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" After I got dropped by Interscope, I knew in my heart that I had to fight back some way or not rap at all. I just took it upon myself to get myself where I needed to be. "

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" 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. "

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" I wanted to be in the NBA. I wanted to be in the NFL. "

" I look at some of my fans at my show, and a lot of them look like they're straight out of a punk rock show. They like what I'm coming across with. I had seen them same thing when I went to this Scarface show, so it lets me know that I'm on the right track. "

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" The things I rap about are 100 percent real. But at the same time, I don't rap about those things to tear my city down. I give you the reality of what it is and what I been through and how it is living in those conditions in Gary, Ind. "

" Coming up in America in the '80s and '90s, we were not too far removed from slavery. People forget that. "

Freddie Gibbs

People

America

" I feel like some artists need a record label, and some don't. "

" 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. "

" Different rappers got different talents. It's like X-Men. "

" My core thing is gangster rap, but a lot of my music is melodic and carries a message of survival. "

" 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

Good

Music

" Lil Wayne makes good music. He's one of the best rappers. "

" I never write a song before I get the track because I just feel that I have to make a marriage with that track with my raps. And if it's something that's already there, it ain't gone really fit, I don't think. "

" Me separating from CTE - I'm extremely happy about that because a lot of guys wrote me off, Jeezy included. He really wrote me off. "

Freddie Gibbs

Off

" I want to be one of the most versatile rappers in the game. "

" I don't really know what a debut album is no more. As long as you got music on the streets, you've debuted. "

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Long

Music

" Eminem heard my music, and he didn't wanna take a meeting with me. "

Freddie Gibbs

Heard

Meeting

" Probably dancing to Cassie's 'Me & U' - That's my guilty pleasure. "

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Pleasure

Guilty

" My father took me to a lot of sports events as a child, and our TV stayed on ESPN. "

Freddie Gibbs

Child

Sports

" When you go to places like Gary and Detroit, you see the economic problem in this country and who it's really affecting. "

Freddie Gibbs

Detroit

You

" I wasn't fully aware of the things that Madlib did musically, but my manager put me up on game. I'm not gonna act like I was a Madlib head when I wasn't. I didn't understand a lot of it at first. But it opened my mind to some things, and it's me bringing that gangster element to things that he does. It's like a perfect marriage. "

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Head

Gangster

" I'd be a liar if I didn't say I learned things from Jeezy. Hell yeah, I took some things, some pluses and some minuses, do's and don'ts. "

" I just have to go against the grain. I mean, I can be objective and do what I need to do, handle my everyday living, follow directions, etc. But there's something that's always been attracted to that taboo. It's been like that since I was a child. "

" Stuart Scott was a hero. "

" I'm trying to bring gangster rap back to the forefront, like in the early '90s. "

" 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. "

" My TV stays locked at 'SportsCenter.' That and 'Pardon the Interruption.' "

" I started hustling in early adolescence. "

" I still bump 'Smells Like Teen Spirit.' I used to listen to it before all my football games. "

" When everybody goes left, I'm gonna go right most of the time. "

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Left

Most

" I grew up on N.W.A., Geto Boys. My dad was listening to that. "

Freddie Gibbs

Dad

Listening