True wealth is not of the pocket, but of the heart and of the mind.
Kevin Gates
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.
I'm an introvert somewhat. There could be a room full of people, I'll go stand in the corner.
I don't let the left hand know what the right hand is doing.
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.
When you stand for something, you've got to stand for it all the way, not half way.
I don't want no handouts. I want to get it out the mud.
Life is about conduct and how we conduct ourselves. But two wrongs never make a right.
I look at other people's lives, and some people feel like they're too old to play with toys. But I still go through the toy section at the store, 'cause there were toys that I wanted when I was little that I couldn't have. So I still get them.
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.
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 adapt and I adjust to whatever environment I'm in.
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 don't really like talking. I like to execute. I'm not a talking person. I'm an action person.
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.
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.
I suffer from deep depression, so my only release is music.
My skin is 24 karat gold when a sun hit it.
I was born on a full moon. Both my children were born on full moons, too. Some people say that's scary. It is what it is, man, I don't be trippin'. I couldn't tell God when I wanted to be born.
I like being with my family. That's my party.
I put my flaws on front street. So the world accepted my flaws, so I don't have any flaws.
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.
Marriage is the most wonderful thing ever.
I never go into a situation with any type of expectations.
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.
I could give a flying flip about doing promo because, no disrespect, nobody put me in the position that I'm in.
I have trouble with letting go. That's my problem.
Rap was more of a release for me, a journal.
I don't sleep much. I don't sleep much - I work, I work, I work.
I'm never on Twitter. I'm never on Instagram. And that's not by choice: it's just that those things never really interested me. I might post a picture here and there, but that ain't really been my focus.
I have a cult-like following because I exemplify what it is to be a human being.
'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.
Biggie Smalls, Jay-Z, Nas, Eminem, Big L, Tupac. That was, like, my top five, generally.
I've had mixtapes that have been better than albums I've heard from other artists. I take my time; I put my heart into it.
I'm a bookworm. I know with my physical appearance that I don't look like the typical reader. I'm in Barnes & Noble all the time, and you can look at people that look like they are supposed to be in there. I am in there, pants sagging, hat backwards.
When you're in prison, you want to know that you were thought about.
I married my best friend that happens to be a girl.
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.
I've always been a loner.
I could care less about the particular. I like to make music.
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.
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.
I was doing sold-out shows before I got radio play.
The only frustrating thing about jail is that I can't make music.
I don't believe in conspiracy theories. I'm just a cold-blooded investigator.
I'm super serious about music. That's, like, the only thing I'm serious about.
Man, all lives matter.
It's a curse. I ask God to take this away from me all the time. I do not like being an artist.
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.
I really don't pay attention to the outside world when I'm incarcerated, because being in prison is like being in a different world. So I don't pay attention to what's going on outside of jail, because it's all beyond my control.
