- [Narrator] Kevin Gates has had a long history
in the hip-hop space with hit songs like "Really Really,"
"Change Lanes," and "2 Phones,"
which is all hit billboards,
and gets and average of 4 million Spotify plays each month,
but Kevin Gates has had an even longer history
with the law, with charges like aggravated assault,
robbery, and grand theft auto.
This is Top Trend TV,
and today, we'll be talking about
the criminal history of Kevin Gates.
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Kevin was born on February 5th, 1986 in New Orleans,
but later moved to Baton Rouge
where his criminal background
started very early in his life,
only at the age of 13 for stealing,
and another time for joyriding as a passenger.
- We in the Southside, Baton Rouge from the bottom.
We're going to CLUB PURE tonight.
- [Narrator] He says in a live TV interview,
he gravitated toward a lot of individuals
that were doing the wrong things
with the right intentions,
meaning to me, he always wanted to excel in life,
but didn't have the right people around him.
Another early time he's been arrested was at 15
for aggravated assault.
Unsure of the details, but this was the first time
that he was charged, and did a little over two years
in juvenile hall.
Kevin says, the time he did
took the fear of imprisonment away,
and criminalized him at an early age.
Soon after being released at 17,
Kevin got into an altercation with a guy
outside of a movie theater,
and ended up stabbing him in self-defense,
but him already being a convicted felon
made it harder on his part,
so he went back to jail a day after Christmas.
After being released for the stabbing altercation,
Kevin ended up getting pulled over.
When the police searched his vehicle,
they found a gun around a controlled
and dangerous substance.
The repeated charges caught up with him,
and the judge was really not on his side
fighting for his case,
so the judge gave him a sentence
revolving two separate charges,
choosing not to run them as concurrent offenses,
which means instead of doing just 15 years
for both charges, he would do 30 for both charges.
- But when I went to jail,
it was for being a convicted felon already
in possession of a firearm
around a controlled dangerous substance, which is drugs.
Well, the law is if it's your first offense
with a weapon, it's five years.
If you're a convicted felon with a firearm,
that's 10 to 15.
While in court, my history, I have a prior history,
which most individuals that come
from an impoverished environment
will have a prior criminal record, criminal history,
and they use that and say, "Well, we can't hit you
"with the habitual offender act,
"but you're on your way to be a career criminal.
"Let's give him 30."
- [Narrator] Gates only ended up doing
about three years in prison.
During this time, he stayed involved in mentorship groups,
and giving back to the younger generation.
Time Kevin did, he learned how to treat others with respect.
Saying at the beginning of interviews.
- Penitentiary rules - Baton Rouge.
in effect.
- [Narrator] Meaning he will respect everything
and everyone around him as long
as he is given the same respect.
Kevin is known to be one of the realest in the game
for just the way how he talks and carries himself,
and his music speaks for itself.
- What up world.
Hello world.
Street Credit magazine.
I'm kicking it right now,
and my name Kevin Gates, and I'm like,
I'm the man down here,
and I'm in demand down here.
I'm like, wanna have these niggas out here right now.
I'm clickin' the chrome, click on the dome and alone.
Smith and a snip at your long whistle,
'cause you're a wreck.
I know it's not, but I'm makin' it your business.
Feedin' them kids chickens to get in your biscuits.
Aye.
Ain't nothin' sicker, I'm zippin' this prick zipper.
He pull out his skeet leak,
or get ripped with a meat cleaver.
I'm from the slums.
I'm known as a young gunner.
I'm grown in the gun pulper,
so suck on a nice nina.
Your girl is known as a young nut,
then I call her a dumb plumber.
Stop huggin-
- [Narrator] The charge that he faced
other than the stabbing altercation,
each had drug elements in connection with it.
In addition, social state
that Gates was arrested for traveling without permission
from a Louisiana court order causing a violation
of his previous offenses.
He stated during an interview with Thisis50,
that he did an additional three months
in the beginning of 2014.
In 2016, Kevin was found guilty for misdemeanor battery,
and was sentenced to 180 days in jail.
The incident in question occurred at an August 2015 concert
at Rumors Nightclub in Lakeland, Florida,
where Gates was recorded
kicking a 19 year old audience member
in the chest while on stage.
The widely circulated footage
was used in evidence in the case
along with Dixon's testimony.
Previously, Gates has publicly argued this incident
claiming that Ms. Dixon grabbed his shorts multiple times
without his permission, and that he acted in self-defense.
Ms. Dixon claimed in court that she fell back
and blacked out after Gates kicked her.
The judge ordered one year probation and jail time.
In 2017, Kevin got sentenced to 30 months in jail
for a gun charge.
The warrant for the charge was old.
It was made in Illinois in 2013.
Kevin actually just avoided this state from there on,
and later, cleared things up with his legal team,
and just turned himself in.
Other than Kevin's long history with the law,
Kevin married his long-time girlfriend in 2015,
and later on, had two kids with her.
Kevin has made hints in the past
that he has other kids with other females,
but that is unsure of today.
Ever since Kevin was released in 2017,
he has had no more legal issues.
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