Freddie Gibbs
Freddie Gibbs

I'm a loyal dude.

Freddie Gibbs
Freddie Gibbs

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

Freddie Gibbs
Freddie Gibbs

The Bears need to let me be GM.

Freddie Gibbs
Freddie Gibbs

When everybody goes left, I'm gonna go right most of the time.

Freddie Gibbs
Freddie Gibbs

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

Freddie Gibbs
Freddie Gibbs

Drake makes some dope songs.

Freddie Gibbs
Freddie Gibbs

I don't like rap that doesn't have a story behind it.

Freddie Gibbs
Freddie Gibbs

When you go to places like Gary and Detroit, you see the economic problem in this country and who it's really affecting.

Freddie Gibbs
Freddie Gibbs

I ain't never detached myself from Gary.

Freddie Gibbs
Freddie Gibbs

I've always played that role in my family: the breadwinner.

Freddie Gibbs
Freddie Gibbs

We have good, neighborly people in Gary.

Freddie Gibbs
Freddie Gibbs

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

Freddie Gibbs
Freddie Gibbs

When I first came in the game, I had a bunch of homies that rapped that was hanging around me just because I was getting the rap attention, and they felt they could feed off of that.

Freddie Gibbs
Freddie Gibbs

I don't mind travelling. I'm independent, so I gotta get on the grind.

Freddie Gibbs
Freddie Gibbs

Tupac is definitely an icon. There'll never be another Tupac, so I'm not gonna ever, ever try to fill those shoes. I'm just gonna stay in my lane and be the best me that I can be.

Freddie Gibbs
Freddie Gibbs

Coming up in America in the '80s and '90s, we were not too far removed from slavery. People forget that.

Freddie Gibbs
Freddie Gibbs

Nobody else was saying what he said on air, and sometimes he pushed the envelope when he said the newest Jay Z line with a Michael Jordan highlight. But Stuart Scott was an artist.

Freddie Gibbs
Freddie Gibbs

I remember I used to go school with guys who couldn't afford notebooks, pens, paper: the necessary tools needed in order to survive in school. It's a lot of kids in Gary who are at a disadvantage without that.

Freddie Gibbs
Freddie Gibbs

Me separating from CTE - I'm extremely happy about that because a lot of guys wrote me off, Jeezy included. He really wrote me off.

Freddie Gibbs
Freddie Gibbs

I ain't on no major. Everything independent. Either way it goes, I am doing me, and I am doing Freddie Gibbs.