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Published Jul 26, 2026

This article showcases a wonderful collection of Kevin Gates quotes.

Kevin Jerome Gilyard, popularly known as Kevin Gates, was born on February 5th, 1986 in South Region Louisiana, United States.

Besides being a rapper and singer, he is also an entrepreneur. Kevin’s music often revolves around personal experiences, and his lyrics touch upon subjects such as depression, poverty, and prison time.

Despite facing many challenges while growing up, Kevin persevered.

He was first arrested at the age of 13 for being a passenger in a stolen vehicle and has since been in and out of prison multiple times due to legal issues.

However, Kevin used these experiences to inspire himself and became one of the most successful rappers in the American music industry today.

We hope you enjoy reading his quotes below.

Best Kevin Gates Quote About Love, Life, And Trust

  • “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
  • “My mentality, I guess. I used to deal with things totally differently than the way that I deal with things now. And I believe that comes through growth and maturity. And when you grow, your way of life changes. Everything changes. The things that were interesting at one point, they’re not as interesting now.”- Kevin gates
  • “Made men don’t make statements. You bigger than that, that’s phony. Want every n***a that rap, from Louisiana to make it. Medication then meditation and elevating to greatness.”- Kevin gates
  • “Let me tell you something about Tunechi – about that boy. That boy comes to the studio every day and grind as if he doesn’t have a dollar in his pocket.”- Kevin gates
  • “If I told you I was different would you understand the difference?”- 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
  •  “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
  • “When you’re in prison, you want to know that you were thought about.”- Kevin gates
  • “Prison was the best thing that ever happened to me.”- Kevin gates

    • Best Kevin Gates quotes about hustling

  • “I don’t sleep much. I don’t sleep much – I work, I work, I work.”- Kevin gates
  • “I always had music growing up, but music was also like a journal. It was like my personal diary or personal journal. A lot of the things I couldn’t express to an individual, I would express them in my music.”- 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 Kabbalah, 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 have a cult-like following because I exemplify what it is to be a human being.”- Kevin gates
  • “But I really live in a box. I’m always locked away in the studio, so I never get to see those people anyway. And if I do see them, I don’t even think—to be honest, I’m so focused right now I couldn’t even see myself encountering those individuals that I spoke about from my past.”- Kevin gates
  • “You can’t make everybody else happy and still stay on top.”- Kevin gates
  • “What I see, what I went through, what a friend of mine may have went through, whatever – I rap about it.”- Kevin gates
  • “In 7th grade, I believe, I wrote my first rap song. It was about everything I was seeing, everything that was going on around me.”- Kevin gates
  • “Why accept failure when success is free?”- Kevin gates

    • Kevin Gates quotes about love

  • “What poor person fits into society socially? You seem like a great person, but you’re not going to leave out of this building and put one of those homeless people in your car. You treat them differently than I do. When I finish with this salad here, you can eat off my plate. That’s just the individual that I am because I’ve walked in those shoes at one time.”- Kevin gates
  • “I was born in Earl K. Long Hospital. I was born Feb. 5th, 1986. I have a lot of family members. My grandmother had five girls, and all of them had children. It was always a house full. A lot of cousins. A lot of family members.”- Kevin gates
  • “I don’t just listen to rap.”- 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 psycho-kinetically. So I like to come out at night. Everything’s settled, you can see more.” – 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
  • “One of my most popular songs, ‘Satellites,’ I paid $300 for that beat on SoundClick.”- Kevin gates
  • “I’m glad I can’t vote.”- Kevin gates
  • “I’m super serious about music. That’s, like, the only thing I’m serious about.”- Kevin gates
  • “The more I grow in popularity, the lonelier it gets. Because you don’t really know me. You just know this part of me. You fell in love with that. But it’s way more intricate than what meets the surface.”- Kevin gates

    • Kevin Gates quotes about life

  • “It’s a curse. I ask God to take this away from me all the time. I do not like being an artist.”- Kevin gates
  • “Knowledge is provided but only to those who need to know.”- Kevin gates
  • “I was doing sold-out shows before I got radio play.”- Kevin gates
  • “If I tell the truth about me, what can the world say? I’d love to be accepted, but I’m not seeking acceptance. If you are a fan, it’s because you’re a fan of who I am psychologically, emotionally, and individually. The world can relate to a human being more than it can relate to a superstar.”- Kevin gates
  • “The only frustrating thing about jail is that I can’t make music.”- Kevin gates
  • “I’m not no Internet person.”- Kevin gates
  •  “I’m a super sensitive individual also. The smallest thing might stand out to me. I might go make a song about this interview. I live life then rap about it. Who knows what I may say? I just really say what I feel. When I’m in the moment, whatever I’m feeling, I get it all out.”- 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
  • “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

