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.

Kevin Gates

Time World Wit

True wealth is not of the pocket, but of the heart and of the mind.

Art Wealth True

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.

Kevin Gates

God Were Tin

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

Kevin Gates

Tan T Stand

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

Kevin Gates

T Right Rig

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 Death You

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

Kevin Gates

You Way Thing

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

Kevin Gates

Want T Out

Life is about conduct and how we conduct ourselves. But two wrongs never make a right.

Kevin Gates

Life Wrongs Wrong

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.

Kevin Gates

Wit Were Wanted

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.

Kevin Gates

Very Up Tree

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

Kevin Gates

Trust Fear Wit

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

Kevin Gates

Men Whatever Us

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.

Kevin Gates

Would Ways Way

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

Kevin Gates

Talking Talk T

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.

Kevin Gates

Religion Wit While

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.

Kevin Gates

Time World Wit

I suffer from deep depression, so my only release is music.

Kevin Gates

Music Us Suffer

My skin is 24 karat gold when a sun hit it.

Kevin Gates

UN T Sun

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.

Kevin Gates

God Car Were

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

Kevin Gates

Family Art Wit

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

Kevin Gates

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.

Kevin Gates

Marriage is the most wonderful thing ever.

Kevin Gates

I never go into a situation with any type of expectations.

Kevin Gates

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

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

Kevin Gates

I have trouble with letting go. That's my problem.

Kevin Gates

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

Kevin Gates

I don't sleep much. I don't sleep much - I work, I work, I work.

Kevin Gates

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.

Kevin Gates

I have a cult-like following because I exemplify what it is to be a human being.

Kevin Gates

'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

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

Kevin Gates

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.

Kevin Gates

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.

Kevin Gates

When you're in prison, you want to know that you were thought about.

Kevin Gates

I married my best friend that happens to be a girl.

Kevin Gates

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.

Kevin Gates

I've always been a loner.

Kevin Gates

I could care less about the particular. I like to make music.

Kevin Gates

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

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

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

Kevin Gates

The only frustrating thing about jail is that I can't make music.

Kevin Gates

I don't believe in conspiracy theories. I'm just a cold-blooded investigator.

Kevin Gates

I'm super serious about music. That's, like, the only thing I'm serious about.

Kevin Gates

Man, all lives matter.

Kevin Gates

It's a curse. I ask God to take this away from me all the time. I do not like being an artist.

Kevin Gates

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

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.

Kevin Gates