Kevin Gates Quotes

Fall in love fast, make sure I handle it delicate

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.

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

I can't say any artist inspired me, because I'm inspired by the things that go on around me.

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.

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

Why accept failure when success is free?

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

I love God, I love everybody else around me as myself, and I love my enemy.

Say what you doin and not what you finna do

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.

My daily conversation, it consists of hustle. Grinding from the bottom sick and tired of struggle.

Knowledge is provided but only to those who need to know

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

I don't pay attention to sales because it's not about that for me. It's about the music. Music is all I have.

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.

Breathing is so important with physical activity, then how much more important is it with psychological activity?

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Pray to god someone prays for me

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.

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.

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

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

Bein logical gave me a reason to doubt

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

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.