Quotes from Freddie Gibbs

I went to a Bulls game when it was still in Chicago Stadium before they built the United Center.

I'm cool with doing shows with 2,000 people. I don't have to rap in a stadium. As long as I can provide for my family and my art and live comfortably and live well, then I'm good.

I just want to put my stamp on all kinds of music. Everything I do is going to be gangsta rap, street-based, street-oriented.

I'm from Gary, Indiana, and everybody's damn near at the poverty level. It's a rough city to grow up in, and it's a modern-day ghost town.

I had a nightmare that I was mopping floors and that this Freddie Gibbs thing was all a dream.

My father took me to a lot of sports events as a child, and our TV stayed on ESPN.

My TV stays locked at 'SportsCenter.' That and 'Pardon the Interruption.'

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.

Ain't nothin' changed with me. I'm Eastside Gary til I die.

I'm not trying to obey the rules of radio.

I don't really know what a debut album is no more. As long as you got music on the streets, you've debuted.

I want to be one of the most versatile rappers in the game.

I can do a whole project with Madlib and turn around and do a record with Gucci Mane. Gucci Mane, E-40, and Black Thought on the same record. I like all those rappers, so why can't I work with them in some type of capacity? It just speaks to my versatility. I don't just listen to one type of rap. I listen to all of it so I can make all of it.

'Kind of Blue' is one of the best records of all time. Miles' use of space is something rap fans can definitely appreciate. Sometimes you have to let the track breathe and throw a melody in here and there. He never did too much on 'Kind of Blue.' It's the perfect vibe.

I'm not a big video game dude though, but I like 'Madden.'

I never took a dollar from Young Jeezy. No advance, nothing.

Drake makes some dope songs.

Everything don't work out for the best. You have to use a lot of those things as lessons in order to build yourself up.