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.
Inspirational Kevin Gates Quotes:
1. “Yea I’m a convicted felon. I also have a masters in psychology, I also scored a 31 on my ACT at 16 in jail.” Kevin Gates
2. “Being’ logical gave me a reason to doubt” Kevin Gates
3. “I can’t say any artist inspired me, because I’m inspired by the things that go on around me.” Kevin Gates
4. “Any artist that’s as serious about making music as I am, I’m cool with that. But if you telling’ me, “Man, send me a verse and I’m a send you a verse.” No. That’s not collaborating. We don’t know each other and I’m serious about this music.” Kevin Gates
5. “The things that are most difficult for me to put into words and speak about, I put into my music. I’m just super passionate about my craft and super passionate about what I do.” Kevin Gates
6. “I’m a big skeptic so I won’t just go off what an individual may tell me. I got to do the research. I’m get different literature on that one subject and just compare and contrast. I do my own selective studies.” Kevin Gates
7. “Without an understanding of bad…how can one truly have an appreciation of good?” Kevin Gates
8. “Wise men change, fools stay the same.” Kevin Gates
9. “I got 6 jobs, I don’t get TIRED!” Kevin Gates
10. “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, and it’s the persistence.” Kevin Gates
11. “I live by the ten percent rule. Save one, you save a thousand.” Kevin Gates
12. “The ones that hate you most tend to be the people you know.” Kevin Gates
13. “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
14. “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
15. “Money coming, money got to flip it. I aren’t waiting on nobody, I’m going to get it.” Kevin Gates
16. “I just always wanted to study human behaviour 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
17. “Music’s the most therapeutic thing for me. Because I suffer from depression, and it’s my only form of releasing it. Just as you do with your recorder, I record my thoughts. I vent. It’s a channel. I’m an introvert when it comes to displaying my emotion. And because I’m such an introvert, the best thing for me to do is to talk to the mic.” Kevin Gates
18. “To inform, to improve, to make better, and I believe that’s what my first daughter did to me, so I named my first album after my first daughter.” Kevin Gates
19. “I got it out the mud, aren’t nobody ever gave me nothing.” Kevin Gates
20. “I love God, I love everybody else around me as myself, and I love my enemy.” Kevin Gates
21. “I’m a perfect imperfection. My craft has been perfected. I just need affection, emotionally. I’m an introvert but it comes off as aggression.” Kevin Gates
22. “When you come up in the slums, having nothing’ make you humble” Kevin Gates
23. “Don’t get mad at me for being the best of what I was created to be.” Kevin Gates
24. “If you associate yourself with peer pressure or complacency, you’re destined for failure.” Kevin Gates
25. “Never break or fold, that’s what it takes to be major.” Kevin Gates