    • Best Kevin Gates quotes and sayings about jealousy

  • “I don’t give anyone a reason to hate me, they create their own drama out of pure jealousy. Keep ears opened, mouth closed.”- Kevin gates
  • “Breathing is so important with physical activity, then how much more important is it with psychological activity?” – Kevin gates
  • “I think California has the best energy.”- Kevin gates
  • “I married my best friend that happens to be a girl.”- Kevin gates
  • “I was always taught not to answer no questions. I’m not really good at answering them because I get agitated so fast.”- Kevin gates
  • “I don’t know how the rap game is, because I’m a fan of reality, and the rap game’s entertainment.”- Kevin gates
  • “Man, all lives matter.”- Kevin gates
  • “I was born on a full moon. Both my children were born on full moons, too. Some people say that’s scary. It is what it is, man, I don’t be trippin’. I couldn’t tell God when I wanted to be born.”- Kevin gates
  • “You can learn from a dummy. You can watch a dummy and learn what not to do. I’ve always been an observant individual. You don’t know how much you love something until you can’t do it. That’s one thing I can say that I learned. I learned how much I love music.”- Kevin gates”

    • Kevin Gates quotes about trust

  • “I could give a flying flip about doing promo because, no disrespect, nobody put me in the position that I’m in.”- Kevin gates
  • “I’m a felon. I get pulled over all the time.”- Kevin gates
  • “I like being with my family. That’s my party.”- Kevin gates
  • “Wealth is not of the pocket. It’s of the heart. It’s of the mind. I live like that. You could give me a fish and feed more for a day, but if you teach me to fish, you’ve fed me forever. So that’s really my philosophy with it all.” – Kevin gates
  • “Out my window.. I see everything I dream about and wished I had”- Kevin gates
  • “My daily conversation, it consists of hustle. Grinding from the bottom sick and tired of struggle.”- Kevin gates
  • “I’ve had mixtapes that have been better than albums I’ve heard from other artists. I take my time; I put my heart into it.”- Kevin gates
  • “I really don’t pay attention to the outside world when I’m incarcerated, because being in prison is like being in a different world. So I don’t pay attention to what’s going on outside of jail, because it’s all beyond my control.”- Kevin gates
  • “I never go into a situation with any type of expectations.”- Kevin gates

    • Kevin Gates quotes about being real

  • “It’s about really really being who you are as an individual and not apologizing for it, that’s what it is. I can feel the growth from my first mixtape to now. On every song, I want to give you a piece of who I am as an individual.”- 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
  • “I’m a perfect imperfection. My craft has been perfected. I just need affection, emotionally. I’m an introvert but it come off as aggression.”- Kevin gates
  • “I love God, I love everybody else around me as myself, and I love my enemy.”- Kevin gates
  • “I got it out tha mud, ain’t nobody ever gave me nothing.”- Kevin gates
  • “I can’t say any artist inspired me, because I’m inspired by the things that go on around me.”- Kevin gates
  • “’Recreative’ is a word that I invented because in urban culture, with colloquialism, we invent so many slangs. I don’t like the way that ‘recreational’ sounds – I don’t like to say I do a lot of ‘recreational’ reading. I like to say that I read ‘recreatively.’ I do a lot of ‘recreative’ reading.”- Kevin gates
  • “Bein’ logical gave me a reason to doubt”- Kevin gates
  • “I used to live with my grandmother. I used to wonder why the other kids in school went home with their mothers and fathers. I wanted to be the guy that got married. I wanted to be the guy with the children and the white picket fence. I never had that.”- Kevin gates

    • Kevin Gates quotes about making mistakes

  • “I’m not afraid to make mistakes.”- Kevin gates
  • “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
  • “When you come up in the slums, having nothin’ make you humble”- Kevin gates
  • “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
  • “Or help them get to the root of the problem. Or help them find out what the problem is. Because the problem lies with self, and a lot of times we don’t look inward as individuals. We always look for something else as a substitute, as a pacifier. You have to look at self first.”- Kevin gates
  • “Music’s the most therapeutic thing for me. Because I suffer with 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
  • “Wise men change, fools stay the same.” – Kevin gates
  • “I attended college in prison. I was in jail, so there ain’t no going to no classes. They have programs in certain facilities where you can earn good time, and then you get time taken off your sentence. But as far as going to classes, it’s not like that. You study, and then an administrator gives you a test. I got a Master’s in psychology.”- 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

