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I'm gonna be honest with you fast and

it's the cure for everything

when your body don't have nothing to eat

it's going to eat all your bad sales up

because they go in the fight or flight

and when they eat your bad cells your

body release hydrogen and you know we

breathe in oxygen sure so I'd be

wondering like that I don't want all day

without eating and drinking but I'm

still pissing like why am I pissing yeah

create our own water that's right it's

one of the fastest the sun's up to them

is that that's what most people do from

sun up to sun down but I like to do it

to where when I break my fast it's just

with liquids I like that liquid diet

what's the longest you fast for

like no food just water like liquid yep

like four to two days I did about three

of them we had to fight to get a meal

yeah wrongfully accused we had to fight

to get the pills that's why we right to

get a deal here on the team he gotta eat

you know the skills keep it riding for

the fam you got a life that we're

getting real straight up but in the past

bad work up in the trash bag I'll pass a

lot to take the test before I pass class

yeah and my family needed bread I had to

come correct that's why I keep airing it

foreign [Music]

you want two grapes I'm gonna get the

peach they got a grapefruit right

and these help you burn fat too and it's

essential energy so essentially it's

it's good for you in a preservative

Center really they got anything it won't

they got an orange pomegranate too girl yeah

there's two more these two more games

that's a double dribble

it's a double dribble this game and then

we on okay

good all right y'all on that okay

this is one of those shows bro that you

know I really been waiting on

um it's an important one for me

and I I Just Want to Jump Right In

first thank you

for blessing us no thank you for having

me for sure so Kevin Gates

you know I love it you know I love to

get serious I love to get messy I love

to get serious this one's going to be

probably a little bit of both we can go

wherever yeah the first question I got

for you it ain't no it ain't no statue

of limitation with me right right and

that's what that's why I love you the

you see what I'm saying you see what I'm

saying like we could talk about this

who's Kevin Gates

is poetry in motion is constantly

evolving and the things that I'm

revealing right now

I could say I've kind of been afraid to

reveal these things that I'm revealing

right now

like such as me being a world-class chef

I remember the police officer

but I'll do respect oh that I just

wanted to kind of cut through um cut

through the seriousness Detention of it

and just make everybody feel good and relaxed

relaxed

um but back to me being a I hate to hate

to sound like a narcissist

but um I'm a half man half amazing it

hasn't been anything that

that I haven't been able to conquer

So lately I'm working and combating

depression combating suicidal attempts

people that want to commit suicide um

combating bullying

uh I'm a designer I'm a lifestyle

curator like what me and you talked

about because you know anybody that's in

the room with me eventually they got to

get in tune with me because I don't do drugs

drugs

you know everything I do is in the

health and wellness Spectrum so it's like

I'm just big on that like emotional

intelligence being addicted to

self-improvement like that's my thing

not like learning how to surrender

I know I'm so great but at the same time

I'm only like a little piece on the

board taking myself out of the equation

and looking at how we affect each other

as a whole because when I say I'm great

we great

in order for me to see greatness in

somebody else I got to see greatness in

myself right you know and I do want to

say another thing like I know we on

camera and stuff but it's a blessing to

sit across from you I love you yeah I

love you too I hate to say that like

like this this dude really I hate to

celebrate people this is really my

brother like

like even that Super Bowl he just jumped

in the car with me I kidnapped you

we were we've been eight and everything

and then whenever we talk it's always

something that's like

it helped me become better like he

opened his facility there for me at two

three in the morning whatever time I

call because this therapy for me I think

that's a good thing man like your

philosophy on love like how do you

easily fall in love like and you know

you you just Express how you love your

brother like what is that I believe in

love at first sight it's energy with me

I believe in love at first sight it's

energy and

I operate out of the spirit of love not

everything I do out of love even if you

play I'm gonna just love you to death

but it's all love with me so even if

somebody energy on you know they they

ain't right you still coming from their

git like you loving that person yeah

you're gonna love them harder yeah

because it's never no negative thing as

far as like you had to give me an

illustration or example like

that's the

problems you you still got that same

love for him yeah I love you but I still

live under a code of conduct I'm even

but it's gonna disallow me to [ __ ] with

this person

you know I look at it before that from

the get like without you even knowing

the person you know what I'm saying like

if I encounter with you and I feel like

your vibes your energy might be off for

a little bit like what's your

perspective on that

surrender I don't jump the gun no more I

used to jump the gun because you know in

the streets it's like

you under this mindset well I don't do

no talking I mean as soon as he flinched

how did quote go

he who hesitates in war he who hesitates

is lost right it's a poem I don't know

we got all the best quotes

I love the first sight but but I like

divorced twice just so you know no it's

not you live with your heart it was a

journey yeah

they still look great they still look

great you got to catch it

gotta let them land though you miss you

missed certain things about that person

you don't miss that person

why are you not with him

he said he lived with his heart first

yeah you said love at first sight I

thought I seen him like damn I love her

and then I didn't do that before so

that's that's normal and then people be

like that's less how because I didn't

even it wasn't nothing sexual it was the

energy right I fell in love with

the first sight sorry to interrupt you

know you're in therapy right now okay

now I said I said he can therapy

this is who I talked to he got his

master's degree when he had a little vacation

vacation

this is who I talked to though so we all

help each other he got powers though

right and I can't wait to ask you

because I I seen like an interview you

did and dog I never met somebody that

started a car with their hand tell me

how you I'm gonna be honest with you and

not to get off subject a lot of people

are not ready for that that um that

subject matter so I really stay away

from it and I really spoke on that

prematurely which a lot of people

starting to wake up and understand that

we are powerful people but I stay away

from that conversation because it was so

much negativity and just the disbelief

