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" 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. "

Freddie Gibbs

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" 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. "

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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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" It's in the American spirit to take advantage of an opportunity. "

" Everything don't work out for the best. You have to use a lot of those things as lessons in order to build yourself up. "

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

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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. "

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" 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. "

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" I think that 'Pinata' album is going to stand the test of time. It's going to be a moment in hip-hop, whether people know it or not. It's nothing else like that in rap. It's going to forever hold its place. "

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

" I played wide receiver in high school; then I went to college at Ball State and played safety. "

" We have good, neighborly people in Gary. "

" I'm not really comfortable with being on songs with cats I don't really know. "

" Tupac is definitely an icon. There'll never be another Tupac, so I'm not gonna ever, ever try to fill those shoes. I'm just gonna stay in my lane and be the best me that I can be. "

" The Bears need to let me be GM. "

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

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

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