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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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. Freddie Gibbs Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
I’m just glad we get to see old records being broken. That’s what sports is all about. Freddie Gibbs Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote