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That Ass Up ear in the morning The Breakfast Club morning everybody it's DJ Envy Charlamagne the guy we are The Breakfast Club we got a special guest in the building yes indeed brother Kevin Gates welcome back brother thank you for having me how you feeling why you laugh Kevin gat you look clean my brother yes you do man I should have did this off the H what what uh you promised me that last time that if I brought you uh the book that you would autograph it oh that's easy you got to put the you
got to put the one that's going to be worth money though put the signature work that's going to be worth money I got I need both of my books I got I do that before the interview over I got you I got you Well how you feeling brother um how do I look amazing great and amazing I just ran a mile in uh like six minutes before I came over here really outside or in a hotel on the treadmill on the treadmill yeah that's your routine in the morning what's your what's your morning routine no
yoga just movement I'm going to say just movement moving the body around raising my frequency man inside running is easier Than outside running you got to deal with the elements I like outside running more I don't know it's just when I'm outside it's just like I'm I like to be going somewhere mhm 24 degrees though outside today I just was outside uh at the lamb truck with short son and a uh and a hoodie for real like that's cryotherapy for me like when your body when you subject your body to cold temperatures what it does
is in order for it to stay Warm your body to kill off all your bad cells all your inflammation and things of that nature so it was therapeutic in nature for me what what got you into your knowing yourself and knowing your body so so well how did you get on that journey I used to do drugs and drugs used to make me feel good and I believe that rehab is for quitters so I never been to rehab so now it's like I do things that make me feel good working out makes me feel good
I'm addicted to It now before I work out in the morning don't talk to me I'm a grouch I'mma curse everybody out just let me get this workout out the way and then after that hey I'm good I can be of service now you know the beauty of what you said most people will say that about coffee or most people will say that about weed you know what I mean I can't talk to you till I drink my coffee I can't talk to you I smoke my cigarette or smoke a blunt the fact you said
that about Exercise those are that's crazy that you say that those are rituals like my morning ritual is working out and that's crazy that I got a coffee brand called ritual like as far as me being one of the generals is generals ritual that's my coffee brand and that's a ritual that's one of my rituals in the morning I got to have my coffee I got to work out I got to get up in the morning black coffee cold shower pray stretch work out and you on then I then I can be of Service but
before that don't talk to me I'm a grouch man the thing I love about you too Kevin man when I listen to into the ceremony everything you saying right now reflects into music every like every single thing you call it medicine music medicine music talk to me about what medicine music is to you the music that raises your frequency like um I used to just play a lot of songs on live like cuz when I'm working out in the gym I like to hear something positive but hard So I got this one song on them
called the ceremony where I'm talking to myself and I'm like Purpose Driven I'm developing rigid you pleasure driven you develop rejection elevated and ranking my dick is not friendly I would not be distracted by women like cuz I and I reason I said that is because every time you on your purpose that's when all the distractions come when I'm trying to call and see people don't nobody got time for me like soon as is payday Everybody call you they know your they just like they got a a a magic Pinger or a blinker or something
that let them know that you just got some money or your energy up that's when all the distractions come when you you doing what you supposed to be doing I want you to expound on that cuz that was one of the lines I love from ceremony when you said you was Purpose Driven over being pleasure driven I think we in an era right now where everybody's pleasure Driven Man nobody got when you pleasure driven you develop addictions and what I mean by that is any feeling going to get old to you so you going to
constantly be chasing a greater feeling that's why people become addicted to drugs or whatever they come addicted to I done became addicted to things that's going to raise my frequency such as working out and fit and things of that nature so that's what I mean by if you Purpose Driven and you Stay on your purpose like I say on one of my other songs if you looking for a microwave blessing it won't happen that's right now you also say earlier you said you know rehab was for quitters so yeah that's for quitters my question is
so how did you get over the drug addiction you said you had and some of those negative addictions you if you go back to one of the old interviews on here I was in here drinking lean in a coffee cup really yeah I had a coffee Cup with a lid on it I I was drinking Ser in an interview wow I was a junkie and when I had to have it or my body would ache if I didn't have it it ain't nothing but heroin addiction is a disease yeah of course I don't know why
people don't look at it like that but it's a disease yeah so I replaced that habit with another habit I didn't just go cold turkey I had to replace my unhealthy habits with healthy habits and as I kept going and going and going you Know I start getting in the B hex like if you take this it'll give you more energy if you take that it'll make you it'll make you focus better like saffron it'll make you focus it's just like Aderall if you take uh seos and she legit and all that so I just
start getting in all that if you drink beet juice it'll take all the sorness out of your muscles because it's high in nitrous oxide so I just got to look in that b Hax like what could make me Perform better so I could get even greater feeling and it's a never ending Journey it don't stop what was the test was it a near scare was it a friend of yours that was close that almost passed what was the reason you be like no today's day I was I was embarrassed into um working out and it
was beautiful I was embarrassed into um getting in shape because when I was fat and I had titties when I would walk in the room I would look for the flaws and everybody in the Room and I would expound on those flaws so no one would pay attention to me you projecting I was projecting so no one would pay attention to me but when I had my shirt off at the video shoot I'm like yeah I'm Trap House sex I'm on the Block sexy that was a facade I'm holding a baby the baby trying to
suck my titty everybody looking they laughing but it's one of them laughs like you don't want to you don't want me to see you laughing so they Like and then I I see the baby leaning this that's the most embarrassing [ __ ] in the world when you holding a child and the child innocent he don't know no better he leaning back really trying to suck your titty I hear man take this baby and everybody fell out laughing at me and I felt like the worst in the world I was like so it was a
anger it was embarrassment it was everything and I was I couldn't be mad at everybody cuz [ __ ] the baby you know what I'm saying The baby really trying to suck my tit and after that that's what just made me say you know what hey [ __ ] that man I'm about to get in shape I'm tired of being a fat slob and then everybody watched when I got on the um on Instagram and I said that prayer I'm like God just make me lose all this way today God I'm tired of being a
fat slob I don't want to be the fat rapper no more and everybody just followed my progress in my journey since 2018 you really worked out you a You wasn't like an Olympic gold medalist you wasn't doing none of that right what that is OIC is the uh the shot that everybody's taking now it's a shot sir yeah yeah yeah though you know there people that take that shot they head be bigger than they body you notice that though absolutely they head be big it look like you're right look like a lollipop I'll be like
what they head be bigger than they body it it look like they be disp portion Even people that go get surgery like not women I don't know what women they be looking good when they do it but like a lot of the men that I see that go get surgery they head be bigger than they body like it it's it's disproportioned m like it's it's I rather just be disciplined because if I cheat my way cheaters never win I'm going hold myself accountable that's right like I just come off a 7day fast right before my
listening party I ain't eat nothing for Seven days no food at all no food at all so just a liquid or just liquid I've been longer than that though but I just needed Clarity and whenever things get too cloudy for me I just don't eat nothing wow when you say rehab is for quitters are you're not discouraging rehab are you some yeah cuz some people mind isn't strong enough to just quit things cold turkey some people need to go to rehab and have other people there to hold them responsible hold them Accountable quitters that's the
point you want to quit the drugs no I'm going to replace unhealthy habit with healthy habits I see what you saying cuz cuz once I start working out that that lean started tasting like drugs to me once I start sweating out and detoxing my body when I drink I be like [ __ ] tastes like drugs and and me wanting better for myself made me not want to [ __ ] with That I'm not about to sit around for you to come Pat me in my ass and all that and tell me it's going to
be okay Kevin little Kevin and that's not what the world going to do Kevin so I can't talk about what nobody else going through I got to hold my self account accountable rehab is for quid I can't get up there and say now some baby going to say that's [ __ ] up he say that no I take self accountability it may sound harsh but I'mma beat myself up so the world Can't beat me up cuz the world is a cruel place it can be a beautiful place if you allow it to be want your
perspective changes that's when miracles happen but I'm not I don't need nobody I don't need to go sit in front of nobody and they tell me yeah the first key is admitting you have a problem I told myself I got a problem I talked to myself I'm in tune with myself I'm calling twice as begging than me and I say that because I'm calling this female Calling this female Hey Kevin stop calling that ho [ __ ] that hoe stay on your purpose when she come back you ain't going to have time for it I
talk to myself people may say I'm crazy but I'm winning that's how I process things it's talking to myself on the song broken men you you talk oh my God I can't believe you I love broken men man oh my God I think y this this probably your best album to me um but on brok you talk about a person who told you things Would fall apart if y all split that's a true story that's a true story I had um I had somebody tell me that if we would if we wasn't together that everything
will fall apart you know this a some old like but they told me that and I was like and that affected me I never said nothing about it but that was kind of part of my drive like I'mma show you I'mma hustle so hard you going to have to see me and if you don't see me you going to have to hear about me And that was part of my motivation and and doing all of those things like kind of like the great gasp he did all if you if you never seen a movie he
did all of these things these great feats only to show somebody else his worth so I did all of these things just to realize that external things never add value anything external and it was like the reason I called it broken men cuz so many men go through that feeling inade not feeling good enough feeling like They only as good as their ability to their ability to provide and to do and cuz I still feel like that sometime like like what can I give did I do enough and things of that nature but I I
hate to sound like one of them people that uh them what you call them them uh you know them positive people that motivational speaker I hate this not not them no the ones that that go hiking and [ __ ] with you hippies they your sponsor you said hippies you call you call them your Accountability partner yeah they'll tell you you are enough motivational people what you mean like a sponsor like a POS sponsor positive sponsor I know you're talking I hate to sound like one of them but you are enough like anything external doesn't
add value you are enough I didn't know I was enough till I got to really know myself and I'm like man I'm fly MH and that's kind of like um I still like to wear jewelry and stuff for My brother but at my listening part I ain't even wear no jurry emit came and gifted me with this watch I had never seen before and then I just put it on I said I ain't even going to wear no jewelry I am the jewelry wow dope I think I think of a situation like that you know
back to what you saying a lot of times your partner or your friends around you should be instilling that into you that's why you talk about positive energy and your Friends and positive frequencies yeah um I didn't have that around me coming from where I came from so a lot of times when somebody could see your greatness they'll say things to put self on the same level as you so you won't think too much of yourself cuz you might get away from them and you know this is what you know Miss Misery Loves Company question
was that person right the person who told you things wouldn't work out for you if y'all split look at me I talk About at least for the moment I'm talking about in that moment look at me yeah yeah yeah yeah look at me absolutely trying to find a love with then I've been thinking about you and I can't pretend I'm falling in love once again no longer looking for love I decid to let you in yeah come on man we don't we don't talk about the inspiration that women can provide like that we just heard
