Quotes from Freddie Gibbs

I like A$AP Rocky and his stuff - Kendrick too.

Stuart Scott was a hero.

I am the evil seed.

The Bears need to let me be GM.

Every project might only sell like 30 to 50,000, but I mean, I'm getting seven, eight dollars every CD. I make more money per record than an artist on a major label - I can definitely say that.

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.

Eminem heard my music, and he didn't wanna take a meeting with me.

I'm not really comfortable with being on songs with cats I don't really know.

The neck is not something you should have surgery on that much.

I'm a real gangster rapper and I'm a rapper. I just think my music takes different directions. I don't think you can pigeon hole me in one genre. I'm probably the most versatile in the game, period.

Lil Wayne makes good music. He's one of the best rappers.

I love Lil Wayne. I grew up on the Hot Boyz.

Probably dancing to Cassie's 'Me & U' - That's my guilty pleasure.

My core thing is gangster rap, but a lot of my music is melodic and carries a message of survival.

I'm not trying to act like I'm Superman or better than anybody else in the game. I'm just telling my story, showing my strengths and weaknesses - as a human, as a person, as a man.

I don't ever really plan my sets. I just get out there and feel the energy of the crowd.

I just have to go against the grain. I mean, I can be objective and do what I need to do, handle my everyday living, follow directions, etc. But there's something that's always been attracted to that taboo. It's been like that since I was a child.

It's in the American spirit to take advantage of an opportunity.

Different rappers got different talents. It's like X-Men.

I study my competition for at least an hour a day. I get on the Internet, I look at what they doing, and then I look at ways to defeat them. I know their mixtapes track-by-track. I know some of their lyrics.

Madlib isn't a beatmaker, he's a producer.

I have a respect for Young Jeezy. But the reason things didn't work out for me and Young Jeezy was because our approach to the industry... My approach to the industry was a tad bit different than his. I wanted to approach my career a different way; he wanted to go a different way.

The things I rap about are 100 percent real. But at the same time, I don't rap about those things to tear my city down. I give you the reality of what it is and what I been through and how it is living in those conditions in Gary, Ind.

I still bump 'Smells Like Teen Spirit.' I used to listen to it before all my football games.