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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. "

Freddie Gibbs

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" I just want to put my stamp on all kinds of music. Everything I do is going to be gangsta rap, street-based, street-oriented. "

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

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" I tried to watch 'Inception,' but I fell asleep. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I started hustling in early adolescence. "

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

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

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

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I ain't never detached myself from Gary. "

" 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. "

" I think that with me and Madlib, I was never afraid to really experiment with his tracks and things. "

" I had a nightmare that I was mopping floors and that this Freddie Gibbs thing was all a dream. "

" 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. "

" I'm not a big video game dude though, but I like 'Madden.' "

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

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

" He's been my number one influence. If you say Tupac didn't influence you, then you don't really need to be rapping because nobody evokes that kind of emotion on a track like Tupac does. "

" I don't like rap that doesn't have a story behind it. "

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

" I'm like LeBron, man. I'm like a smaller LeBron. That's why I'm not in the NBA. If I had about five, six more inches, I'd be in the league. "

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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. "

" 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. "

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