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" I'm not really comfortable with being on songs with cats I don't really know. "

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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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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" Scarface is my favorite rapper. "

" Ain't nothin' changed with me. I'm Eastside Gary til I die. "

" When everybody goes left, I'm gonna go right most of the time. "

" The Bears need to let me be GM. "

" Tupac is definitely an icon. There'll never be another Tupac, so I'm not gonna ever, ever try to fill those shoes. I'm just gonna stay in my lane and be the best me that I can be. "

" 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. "

" Stuart Scott was a hero. "

" I went to a Bulls game when it was still in Chicago Stadium before they built the United Center. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" When you go to places like Gary and Detroit, you see the economic problem in this country and who it's really affecting. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" I ain't on no major. Everything independent. Either way it goes, I am doing me, and I am doing Freddie Gibbs. "

" I've been engulfed in sports since I was a 2-year-old; I picked up any kind of ball - a basketball, baseball, football - I just loved to play something. I loved the energy of being in arenas and watching the game on TV. "

" Sports is one of the keys to my life. It definitely kept me out of a lot of trouble and gave me a lot of discipline. "

" 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. "

" I'm so hands-on and involved in my own music that I feel like if I put the same effort into another artist, then I can definitely cultivate something great. "

" I don't really know what a debut album is no more. As long as you got music on the streets, you've debuted. "

" I always feel like the underdog. "

" I just have to go against the grain. I mean, I can be objective and do what I need to do, handle my everyday living, follow directions, etc. But there's something that's always been attracted to that taboo. It's been like that since I was a child. "

" I always want everything I do to be somewhat cinematic. I don't want to be the rapper that'll just post up and shoot a video anywhere with no real meaning to it. "