of it because people are natural

Skeptics right I'm one of those I got to

see it to believe it type people okay so

I gotta see it to believe it it's a positive

positive

yeah I know I know it was from a

positive angle but I just want to stay

away from there okay the many Skeptics

that may be watching okay but I will had

a conversation with you in private

perfect because I'm talking about like

even with me and you it was love at

first sight like your energy yeah yeah

it was like you you in tune I like you

know I hate to say I hate to say it like

that but because you uh like when we was

talking about our first question for you

I'm like listen this dude can you can go

in any different direction you know what

I'm saying because like it's one time he

was way bigger than that from the health

standpoint from the religion you know me

from the mental health like it's so many

different ways so we was like damn who

is Kevin Gates so that's why I like when

I ask you a question even about you know

touching the the you know starting a car

and all that you ever been at that you

ever been at your house I'll say this

you ever been at your house or something

and been moving around with clothing and

test somebody like you shocked me yeah

yeah for sure that was the transference of

what electricity right right

makes sense though that makes sense you

know it's interesting because some

people our bodies are electric

the monks say that though bro I'm being

serious the monks say that how they

could transfer different Energies

through your Chi it's in your stomach

through your stomach we believe that our

stomach is our first brain it's the CPU

it's the central processing unit it's

what sins everything everywhere a lot of

our emotions all dictated by what we put

in our stomach right you know it's some

foods you can eat hey you sluggish it's

some foods you can eat before a workout

and you you right yourself energy yeah

so you know our buyers are electric you you

you

all right this is a terrible question

because I already know the answer

I won't even ask it you know your power

asking from the perspective of others

that may not all right do you know do

you know the power that you possess like

you walked in today right and

and you know we got a whole team here

and I'm gonna call him out our

videographer Keon

I'm like yo like get that shot at Gates

on the piano right and he's like man

that energy thick right now that's what

he said he's like yo but I know you

though I know you I I told them too I

said yo I'm sending them clips for the

past couple weeks like yo this is a

serious conversation you feel me so I

already know you that's why I was like

yo bro can you do this [Laughter]

[Laughter]

question is

do you know the power that you possess

when you walk in the room yes sir but

it's not from the standpoint of I'm high

and mighty you know as you know I hunt

I hunt so it's a different type of

energy when you hunt

my I guess my uh my grid is a lot larger

than other people's grid because I got

to be sensitive to any small fluctuation

in the energy in the room and I'm not

here to

to overcome the energy I'm over here to

just sit with it surrender and feel it

and want to start surrender and I feel

it I know where to go I know which way

to navigate I let the energy guide me

they say when you uh when you when you

sit down a little bit so I brought it up

2008 31 months right like you learn a

lot and and I don't know if it's true or

not but they say you got your master's

degree in psychologist is that true yes

sir okay that's true

um only to learn one thing what's that I

we was already Masters

in psychology

we was already in Massachusetts coming

from the street because we already dealt

with so many personalities we just

didn't put a

a big we didn't put up we didn't put a

big label on it

you know it's a great area it is no

black and white every day when I meet

somebody I'm doing the individualistic

approach every day

we was already there

we did that we just we got we got the

lettering and the documentation that

just confirmed that we was already great

I need nobody to tell me this we already

do this through life's experiences

that's why I kind of like it wasn't a

waste of time it just was confirmation

into who I am yeah that's and that was

gonna be my next question you know did that

that

vacation make you better yes sir you

know what I'm saying the best thing that

ever happened to me

this is and this was in 2008 2008 so

correct if he came in you came in when I

came in so 2006 every time I went to

prison was the best time it was the best

thing because I always got greater

through my isolation I learned it

through isolation you you elevate when

you isolate you elevate

because you had one with yourself you in

tune with yourself you seeing yourself

in a way like outside you you yeah I

think you're not being overly stimulated

with social media you're not none of

that you just really just with yourself

and that Oneness

you become god-like in a sense

I feel like I'm floating like when you

listen to you speak I feel like I'm like

I'm free not in my chair like it's hard because

you are because a lot of these

conversations are refreshing because you

know when we talk with other people it's

about what song and right right what

[ __ ] and make this [ __ ] bad and you

know we compare the notes so you know we

have dick measurement contests in that

version you know we don't know that we

doing it but that's what we do because

everything be competition and ego and

it's refreshing when you find somebody

that say you know hey you great

and in order for me to see greatness in

myself I got to be able to see it in

others it's a beautiful thing like if

the energy aligned like we in alignment

right now so this is Holy

like you don't got to go to church this

is sacred this is a sacred moment for us

that's why we our vibrations is Raising

I haven't eaten or drinking anything today

today

at all Ramadan all right I got a lot of

Muslim homeboys yeah hey real quick I

got a I got a funny one to ask you

you love to talk about how you you get

up in them guts and they feel in their

stomach right now real quick I gotta get there

Kevin Gates clip like yeah what's up

like you know what that mean because you

hear the lyrics you know I'm about to

come over there but that's the other

that's other part my question is I got

drafted to the Eagles in 2009 right

that's what me and DeSean Jackson met

and it was this

look at the time at the time oh girl

name was um Corinne Stephens I won't

even say her nickname you know what I'm

talking about super super right so I got

a lot of you know I got a lot of female

homegirls and they hear what you saying

and your music and there's no shade to

you got to use your hands though oh she

use her hands I don't know if you've

seen the videos with all due respect

there's no shade they got some monsters

out here that ain't never writing no

book but but I'm talking about I'm

talking the part of when you like we

were so hyped when we heard about her so

then I was trying to get in contact with

her do girls be trying to reach out to

you they hear you you doing this you

doing that like I need to get this [ __ ]

