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" 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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" 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. "

Freddie Gibbs

Some

Say

Liar

" 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. "

Freddie Gibbs

Fans

Know

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

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

" I started hustling in early adolescence. "

" 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. "

" 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

" My father took me to a lot of sports events as a child, and our TV stayed on ESPN. "

Freddie Gibbs

Child

Sports

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

Freddie Gibbs

Give

Just

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

" I want to be one of the most versatile rappers in the game. "

" If you say your product is the best, back that up. "

Freddie Gibbs

Product

Say

" 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. "

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

Freddie Gibbs

People

America

" 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. "

Freddie Gibbs

Off

" I grew up on N.W.A., Geto Boys. My dad was listening to that. "

Freddie Gibbs

Dad

Listening

" I've been known not to bite my tongue. "

" Everything don't work out for the best. You have to use a lot of those things as lessons in order to build yourself up. "

" Ninety percent of the general public aren't gangstas, so all of the rappers aren't going to be gangstas. "

" Probably dancing to Cassie's 'Me & U' - That's my guilty pleasure. "

Freddie Gibbs

Pleasure

Guilty

" It's in the American spirit to take advantage of an opportunity. "

" He's been my number one influence. If you say Tupac didn't influence you, then you don't really need to be rapping because nobody evokes that kind of emotion on a track like Tupac does. "

" We have good, neighborly people in Gary. "

" 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. "

" There's some dudes that did Gangsta Grillz tapes who probably weren't worthy of it - their label just put up the bread, or they did a favor. "

" I think that with me and Madlib, I was never afraid to really experiment with his tracks and things. "

" Lil Wayne makes good music. He's one of the best rappers. "

" I always feel like the underdog. "