Kevin Gates is an American rapper active since 2007. With many associated acts, Gates experienced some mix-tape breakthroughs into the industry with a few set backs along the way. Here is a look at some of the best Kevin Gates quotes ever recorded.
“A vision without… Anything lost, can be found again, except for time wasted. A vision without action is merely a dream. Action, it’s the grind, it’s the hustle, it’s the persistence.”
“Bein’ logical gave me a reason to doubt.”
“Breathing is so important with physical activity, then how much more important is it with psychological activity?”
“Don’t respect a lot of rappers, feel I had a harder life.”
“Emotionally I’m an introvert but it come off as aggression”
“Everybody round you pretendin that they your partner, let you have a problem they won’t even help you out”
“Everytime the leaves are changing it’s the loneliest time of the year.”
“I did a lot of drugs. I didn’t do multiple drugs, but I overindulged in whatever drug of choice.”
“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 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.”
“I have trust issues with allowing other individuals to know my innermost secrets for fear of how I may be viewed. Everyone has this.”
“I live by the ten percent rule. Save one, you save a thousand.”
“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.”
“If you associate yourself with peer pressure or complacency, you’re destined for failure.”
“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.”
“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.”
“It is illegal to steal my feelings and leave.”
“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’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.”
“Jail and the streets go hand in hand. You can’t have one with out the other. They coincide.”
“Knowledge is provided but only to those who need to know”
“Loves a battlefield it’s not a one night stand.”
“My daily conversation, it consists of hustle. Grinding from the bottom sick and tired of struggle.”
“Never break or fold, that’s what it takes to be major.”
“Out my window.. I see everything I dream about and wished I had”
“Pray to God someone prays for me.”
“Say what you doin and not what you finna do”
“Seem like codeine is the one thing that help take my mind from the lies.”
“Some may consider this a problem, I easily fall in love”
“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.”
“The ones that hate you most tend to be the people you know”
“To be honest I am not lookin to be romantic, already got someone at home.”
“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?”
“When you come up in the slums, having nothin make you humble”
“Why accept failure when success is free?”
“Wise men change, fools stay the same.”
“You have to be intimate with a person to know that person.”
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