    • Kevin Gates quotes about trust

  • “I used to really love Fiend, but he stopped. He just stopped. Every time he had a project, every project – ‘There’s One In Every Family,’ ‘Street Life’ – I had to have them. And he just stopped. And that was disappointing, ’cause that was my favorite rapper at one time.”- Kevin gates
  • “Biggie Smalls, Jay-Z, Nas, Eminem, Big L, Tupac. That was, like, my top five, generally.”- Kevin gates
  • “I always knew who I was, and I always ran from my true purpose… I know what my job is. And I always ran from it.”- Kevin gates
  • “I live by the ten percent rule. Save one, you save a thousand.”- Kevin gates
  • “I got 6 jobs, I don’t get TIRED!” – Kevin gates
  • “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.”- Kevin gates
  • “Without an understanding of bad…how can one truly have an appreciation of good.”- Kevin gates
  • “Marriage is the most wonderful thing ever.”- Kevin gates
  • “I’m never on Twitter. I’m never on Instagram. And that’s not by choice: it’s just that those things never really interested me. I might post a picture here and there, but that ain’t really been my focus.”- Kevin gates

    • Kevin Gates quotes about being yourself

  • “Whatever I have a natural love for or respect or admiration for, I tattoo it on my body. My next tattoo is probably going to be Muhammad Ali. I’ve got Bob Marley, I’ve got Elvis, I’ve got Malcolm X. I’ve got so many tattoos. It’s crazy. I’m really running out of space. But when I go get tattoos, it’s therapeutic for me also.”- Kevin gates
  • “I’m a bookworm. I know with my physical appearance that I don’t look like the typical reader. I’m in Barnes & Noble all the time, and you can look at people that look like they are supposed to be in there. I am in there, pants sagging, hat backwards.-” Kevin gates
  • “I don’t really like talking. I like to execute. I’m not a talking person. I’m an action person.”- Kevin gates
  • “I put my flaws on front street. So the world accepted my flaws, so I don’t have any flaws.”- 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 did study religion for a little while. I studied the Torah and the Holy Koran, Helios Biblos, which is considered by most people to be the Holy Bible. I just wanted to know, even with Buddhism and the Dalai Llama.”- Kevin gates
  • “I adapt and I adjust to whatever environment I’m in.”- Kevin gates
  • “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.”
  • “Never break or fold, that’s what it takes to be major.”- Kevin gates

    • Kevin Gates quotes about money

  •  “Money coming, money gotta flip it. I ain’t waiting on nobody, I’mma go get it.”- Kevin gates
  • “Sometimes I feel like being an intellectual. Sometimes I like to just be aggressive and all the way in my feelings. Sometimes I might be emotional, or sometimes I might drag on the track and be lazy. I just like to share the different states of existence of Kevin Gates with the rest of the world.”- Kevin gates
  • “I suffer from deep depression, so my only release is music.”- Kevin gates
  • “I don’t believe in conspiracy theories. I’m just a cold-blooded investigator.”- Kevin gates
  • “look at other people’s lives, and some people feel like they’re too old to play with toys. But I still go through the toy section at the store, ’cause there were toys that I wanted when I was little that I couldn’t have. So I still get them.”- Kevin gates
  • “If you associate yourself with peer pressure or complacency, you’re destined for failure.”- Kevin gates
  • “The ones that hate you most tend to be the people you know.” – 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 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

    • Kevin Gates quotes about music

  • “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
  • “If you look at the movie ‘Belly,’ I identify with Sincere the most. I am a gangster. I love my lady to death. I’m not in the game for the wrong reasons. I’m not in the game for the glory. I’m in the game to survive so the people that I love could be straight. I’m a highly intelligent individual.”- Kevin gates
  • “Coming up in the streets, I had to learn how to read people early on. I’m a very analytical person. I observe a lot of the things that people don’t notice.”- Kevin gates
  • “Don’t get mad at me for being the best of what I was created to be.”- Kevin gates
  • “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’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
  • “Life is about conduct and how we conduct ourselves. But two wrongs never make a right.”- Kevin gates
  • “I don’t let the left hand know what the right hand is doing.”- Kevin gates
  • “I don’t want no handouts. I want to get it out the mud.”- Kevin gates
  • “When you stand for something, you’ve got to stand for it all the way, not half way.”- Kevin gates

    • Kevin Gates quotes about prayers

  • “Glory be and praise to God. I didn’t do any of this. God did. I don’t have a recipe or a blueprint. I prayed for it, and my prayers are continuing to be answered.”- Kevin gates
  • “True wealth is not of the pocket, but of the heart and of the mind.”- Kevin gates
  • “I’m an introvert somewhat. There could be a room full of people, I’ll go stand in the corner.”- Kevin gates
  • “Everybody round you pretendin that they your partner, let you have a problem they won’t even help you out”- Kevin gates
  • “Fall in love fast, make sure I handle it delicate”- Kevin gates
  • “Can you keep up with the lingo”- 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
  • “Seem like codeine is the one thing that help take my mind from the lies”- Kevin gates
  • “Pray to god someone prays for me”- Kevin gates
  • “Everytime the leaves are changing it’s the loneliest time of the year”- Kevin gates
  • “Jail and the streets go hand in hand. You can’t have one with out the other. They coincide.”- Kevin gates
  • “To be honest I am not lookin to be romantic, already got someone at home”- Kevin gates

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