number like I'm the yeah man they're

trying to be honest with you when I'm at

on my journey right now

I know it's gonna sound weird it's gonna

sound crazy

I really

I don't look you sex as people view six

I don't I don't even really like talking

about it in a sense because it's not

physical for me it's spiritual for me

it's a connection okay you know I pray

before I have six that's real and when I

I noticed what made me kind of shy away

from talking about it is because when I

talk to women it seemed like they was

chasing at The Fetish or

they was seeking arousal or things of

that nature and really wanted clout from

those type of situations and

conversations but they don't understand

like when you were God this is spiritual

unification there's not no just you know

in and out to put you know I'm beating

up you know I'm beating up back in this

ain't just that

you know now we get excited sometimes

you know what I'm saying if a Woman

away from those type of conversations

because it's like like six is sacred to

me it's spiritual unification like I

like come on like what man you meet that

don't release right what man have you

met that don't release

they say you know my life force is so

important to me that I don't release so

it's like whenever I will have a

conversation with a woman about that

it's like she oh you know you you get

you you seek an arousal are you seeking

something that's gonna make a wow factor

from this but this is my life and it's

not because I feel like I'm better than

nobody I know the power that they give

me like when you meet me and you can see

I meet men that that release every day

all day and they drained their brain

don't have the cognitive the cognitive

function that my brain has they it's

just they're not as strong

I'm talking about emotionally the

emotions being total disarray because

you didn't spread your energy spread

yourself too thin with all these

different women you know and I would

seeming contains consciousness

so you place your Consciousness everywhere

everywhere

do you ever release you just never

release you just if if I need to release

your body gonna do it automatically your

body's just gonna release that ain't

like teasing us like oh you probably so

mentally no show me teasing what you do

is what you do is it's called sexual

transmutation like when I wake up with

they got something called morning wood

yeah yeah I don't just grab a sock and

shoot it in a site I take that energy

from there and jump straight out the bed

and put it into my workout I put it into

my music or put it into something that's

gonna make me greater

like sex transmutation you translate

that sexual energy into your crowd

I was I was just going to say like a lot

more like a lot of people that get

injured like when you play sports like a

lot of people that get injured and stuff

like that like I noticed since I've been

well he got me doing Pilates but I

noticed since I had been like on my yoga

journey I had no injuries and I noticed

that flexibility type yeah and I noticed

that since I haven't been releasing my

recovery is like hey

ASAP is it almost makes you God's like

so you we we're in Ramadan now right and

we're talking about sex as well

one of the things I think about as a man

I think about discipline I feel like for

us to reach our full potential as men we

got to be disciplined and I look at a

couple areas in my life and I could miss

sexually if you can't if you can't be in control

control

then you can you're not in control right

like can't you say no can you walk away

do you have boundaries around what

you're doing

training is another one how you take

care of your body like I feel like

you have to have a routine a discipline

around how you take care of yourself and

as athletes a lot of this is already

built in that routine that structure you

know but we're not thinking about sex

and then also food food's a big one do

and a lot of us don't even think about

that like can you walk away and I

brought a ram gun because you know you

go through this experience

and you got to have that discipline and

and when you do that it's like when you

talk about evolving you talk about

learning and experience and different

things the world just opened up I went

the longest for me I went seven months

celibate last year yeah

yeah

and I felt powerful

you know what I'm saying yeah

and they laughing at me I share this

with my team uh a couple weeks ago no

it's another experience but like I'm

and look bro what I'm telling you when

you was doing that when we was

communicating you could see it all in

your skin your glow was there and that's what

what

uh the woman's ovaries are attracted to

like that you could walk in the room and

your aura is so strong it's called

magnetism I use that to magnetize the

things that I want into my life such as

the accomplishments and goals when I

walk in a room of course a woman gonna

say yeah I ain't really feeling him like

that you just saying that because the

dawn wasn't on location but when I'm on

location you're gonna lose your mind

because your body you having a chemical

reaction to my oral you can't help

yourself when you're in the presence of

greatness let me ask y'all this question

because you talked about uh sex being

spiritual for you yeah she know exactly

what I'm going through I know exactly

where I'm going because like I

experienced something so look DJ did you

pray no I ain't praying that's interesting

interesting

it's the affirmation though you gonna

pray but who you praying over though like

I feel like the woman the woman that I'm

energetically about to align with

we should want to make these

affirmations before we enter this she

will be in tune with me she gonna love

it she gonna say you know I never met no

man to do this I never met no man that

do this I never met no man that told me

hey look soon as we finish hey make sure

you go urinate

so I could clean out my I could clean

out my urethra you could clean up you

know you is this is how we flush

ourselves you never meant no man I never

met no man that was as clean as you

you know like that's like if I have sex

with a woman and we might not come I

might not give her no STD but I go have

a have sex with another woman you know

just the energy could offset her pH

levels that's real just the energy from it

because a woman's body is very very

sensitive to energy such as men too but

we like the downplayed like if I get

super angry your body release a chemical

called cortisol and it could give you a

urinary tract infection which most men

don't know that your body release a

