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" I'm a common dude. "
Freddie Gibbs
Dude
Common
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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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" You've got a lot of Tupac clones, but I don't think I'm one of them. I just think I give people a little piece of the feeling he gave them. "
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" I look at some of my fans at my show, and a lot of them look like they're straight out of a punk rock show. They like what I'm coming across with. I had seen them same thing when I went to this Scarface show, so it lets me know that I'm on the right track. "
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" I love Lil Wayne. I grew up on the Hot Boyz. "
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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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" 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. "
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" Ain't nothin' changed with me. I'm Eastside Gary til I die. "
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" I feel like with a lot of Madlib's beats, they are made for storytelling. I feel like when I'm working on stuff with him, I can really get into the storytelling aspect mode of my flow. "
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" I've always played that role in my family: the breadwinner. "
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" I've been interested in basketball since I was a little kid - like, 3. The Bulls were my team. If you grew up in Gary, the Bulls were everybody's team. "
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Kid
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" I started hustling in early adolescence. "
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Early
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" I'm an educated individual. "
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Individual
" I'm cool with doing shows with 2,000 people. I don't have to rap in a stadium. As long as I can provide for my family and my art and live comfortably and live well, then I'm good. "
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People
Live
" I think that 'Pinata' album is going to stand the test of time. It's going to be a moment in hip-hop, whether people know it or not. It's nothing else like that in rap. It's going to forever hold its place. "
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" I played wide receiver in high school; then I went to college at Ball State and played safety. "
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" I like A$AP Rocky and his stuff - Kendrick too. "
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" My TV stays locked at 'SportsCenter.' That and 'Pardon the Interruption.' "
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" Coming up in America in the '80s and '90s, we were not too far removed from slavery. People forget that. "
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" I'm not trying to obey the rules of radio. "
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" I wanted to be in the NBA. I wanted to be in the NFL. "
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NBA
Wanted
" My core thing is gangster rap, but a lot of my music is melodic and carries a message of survival. "
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" 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. "
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" I've been known not to bite my tongue. "
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" Me separating from CTE - I'm extremely happy about that because a lot of guys wrote me off, Jeezy included. He really wrote me off. "
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" 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. "
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" I'm a loyal dude. "
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