Kevin Jerome Gilyard better known by his stage name Kevin Gates, is an American rapper, singer, and entrepreneur. He is currently signed to Bread Winners’ Association with a partnership with Atlantic Records. His debut studio album, Islah, released in January 2016 and peaked at number two on the US Billboard 200 chart. Prior to Islah, Gates also released a number of mixtapes including Stranger Than Fiction, By Any Means, and Luca Brasi 2, all of which peaked in the top 40 on the Billboard 200 chart. These Kevin Gates quotes will motivate you.
Best Kevin Gates Quotes
- “Anything lost, can be found again, except for time wasted
A vision without action is merely a dream
Action, it’s the grind, it’s the hustle, it’s the persistence” ~KevinGates - “It is illegal to steal my feelings and leave” ~ Kevin Gates
- “I’m inspired by everything that goes on around me. I’m a sponge. I’m very analytical. I notice the things that most people don’t notice.” ~ Kevin Gates
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“My daily conversation, it consists of hustle. Grinding from the bottom sick and tired of struggle.” ~ Kevin Gates
- “Whatever an individual chooses to do with themselves, long as it doesn’t affect me and they’re respectful with it, I don’t care what they do. Because I’m not perfect and I have flaws, so who would I be to be judgmental?” ~ Kevin Gates
- “Wise men change, fools stay the same.” ~ Kevin Gates
- “Why accept failure when success is free?” ~ Kevin Gates
- “I’ve had good times and I’ve had bad times and I reminisce, maybe when I lay down, but throughout my day I keep myself engulfed in whatever moment I’m in because it could steer me into a depressed state.” ~ Kevin Gates
- “Everybody around you pretending that they your partner, let you have a problem they won’t even help you out” ~ Kevin Gates
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“Emotionally I’m an introvert but it comes off as aggression” ~ Kevin Gates
- “Never break or fold, that’s what it takes to be major.” ~ Kevin Gates
- “Loves a battlefield it’s not a one-night stand.” ~ Kevin Gates , Kevin Gates quotes about love
- “The ones that hate you most tend to be the people you know” ~ Kevin Gates
- “If you associate yourself with peer pressure or complacency, you’re destined for failure.” ~ Kevin Gates
- “I suffer from depression. Severe cases of it. Not one case of depression, not a severe case, but severe cases of depression. Music is my only outlet, it’s therapeutic to me. It’s a release. It’s how I vent emotionally.” ~ Kevin Gates
- “I have trust issues with allowing other individuals to know my innermost secrets for fear of how I may be viewed. Everyone has this.” ~ Kevin Gates
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“Say what you doing and not what you finna do” ~ Kevin Gates
- “I don’t have a religion. I ain’t nothing wrong with church as long as they selling chicken. Cause I read the Quran, I read the Kabalah, I read the Bible. They all got the same three basic principles: Love God, love your neighbor as yourself, and…As far as me being, I live by those principles.” ~ Kevin Gates
- “I’ve always stood on my own two. I don’t need a team. I don’t do the entourage thing, 30 people. I don’t do that. That’s just not me.” ~ Kevin Gates
- “The energy in the daytime is so different because everyone is so unhappy and depressed and you can pick up on that energy psychokinetically. So I like to come out at night. Everything’s settled, you can see more.” ~ Kevin Gates
- “Out my window.. I see everything I dream about and wished I had” ~ Kevin Gates
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“Some may consider this a problem, I easily fall in love” ~ Kevin Gates
- “When you come up in the slums, having nothin make you humble” ~ Kevin Gates
- “Knowledge is provided but only to those who need to know” ~ Kevin Gates
- “I just always wanted to study human behavior because every psychologist that I would talk to would tell me I was bipolar, and I know I’m not bipolar, so I had to perform a psychoanalysis on myself to find out that I have unresolved grief.” ~ Kevin Gates
- “I have trouble with letting go. That’s my problem. Anybody that has extreme highs and extreme lows is bipolar to any psychologist and that’s not necessarily the truth.” ~ Kevin Gates