chemical cortisol when you super mad

and then there you go when you pit man

you got me and get you you got yourself

so you don't have a random sex then it

sound like you you can't have that I

will if the energy in alignment but the

energy ain't been in alignment because I

could be somewhere and see a woman that

drink alcohol and I'm like

where you get that mentality from like

growing up who do you like get your

credit to like as far as you raised you

like because your Mentor is different my

grandfather big Sam I live life at an

accelerated pace and I did have positive

male reinforcement in my life even

though a lot of the males in my life

made a lot of the wrong decisions but

the intentions was pure

because that's all they knew they ain't

had no choice but that and like I say

big brother don't get it twisted I'm not

perfect I make mistakes every day I

break down I get angry I do all of that

everybody do that but I have ways of

dealing with it and my way is like

Fitness a lot of stuff you talking about

it reminds me of somebody had a closer

relationship that lost their life Nipsey hustle

hustle

um like what was your relationship with

like with Nipsey if you have one and

just give us a story about him because

you know I don't like to talk about this

either but but I did see him a couple

days before he died and we had a real

deep conversation I told him so he had

just broke his face and I it's crazy

that when I be the two times that I had

been around him like he was fast and at

the same time I was fasting all right

that was weird for me um

but him and my him and my I got family

out here in California and he real close

with my family but other than that I

don't really like to get into that

conversation because like you got so

many Skeptics out there but a few days I

told him I said look I'm about to go to

Dubai when I was in Dubai that's when I

got the phone call from Jay Rock he was

like man my brother I ain't even you know

know

because I love Jay Rock without my heart

yeah I could see what to this day it

changed because he even more

overprotected with me now for sure 100

more like the health so I like the

doctor said be like in the evening you

know what I'm saying like you're regimen

on the health and like what the [ __ ] you

eat affects you and you can see it in

your face like more on that type of

level like if you don't mind like I'm

gonna be honest with you fast and it's

the cure for everything

when your body don't have nothing to eat

it's gonna eat all your bad sales up

because it go into fight or flight and

when they eat your bad cells your body

release hydrogen and you know we breathe

in oxygen sure so I'll be wondering like

damn I don't want all day without eating

and drinking but I'm still pissing like

why am I pissing yeah we create our own

water it's one of the fastest the sun's

up to down is that that's what most

people do from sun up to sun down but I

like to do it to what when I break my

fast it's just with liquids I like that

liquid diet

that's hard so what's that what's the

longest you fast for

like no food just water like liquids

yeah like four to two days I did about

three of them 42 days I hate what I'm

about to say I don't even wanna I don't

hate it we learn it this this is

kind of Deep you go there bro nah I'm

okay I'm gonna just say this when you

fast you not delusional when you fasting

things really get weird because you're

not seeing into

you seeing beyond the Physical Realm you

you seeing into a spiritual realm

why are you protecting why are you

protecting like uh

going deep some of your experiences yeah

like you know like it's crazy it's crazy

somebody need to try to cut you off but

like that my boy I swear to God bro my

boy last night he fasting out his first

time doing it and he telling me like I

should try it and I'm just listening to

what bro talking about this [ __ ] like

I'm hearing like it's just crazy bro I

want you to go into it's not that I'm

afraid of it is just that

stay away from spiritual conversations

because it's like people take people try

to destroy things that are sacred

beautiful because they don't know

powerful but how would that look why

does it matter why does it matter you

know what I'm saying that what you're

Oh you mean you mean you feel like

it's more attention to you or nah it's

just in general I think just the in

general fact that he's saying when you

talk like I was trying to be I was

trying to like kind of keep everybody

kind of keep my wingspan around

everybody but if you want to no because

like when you talk about fasting uh I

was playing for the Chicago Bears 2000

2013 I went on a fast I did 21 days

and um Joseph uh one of my mentors he'll

be a general manager one day in the NFL

and uh he is like yeah I think you

should go on the fast but when you fast

I want you to journal I want you to

meditate and I want you to um I want you

to pray right

and so I did that and wanted I had a I

had an experience where my my cousin Denise

Denise

her second fight a cancer came back

and I'll never forget I'm driving down

and I'm like all right what we gonna do

we're going to pray but we're not even

we're not even entertaining that at all

it's fixed boom so we pray he's fixed we pray

pray

she called me back three days later I

went to the doctor the doctor said they

can't even find it and I'm not saying

you know what I'm saying but fasting bro

like when you really when you pray and

you meditate and you write down like so

much stuff comes up and so many things

can happen but you got to be really

aligned though when I need something

when I'm really in need like if I need

to answer I need Clarity I stop eating foreign

foreign

I hate to like I know this sound weird

to people when they hit this but it take

it take about that 40 to really reset

who you are as a person

that's 20 that 21 that 21 gonna be a

complete like reset but then once you

get in there 40 Man close to them 30

that's when things get weird see I was

doing in a good way yeah yeah I was

doing I did 21 I was eating like nuts

and peanuts like kind of like paleo like

what's your suggestion on somebody

that's that's never done it before like

like starting off starting off like what

would you suggest slower you go the

further you get

all right the slower you go the further

you get if you're going to do two or

three days then one day work your day

the six days work your wages you know

going slow I ain't just go straight to

the 40. all right I did like three I was

like yeah that's cool then I started

doing like seven like that's cool they

