Freddie Gibbs Quotes

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Freddie Gibbs

Profession : Musician

Birth : June 14, 1982

When I first came in the game, I had a bunch of homies that rapped that was hanging around me just because I was getting the rap attention, and they felt they could feed off of that.

Freddie Gibbs

I don't mind travelling. I'm independent, so I gotta get on the grind.

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Tupac is definitely an icon. There'll never be another Tupac, so I'm not gonna ever, ever try to fill those shoes. I'm just gonna stay in my lane and be the best me that I can be.

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Coming up in America in the '80s and '90s, we were not too far removed from slavery. People forget that.

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I remember I used to go school with guys who couldn't afford notebooks, pens, paper: the necessary tools needed in order to survive in school. It's a lot of kids in Gary who are at a disadvantage without that.

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Me separating from CTE - I'm extremely happy about that because a lot of guys wrote me off, Jeezy included. He really wrote me off.

Freddie Gibbs

I don't really know what a debut album is no more. As long as you got music on the streets, you've debuted.

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I am the evil seed.

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I had a nightmare that I was mopping floors and that this Freddie Gibbs thing was all a dream.

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I never took a dollar from Young Jeezy. No advance, nothing.

Freddie Gibbs

I have a respect for Young Jeezy. But the reason things didn't work out for me and Young Jeezy was because our approach to the industry... My approach to the industry was a tad bit different than his. I wanted to approach my career a different way; he wanted to go a different way.

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I'm not really comfortable with being on songs with cats I don't really know.

Freddie Gibbs

I think that with me and Madlib, I was never afraid to really experiment with his tracks and things.

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I like good music, whichever lane it comes out of. As long as it's dope, that is all that matters with me.

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I feel like I influence more than just rap.

Freddie Gibbs

I'm a common dude.

Freddie Gibbs

I'm not trying to act like I'm Superman or better than anybody else in the game. I'm just telling my story, showing my strengths and weaknesses - as a human, as a person, as a man.

Freddie Gibbs

I don't like pre-written raps; I think it makes the song better if you listen to the beat first. In a sense, you have to make a marriage with the beat. I ride the beat, hear the flow of the drums, get the melody of my flow, and then from that point, it's a process of what I want to say.

Freddie Gibbs

I just have to go against the grain. I mean, I can be objective and do what I need to do, handle my everyday living, follow directions, etc. But there's something that's always been attracted to that taboo. It's been like that since I was a child.

Freddie Gibbs

I look at some of my fans at my show, and a lot of them look like they're straight out of a punk rock show. They like what I'm coming across with. I had seen them same thing when I went to this Scarface show, so it lets me know that I'm on the right track.

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