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" I don't want no handouts. I want to get it out the mud. "
Kevin Gates
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" I always had music growing up, but music was also like a journal. It was like my personal diary or personal journal. A lot of the things I couldn't express to an individual, I would express them in my music. "
Kevin Gates
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Music
Growing Up
" I used to live with my grandmother. I used to wonder why the other kids in school went home with their mothers and fathers. I wanted to be the guy that got married. I wanted to be the guy with the children and the white picket fence. I never had that. "
Kevin Gates
Wonder
Children
Home
" I was born in Earl K. Long Hospital. I was born Feb. 5th, 1986. I have a lot of family members. My grandmother had five girls, and all of them had children. It was always a house full. A lot of cousins. A lot of family members. "
Kevin Gates
Family
Hospital
Long
" I did study religion for a little while. I studied the Torah and the Holy Koran, Helios Biblos, which is considered by most people to be the Holy Bible. I just wanted to know, even with Buddhism and the Dalai Llama. "
Kevin Gates
Bible
Study
Religion
" I was doing sold-out shows before I got radio play. "
Kevin Gates
Shows
Radio
Play
" When you're in prison, you want to know that you were thought about. "
Kevin Gates
About
Want
Prison
" Marriage is the most wonderful thing ever. "
Kevin Gates
Most
Marriage
Ever
" I always wanted a family. "
Kevin Gates
Always
Family
Wanted
" I just always wanted to study human behavior because every psychologist that I would talk to would tell me I was bipolar, and I know I'm not bipolar, so I had to perform a psychoanalysis on myself to find out that I have unresolved grief. "
Kevin Gates
Myself
Behavior
Find
" I look at other people's lives, and some people feel like they're too old to play with toys. But I still go through the toy section at the store, 'cause there were toys that I wanted when I was little that I couldn't have. So I still get them. "
Kevin Gates
Feel
People
Some People
" I'm super serious about music. That's, like, the only thing I'm serious about. "
Kevin Gates
Super
About
Like
" Glory be and praise to God. I didn't do any of this. God did. I don't have a recipe or a blueprint. I prayed for it, and my prayers are continuing to be answered. "
Kevin Gates
Praise
God
Did
" I'm not no Internet person. "
Kevin Gates
Internet
Person
" The only frustrating thing about jail is that I can't make music. "
Kevin Gates
Only
Music
Make
" My skin is 24 karat gold when a sun hit it. "
Kevin Gates
Hit
Sun
Skin
" I attended college in prison. I was in jail, so there ain't no going to no classes. They have programs in certain facilities where you can earn good time, and then you get time taken off your sentence. But as far as going to classes, it's not like that. You study, and then an administrator gives you a test. I got a Master's in psychology. "
Kevin Gates
College
Prison
Test
" Biggie Smalls, Jay-Z, Nas, Eminem, Big L, Tupac. That was, like, my top five, generally. "
Kevin Gates
Top
Five
Eminem
" 'Recreative' is a word that I invented because in urban culture, with colloquialism, we invent so many slangs. I don't like the way that 'recreational' sounds - I don't like to say I do a lot of 'recreational' reading. I like to say that I read 'recreatively.' I do a lot of 'recreative' reading. "
Kevin Gates
Culture
Way
Urban
" I always knew who I was, and I always ran from my true purpose... I know what my job is. And I always ran from it. "
Kevin Gates
Know
Job
Always
" I think California has the best energy. "
Kevin Gates
I Think
Best
California
" I could care less about the particular. I like to make music. "
Kevin Gates
About
Less
Music
" Coming up in the streets, I had to learn how to read people early on. I'm a very analytical person. I observe a lot of the things that people don't notice. "
Kevin Gates
Early
Learn
Person
" I married my best friend that happens to be a girl. "
Kevin Gates
Happens
Best
Best Friend
" I don't really like talking. I like to execute. I'm not a talking person. I'm an action person. "
Kevin Gates
Action
Person
Like
" I don't sleep much. I don't sleep much - I work, I work, I work. "
Kevin Gates
Sleep
Work
Much
" What I see, what I went through, what a friend of mine may have went through, whatever - I rap about it. "
Kevin Gates
Friend
Through
See
" One of my most popular songs, 'Satellites,' I paid $300 for that beat on SoundClick. "
Kevin Gates
Popular
Most
Beat
" I suffer from deep depression, so my only release is music. "
Kevin Gates
Deep
Depression
Only
" I don't know how the rap game is, because I'm a fan of reality, and the rap game's entertainment. "
Kevin Gates
Game
Entertainment
Rap
" I like Peter Tosh, Bob Marley of course. All of Capleton, Sizzla, Frisco Kid, Buju Banton. "
Kevin Gates
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