♪ Can we pretend that airplanes ♪
♪ In the night sky are like shooting stars ♪
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- Hey, what up?
I'm Kevin Gates and right now I'm
in here kicking it with Elle Magazine.
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I got 10 questions, and I got 10 shots.
The crazier the question, the crazier the shot.
And right now, I'm about to answer some questions
and the questions I don't wanna answer,
I'm going to take a shot.
But before I toast, if you don't have
I'm Him, my new album, go get it.
If you don't want it, don't go get it.
Alright, come on. You ready?
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Oh God, what is your least favorite tattoo?
Maybe the one right here that say Kevin
because it was a homemade tattoo that
I got in one of my friend's kitchens.
Good thing I didn't get an infection.
I said I'll never do that (beep) again.
That (beep) don't even look right when you get it done.
It looks like chicken scratch.
(chicken clucks)
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It just look blue, but it smell like some vinegar.
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Have you ever worn makeup to cover up a tattoo?
No, I've never worn makeup to cover up a tattoo,
but damn it I be wanting to sometimes.
The compass that I got in the middle of my head,
the north, south, east, west.
It was supposed to be four triangles like...
And it was going to make the compass.
The guy had to go over it a lot of times
and it just look like a big blob
that somebody just smeared on my forehead.
Sometimes I just want to do this.
Sometimes.
But I'm getting it removed right now.
So hopefully, it'll be gone in the next year.
I know what this is.
That's Cholula hot sauce.
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(lips smacking)
(cricket chirping)
Yeah, that's Cholula.
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What's the worse verse you ever spit?
God...
It's crazy because the verses I don't like
are the ones that everybody like.
I was super tired one night and I
went in the studio to make a song
called La Familia on the Really Really album.
I ain't even right nothing, I just recorded it.
And I was like, "Man, this the worst
"piece of (beep) I ever did."
And everybody's like, "Man, that (beep) hard."
So, to me, that was probably my worse verse.
Everybody else liked it.
My favorite verse that don't nobody like?
I'm going to be honest with you,
I don't think that the people around me
would tell me if they didn't like it.
(baby giggles)
The third one.
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(lips smacking)
Kool-Aid with no sugar.
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You going on record to say that
you've got two phones, name a time when
having two phones got you in serious trouble.
(beep) I can name a million times where having
two phones got you in serious trouble.
When you got one phone you take in the house
and one phone you leave in the car,
and whoever you was dealing with at the time
find your other phone and be like, "You got another phone?
"Who you talk to? (mumbles)
I guess that's the "phone you talk to your hoes on."
I don't care.
(sniffs)
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Urinate soda.
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What was your most revelatory experience in jail?
Which time?
(squeak)
(snorts)
I started going to prison at a young age.
When you in juvenile detention, it's real chaotic.
That's the most chaotic prison that you going to ever be in.
You going to fight everyday.
But when you get an adult jail, everything be structured.
So when you go into an adult faculty
with that young mindset, they going to look at you like,
"What are you doing? We just chilling."
Like on that movie Who Wants to Go to Jail
or Let's Go to Jail.
They be like, "So what do we do all day?"
And you like, "We're doing it.
"We're right in the thick of the action."
I can say this, I appreciate things that other people
don't appreciate because I've been deprived of it.
I guess. So to say.
It felt so good just to walk outside and go to Equinox.
Go in there and workout, get me a
smoothie and walk back to the hotel.
That was the greatest freedom to me.
Just living and co-existing.
Beautiful.
I got the best revelatory thing
that ever happened to me in prison.
(bell dings)
When you (beep) with (beep) people, you get (beep) results.
When you (beep) with good people, you get good results.
(gong chimes)
This beer.
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(slurps) No, this some cheap (beep) champagne.
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Name a collaboration you regret.
A collaboration I regret?
(beep) Redneck Rick.
(bell dings)
Every studio we go to, he turn
that (beep) into the trailer park.
Every one.
He like that drink beer and eat peanut butter
and jelly sandwiches and drink surp.
He's just a bad influence on me.
Like, "Gates! What it do, Gates?"
It's cool sometimes, but other times it's a bit much.
And this... (lips smacking)
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Oh, this tomato sauce.
Some cheap (beep) tomato sauce.
Some (beep).
It ain't even got no chunks in it.
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Name one rapper you think is overrated?
(cricket chirps)
I don't really listen to rap like that.
A rapper I think is overrated?
Redneck (beep) Rick.
Every concert, they, "Bring Redneck Rick out!"
I think he's (beep) overrated.
He only made two songs.
And really one song and a half. (beep)
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Oh, this soy sauce. (lips smacking)
Soy sauce.
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If you could replace another artist on any song,
who and what song would it be?
You know what song I love and I wish
I could have got on that song?
That song with that girl with that shaved head.
It was B.o.B and Eminem.
I wish I could have been on that song with them.
♪ Can we pretend that airplanes ♪
♪ In the night sky are like shooting stars ♪
♪ I could really use a wish right now ♪
♪ wish right now wish right now ♪
♪ Can we pretend that airplanes ♪
♪ In the night sky are like shooting stars ♪
I wish I could have been on that song.
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Maple syrup.
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Have you and Lil' Wayne made amends?
(beep) we never had a problem.
I never heard people say that we had a problem.
I swear to God.
I'm very respectful.
Yes, sir. No, sir.
I'm a gentleman, but I'm also a gangsta.
I'm not going to walk up on you
and (growls) turn into a monster.
Wherever I see you, if it's a problem,
I'm going to get it handled right there.
Whoever you are, like, "Don't help Kevin, help the bear."
Warning.
Disclaimer.
(slurping)
(lips smacking) What is that, prune juice?
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I don't know what the (beep) that is.
Everything here is edible though, right?
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You have to erase the world's memory
of one of these rappers, who would it be?
Drake, Lil' Wayne,
Kanye, T.I.,
Jay Z, Eminem, Bun B.
Let me see.
Everything on here influenced everybody indirectly,
so if you erase one, you got to
erase everyone of them on the page.
Without Lil' Wayne, there wouldn't be no Drake.
Without Jay Z, there wouldn't be no Kanye.
T.I., Bun B, and Lil' Wayne all
worked together in the beginning.
And Eminem will tell you he was influenced by all of them.
And Jay Z?
Come on.
He say Bun B and Pimp C was his favorite artist.
Every rapper in the game wouldn't exist.
It's a delicate balance.
It's like nature.
I couldn't erase none of them for the love of the sport
because then non of them would exist.
- [Man Offscreen] I have to try to push you to just--
You can't.
You can't because I'm not a robot.
You can't Voltron me because I answered your question,
I just didn't answer it how you want me
to answer it, but I answered it.
I just believe in positivity and if you say
I'm going to erase somebody, just joking,
you still putting out a negative thought.
When you entertain negative thoughts,
your subconscious controls the conscious.
I'm really a big nerd, I just look like this.
The energy you project will be reciprocated back.
You are what you attract.
I'm in the process of taking over the world right now.
So I just want to just keep my path as good as possible.
What this is?
This egg yolk?
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God!
Yeah, this egg yolk.
I like the game.
I feel like it was kind of corny in nature, but I like it.
I answered everything.
I took the shots because I wanted to try them
because I'm just one of those curious-type people.
People say, "I got a question."
I got an answer.
Elle Magazine, thank you for having me.
My name is Kevin Gates.
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