Rod wave say the same thing he was Like he got on his grind musically because his girlfriend at the time was a super NBA young boyfriend I go back and tell her thank you all the time thank you wow for not believing in me so you still have a good relationship yeah we for not believing well I don't know where she at right now but you know I thank you back then what did she say when you say that to her she cried damn she missed me missed out I'm something serious I'm turned up out
you I got Beautiful children and [ __ ] now life goes on now now speaking of turnup did you really go to a Beyonce concert and turn up in a Beyonce concert [ __ ] it but look this what happened I paid for my nannies all my nannies to go to the concert so you remember when they was supposed to come to New Orleans so they had everybody was outside just outside so I'm like oh we going to go cuz I've been going went to a Drake concert you know I Went two nights in a
row to Drake I went seeing Usher you know I'm just on that and like just studying all of the great so you know if you go to New Orleans it's a party outside before you even go inside so I was you know and it just it was a party outside before was a party inside so I was like I'm beyond turned so you was really turned during that time yes Lord if I come out the shirt I love to come out my shirt I I mean look at me I just I love to come out
my shirt I love to take it off now I used to hate to just I used to wear layers now I can't wait to come out my shirt you ever come out that [ __ ] right now you ever wonder where the titties went do you ever look in the mirror and be like Dam they gone it was dietary issues it was it was Dairy it was it was the dairy I was eating I still like a lit I still do a lit Dairy every now and then but it got To be done in moderation
because it'll cause you to like it'll cause you to have that little layer of fat like up under your nipples that men have that most men don't know this you still got abs way up here you know what I'm saying and that's what tighten it up and dips tighten it up also M I thought I was going to have to get that little fat removed it scared me but I noticed once I changed my diet and start working those areas I ain't got no problem That's what's up I'm together now now back to the Y
the Yon freestyle BG is on that record BG and six one of the first yeah BG and sex red but this was one of the first times we've heard of BG verse so was you and BG cool how did you and BG link for this this is the this is the first verse I heard I've been knowing him cuz he like a friend of the family like I got cousins that know him like Menace I got booy that's my brother he know him he grew up with them and I've Been knowing him for a couple
years maybe like 13 years we we ain't seen each other in about 13 years I probably knew him a couple years before that maybe like we met like 20078 or something but through Friends of the family we always just been kind of but the whole time he was in prison we always sent him pictures and looked out for him and things of that nature so his journey was our journey he was with us when we was in Germany he had the Pictures and everything like we walked him all the way down his whole big for
people that don't know what that mean walked him down his whole bid we J him we sent pictures to him you know we kept him he kept his spirits lifted so when he came home it was just only right it was only right like it was beautiful it was historic in nature to me a legend to me I love the way he sound cuz sometimes you know somebody will go get locked up and they come home after a while and They got that that old flow on them but he sounds I think he better than
he sounds he get up and work out every morning and everything he on his workout [ __ ] and go straight to the studio so I think this situation made him better than ever man you know you you talk on this album a lot about cleaning your sins what what does cleaning your sins look like um what kind of ss I don't know like some cuz some some some people say uh some some sins people will say Like uh that that they did something bad they need forgiveness for it some sins you got to forgive
yourself for so what are those sins you talking about because to me everything seems like a like you said a self-awareness journey of reflection you talking about when I say heal him cleanse um fether was floating on top of my head cleans my sins I think that's the all of my sins okay you know when I go up on the mountain and I ask God for forgiveness hey forgive me for The things that I I did unknowingly forgive me the things I did knowingly just forgive me mhm and then I forgive myself so I don't
keep looping in it what does that feel like do you feel it like do you feel something removed from you or yeah something come off your spirit you can feel it like you can sit right here and say on this whole Divine day I hereby release all the energy that no longer serve my higher self and you going to feel lifted because we impass We pick up on energy everywhere we go now some stuff a lot of people say that I did they look at it as s but I don't look at it as sins
I look at it that that needed to be done so them ain't the sins I'm talking about I need forgiveness for if I did that I meant that cuz some things you know it just had to go like that what you mean like discipline like violence yeah standing up for myself you know because the you know a lot of times people don't learn From just talking pain some sometimes has to be the greatest motivator from what I learned it's actually better when I don't feel like self-defense is a crime no not at all not at
all and it's actually better when you got a clear mind cuz you know you're not projecting your pain and hurt onto somebody so you know you only defending yourself I don't I don't operate like that but I'm big on respect like I'm super big I'm still big On respect cuz at the end of the day that's all I have mhm but I leave with my respect first but they got some people that and I tell my children this I love y'all I do and I'm a great father but some people did have to know me
as a monster M cuz that's the only way that they will stop I love uh bird Bird's calling too man when you say you a palosanto big torch lighter you say prayer is more important than exotic cars and to me was Was it intentional to put lyrics like that in a song called Birds calling cuz people will see the title and think something else yeah it it was intentional because like I said I got a new coffee brand called ritual it's out right now and it was beautiful because I went back to the Trap but
instead of flipping bricks it was keys of cof and that was the beautiful thing about it like some people say he's glorifying this glorifying that no I'm not I'm Turning a negative into a positive I just got the key to the city in Bon rou and I got the key to the city in New Orleans and I never thought that what I was doing was helping people like but what I'm doing like helping other people heal is really me helping myself heal MH you got two songs on the album with the healing title one is
called healing the other one is called mistakes Mak us great I'm proud of you I think doing amazing I every song I'm on there Talking to myself I every song like every song I'm talking to myself I I don't think you can heal anybody though K per I you think so you said you can heal a woman yes I think a person has to want to go get healing I heal [ __ ] yes Lord he you just touch him like how you start the car I I don't he he at what point you know
