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" Different rappers got different talents. It's like X-Men. "
Freddie Gibbs
Got
Different
Talents
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" The neck is not something you should have surgery on that much. "
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" 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. "
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" My core thing is gangster rap, but a lot of my music is melodic and carries a message of survival. "
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" Jeezy just recognized my grind, and I jumped on board with him to enhance it. Artistically, we're in the same mind frame. We come from very similar backgrounds - poverty. That's something that we can both relate to, something that we can convey in our music. "
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" Just give me a mic, and I'll rock it. "
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" I grew up on N.W.A., Geto Boys. My dad was listening to that. "
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" Gary is a really impoverished town; it's in industrial decay. There's low employment and things of that nature. "
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" A lot of improvisation and freedom went into 'Pinata.' "
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Lot
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" Every project might only sell like 30 to 50,000, but I mean, I'm getting seven, eight dollars every CD. I make more money per record than an artist on a major label - I can definitely say that. "
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Say
" I'm not really comfortable with being on songs with cats I don't really know. "
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" I had a nightmare that I was mopping floors and that this Freddie Gibbs thing was all a dream. "
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Had
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" I always want everything I do to be somewhat cinematic. I don't want to be the rapper that'll just post up and shoot a video anywhere with no real meaning to it. "
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" Probably dancing to Cassie's 'Me & U' - That's my guilty pleasure. "
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Pleasure
Me
Guilty
" When everybody goes left, I'm gonna go right most of the time. "
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Go
Left
Most
" I can do a whole project with Madlib and turn around and do a record with Gucci Mane. Gucci Mane, E-40, and Black Thought on the same record. I like all those rappers, so why can't I work with them in some type of capacity? It just speaks to my versatility. I don't just listen to one type of rap. I listen to all of it so I can make all of it. "
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" 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. "
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Always
Need
Mean
" If you say your product is the best, back that up. "
Freddie Gibbs
Product
Say
Up
" 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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Me
Fans
Know
" I feel like some artists need a record label, and some don't. "
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Need
I Feel Like
Feel
" Scarface is my favorite rapper. "
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Favorite
Rapper
" 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. "
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Defeat
" I don't mind travelling. I'm independent, so I gotta get on the grind. "
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Mind
Grind
" My father took me to a lot of sports events as a child, and our TV stayed on ESPN. "
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TV
Sports
" I feel like I influence more than just rap. "
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I Feel Like
Influence
Feel
" 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. "
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Music
" I've always played that role in my family: the breadwinner. "
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Role
Always
" 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. "
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" 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. "
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City
Grow
" My TV stays locked at 'SportsCenter.' That and 'Pardon the Interruption.' "
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Stays
Interruption
Locked