Gary, Indiana, and everybody's damn near at the poverty level. It's a rough city to grow up in, and it's a modern-day ghost town. "
Freddie Gibbs
Up
City
Grow
" I'm so hands-on and involved in my own music that I feel like if I put the same effort into another artist, then I can definitely cultivate something great. "
Freddie Gibbs
Artist
Great
Music
" I study my competition for at least an hour a day. I get on the Internet, I look at what they doing, and then I look at ways to defeat them. I know their mixtapes track-by-track. I know some of their lyrics. "
Freddie Gibbs
Know
Internet
Defeat
" Gary is a old factory town right outside Chicago. From my standpoint, my family migrated there in the '50s and '60s from Mississippi - Sardis, Mississippi - shout out to Sardis, Mississippi. My family migrated there just like a lot of black families in that area: they migrated there to get jobs, to get those factory jobs, that steel mill job. "
Freddie Gibbs
Chicago
Black
Right
" I'm cool with doing shows with 2,000 people. I don't have to rap in a stadium. As long as I can provide for my family and my art and live comfortably and live well, then I'm good. "
Freddie Gibbs
Good
People
Live