did 27 days one time I'm like man I'm

about to go that whole 40 I know I could

do it all right hey I had weak moments

but that's where prayer come in that's

when I tap into my spirit I don't know

why people want you to think that the

spirit a holy spirit comes into your

your spirit is already holy right out of

five billion sperms you was the one that

made it I heard Dick Gregory say that

your spirit already hold it was supposed

to be you we just think less of

ourselves but I had made a bottle of

myself I never do no more negative

self-talk I never doubt myself beat

myself up for past mistakes and what's

been helping me when I do myself

inventory checks like any mistake like

you ever made a mistake and you think

back you kind of cringe like man I

shouldn't have did you know that's the

philosophy I look at on your philosophy

on winning I go back and forgive myself

yeah like I said I seen a coach you said

something about like you're gonna win so

much but until you understand the

awareness of what you doing bad you feel

I'm saying like this interesting me

because it's like we already know how

good we can be until we go through first

in life you know what I'm saying but

like every every fall down it's not

about to fall it's about how you get up

from the University Bill's character

you Mentor a lot of other like young

rappers or rappers in general because he

got a different perspective in any day

around me but and I'm not gonna say I

let bad experiences frame me

like I learned from somebody that don't

change who you are change who you good to

but my thing is I just do it in a

broader Spectrum now so I don't hone in

on just one individual but if I I didn't

have people around me that hadn't gave

them the game

I like really gave him the game

and like I I'm super proud of whatever

whatever but sometimes some people could

love you so much

they could love you so much

that their pure existence will be shattered

shattered

if you don't disappear

is that is that NBA youngboy

they got people like that

like they can love you so much emulate

everything you do so much but by you

still existing it Shadows who they damn

want to be and they've been like that my

whole life in my neighborhood not to cut

you off

I've been in the streets my whole life

so I got a bunch of like people that

y'all watch me do these things in the

streets and emulated me and everything

that y'all do from accident to the walk

talk everything it's a million is that

on the table though the one you talked

about like oh no that's my brother we

ain't gonna speak on that we can speak

on it I wish him the best who is that

because you said you proud of it like

I'm interested to know like Oh no I got

Sons out here like like that I write I'm

saying in the industry yeah like who is

a person that you could talk about where

you gave him gaming you looked up and he

took it in and you know already used the

photos work

just an example man I could give you a

lot of stuff yeah just give me a few

look in the music industry just look at

it I always say that there no just look

at it

let's take I love NBA young boy my

little baby I die from right now hey I'm

talking about look in the in the

industry like everything you see

I respect you real talk like when I like

I knew I met I knew you lose like when

y'all first came in this hill like all

just look at it I'm talking about from

the mouth to everything just look at it

and I'm not trying to throw nobody under

you know but I was telling you about

that it like it won't explain that say I

don't know music I like your music I

listen to you I still listen really

okay this is my challenge the Kevin

Gates challenge go back and look at

Kevin Gates in 2015. right and look at

everything else now

so which was so what's that's what I'm

saying everyone else like this is

texture this is real texture um

you got to come get me off the bottom of

the glass I'm down there swimming with

the dolphins

when I was when I was sitting back

really because I know you as a person I

really and I like your music but I don't

really know the history you feel me like

so I'm sorry yeah

you came in when I came in 2006 2007

whatever and you know you're a real OG

but I feel like a man you had this

conversation in the Super Bowl I feel

like you about to evolve and morph into

something different what's next like

that's you know what I'm saying what is

it something going on and you know

what's going on what's going on

big screen small screen

I didn't want to see it but big screen

small screen cooking with Kevin Gates

like I'm really a dog in that kitchen

people travel all over this real talk

people travel from all over the world

and wake me up out of my sleep and make

me cook for them

please I'm gonna come in tonight we just

go in the morning get everything just

let me know what you need I'm gonna

bring it and I just want you to do that

thing what you did that time I was over

there last time so you're getting down

like then I say look I'm gonna show you

how to do it I just showed them how to

do it and guess what they still don't

get it right that's like Louisiana yeah

that's that Creole food okay so that's a

little something I appreciate that like

what what what's

and this might be too surface level but

music like I feel like something big

about to happen in music for you I feel

like you're about to go on a crazy run

like I feel like you

I am

I am I feel like you've just been like I

am I'm about to go on a stupid run big

brother I hate it it's it's so amazing that

that

I'm humble and I'm excited at the same

time because it's about to go in the air

and then and for me the reason why like

I'm sitting with them at Super Bowl and

hold you you're a fan base your fan bases

bases

I mean that's what now nowadays if you

got a fan base you got an audience you

can do whatever you want yeah it's about

that man yeah what can you do social you

know for you you say like yo we gonna be

over here at 12 P.M

you're gonna have the whole city out you

understand so that's what I'm interested

because it was it was Grass Roots I

started Grass Roots I wasn't on the

internet with it I was out in the

streets and people faces when it was

only 10 people at a concert I still gave

it my all this was years ago when

everybody was going to do big clubs and

all that I was touring only getting like

maybe two thousand dollars a concert

less than that maybe a thousand dollars

my first show that I ever did in my life

I got like 300 for it I don't care I

don't get it because I ain't doing that

nowadays that 10 turning that 10 gonna

turn into 20.

