Kevin Gates Quotes

I don't gang bang but I'll bang tha thang!

The ones that hate you most tend to be the people you know

Emotionally I'm an introvert but it come off as aggression

Pray to god someone prays for me

Everybody round you pretendin that they your partner, let you have a problem they won't even help you out

It is illegal to steal my feelings and leave

Bein logical gave me a reason to doubt

Never break or fold, that's what it takes to be major.

Can you keep up with the lingo

I'm a big skeptic so I won't just go off what an individual may tell me. I gotta do the research. I'ma get different literature on that one subject and just compare and contrast. I do my own selective studies.

When you come up in the slums, having nothin make you humble

Seem like codeine is the one thing that help take my mind from the lies

Any artist that's as serious about making music as I am, I'm cool with that. But if you tellin' me, "Man, send me a verse and I'ma send you a verse." No. That's not collaborating. We don't know each other and I'm serous about this music.

Everytime the leaves are changing it's the loneliest time of the year

My grandmother was an English teacher for a while. And she stressed to me the importance of reading, being able to articulate well.

Loves a battlefield it's not a one night stand.

I don't have a religion. I ain't nothing wrong with church as long as they selling chicken. Cause I read the Quran, I read the Kabalah, I read the Bible. They all got the same three basic principles: Love God, love your neighbor as yourself, and...As far as me being, I live by those principles.

I'm inspired by everything that goes on around me. I'm a sponge. I'm very analytical. I notice the things that most people don't notice.

I suffer from depression. Severe cases of it. Not one case of depression, not a severe case, but severe cases of depression. Music is my only outlet, it's therapeutic to me. It's a release. It's how I vent emotionally.

I vent through my music. That's the only outlet I have.

I did a lot of drugs. I didn't do multiple drugs, but I overindulged in whatever drug of choice.

I love to be clean. I wear the same things, all of my clothes pretty much look the same. I'm a plain and simple type of guy. I don't really do a lotta busy colors and things of that nature. I feel like less is more.

I've always stood on my own two. I don't need a team. I don't do the entourage thing, 30 people. I don't do that. That's just not me.

I love to make music, I love to get tattoos...That's just what I love. If I wasn't getting paid I'd still do it.

Out my window.. I see everything I dream about and wished I had

You have to be intimate with a person to know that person.

Don't respect a lot of rappers, feel I had a harder life

A hot producer might not make a hot beat for me. I just love music.

Knowledge is provided but only to those who need to know

The energy in the daytime is so different because everyone is so unhappy and depressed and you can pick up on that energy psychokinetically. So I like to come out at night. Everything's settled, you can see more.

I write a lot of my best music in the car, like late night. Three, four in the morning. I'm in the passenger seat, I got my driver, my getaway driver. My Bonnie, I'm Clyde. That's when everything is just settled. In the daytime it's chaotic. Everybody just goin' nowhere fast. In a rush to go nowhere.

The Notebook ... that’s my favorite one. I’ve read that book 30 times. It gives a true depiction of two people that are in love.

If you associate yourself with peer pressure or complacency, you're destined for failure.

I just always wanted to study human behavior because every psychologist that I would talk to would tell me I was bipolar, and I know I'm not bipolar, so I had to perform a psychoanalysis on myself to find out that I have unresolved grief.

I know my voice is very distinctive because in a room of 100 people, my voice is always picked out.

Jail and the streets go hand in hand. You can't have one with out the other. They coincide.

Some may consider this a problem, I easily fall in love

I have trust issues with allowing other individuals to know my innermost secrets for fear of how I may be viewed. Everyone has this.

Let me hear the music. I'ma let the music instruct me on which way to go. Forwards, backwards, left, right. It's like boxing. I'm only as strong as my opponent.

To be honest I am not lookin to be romantic, already got someone at home

Being in the neighborhood and the poverty stricken environment that I grew up in, I took a detour. I gravitated towards some of the individuals that did a lot of the wrong things with the right intentions.

Fall in love fast, make sure I handle it delicate

Whatever an individual chooses to do with themselves, long as it doesn't affect me and they're respectful with it, I don't care what they do. Because I'm not perfect and I have flaws, so who would I be to be judgmental?

I live by the ten percent rule. Save one, you save a thousand.

I've had good times and I've had bad times and I reminisce, maybe when I lay down, but throughout my day I keep myself engulfed in whatever moment I'm in because it could steer me into a depressed state.

I have trouble with letting go. That's my problem. Anybody that has extreme highs and extreme lows is bipolar to any psychologist and that's not necessarily the truth.

Say what you doin and not what you finna do

Wise men change, fools stay the same.