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. Freddie Gibbs Read Quote
Coming up in America in the ’80s and ’90s, we were not too far removed from slavery. People forget that. Freddie Gibbs Read Quote
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 Read Quote
Ninety percent of the general public aren’t gangstas, so all of the rappers aren’t going to be gangstas. Freddie Gibbs Read Quote
I wasn’t fully aware of the things that Madlib did musically, but my manager put me up on game. I’m not gonna act like I was a Madlib head when I wasn’t. I didn’t understand a lot of it at first. But it opened my mind to some things, and it’s me bringing that gangster element to things that he does. It’s like a perfect marriage. Freddie Gibbs Read Quote