you can have millions of fans but guess

what you got to start it you always got

to start at one

so that the passion part is that the

passion in it of the journey

I'm really kind of living my dream I'll

read it because

my goal was to only hear somebody to try

buying the car my music playing and it

ain't a place I go in the world

in a slump in America they gonna be

like they had another dude was fast and

he had not to get back on fasting but he

had coughed up like

I think his body expelled like over 30

tumors that he didn't even know he had

did you hear about that story yeah the

Redskins was trying to force him to play

and he like no I got something wrong

with my head bro when he came back it

was cancer but they were trying to force

him to play through that he was like I'm

[ __ ] up and then I said you're all

right I'm not trying to sound too

california-ish because they'd be like

that sounds so la when you say that but

cancer is only energy blockages in the body

body hmm

hmm

in the body yeah energy blockages they

's helpline that I do yeah like what

people call in and I'm like it's a cure

for everything that sounds so lazy hey

but you know I deal with the Skeptics

you know that's cool because I'm a big

skeptical so I gotta see it to believe

it but I'm open to trying yeah new

things and create new neural pairs but

they say that like you sound like so

california-ish when you say that cool

but look at me as opposed to you yeah I

never been to one of your shows I got I

gotta I gotta experience it but you

talked about passion you just did a Show

recently was a lot

I was talking to a friend and I was like

you know actually I connected y'all

it's a different experience and she was

telling me about it she was like yo like

his his she was telling me about your

fan base and how crazy it was but you

just did a Show recently

and your eyes was like bloodshot red

I was proud of crying oh he was crying

yeah but I do that three four times a

day anyway I release like that yeah but

this year was I probably was crying or

Prada was the sweat what you crying

about it just you find something to cry

about it I'll just be releasing like

when I was telling you about J-Rock just

the way he was destroyed out by the

crowd just now I had to hold it back

together right because I don't mind

people seeing it right I cried three

four times a day I don't care

I'm in tune with myself so you making

yourself cry are you finding something

to cry about like no I haven't been

through so much past traumatic

experience that we suppress as men we

have to be so tough all the time that we

never release right and sometimes they

just it just come like that I release

yeah the years it is I've been through

the worst of the worst sure the workers

I'm with you my brother so you said real

quick you said that um

you only care to hear somebody you know

right past playing your music that was

my goal at first okay so when did you

when you know like I arrived I made it

like damn like I really made it I had

got lost I ain't got lost in chasing like

the fame at one time and I started

looking at Instagram when I came back home

home

in 2018 from the last bid I did and I

was like man everybody that took my swag

and don't nobody salute me don't nobody

pay me my respects you know man you

y'all know this me

you know it is me yay none of y'all know

no security I'm living like that

anywhere I go any everybody has bad

witness to this we shot a video on watch

not I don't know cause I'm no tough guy

it's because I come with love I'm

comfortable in these places because

these are environments that I really

come from so that's why I was so much

love when I go places you know you see everybody

everybody

y'all just get different results when

the cameras come off but you know no and

there's no and there's no point intended

to anybody but you're not going with

love you're going to prove a point yeah

you're going you're going with different intentions

intentions

and and like it just it hurt to say man

I put so much in the game I've been a

Pioneer this year but

um after I dropped that was I was having

these thoughts after I dropped big gangster

gangster

it was like man

I feel like man the labels they just use

my loyalty against me y'all got me to

take these children under my wings

you know what I'm saying y'all took my

blueprint you know I I used I yeah I

feel used you know I used to be pointing

the finger I'm standing on Co angle just

standing out where I remember I was

across from the uh the old APG building

I'm like I used to be in there every

night just like a dog just going hard

like a dog they had some Mexicans come

by in the car they was doing a lyric

funny lit dance but all you heard was

boom boom boom boom boom and that's when

it came back to me like I was by myself

I had that Epiphany man I'm already

winning this what I wanted

they ain't saying nothing on social

media I don't care it's really celebrate

me on that black top right when I say

black top I'm talking about the street

yeah they celebrate me on that Blacktop

and I was comparing my life to other

people highlight for him because they

want to show you the good part right you

know what I'm saying I'm like man

he living like that yeah

then I got off social media for like a

year and a half well he know how it is I

got on social media for like a year and

a half

I really had to deactivated my pay

because I was gonna go ahead and yeah

how we're gonna get it done and then the

type of person I am I ain't about to say

hey bro I'm about to kill myself I don't

do all that that's that's horse playing

to me I feel like if we gonna do it I

was just gonna have to fire my bad I'm

about to go zip myself it's just how I

felt the short version of it but in

being on social media and stop making comparisons

comparisons

does it make you do it because everybody

winning on social media everybody

get to that point though that I wanted

to smash myself

you want to be honest yeah

because you seem super strong mentally

no uh no the people

when the people are wrong you don't

celebrate you properly

you you know like

like I'm in this world-class athlete but

at the end of the day when I go home I'm

not being celebrated properly I'm on the

good as what I could do you make me feel

like I'm on the good is what I could

provide yeah

and I bet not do this and better not do

this are you gonna you know what I'm

saying that's how you look at life it's

like you're not being celebrated by the

people around you like I'm already

getting beat up by the world I'm already

a [ __ ] you know what I'm saying I make

this [ __ ] look good you know what I'm

saying but I'm already a [ __ ] I'm

already getting beat up by the world am

I already looking at social media you

know and comparing my life to other

people highlight Realms I'm dealing with

this I'm already dealing with the

anxiety because I gotta be the best in

my field

when I feel like I'm not the best at

what I'm doing am I already this and

then to go home and still not be in peace

peace

so it's feel like you know what I hear

Take My Money y'all go ahead I'm gonna

get out the way since I'm the problem I

saw something where you said family was

like a celebration like any time you're

with your family it's like a celebration

to you yeah so speaking on that like

explaining that like because I can feel

that feeling you going home and all the

way and the pressures on you know what

I'm saying you got to take care of it

nacho nacho family and loved ones around

you like your mom and dad and all that which

which

I'm talking about when you with your

children like that part of it is a

celebration because I always looked at

having a family like winning all right

that's how I always looked at that like

wife children that's winning to me for

sure like having a million multiple

females that was never winning to me and

I hate to sound like a sucker but

like I kind of am because

that's what I that's that's the person

that always been was

family and children like that's how I

was raised kind of old-fashioned so

even in my situationships I end up this

is my first time seeing this I'm just

saying it because I'm in front of you

even with a woman that I'm dealing with

