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" I used to really love Fiend, but he stopped. He just stopped. Every time he had a project, every project - 'There's One In Every Family,' 'Street Life' - I had to have them. And he just stopped. And that was disappointing, 'cause that was my favorite rapper at one time. "

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" In 7th grade, I believe, I wrote my first rap song. It was about everything I was seeing, everything that was going on around me. "

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" I like Peter Tosh, Bob Marley of course. All of Capleton, Sizzla, Frisco Kid, Buju Banton. "

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" When you stand for something, you've got to stand for it all the way, not half way. "

" I think California has the best energy. "

" I really don't pay attention to the outside world when I'm incarcerated, because being in prison is like being in a different world. So I don't pay attention to what's going on outside of jail, because it's all beyond my control. "

" When you're in prison, you want to know that you were thought about. "

" If you look at the movie 'Belly,' I identify with Sincere the most. I am a gangster. I love my lady to death. I'm not in the game for the wrong reasons. I'm not in the game for the glory. I'm in the game to survive so the people that I love could be straight. I'm a highly intelligent individual. "

" Prison was the best thing that ever happened to me. "

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" I don't sleep much. I don't sleep much - I work, I work, I work. "

" I have trouble with letting go. That's my problem. "

Kevin Gates

Trouble

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" The more I grow in popularity, the lonelier it gets. Because you don't really know me. You just know this part of me. You fell in love with that. But it's way more intricate than what meets the surface. "

" Rap was more of a release for me, a journal. "

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Journal

Release

" '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. "

" One of my most popular songs, 'Satellites,' I paid $300 for that beat on SoundClick. "

" 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

Music

Growing Up

" I don't believe in conspiracy theories. I'm just a cold-blooded investigator. "

" I have a cult-like following because I exemplify what it is to be a human being. "

" The only frustrating thing about jail is that I can't make music. "

" I was doing sold-out shows before I got radio play. "

" I don't know how the rap game is, because I'm a fan of reality, and the rap game's entertainment. "

" I adapt and I adjust to whatever environment I'm in. "

" My skin is 24 karat gold when a sun hit it. "

" Let me tell you something about Tunechi - about that boy. That boy comes to the studio every day and grind as if he doesn't have a dollar in his pocket. "

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Boy

You

" I was born on a full moon. Both my children were born on full moons, too. Some people say that's scary. It is what it is, man, I don't be trippin'. I couldn't tell God when I wanted to be born. "

" I'm super serious about music. That's, like, the only thing I'm serious about. "

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Super

About

" 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. "

" I'm not no Internet person. "

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Internet

Person

" I was always taught not to answer no questions. I'm not really good at answering them because I get agitated so fast. "

" I put my flaws on front street. So the world accepted my flaws, so I don't have any flaws. "

" I suffer from deep depression, so my only release is music. "