Home
Authors
Tags
App
Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App
" I've been known not to bite my tongue. "
Freddie Gibbs
Known
Tongue
Been
Related Quotes:
" I love Lil Wayne. I grew up on the Hot Boyz. "
Freddie Gibbs
I Love
Hot
Grew
" Different rappers got different talents. It's like X-Men. "
Freddie Gibbs
Got
Different
Talents
" I started hustling in early adolescence. "
Freddie Gibbs
Adolescence
Early
Hustling
" 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
" 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. "
Freddie Gibbs
Chicago
Black
Right
" I'm an educated individual. "
Freddie Gibbs
Educated
Individual
" 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. "
Freddie Gibbs
Up
City
Grow
" I want to be one of the most versatile rappers in the game. "
Freddie Gibbs
Most
Rappers
Versatile
" I've always played that role in my family: the breadwinner. "
Freddie Gibbs
Family
Role
Always
" I'm trying to bring gangster rap back to the forefront, like in the early '90s. "
Freddie Gibbs
Early
Bring
Gangster
" 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
" 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
Me
Childhood
" I think that with me and Madlib, I was never afraid to really experiment with his tracks and things. "
Freddie Gibbs
Tracks
Things
Never
" I still bump 'Smells Like Teen Spirit.' I used to listen to it before all my football games. "
Freddie Gibbs
Listen
Spirit
Teen
" I ain't never detached myself from Gary. "
Freddie Gibbs
Myself
Never
Detached
" 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. "
Freddie Gibbs
Try
Shoes
Best
" I wanted to be in the NBA. I wanted to be in the NFL. "
Freddie Gibbs
NFL
NBA
Wanted
" Drake makes some dope songs. "
Freddie Gibbs
Some
Makes
Drake
" I don't like rap that doesn't have a story behind it. "
Freddie Gibbs
Behind
Story
Rap
" I wanted to be a gangsta from birth, not because of the music but moreso what I was seeing, what my uncles were doing. I was just fascinated with the street lifestyle from a young age. "
Freddie Gibbs
Age
Music
Doing
" The neck is not something you should have surgery on that much. "
Freddie Gibbs
Neck
You
Surgery
" I'm a loyal dude. "
Freddie Gibbs
Dude
Loyal
" Ninety percent of the general public aren't gangstas, so all of the rappers aren't going to be gangstas. "
Freddie Gibbs
Rappers
Public
Percent
" I played wide receiver in high school; then I went to college at Ball State and played safety. "
Freddie Gibbs
Safety
College
High School
" After I got dropped by Interscope, I knew in my heart that I had to fight back some way or not rap at all. I just took it upon myself to get myself where I needed to be. "
Freddie Gibbs
Myself
Heart
Got
" When everybody goes left, I'm gonna go right most of the time. "
Freddie Gibbs
Go
Left
Most
" The Bears need to let me be GM. "
Freddie Gibbs
Bears
GM
Need
" 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 wasn't fully aware of the things that Madlib did musically, but my manager put me up on game. I'm not gonna act like I was a Madlib head when I wasn't. I didn't understand a lot of it at first. But it opened my mind to some things, and it's me bringing that gangster element to things that he does. It's like a perfect marriage. "
Freddie Gibbs
Me
Head
Gangster