I kind of deal with her as if like

she my significant other my partner like

like because that's when I was looking

for that love in all the wrong places

before I started putting that love back

into myself it's so easy for me to pour

into other people and when I do finally

point on myself I kind of feel wrong for

doing so

this is my first time ever seeing it in

the interview I was never done but I

want to see it there because you I love

you love you too girl I appreciate that information

information

um another thing that that I wasn't

because sometimes it's hard to

communicate when you're a man because

it's like

[ __ ] you posted just know

but it's it's hard to communicate

sometimes when you're a man because

we've been through so much and you never wanna

wanna

say something that we don't ever want to

say nothing to make us look weak or be

vulnerable then you got to be careful

who you be vulnerable with because when

you're a man you know the thing is don't

test me yeah I don't want to be tested

and if I am tested I'm gonna I'm really

willing to die is that why you all

always say men suffer in silence we do

every day

like my sister could come to me I can't

put him on deck for him I'll take care

of curious you know what I'm saying you

ain't say you know I can't go to you you

know what I'm saying which I got

comfortable doing that now but I still

feel like

man me a lot of men suffer in silence

because on mad they I don't want my past

to be I don't want you to be

interrogative what's that movie uh

with you right now you about to use this

against me on Mad day yeah

so he said

don't do that to me that make me feel

like that now they make me go back in my

shell like who can I talk to no worries

put you in the Shell like a mother so

how do you start communicating better today

today

I just said you know what okay

okay

well really you know this I had to say

that but I'm gonna be honest with you spiritually

spiritually

I can't believe I'm about to say this my

throat chakra for me not telling the

truth my throat chakra started getting

until I started opening my throat chakra

and speaking the truth I haven't been

sick since that's cold when I was living

at the other spot before I moved here

yeah I used to be sick of that like just

like weak and everything because I

wasn't speaking and when I'm not

speaking my truth I'm not living in my

truth and when you said boundaries you

showing love for yourself it's okay to

tell people no not today yeah

let me ask you this question but I had a

fear of telling people no because you

know once you tell them oh yeah I

already know they act like you never

told them yeah yeah that's the thing

like like this is my brother been locked

in he been drafted to Philly he out here

now he over there where I live at one of

the good folks in the neighborhood but

it's 5-10 minutes away from Crenshaw in

the hoods we grew up in my little cousin

driving down the street he caught my

phone immediately like I just seen

LaShawn McCoy I'm tripping like I'm like

oh where you see him at like don't live

over there remind you I live right next

door this is my cousin he don't even

know I live over there because he could

get ugly and I'm telling bro like you

got to be careful where you moving where

you go like [ __ ] get real in any places

in the world why are you looking like

that because it's real no he'd be

calling me off scared it ain't about

being scared don't talk about him

yeah yeah yeah

for TV and

it's just so real you know like take us

recognize givers when you got a genuine

heart and you're a good dog you got to

realize you you susceptible to take us

even the women you deal with yeah you

know what I'm saying them don't be just

following you know that beat them hoes

you know so to say I'm wrong because in

case you will go back and forth out the

hood you've been with for 10 years ago

whatever it's my safe place my little

trap girl I'm cool yeah I could keep

your Instagram models I know every good

games you know what I'm saying she gonna

I'm wrong okay cool but I'm winning but

you back home now though back home where

cause where the heart is and I ain't got

for a new Escape

I'm at home right now

this is home what's the relationship

here though cause that's crazy want me

to be on the hell yeah you want me to

tell them the truth the true truth or Justice

well you know

we've been knowing each other for

eternities you know what I'm saying

before this round but we connected in

this round we United reunited in this

I forgot

you see this conversation this is I knew

he was in tune he was tapped in yeah

like that spiritual energy I knew

I just knew when I first had just I

heard him speak and I just been

I forgot when we first connected but

it just like been my brother like I knew

that was my brother like love at first

sight I knew that was my brother you

out of all our interviews all the

rappers know that this is my favorite

but like you're teaching us though but

this man and I ain't trying to just

salute him you're hurting me like that

and just keep opening times

but but like I was going through one of

the roughest patches in my life I can't

really speak on it this was in 2022 and

I should have came out there yeah when

you told me to come but in record my

album and I came here instead but I

should have came there but when I came

in Miami I was like damn you got some

good advice sometimes sometimes man

sometimes I should have came there bro I

should have came to the eye to the to

the to the facility bro that's why you

don't judge though right I'm gonna be

honest because he had some takes that

social media now he'll have a 20 40

minute interview and they'll chop up

with somebody right but no real quick

he said that yeah man this is weird yeah

yeah

you walk in with a suit I'm like like

yeah okay that was different right man

that's solid then as I meet you right

then we start talking I'm saying yo he

ain't nothing I thought he was from all

them takes that's why I never judged

them because I don't know I'm gonna be

honest with you they always do that to

me in interviews and that's what had me

like scared to say stuff right for fear

of somebody doing that wish when I'm

wearing around my big brother I could

really just speak freely yeah cause I'm

gonna be honest with you like like even

with like this going to with my mental

cognitive like I was going through it

through it like I did like two years on

the road and no uh no two of us just in

an Escalade truck just with that little

dog right there that little dog yeah

I was on the road I'm talking about

imagine the the thing imma just say this imagine

imagine

you playing your whole NFL season

your whole season

and at the end of the season

you go to the bank ain't no money in

there it ain't nothing in there I'm just

saying a message I'm just giving you a

hypothetical all right I'm not saying

that happened to me but just imagine

that happened yeah I don't know the

people you love and Trust

oh that's cool but you can't but you

can't just land you okay are you a

gangster so if you come out and say you

ready right so like what's up right yeah

but he but he but but me and my brother

know everything that was going on with

me like I like I really suck for it but

the media make it look like man he just

a monster he this and that how I always

been a sacrificial lamb and I ain't even

playing victim I know I'm all to deal

with I know I don't communicate fulfill

of people judging me or fulfilled you

taking my vulnerability and using

against me I don't get close to people

fulfill you taking my loyalty and using

against me because I could be honest

with you every time I went to jail it

then this last time I went then this

last time I went to jail you know 1201

yeah we're going to release you at 1201

they come serve me a warrant what you

know about having your heart broke like that

that

go to Chicago you heard me I gotta

you're not taking in that in the

accountability that I had I was detained

in another jurisdiction y'all slamming

what you know about having your heart

broke like that

then y'all say I'm this gang Chief I've

never been in a gang in my life I just

led the prayer it was different gang

members that just happened to you know

