Explore Quotes by Kevin Gates

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

What I see, what I went through, what a friend of mine may have went through, whatever - I rap about it.

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.

Marriage is the most wonderful thing ever.

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

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

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 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.

I'm not no Internet person.

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.

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

I always wanted a family.