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" I was doing sold-out shows before I got radio play. "
Kevin Gates
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" Man, all lives matter. "
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" What I see, what I went through, what a friend of mine may have went through, whatever - I rap about it. "
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" 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. "
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" I'm super serious about music. That's, like, the only thing I'm serious about. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" My skin is 24 karat gold when a sun hit it. "
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" Sometimes I feel like being an intellectual. Sometimes I like to just be aggressive and all the way in my feelings. Sometimes I might be emotional, or sometimes I might drag on the track and be lazy. I just like to share the different states of existence of Kevin Gates with the rest of the world. "
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" I'm not afraid to make mistakes. "
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" I'm a bookworm. I know with my physical appearance that I don't look like the typical reader. I'm in Barnes & Noble all the time, and you can look at people that look like they are supposed to be in there. I am in there, pants sagging, hat backwards. "
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" One of my most popular songs, 'Satellites,' I paid $300 for that beat on SoundClick. "
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" I don't want no handouts. I want to get it out the mud. "
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" True wealth is not of the pocket, but of the heart and of the mind. "
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" 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. "
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" I like Peter Tosh, Bob Marley of course. All of Capleton, Sizzla, Frisco Kid, Buju Banton. "
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" Life is about conduct and how we conduct ourselves. But two wrongs never make a right. "
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