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" If you say your product is the best, back that up. "
Freddie Gibbs
Product
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" I ain't never detached myself from Gary. "
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" I grew up on N.W.A., Geto Boys. My dad was listening to that. "
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" I never took a dollar from Young Jeezy. No advance, nothing. "
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" I started hustling in early adolescence. "
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" Probably dancing to Cassie's 'Me & U' - That's my guilty pleasure. "
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" I've always played that role in my family: the breadwinner. "
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" I'd be quiet as a mouse if I didn't have the correct feeling about my music. I feel like I'm able to talk about it and say I'm one of the best because I think I got the music to back that up. I got the live show to back that up. That's all that matters. "
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" The Bears need to let me be GM. "
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" Eminem heard my music, and he didn't wanna take a meeting with me. "
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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. "
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" I have a respect for Young Jeezy. But the reason things didn't work out for me and Young Jeezy was because our approach to the industry... My approach to the industry was a tad bit different than his. I wanted to approach my career a different way; he wanted to go a different way. "
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" The things I rap about are 100 percent real. But at the same time, I don't rap about those things to tear my city down. I give you the reality of what it is and what I been through and how it is living in those conditions in Gary, Ind. "
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" I tried to watch 'Inception,' but I fell asleep. "
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" When I first came in the game, I had a bunch of homies that rapped that was hanging around me just because I was getting the rap attention, and they felt they could feed off of that. "
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Just Because
" Drake makes some dope songs. "
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Makes
Drake
" I've been known not to bite my tongue. "
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Known
Tongue
Been
" 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
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" I like good music, whichever lane it comes out of. As long as it's dope, that is all that matters with me. "
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" I'm not trying to obey the rules of radio. "
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Radio
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Trying
" I feel like some artists need a record label, and some don't. "
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" 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. "
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Him
Mind
" Stuart Scott was a hero. "
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Stuart
Hero
Scott
" My core thing is gangster rap, but a lot of my music is melodic and carries a message of survival. "
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" I'm an educated individual. "
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Educated
Individual
" I'm a loyal dude. "
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Loyal
" My father took me to a lot of sports events as a child, and our TV stayed on ESPN. "
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" I don't like pre-written raps; I think it makes the song better if you listen to the beat first. In a sense, you have to make a marriage with the beat. I ride the beat, hear the flow of the drums, get the melody of my flow, and then from that point, it's a process of what I want to say. "
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" I think that with me and Madlib, I was never afraid to really experiment with his tracks and things. "
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