my touch is healing but you know I heal [ __ ] though you really think you can heal a woman I don't think I know no can you I think you can assist Them show them the direction [ __ ] going to be a new creature when she leave from around me well you can't start with calling her a [ __ ] who the person you healing no I'm that's only in private in public is baay and love and all of that but in private oh [ __ ] it's a term of endearment I see
[ __ ] you [ __ ] you so beautiful oh [ __ ] Lord yes Lord amen God thank you God bless the hand prepared this meal we about to say our Grace but you can't go around just Healing everybody you made me have a flashback no I don't healing everybody flash everybody don't deserve healing that's what I'm saying okay everybody don't deserve healing cuz they might be healed for a week then they'll just go back to that same that same behavior then I got to put them on Dick restriction on Dick restriction you had
to put girls on Dick restriction yes sir how long what's the longest you ever did I do I start with 90 days and you tell Them that you like yeah the first offense 90 days what's the off what's the offense what's the offense I don't know I just it depends on you know code of conduct is Big with me you know so what's the code of kind what what see there you go what do you have a problem with we trying to get some of this G every relationship is is different so what's what's part
of it ain't that but you know like I I believe that honesty is the best policy yeah like when I meet You I'm going tell you the truth I'm going tell you how I'm living this how I'm living now if you accept it or reject it this how I'm living have you ever had girls rejected like I I'm not doing no 90day dick restriction no they don't that 90 day don't go like that it just they just end up being he look hey you keep on I'm I'mma put you on Dick restriction yeah so you
still go out you just they get no dick no I'm just I'm Just you going you know like I say rejection is rejection is a beautiful thing I reward loyalty with loyalty I reward disloyalty with distance you know you you think about what you did you know what I'm saying if you not this not peaceful I'm not going to be nowhere that's not peaceful I'm not going to be nowhere that's going to lower my frequency that's just when I'm at with it like I ain't trying to be you know I ain't trying to make the
blogs for you Know talking like this but yeah this how I'm coming have you ever been on vagina restriction who me bye bye I can't I already I already had it like you don't know glitter and lightning both shoot out that [ __ ] with all due respect baby but what if you got in what if you make offence what if you do something she don't like like what I don't know you already knew what I was when you met me damn you already knew like with all due Respect like see I don't know why
I be meeting Killers that's scared to tell a woman the truth like when you tell a woman the truth you give her the option honesty is the best policy women have intuition and the reason I'm truthful with a woman because they're spiritual they are spiritual creatures they can transform liquid into something physical so they already know you full of [ __ ] that's real when they meet you you they already know like they know what's up With you like so babe where you been [ __ ] baby you going to help me wash these sins
off me you going to help me watch these s are you you want me to help you pack which one baby like what we going to do one of the two cuz you know either she going to leave or she going to stay so you going to help me wash these SS off you are you going to help me pack I mean they I already know like women already know what you've been doing like I don't know Why people think they don't women psychic mhm I'm not about to lie I'm God didn't bless me I
got too many blessings so do you ever see yourself with just one woman I'm with one woman right know what at the moment you know yeah when you talk about loyalty when somebody's disloyal to you how do you bring them back in your fold like trust once trust is violated that's a [ __ ] man it ain't it ain't going It ain't going to never never be the same no more I mean suspect evil or no one until see it once see it forget it not once an enemy could never be a friend and that's
just it's I had to I had to cut a lot of baggage I had to trim a lot of fat like that last the last time we was here I trimmed a lot of fat since then like with just the people around me I started throwing away all of the wrong relationships for all of the right reasons and sometime we be loyal To things that's not loyal to us but that's just when I'm with it right now were you a forgiving person were you somebody that yeah I forgive like I told y'all last time I
forgive I do but I ain't about to forget let's not be naive now buddy that's right let you just do it to me again like no that's not intelligent you told another great story on healing you told a story about a woman not getting wet for you no more you said mentally she moved on that was Some powerful [ __ ] women women can mentally check out M they can mentally move on and you know they they have vaginal dry vaginal dryness they arous the fluid not there no more because they just they mentally moved
on that can happen and what what are you doing a woman's in that situation you just let her go I mean the proof is in the pudding I mean you know what I'm saying yeah it's the proof is in the pudding now she Could have been dehydrated or something cuz she was on the plane but all that I ain't got time to be here all that mhm you know you checked out baby mentally checked out women mentally checked out and I had to ask my mother what that was she said baby she might have mentally
checked out damn that happens some sometimes yeah what if it is just a physical sometime sometime it happens because you not being a person that a person want you to Be you know I love you enough to let you go go find that person that you say that's better than me can't wait does that hurt everything hurt when you love somebody I love for real mhm but like now I can't wait to get my heart broke I just use it for motiv motivation [ __ ] turn me into a monster look at me that's the
fuel to to this m stag it on me do it some more come on let's go y'all ain't doing nothing but making me Better M every time I get mad I'm in the gym let's go that don't it don't bother me MH it used to people don't even make me mad no more I used to be like man this [ __ ] piss me to n you just I'm just disappointed I was when that I'm disappointed in you you know I really had a lot of respect for you there some people that'll never Rees me
if some people I never re respect cuz I ain't about to sit up here like I'm Perfect I done done bogus [ __ ] before I done done lame [ __ ] before everybody did I done done whole [ __ ] before I thought that because even though I said something and I said it in dude face I still did some ho [ __ ] yeah I said it in his face and we fought my grandfather put him to the side man that's some ho [ __ ] you did you did some whole [ __
