Freddie Gibbs Quotes

As long as there's a demand for gangsta rap, it will be supplied.

Gangsta rap often reaches higher than its ugliest, lowest common denominator, misogyny, violence, materialism and sexual transgression are not its exclusive domain. At its best, this music draws attention to complex dimensions of ghetto life ignored by most Americans. Indeed, gangsta rap's in-your-face style may do more to force America to confront crucial social problems than a million sermons or political speeches.

Where I'm from is like 'Hustle & Flow' versus '8 Mile.' It's that really grimy, box-Chevy, dope-boy, working-class music.

The roots of my music start from the ghetto.

I grew up in Compton: 116th and Wilmington.

Reagan's neglect of the inner city is responsible for hiphop. Hiphop is created thanks to the conditions that crack set: easy money but a lot of work, the violence involved, the stories it produced. Crack helped birth hiphop.

Red-hot songs were born on the black streets of Baltimore, where I delivered five-gallon cans of kerosene and ten-pound bags of coal.

Chief Keef scares me. Not him specifically, but just the culture that he represents.

Thug Life to me is dead.

I never thought I was going to leave the trap. I even told my mother, 'I'm gonna be the trap God.'

I was raised on the streets, in hot, steamy Brooklyn, with stifled air.

I don't consider myself a gangsta rapper. But I'm probably more qualified to be a gangsta rapper than people who call themselves that. I've been through that life.

I come from where Mike Tyson came from. I come from right across the street from Jay-Z. I didn't have a pond in my backyard. I saw violence.

How could you be from the ghetto and be a rat?

I grew up on 135th Street. I grew up on the poor side of New York. I grew up in Harlem.

I put Compton on the map.

N.W.A. were the first great rap audio documentarians of the problems in our inner cities.

Mobb Deep is a street-rap group. We from off the streets.

I'm from L.A. South Central area.

I got the name Lil Baby because I always hung around older dudes.

I go by the name of Polo G and I'm from the near North Side of Chicago, the 1300 block of Hudson Avenue.

'Chopper City in the Ghetto' - a lot of it was B.G.'s real story.

My life after childhood has two main stories: the story of the hustler and the story of the rapper, and the two overlap as much as they diverge. I was on the streets for more than half of my life from the time I was thirteen years old. People sometimes say that now I'm so far away from that life - now that I've got businesses and Grammys and magazine covers - that I have no right to rap about it. But how distant is the story of your own life ever going to be? The feelings I had during that part of my life were burned into me like a brand. It was life during wartime.

In this time, we incorporate money and media, and it's split up like apartheid, where when you say "hip-hop," you think just rap records. People might have forgot about all the other elements in hip-hop. Now we're back out there again, trying to get people back to the fifth element, the knowledge. To know to respect the whole culture, especially to you radio stations that claim to be hip-hop and you're not, because if you was a hip-hop radio station, why do you just play one aspect of hip-hop and rap, which is gangsta rap?

A trap lord is basically the lord of the trap, and my trap is rap.