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" The Bears need to let me be GM. "
Freddie Gibbs
Bears
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" 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. "
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" I went to a Bulls game when it was still in Chicago Stadium before they built the United Center. "
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" I don't really know what a debut album is no more. As long as you got music on the streets, you've debuted. "
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" 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. "
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" Every project might only sell like 30 to 50,000, but I mean, I'm getting seven, eight dollars every CD. I make more money per record than an artist on a major label - I can definitely say that. "
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" I can do a whole project with Madlib and turn around and do a record with Gucci Mane. Gucci Mane, E-40, and Black Thought on the same record. I like all those rappers, so why can't I work with them in some type of capacity? It just speaks to my versatility. I don't just listen to one type of rap. I listen to all of it so I can make all of it. "
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" 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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" I had a nightmare that I was mopping floors and that this Freddie Gibbs thing was all a dream. "
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" 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. "
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" Ain't nothin' changed with me. I'm Eastside Gary til I die. "
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" I ain't never detached myself from Gary. "
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" 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. "
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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. "
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" I still bump 'Smells Like Teen Spirit.' I used to listen to it before all my football games. "
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" I like good music, whichever lane it comes out of. As long as it's dope, that is all that matters with me. "
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" I'm trying to bring gangster rap back to the forefront, like in the early '90s. "
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