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" I'm not a big video game dude though, but I like 'Madden.' "
Freddie Gibbs
Video
Big
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" 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. "
Freddie Gibbs
Just
Looking
Music
" I wanted to be in the NBA. I wanted to be in the NFL. "
Freddie Gibbs
NFL
NBA
Wanted
" Different rappers got different talents. It's like X-Men. "
Freddie Gibbs
Got
Different
Talents
" 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. "
Freddie Gibbs
Know
Internet
Defeat
" When everybody goes left, I'm gonna go right most of the time. "
Freddie Gibbs
Go
Left
Most
" I went to a Bulls game when it was still in Chicago Stadium before they built the United Center. "
Freddie Gibbs
United
Chicago
Before
" I don't like rap that doesn't have a story behind it. "
Freddie Gibbs
Behind
Story
Rap
" 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
Me
Good
Music
" Scarface is my favorite rapper. "
Freddie Gibbs
Favorite
Rapper
" Stuart Scott was a hero. "
Freddie Gibbs
Stuart
Hero
Scott
" A lot of improvisation and freedom went into 'Pinata.' "
Freddie Gibbs
Freedom
Lot
Improvisation
" Just give me a mic, and I'll rock it. "
Freddie Gibbs
Give
Just
Me
" 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. "
Freddie Gibbs
Tools
Paper
Remember
" I never write a song before I get the track because I just feel that I have to make a marriage with that track with my raps. And if it's something that's already there, it ain't gone really fit, I don't think. "
Freddie Gibbs
Marriage
Think
Song
" I tried to watch 'Inception,' but I fell asleep. "
Freddie Gibbs
Asleep
Tried
I Tried
" We have good, neighborly people in Gary. "
Freddie Gibbs
Good
People
Gary
" My core thing is gangster rap, but a lot of my music is melodic and carries a message of survival. "
Freddie Gibbs
Message
Gangster
Core
" Eminem heard my music, and he didn't wanna take a meeting with me. "
Freddie Gibbs
Heard
He
Meeting
" 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. "
Freddie Gibbs
Bread
Gangsta
Favor
" I love Lil Wayne. I grew up on the Hot Boyz. "
Freddie Gibbs
I Love
Hot
Grew
" 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. "
Freddie Gibbs
Like
Kid
Basketball
" 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
More
Music
" 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. "
Freddie Gibbs
Things
You
Yourself
" 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. "
Freddie Gibbs
Career
Young
Way
" 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. "
Freddie Gibbs
Working
Flow
Feel
" 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
Me
Fans
Know
" I'm like LeBron, man. I'm like a smaller LeBron. That's why I'm not in the NBA. If I had about five, six more inches, I'd be in the league. "
Freddie Gibbs
Like
Why
Five
" 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. "
Freddie Gibbs
Good
People
Live
" I've been known not to bite my tongue. "
Freddie Gibbs
Known
Tongue
Been
" I ain't never detached myself from Gary. "
Freddie Gibbs
Myself
Never
Detached