One thing I love about Rihanna, I never looked at the ass.
I always looked at that fucking cranium, that football helmet that she got her fucking forehead.
I always love that about that woman.
If you get mad at me like, "Kevin, I swear," with that accent that you got.
"Kevin, you..."
I just...
I kiss you on your forehead.
Who you talking...
Who you getting loud with?
Who you disrespect?
I kiss you on your forehead.
You better stop playing with me.
Hey, when we get home I'm going to kiss you on your forehead.
What was the inspiration for the song "Push t"?
Me and a good friend of mine, his name Derek Malano, he what you consider a writer.
He came to me with this idea, he like "Gates, I got this, push it, push it, push it idea".
I'm like, "Push it idea?"
He like, "yeah, like a push it idea."
I'm like, "What, you trying to push that work or what you want to do?"
He like, "Man, we just pushing it in all aspects of life".
The song was originally gonna be for Derek Malano.
But when I heard the song I was like, "Hey, let me have it.
Give me the child."
I liked the direction it was headed in, but I knew I was going to get on there and really
talk that trash talk.
Because you know, I own a waste management station and I believe that one man's trash
is another man's treasure.
So I talk a lot of trash talk
Sometimes, people think they can be you better than you can be you.
And it's, it's true.
Like, I'm not afraid to be myself.
I'm not afraid to be different.
I'm not afraid to put my emotions on the table.
I believe that I was one of the people who started emotion based Rap.
And I noticed like whenever I had went away, a lot of people start emulating the things
that I was doing.
If I can help inspire you, it's a beautiful thing.
Imitation is the greatest form of flattery.
But I see a bunch of little Kevin Gates running around like I really do.
But don't take my story and try to make it your own when you know that it's not, you're
not living like that.
When I say I came back strong, I had to bounce back?
I had everything stripped away from me for a small period of time.
I had to go do six months in jail in Florida, the rap game passed me by.
I was nominated for Grammy's.
I was nominated for all kinds of music awards.
I had to sit out.
When I was supposed to come back home, I had to go do another year in Chicago prison.
When I came home, I wasn't the same Kevin Gates, cause' I was so traumatized and kind
of institutionalized from being gone and being in the system.
I'm in this mode like big old hairy face.
I'm depressed cause I was fat, ya heard me?
But I was like looking at some of my old videos and I was like, man, I ain't the same Gates,
the old Gates used to be turnt.
No, the new gates over here lazy, big old hair on the face.
I say, hold on, it's time to push it to the next limit.
I came back strong.
I had to bounce back.
I believe in my heart and everybody telling me right now, this is the best version of
me that I've ever been in my life.
You remember when Jay Z said "All the rings and things you sing about, bring them out."
I don't really show a lot of my material wealth or my tangible, my tangible wealth on the
Instagram.
When you see me in public and you see I'm looking, I'm living like a Saudi Arabian prince.
When I pull up and I'm presidential.
I balled in face and he thinking I'm pushing, he thinking I'm pushing at work.
You're going to have a cold day in hell 'fore you take this from me cause I worked hard
for this.
I value this different, I value this different.
I'm going to die for this.
For people that don't know, a quarter brick, like nine ounces.
It's 252 grams.
I was saying I had nine ounces of coke on a, on a, on a digital scale.
But I'm cooking a four and a half.
I'm cooking 126 grams
A lot of time, you can get a car and it may not really look good on the outside, but it
might got a good motor.
You can put a kit on that car and redo that car.
Hey, you done turnt you some trash in the cash.
Might not be a good looker.
She might not be the prettiest woman on Earth, but she sure do get the business handled.
So I invested in this woman's future.
I may have got her some veneers.
I may have got her a lace front or frontal with some bundles.
She needed some cushion.
When I'm behind her punching that dick in from the back, she ain't really got no cushion
back there.
Feel like I'm hitting a knee cap.
She needed some cushion.
Went and bought her some ass.
Yeah.
And now she something serious.
She's deadly.
She's dangerous now.
I Cardi B-ed that hoe.
She had the little bitty teeth and came from nothing, but now everybody in the world want
to be with that woman.
I love that.
I salute that.
I'm hoping the load don't get caught on the slab on the interstate.
I got a lot of game from Texas.
They call the interstate the slab.
The I-10 interstate, Interstate 10, it is the zone from 10 to Louisiana.
It's a four hour drive from Houston to Louisiana.
My biggest obstacle was me overcoming myself, like killing my ego.
I want to do what makes me happy.
I don't want to live my life based on public opinion or based on what the public think
is necessary.
All my life I had ego issues.
I thought I had to be a gangster.
The world going to look at me silly if I don't be this, if I don't be that, if I don't be
that.
So once I put that to the side, nothing has been impossible.
I've been accomplishing everything I wanted to.
If anyone asked me, "Kevin, do you still use a Blackberry?"
Go to one of the YouTube videos that Jordan Spencer has shot, and you'll see me on there
still using my same Blackberry from back in the grip when I had a 225-303-3049 number.
Big general.
That phone is what I wrote all my raps, and it elevated the growth.
That phone worth a billion dollars.
Because every song I done wrote in that bitch then went platinum.
That's why my song platinum.
My music is addictive like heroin.
I relate the streets to the music game, and I'm serving right now.
I'm controlling right now, and I'm not asking.
I'm applying pressure.
Sometime when my traffic get too heavy, the police would come through there and harass
my pedestrians.
But I'm not about to stop serving.
You got to come in here and make me stop.
I'm going to serve.
I don't care if y'all riding past.
You got to kick my door in.
But I ain't going to never keep nothing in the house I can't get rid of.
So when you kicked my door in, that's cool.
You going to come take me out this bitch for a paraphernalia charge.
You might find a scale with some and say they had residue on it.
But I got somebody to clean the scale off with Windex every time I catch a sale on that
bitch.
Dreka Gates could vouch for me.
She know one thing.
When I go to jail, she about to come with the bond money, and I'm going right back and
open up shop.
Doing what I've been doing.
I'm thugging.
I got a frenchie, a french bulldog name Riri, a female.
Because she gotta be head like Rihanna.
And I let her stand up under my umbrella, ella, ella, ella, aye.
If I'm in Chicago, I hit whoever I need to hit and tell them, "Hey look, check it out
baby.
I'm on Michigan Ave.
I'm shopping.
Just catch up with me, you heard me?"
And he catch up with me, and he drop off the deposit for whatever services rendered.
May have been a verse, a feature.
May have been a show, a concert.
May it have been some Bread Winner apparel.
People like the...
They like my clothing.
They like a lot of things about me.