Freddie Gibbs Quotes

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Freddie Gibbs

Profession : Musician

Birth : June 14, 1982

This is the land of getting over. The land of second or even third chances; the land of doing whatever you have to do by any means necessary in order to fulfill the American Dream.

Freddie Gibbs

I'm trying to bring gangster rap back to the forefront, like in the early '90s.

Freddie Gibbs

I'm not trying to obey the rules of radio.

Freddie Gibbs

Jeezy just recognized my grind, and I jumped on board with him to enhance it. Artistically, we're in the same mind frame. We come from very similar backgrounds - poverty. That's something that we can both relate to, something that we can convey in our music.

Freddie Gibbs

After I got dropped by Interscope, I knew in my heart that I had to fight back some way or not rap at all. I just took it upon myself to get myself where I needed to be.

Freddie Gibbs

Sports is one of the keys to my life. It definitely kept me out of a lot of trouble and gave me a lot of discipline.

Freddie Gibbs

I've been engulfed in sports since I was a 2-year-old; I picked up any kind of ball - a basketball, baseball, football - I just loved to play something. I loved the energy of being in arenas and watching the game on TV.

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My father took me to a lot of sports events as a child, and our TV stayed on ESPN.

Freddie Gibbs

Stuart Scott was a hero.

Freddie Gibbs

I'm from Gary, Indiana, and everybody's damn near at the poverty level. It's a rough city to grow up in, and it's a modern-day ghost town.

Freddie Gibbs

I just want to put my stamp on all kinds of music. Everything I do is going to be gangsta rap, street-based, street-oriented.

Freddie Gibbs

I'm cool with doing shows with 2,000 people. I don't have to rap in a stadium. As long as I can provide for my family and my art and live comfortably and live well, then I'm good.

Freddie Gibbs

I'd be a liar if I didn't say I learned things from Jeezy. Hell yeah, I took some things, some pluses and some minuses, do's and don'ts.

Freddie Gibbs

I'm like LeBron, man. I'm like a smaller LeBron. That's why I'm not in the NBA. If I had about five, six more inches, I'd be in the league.

Freddie Gibbs

I've been interested in basketball since I was a little kid - like, 3. The Bulls were my team. If you grew up in Gary, the Bulls were everybody's team.

Freddie Gibbs

I'm just glad we get to see old records being broken. That's what sports is all about.

Freddie Gibbs

I started hustling in early adolescence.

Freddie Gibbs

I never write a song before I get the track because I just feel that I have to make a marriage with that track with my raps. And if it's something that's already there, it ain't gone really fit, I don't think.

Freddie Gibbs

Gary is a old factory town right outside Chicago. From my standpoint, my family migrated there in the '50s and '60s from Mississippi - Sardis, Mississippi - shout out to Sardis, Mississippi. My family migrated there just like a lot of black families in that area: they migrated there to get jobs, to get those factory jobs, that steel mill job.

Freddie Gibbs

The things I rap about are 100 percent real. But at the same time, I don't rap about those things to tear my city down. I give you the reality of what it is and what I been through and how it is living in those conditions in Gary, Ind.

Freddie Gibbs