] yeah you told a girl this and this and that and yeah then you said it again Cuz man speak twice you said it in dude face and y'all fought and all that that's cool yeah you was a man y'all fult but you did some whole [ __ ] boy don't do that no more mhm so I ain't about to sit up here and act like I came out to [ __ ] perfect you know what I'm saying I ain't come out to [ __ ] wearing a bandana and all that you know with with
a pistol in my hand you know what I'm saying these are learn behaviors you ever look at some of the Stuff that that people pick up that you've said or or that goes viral and be like they just misconstrued what I said no no I I don't really pay that no attention I used to like in 2021 I used to pay attention to Instagram but once I deactivated my page for that year and a half I engage with the world now cuz comparison is the killer of all joy because if I say something and they
might just take a little piece of it and it go viral but then when you go look at The real interview you going to be like he really made a lot of sense and that's why my mama said man I don't even tell nobody I know this going to sound weird no it don't sound weird this me I'm my authentic self people going to either accept you or they not and that's just when I met with it now what made you take the page away for that year and a half was it clear your mind
I was depressed it was causing depression cuz comparison is the killer of all joy I'm Comparing my life to other people highlight re and it was causing depression once I got off that and start engaging with the world I'm like man people love me people love me on the black top people love me people walk up to me and tell me man you changed my life they don't really say that on Instagram they say negative things all the time of course I mean I seen I seen a something the other day when I guess You
talking to finesse two times and people well he said this I'm like y'all must not know Kevin oh yeah I saw that said you put legs in there no I told him if have you ever seen any flaws he said no I said if you do will you please put my feet in the H meaning slam you if I do do something slam me like how like you no what no blow my brains out put my feet in the Jes kill you damn kill me if I do something wrong like I say like I said
on the Other thing hey find me them two [ __ ] find me that one that say his dick me and find me the other one that could say I told on them and sent them to jail you find me them two [ __ ] you can blow my mama brains out I ain't never heard those rumors keev by the way yeah when I heard that so I was like when the [ __ ] somebody said that no I I stand for something okay so that's why I said that you find me them two [
__ ] you can blow my brains off right here I stand for Something you know what I'm saying find me a [ __ ] that could say he stuck his dick in me and find me a [ __ ] that could say that I told on him and sent him to jail find me them two [ __ ] and you can blow my brains out right here and I mean that I stand for that you know because on the when you when you start when you start paying attention to the internet you can get lost
in it it's the black type that matter to me me that don't matter that's just talk that's Internet talk and some people live their life based on social media but if you really get out in the real world and engage with the world the world operates 100% different than that [ __ ] and I think sometimes people like you and finesse y'all forget y'all know each other's lingo so y'all having a conversation be hon I could be honest with you you never heard me address that right cuz I really don't care what nobody think about
what he mean by put Your feet in there hey try me I'll show you I'll show you what I mean hey demonstration is way better than verbal so like I'll show you now that's that's it that's all like I ain't about to address that because that's my brother he know what I meant and and he know what I meant and I know what he meant so I don't see no big deal hey keep me viral [ __ ] it I'll be out this Friday coming out The ceremony is it is it true Kevin Durant gave
you some advice that got you in shape man Kevin Durant that's my dog and dear de rozan and lethal shooter I ain't know so much psychology when in the basketball I started um practicing with Le the shooter and I'm thinking I'm just going to shoot the basketball learn how to shoot the ball man this dude assist me like like in Psychology you do the individualistic Approach and he did did that by just based off how I shoot you anxious you focus on the last you focus on your past wow I'm like damn wow don't worry
about the past don't worry about the one you miss focus on the focus on the present stay in the present stay in the moment wow and I'm like damn he picked me the pieces and it was humbling it was beautiful like and then like with dear D rozan he showed me some [ __ ] Kevin Durant showed me some [ __ ] like it's More like playing chess than anything and I was like wow So when you say fit you meant mentally fit more than anything yeah fit ability to take effective form that's what fit
mean now I love letter to my fans too oh my God and you talk about a a suicide attempt on that record yeah that's I made that song a long long time ago wow a long time ago and I was saying that's that's when I was going through the acting like everything was Okay on Instagram I was acting I was pretending I'm happy it's okay to be angry sometime it's okay to be disappointed it's okay to be upset but emotionally and intelligently how do we Channel these feelings and these emotions I ask myself why am
I feeling this way but that's crazy that that I put that song on on there I forgot that I put that song on there but I owed it to my fans because I was pretending with them and they knew Is it triggering to hear that song now for you no not at all it's it's beautiful because that's that's why I was there at one time mhm and and I always ask how did you get out of that funk cuz there's a lot of people that listen that are in that funk and don't know how to
get out especially this kill yourself kill you want me to be honest absolutely God I was there God like when I was supposed to kill myself God intervene cuz I ain't tell nobody I Don't do the hey I'm about to no I feel like that's horse playing I feel like you supposed to walk in here and find me smashed in here I smoosh myself that's now that's not horse planing he's serious like man I love y'all I'm tired all that that's horse plan you alluding to what you about to do now you got to find
me and here stretched out that's the type person I am I feel like if you talking about it you're not serious but um it was God what was the Intervention if you don't mind us asking it's so crazy I had talked about it last time I was up here oh you did yeah you right I talked about it but I'll say it again for anybody that's listening right now I had got to a point in my life to where I was like I don't think I'm really beneficial to nobody no more you know I don't