- “Jail and the streets go hand in hand. You can’t have one without the other. They coincide.” ~ Kevin Gates
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“Bein logical gave me a reason to doubt” ~ Kevin Gates
- “I’m a big skeptic so I won’t just go off what an individual may tell me. I gotta do the research. I’ma get different literature on that one subject and just compare and contrast. I do my own selective studies.” ~ Kevin Gates
- “I love God, I love everybody else around me as myself, and I love my enemy.” ~ Kevin Gates , Kevin Gates quotes about God
- “Pray to god someone prays for me” ~ Kevin Gates
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“To be honest I am not looking to be romantic, already got someone at home” ~ Kevin Gates
- “Being in the neighborhood and the poverty-stricken environment that I grew up in, I took a detour. I gravitated towards some of the individuals that did a lot of the wrong things with the right intentions.” ~ Kevin Gates
- “I don’t gang bang but I’ll bang tha thang!” ~ Kevin Gates
- “Seem like codeine is the one thing that help take my mind from the lies” ~ Kevin Gates
- “Every time the leaves are changing it’s the loneliest time of the year” ~ Kevin Gates
- “I love to be clean. I wear the same things, all of my clothes pretty much look the same. I’m a plain and simple type of guy. I don’t really do a lotta busy colors and things of that nature. I feel like less is more.” ~ Kevin Gates
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“You have to be intimate with a person to know that person.” ~ Kevin Gates
- “Fall in love fast, make sure I handle it delicate” ~ Kevin Gates
- “I live by the ten percent rule. Save one, you save a thousand.” ~ Kevin Gates
- “I write a lot of my best music in the car, like late night. Three, four in the morning. I’m in the passenger seat, I got my driver, my getaway driver. My Bonnie, I’m Clyde. That’s when everything is just settled. In the daytime it’s chaotic. Everybody just goin’ nowhere fast. In a rush to go nowhere.” ~ Kevin Gates , Kevin Gates quotes about songs
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“Can you keep up with the lingo” ~ Kevin Gates
- “Breathing is so important with physical activity, then how much more important is it with psychological activity?” ~ Kevin Gates
- “The Notebook … that’s my favorite one. I’ve read that book 30 times. It gives a true depiction of two people that are in love.” ~ Kevin Gates
- “I vent through my music. That’s the only outlet I have.” ~ Kevin Gates
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“I did a lot of drugs. I didn’t do multiple drugs, but I overindulged in whatever drug of choice.” ~ Kevin Gates
- “My grandmother was an English teacher for a while. And she stressed to me the importance of reading, being able to articulate well.” ~ Kevin Gates
- “Don’t respect a lot of rappers, feel I had a harder life” ~ Kevin Gates , Kevin Gates quotes about life
- “Any artist that’s as serious about making music as I am, I’m cool with that. But if you tellin’ me, “Man, send me a verse and I’ma send you a verse.” No. That’s not collaborating. We don’t know each other and I’m serious about this music.” ~ Kevin Gates
- “I’ve just always been a reader. My grandmother just expressed the importance of literacy, if I said that correctly. She just always expressed the importance of being able to write and being able to read.” ~ Kevin Gates
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“I can’t say any artist inspired me, because I’m inspired by the things that go on around me.” ~ Kevin Gates
- “I know my voice is very distinctive because in a room of 100 people, my voice is always picked out.” ~ Kevin Gates
- “Let me hear the music. I’ma let the music instruct me on which way to go. Forwards, backwards, left, right. It’s like boxing. I’m only as strong as my opponent.” ~ Kevin Gates
- “I got 6 jobs I don’t get TIRED!” ~ Kevin Gates
- “I don’t pay attention to sales because it’s not about that for me. It’s about the music. Music is all I have.” ~ Kevin Gates
- “I love to make music, I love to get tattoos…That’s just what I love. If I wasn’t getting paid I’d still do it.” ~ Kevin Gates
- “A hot producer might not make a hot beat for me. I just love music.” ~ Kevin Gates