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" Stuart Scott was a hero. "
Freddie Gibbs
Stuart
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" Nobody else was saying what he said on air, and sometimes he pushed the envelope when he said the newest Jay Z line with a Michael Jordan highlight. But Stuart Scott was an artist. "
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Artist
Nobody
" 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. "
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Always
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Mean
" We have good, neighborly people in Gary. "
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Good
People
Gary
" I'm an educated individual. "
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Educated
Individual
" I wanted to be in the NBA. I wanted to be in the NFL. "
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NBA
Wanted
" Ain't nothin' changed with me. I'm Eastside Gary til I die. "
Freddie Gibbs
Me
Nothin
Changed
" It's in the American spirit to take advantage of an opportunity. "
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Take
American
Opportunity
" The Bears need to let me be GM. "
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Bears
GM
Need
" I'm not a big video game dude though, but I like 'Madden.' "
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Big
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" Probably dancing to Cassie's 'Me & U' - That's my guilty pleasure. "
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Pleasure
Me
Guilty
" When I first came in the game, I had a bunch of homies that rapped that was hanging around me just because I was getting the rap attention, and they felt they could feed off of that. "
Freddie Gibbs
First
Game
Just Because
" I had a nightmare that I was mopping floors and that this Freddie Gibbs thing was all a dream. "
Freddie Gibbs
Nightmare
Had
Floors
" When you go to places like Gary and Detroit, you see the economic problem in this country and who it's really affecting. "
Freddie Gibbs
Go
Detroit
You
" I'm not trying to act like I'm Superman or better than anybody else in the game. I'm just telling my story, showing my strengths and weaknesses - as a human, as a person, as a man. "
Freddie Gibbs
Game
Story
Person
" 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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Marriage
Think
Song
" 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
" 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
" Gary is a really impoverished town; it's in industrial decay. There's low employment and things of that nature. "
Freddie Gibbs
Employment
Town
Things
" 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
" When everybody goes left, I'm gonna go right most of the time. "
Freddie Gibbs
Go
Left
Most
" Lil Wayne makes good music. He's one of the best rappers. "
Freddie Gibbs
Good
Best
Makes
" I am the evil seed. "
Freddie Gibbs
Seed
Evil
I Am
" I just want to put my stamp on all kinds of music. Everything I do is going to be gangsta rap, street-based, street-oriented. "
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Music
Gangsta
Want
" I'm a common dude. "
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Dude
Common
" I never took a dollar from Young Jeezy. No advance, nothing. "
Freddie Gibbs
Dollar
Never
Young
" I don't mind travelling. I'm independent, so I gotta get on the grind. "
Freddie Gibbs
Travelling
Mind
Grind
" 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. "
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Live
Think
Music
" 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. "
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Baseball
Energy
Game
" I always feel like the underdog. "
Freddie Gibbs
Feel
Always
Underdog
" 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
He
Me
Off