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" I wanted to be a gangsta from birth, not because of the music but moreso what I was seeing, what my uncles were doing. I was just fascinated with the street lifestyle from a young age. "

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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. "

Freddie Gibbs

City

Grow

" Coming up in America in the '80s and '90s, we were not too far removed from slavery. People forget that. "

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People

America

" I'm not trying to obey the rules of radio. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I ain't on no major. Everything independent. Either way it goes, I am doing me, and I am doing Freddie Gibbs. "

Freddie Gibbs

I Am

Independent

" 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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Meaning

Rapper

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

" I don't ever really plan my sets. I just get out there and feel the energy of the crowd. "

" I don't really know what a debut album is no more. As long as you got music on the streets, you've debuted. "

Freddie Gibbs

Long

Music

" I feel like some artists need a record label, and some don't. "

" 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. "

" Just give me a mic, and I'll rock it. "

Freddie Gibbs

Give

Just

" 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. "

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

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

" After I got dropped by Interscope, I knew in my heart that I had to fight back some way or not rap at all. I just took it upon myself to get myself where I needed to be. "

" I like good music, whichever lane it comes out of. As long as it's dope, that is all that matters with me. "

Freddie Gibbs

Good

Music

" 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. "

" I'm a loyal dude. "

Freddie Gibbs

Dude

Loyal

" I'd be a liar if I didn't say I learned things from Jeezy. Hell yeah, I took some things, some pluses and some minuses, do's and don'ts. "

" I always knew that I would be some type of public figure, but I never knew that it would be rapping, 'cause my dad sang: I saw him deal with the ills of the music industry, just on the outside looking in. "

" Scarface is my favorite rapper. "

Freddie Gibbs

Favorite

Rapper

" 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. "

" I like A$AP Rocky and his stuff - Kendrick too. "

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

" 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. "

Freddie Gibbs

Brother

Childhood

" I'm so hands-on and involved in my own music that I feel like if I put the same effort into another artist, then I can definitely cultivate something great. "