I feel like I'm just a problem there always something I could do better look I'm going just go on get out the way and Y'all just live off the money of this [ __ ] everybody goingon to be straight anyway without me it's cool so the day that I was going I was at the gym I had worked out real real good put all my jewelry on I'm like yeah we about to you know I'm looking at myself in the mirror like hey hey don't chicken hey don't [ __ ] out now cuz you know
I talk to myself m I said don't [ __ ] out [ __ ] you hey you know what time it is so I'm leaving out the gym a white dude he just Text me not too long ago I'm leaving out the gym and he said excuse me can I approach you I said yeah he said I notice I noticed you um you deactivated your Instagram and on Twitter you put this you know to my friends and my family forgetting out my teachings you know I love you all it's over with like like what that
mean I was like I don't know what it mean so then he went on to tell Me um your music is the only thing that makes this crazy world make sense I'm laughing cuz I know I'm about to do something gangster you know how you be joking when you about to do something ganger but you really be knowing you really I'm like yeah you know the world a you know the world's a cruel place you know the world could be a cruel place you know trust me I know I'm telling him like that just kind
of joking he was like yeah like your music kept me from Killing myself I said yeah I said I'm a tell you you're the only person I'm letting know this I said I'm about to go stretch myself right now I'm about to go push my [ __ ] out he crying telling me don't do this because if you do this a lot of people going to go behind you that's right and I was like you know what I haven't told anybody I guess I'll stick around for a little while I walked outside and told God
I guess that's a sign I'mma give it three days and then Them three days that's when life started changing for me cuz I was off Instagram I was engaging with the world I got to see that I was really loved I really meant something world you only give yourself three days you give girls 90 no no that's restriction restri yeah okay that's 90day dick restriction okay okay yeah so what makes you want to go back on this on this crazy thing we call social media now cuz you know social media to be honest I really
don't I Really don't work my page I just oversee it like I don't work it like I approve like the pictures sometime it'll be me when when the caption be real heartfelt you could tell is me other times it's just something that I approved because I got to maintain my sanity I can't get lost in that social media [ __ ] right you you said something else on letter to my fans that I thought was interesting uh you said you apologize to your fans is that the reason you apologize because of What that guy told
you that if you do it then influence a bunch of people to do it I apologize to my fans cuz a motivational speaker that's giving great advice that I wish that I could give myself I got all this positive [ __ ] to say but I ain't feeling positive when I'm talking that [ __ ] that [ __ ] [ __ ] just sound good as a [ __ ] everybody want to hear that I'm keeping it positive but I'm not happy that's how I was feeling at that time I'm like yeah You know just
positive just stay positive I was faking it till I made it but I really wasn't making it cuz I never addressed a real issue internally I still had hard with all kind of resentment and everything from past traumatic experiences and now and now that you've done that that's how you know you're of true service you got to go back and face it that's right that was the hard going back and face your past you got to Face it mhm you got to face it you got to sit with it and when you sit with it
it's going to be very very painful like anybody listening right now it's going to be painful to go address these issues because there a lot of stuff that we keep like we we we we we suppress things and and like you could suppress things for so long till one little thing could cause you to explode or implode it's a trigger so I had to go back and face a lot of these things You know sometime I some things I had to forgive myself for and move forward you know that's why I say in that song
mistakes make us great I'm proud of you I think you're doing amazing mhm how often you tell yourself that every day every day every day step inside this V vocab boo releasing all my pain things I deal with on the day driving noral person that's same I could relate G my love and then exchange got [ __ ] on it happens on a daily any progression is a Test into your elevation mistakes make us great I'm proud of you I think you doing amazing we healing now that's right I think you doing amazing that's right
now you said you you see yourself in kwn rock when people are laughing and joking her you see the fact that she's so loyal I saw myself in her at that time she was you actually said she's so loyal she's stupid that's what you said I could see the pain like I could see her pain and one thing about me somebody That's really that really has hurt before that mhm I know pain when I see it and a lot of the stuff that people do they really be hurting on the inside they really be crying
for help and my heart went out to her cuz I saw her hurting on the inside I saw that and I ain't I ain't like to see that not not whatever they got going on that ain't my business I give a [ __ ] less I'm just talking about her like when I look in her soul I see a lot of myself like with The pain and you never know what pain to make you do you ever look at an artist that you can see going through the pain that you went to as a new
artist say I'm going reach out to them and talk to them because they didn't have that OG they didn't have somebody to talk to them no they could listen to Kevin Gay's music and get some advice from there I ain't got time I'm raising children I'm raising men right now I got my own children to worry about I ain't got time To be I hate to say it like this I have to put my oxygen mask on first if the plane is crashing then Aid and assist others so right now my healing Journey was so
that I could be a better service to my children and better service to the world me going single out and talk to this one individual person he got needs that I can't cater to cuz I ain't got the time he going to want more than just some words of encouragement he going to want to come spend a day as soon as you Tell him no it's like you never told him yeah especially if he ain't never had no Daddy M so if he if he grew up just dealing with just a single parent household and
he ain't had his daddy how Tupac say when things the same drama when things go wrong we blame mama mhm you don't know how to deal with situations all you did is watch a woman just but see when a man raage go in there and make your bed up take the trash out you brush your teeth calm your Head wash your face yes sir all right come on let's go I'm proud of you now you know if now you know if you don't do these things you got to take your lick M what you mean