be Muslim I led the prayer they say I'm

a big game cheap and ship me out the

facility get him up out of here he'll

gain she put me on lockdown what you

know about having your heart broken like

it don't matter who it was yeah your

brother just got murdered because you

know about having your heart broke like

that we were just talking about how we

was gonna ball and be flossing and go

get Motel tools and all that when I came

home anything like man when you come

home you gotta put that ice on like what

you know about having your heart broke

like that I can keep going before what

all right I like I saw foot

I'm talking about buying the people my

staff the people in this room I buy

everybody before I buy myself something

I may have only got three or four of

these shirts

with a bow tie cause I feel like ain't

nothing flying on a boat tiger that was

my grandfather used to work

that is flat I don't know why I like a

little bow tie where you get the Leaf

like putting the leaf in your hair

I got them in I had them in when I came

here but I took them out why you do that

I don't know the energy just felt like

just told me just take them out right

now you got that from Grandfather too

nah my grandmother they Indians my mama

grandma all of them they Native Americans

Americans Grandpa

you know what that game

so let me ask you this last question

before we roll um

you happy

oh I'm peaceful

I have happy I have more happy moments

than I have in the past but I'm peaceful

I'm peace see what that is simple we do

me and you be doing if we win eight

pieces yeah

that's my I'm cool with that it's family

you know then I see myself like

and every like and the people I place

myself around are the people I could see

myself in the greater versions of me

and like my biggest fear was

like I guess believing in myself

I believe in myself mom yeah straight up

so I can say I'm peaceful

I'm peaceful now way more peaceful yeah

I feel like for me I just turned 39. yesterday

yesterday

thank you

um and and I just feel like you know I'm

taking it one day can I answer it all of

a sudden that we be talking about I

don't know how when we say something

all of ourselves listen and you know how

we was talking about like the Gregorian

calendar and how that's not even right

like the new year started at the

beginning of Ramadan like this is how

the off the lunar calendar like the new

year just started like people say man

it's never supposed to be like this [ __ ]

was still a winner if the spring just started

started um

when you talk yourselves listen and when

like if we start saying like are you

supposed to say you 24 I said no no what

I was about to say was we Forever Young

40 50 is my Prime

yes sir

that's what I was you know what I'm

saying like and I've been saying that to

my team but even that is negative you

know why

because I just turned 39 so what's gonna

happen for the next

12 months because I'm building right now

like I'm in some right now there's some

toxicity around me some energy around me

that I'm like fighting to get away and

I've been in that moment for about 12

months and I just had this vision of

like 40

bro like I just feel like I'm about to

I'm about to walk into my Prime you know

what I'm saying he tell me that but we

talk man you walking into your place I feel it bro like we're eating pizza

that you would recommend for us to read I can tell you read a lot

I can tell you read a lot come on

come on you gonna read them and listen to the

you gonna read them and listen to the audiobook

audiobook it's the same thing

it's the same thing sometimes when I fly I might just put

sometimes when I fly I might just put them drinks on then if I'm chilling

them drinks on then if I'm chilling bored I'll read it

bored I'll read it the reason I say is not because it's

the reason I say is not because it's like started from Nipsey let's see I saw

like started from Nipsey let's see I saw that from home

that from home the audio books cool but you still

the audio books cool but you still listening to somebody else voice tell

listening to somebody else voice tell you the book which I ain't got nothing

you the book which I ain't got nothing against it I'll say I'm gonna read it

against it I'll say I'm gonna read it though but then some

I'ma read more than I'm listening what are you into

are you into like self-improved you know what I like

like self-improved you know what I like to read stuff that um so I'm in like the

to read stuff that um so I'm in like the uh commentating broadcasting space so

uh commentating broadcasting space so right now I'm reading a book on um

right now I'm reading a book on um Stephen A Smith right then I get done

Stephen A Smith right then I get done with that I'll probably find somebody to

with that I'll probably find somebody to come into like like real estate I just

come into like like real estate I just read this book on real estate I'm big

read this book on real estate I'm big into that it's called um

into that it's called um of his name of it but I'm reading stuff

of his name of it but I'm reading stuff that I can't line myself with you know

that I can't line myself with you know what I mean

if I'm asking you I'm being serious um

um how to eat to live that's more that's

how to eat to live that's more that's for the fast because I need that

for the fast because I need that um that fast written by uh

um that fast written by uh it's written by uh what is it Elijah

it's written by uh what is it Elijah Muhammad

Muhammad um yeah

um yeah I like that um

I like that um and I'm not nation of Israel yeah I

and I'm not nation of Israel yeah I sound I don't really rock it I ain't

sound I don't really rock it I ain't none of that I ain't none of that I'm

none of that I ain't none of that I'm just Muslim but the way he talk about it

just Muslim but the way he talk about it and break it down on How to Eat to Live

and break it down on How to Eat to Live okay there's a beautiful book from the

okay there's a beautiful book from the gods okay that's different

gods okay that's different oh

oh the um let me get one let me get one

the um let me get one let me get one other book um what I mean America being

other book um what I mean America being a true old world okay like where they

a true old world okay like where they talk about how the pyramid is over here

talk about how the pyramid is over here hundreds of years older than Egypt yeah

hundreds of years older than Egypt yeah and that's been so interesting to me I'm

and that's been so interesting to me I'm like what the [ __ ] what's it called

like what the [ __ ] what's it called American Life America the true whole

American Life America the true whole world

world that's what's up appreciate you bro love

that's what's up appreciate you bro love you man I love you more Papa yeah hey

you man I love you more Papa yeah hey never afraid to make mistakes man always

never afraid to make mistakes man always get better it's life yeah yeah I ain't

get better it's life yeah yeah I ain't afraid to make mistakes this was yeah

afraid to make mistakes this was yeah that was good I'm gonna try to yo let's

that was good I'm gonna try to yo let's try that fast though

try that fast though I got about two three days

we had to fight to get a meal yeah wrongfully accused we had to fight to

wrongfully accused we had to fight to get appeals that's why we right to get a

get appeals that's why we right to get a deal here on the team he gotta eat you

deal here on the team he gotta eat you know

know keep it riding for the fam you got a

keep it riding for the fam you got a life that we can Wheels straight up but

life that we can Wheels straight up but in the past bad work up in the trash bag

in the past bad work up in the trash bag I'll pass a lot to take the test before

I'll pass a lot to take the test before I pass class yeah and my family needed

I pass class yeah and my family needed bread I had to come correct that's why I

bread I had to come correct that's why I keep airing it out like I just passed

keep airing it out like I just passed gas

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YouTube Transcript:KEVIN GATES: "I Pray Before Having Sex" | I AM ATHLETE

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