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If you look at the movie 'Belly,' I identify with Sincere the most. I am a gangster. I love my lady to death. I'm not in the game for the wrong reasons. I'm not in the game for the glory. I'm in the game to survive so the people that I love could be straight. I'm a highly intelligent individual.

- Kevin Gates

Love, Game, Belly, Identify

I was always taught not to answer no questions. I'm not really good at answering them because I get agitated so fast.

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Questions, Always, Them, Answer

Biggie Smalls, Jay-Z, Nas, Eminem, Big L, Tupac. That was, like, my top five, generally.

- Kevin Gates

Big, Like, Tupac, Jay-Z

I used to live with my grandmother. I used to wonder why the other kids in school went home with their mothers and fathers. I wanted to be the guy that got married. I wanted to be the guy with the children and the white picket fence. I never had that.

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Why, Other, Fathers, Picket

Sometimes I feel like being an intellectual. Sometimes I like to just be aggressive and all the way in my feelings. Sometimes I might be emotional, or sometimes I might drag on the track and be lazy. I just like to share the different states of existence of Kevin Gates with the rest of the world.

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Lazy, Existence, Sometimes, Intellectual

I did study religion for a little while. I studied the Torah and the Holy Koran, Helios Biblos, which is considered by most people to be the Holy Bible. I just wanted to know, even with Buddhism and the Dalai Llama.

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Study, Considered, While, Koran

I adapt and I adjust to whatever environment I'm in.

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Environment, Adapt, Whatever, Adjust

I attended college in prison. I was in jail, so there ain't no going to no classes. They have programs in certain facilities where you can earn good time, and then you get time taken off your sentence. But as far as going to classes, it's not like that. You study, and then an administrator gives you a test. I got a Master's in psychology.

- Kevin Gates

College, Study, Classes, Administrator

I used to really love Fiend, but he stopped. He just stopped. Every time he had a project, every project - 'There's One In Every Family,' 'Street Life' - I had to have them. And he just stopped. And that was disappointing, 'cause that was my favorite rapper at one time.

- Kevin Gates

Love, Project, Cause, Rapper

Coming up in the streets, I had to learn how to read people early on. I'm a very analytical person. I observe a lot of the things that people don't notice.

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Streets, Very, Read, Early

'Recreative' is a word that I invented because in urban culture, with colloquialism, we invent so many slangs. I don't like the way that 'recreational' sounds - I don't like to say I do a lot of 'recreational' reading. I like to say that I read 'recreatively.' I do a lot of 'recreative' reading.

- Kevin Gates

Like, Read, Invent, Recreational

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.

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Study, Tell, Had, Psychologist

I always had music growing up, but music was also like a journal. It was like my personal diary or personal journal. A lot of the things I couldn't express to an individual, I would express them in my music.

- Kevin Gates

Always, Individual, Like, Journal

Rap was more of a release for me, a journal.

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More, Release, Rap, Journal

I put my flaws on front street. So the world accepted my flaws, so I don't have any flaws.

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World, Street, Accepted, Flaws

Glory be and praise to God. I didn't do any of this. God did. I don't have a recipe or a blueprint. I prayed for it, and my prayers are continuing to be answered.

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Recipe, Answered, Prayed, Blueprint

When you stand for something, you've got to stand for it all the way, not half way.

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Stand, Got, Half, Stand For Something

I always knew who I was, and I always ran from my true purpose... I know what my job is. And I always ran from it.

- Kevin Gates

Purpose, Always, Knew, Ran

I was doing sold-out shows before I got radio play.

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Play, Doing, Shows, Sold-Out

I was born in Earl K. Long Hospital. I was born Feb. 5th, 1986. I have a lot of family members. My grandmother had five girls, and all of them had children. It was always a house full. A lot of cousins. A lot of family members.

- Kevin Gates

Long, House, Had, Family Members

The more I grow in popularity, the lonelier it gets. Because you don't really know me. You just know this part of me. You fell in love with that. But it's way more intricate than what meets the surface.

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Love, Grow, Meets, Intricate

I like being with my family. That's my party.

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Family, Like, Being, Party

In 7th grade, I believe, I wrote my first rap song. It was about everything I was seeing, everything that was going on around me.

- Kevin Gates

Song, Going, Rap, I Believe

I could give a flying flip about doing promo because, no disrespect, nobody put me in the position that I'm in.

- Kevin Gates

Doing, Give, Could, Flip

I don't really like talking. I like to execute. I'm not a talking person. I'm an action person.

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Action, Person, Like, Execute

I'm an introvert somewhat. There could be a room full of people, I'll go stand in the corner.

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Go, Corner, Could, Introvert

I don't let the left hand know what the right hand is doing.

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Doing, Know, Left, Right Hand

I'm glad I can't vote.

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Glad, Vote

I don't want no handouts. I want to get it out the mud.

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Want, Out, Get, Mud

One of my most popular songs, 'Satellites,' I paid $300 for that beat on SoundClick.

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Songs, Most, Satellites, Popular

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