take my lick you got to take your lick you can't play the game and that's teaching accountability self accountability and then a child be like okay yeah I got to take my lick if if I do something I ain't post to do I got to take my lick we not we not making excuses for why you did what you did now You got to take your lick homie when you're a man stand for what you believe in when you stand for what you believe in you accept what come behind it you know I I talked
to my son he he ain't nothing but nine but I talk to him like he grown that's you sure because either you learn fast or you die young if I don't if I don't give him structure the police going to kill him they going to kill him they going to push his [ __ ] out cuz his code of Conduct going to be off he ain't going to be conducting himself like a man he going to be you know but you know yes sir no sir you know men gree men protect children speaking of that
protect children another very powerful record what are some things you learned late that you want to teach your kids early um I hope it's not triggering but I really don't care if it is cuz we all D been through this that was about sexual Victim ization protect children I treat your children like my children like my birth children when we was little they used to say we was the worst children we all been through things that ain't our fault you got to work with them protect children you not supposed to hurt children and with that
is I gave my children a a place a safe space I created a safe space for them to communicate with me don't nobody never Touch you there not even me that's right not even your daddy not even your mama nobody you know and they they have a safe space to communicate can't nobody get you nowhere and tell you if if you tell your momma I'mma hurt you I'mma hurt you hey y'all done seen what's up with y'all daddy y'all know what come behind y'all so I have created a safe environment for y'all to communicate with
me and I ask my and my daughter tell you right now I tell my daddy Everything cuz I'm not here to judge you we all make mistakes we going to talk about what you did mhm I'm just disappointed a little bit but don't worry about that I'm not here to judge you I'm not here to beat you up for what you did or what happened to you just let me know I don't care if you had a wreck and you accidentally kill somebody hey just stay hey just stay there stay there I'm on the way
M MH now heyy you getting this car and go put the body in the Trone come on let's go always tell me the truth I die for you and I die to protect you that's great advice what you tell your kids too cuz you as somebody who's been molested right when I was eight saying that's exactly what they tell you the person that's doing it will tell you that like don't tell your mama don't tell it's always somebody close it's always somebody in the family always absolutely it's always somebody close it ain't Never no outside
person broke in the house and did this and so when that happened it's somebody that you trusted as a child I trusted you and then they speared me into all these different type of martial arts and all this cuz I had a fear of being vulnerable this led us to being violent we a't want to be violent you know what I'm saying we was good children but that's you know that's just the out that's that's like the uh side effects That come with that that's right it's like when I see children or women like I
just and then come to find out I ain't even going to say but when I talk to somebody else I like man you suppos to protect us it happened to them too you know what I'm saying so it's like it made me like overprotective of women and children I had to realize protecting them is creating that space for them to communicate with you mhm to know what's right from wrong and communicating with Them see we trying to sweep that [ __ ] under the r no we got to communicate with our children that's right well
the album is out hold on I got a few more questions ask me anything that's crazy I never thought I'd speak on it well I spoke about it on the Mike Tyson interview y you know what I'm saying and then shout out to Mike Tyson I love that brother we was talking about what made us become so violent and I shared my story with him Then he shared a story with me he was like this would turn me into a monster mhm and I was like I saw myself in him MH at that moment I
was like I love that man mhm I always was a big fan I always loved him but at that moment I was like yeah I love this man what's your relationship with Jim Jones I see you and Jim Jones talks the story when he was on drink champs about how how you had a a good relationship early on I always had a uh good relationship with Jim Jones he was fly you know what I'm saying and I hate to say this like I'm not trying to be racist but I mean this with all due disrespect
it's hard for a bright [ __ ] you got to be extra gangster when you bright you know when you bright you know you be like how you know how to fight so good Kevin cuz I got beat up a lot that's why they always pick the bright [ __ ] they don't never pick they don't never pick he this D he ain't did Nothing gangster he just ugly he just ugly why are we ugly cuz we dark skinned keep talking I ain't talking about you you a chocolate [ __ ] man I'm talking about
a ugly [ __ ] he ugly [ __ ] too but go ahead he fixed he fixed his face he with a yellow he would a yellow [ __ ] going to like yellow [ __ ] like chocolate [ __ ] they don't like bright [ __ ] yeah they feel like like we but then it's you ain't bright as him though he bright you ain't bright to me keev I'm I'm really a niggga though you know what I'm saying I come up in you know what I'm saying I've been I've been battle tested you
know I'm I'm approved you know what I'm saying you know so but um just coming up as a child you know being bright with curly hair you know what I'm saying you know I I saw Jim John like man this [ __ ] fly he gangster and he bright I say that's raw you know I identify with that M cuz it cuz it I saw Myself in him and that's why I always been a fan of Jim Jones we still my partner to this day he talks about a story he said you refused to sign
with uh cash money to Y y'all met till you met with him I guess shout out to Jim Jones um I was up here in New York I don't know if that's how I don't you know there was a third party um EI and Fe I told fee I said man I want to meet Jim Jones and fee talked To EI and EI put a together now I don't know what they told him in the process but I end up meeting Jim Jones and we developed a great relationship and we have a great report to
this day like like that's my brother I love him like whenever he in the city he just he holl hey where you at and he everywhere you know what I'm saying he never changed he always been the same way always the same how do I get a pair of God slippers man you know how that Happened somebody ask me to play cards I'm like I would but I don't like they was gambling I'm like I would but I ain't got no hands but then they saw me eating and they was like I thought you said
you a have no hands they not mine they for God so when I said God slipers everything I got on I just borrowed it from God all I have is the little that God blessed me with I borrowed a pair of God slippers I walked on water in front of you [ __ ] what I mean is I walked Over all kind of obstacles cuz I brought a pair of God slippers and I made this [ __ ] look fly while I was doing it at burity to beill his character if it ain't rough it
ain't us I bought a pair of God slippers started a battery got back in charge did it again oh you know they don't believe that you they don't believe you started a car with your hands you got to show somebody one day tell you something yeah I can Give a [ __ ] less what they believe hey hey thank you for paying homage to the uh holy grounds of Walmart too man oh my god when you from the south man I ain't tell you about that no I was in I was on color code okay
I was hustling at the time this is when I was living IL legitimately I was hustling at the time but color Cod is you got to call in and if your color come up you got to go piss so I was in there buying the gloves cuz I was doing my thing with The gloves so it wouldn't get in my system that's the myth that I heard that you don't get in your system if you wear the gloves and you know I end up meeting me a little one up in Walmart you know what I'm
saying we was at waa house you know what I'm saying and she ate me up in the Honda you know how that go [ __ ] and so you've been loving Walmart ever since I love Walmart anyway yeah yeah I love what they got everything you need that's right you Know I that's one of the DVDs you remember they used to had a three pack of DVDs a six pack of DVDs I had the little DVD player when I used to be in the Trap I shoot over there and grab me a couple little DVDs
I have my junkers go get it but it's something about going in there yourself late night too in the morning that when they used to stay over 24 hours that's right especially if you grew up in the country cuz you grew up in the country probably wasn't nothing Else going on Walmart is the mall that's the mall that's right yeah I met a win you know I met a winner in there with the lit Chinese slippers on you know they be in there you know what I'm you know they got the little steppers walking around
in there but stop playing and you said you got the almighty on speed di you say the only way to kill a God is when Allah calls them that's it when like my body is my temple now great responsibility come with looking at your Body like your temple like that's really what made me stop drinking alcohol like at my listening part I had a glass of uh apple juice and then I told the bought a said make me sub fru and make it look like I drink but make it just taste good and fruity booty
make me a little fruity booty right for she's like oh my God I love you accent I said yeah but don't put no alcohol in it you know but put me a little flour on there you know make it look good so I had that and then I had Two um champagne glasses of apple juice and I was just walking around feeling good like everybody else was feeling good but you know when you say your body is your temple it come with a great responsibility MH like sometime when I need Clarity I got a fast
and clean my temple out so the spirit of the most high can abide in my temple guard by the covered by the highest they guns hold no power to this Holy Temple but how you kill a god when Allah La called them the Only time he go when Allah called him that's it Almighty on the speed di he on the speed di I can talk to God before I could call my phone I could talk to God before I can call you with my phone you on speed dog I'm always talking to God before I
drunk the coffee I prayed over it I don't know what they did to the car before they brought it to me everything with me is a faith move I don't have I don't not have security cuz I'm a tough guy I don't Have security because I walk by faith and not by sight I pray all the time that's all I got that's all I got is prayer if not I'll be doing a life sentence or dead I know this this is a blessing for me to be sitting right here right now I cuz I'm not
supposed to be here big brother and I mean that with all due respect I'm not supposed to be here right now no you're supposed to be here cuz God want you here right but like he And he got you here to help other brothers here without that you know that's right this is God this ain't me n you are here to help other brothers heal man and I think the ceremony is going to do a a phenomenal job of that you know something you remember when I used to you know any time I used to
drop an album I used to say things like if you want to go get it get it if you don't want it don't want that was like the fear of what if it's not good enough mhm This [ __ ] good enough go get it no ABS absolutely like if you ready to just really just take self accountability and heal this the one but what do you want to hear let's play a joint off the album now which one oh my God my favorite yeah I can't pick a favorite I like it dep what move
just tell me what move we in what move we in right now let's play healing man I like healing I love healing but I also love That um that t pay remix that I did shorty shorty you know like you might say this that even though I'm not your man you're not my girl I'mma call you my little sh she my let's play both of them see like in Louisiana you might be like yeah this my I like the young freestyle too though that turned up that turned up you know I'm a DJ oh my
god let's play both of them we play Lou and we play healing y just Going to forget my young freestyle the mix play the mix I the mix Man play whatever y'all want you got send me the clean version Sam Crow send me the clean man Kevin Gates the ceremony is out uh this Friday go pick it up man tell us what the title mean I don't think you ever told us what the title ceremony yeah it's a ceremony that I was having with myself I learn to love again the stranger that was once myself
that was the ceremony to reuniting with my Authentic self MH it been a long journey I'm talking about from the I I even told my elders I never cut my hair and this and this and that but it came a time when it's time to go back to original form I was like but I just earned a new I just earned a spoted eagle feather I said Kevin you don't wear the feathers in your hair you wear the feathers in your heart for what it stand for you wear it in your heart and I was
like you right I cried when I cut my hair cuz I Had a lot of trauma and a lot of the things that I went through was all of that my journey was in my hair MH and I cried and it was beautiful cuz it was releasing M and I just feel so much lighter on and the and and it's crazy the girl that dup that braid my hair she said I think you should cut it I think once you cut it it's going to take you to a whole another level I said you willing
to sacrifice getting paid to see me go to a whole another level she was Like yeah I said because you committed this selfless act um forever you will be blessed wow wow there you have it Kevin Cy out Friday man Kevin appreciate you brother I love when healing especially from black men has a soundtrack we need more of those man so thank you for making one thank you for having me that's right it's Kevin Gates it's The Breakfast Club good morning wake that ass up in the morning The Breakfast Club
