Kevin Gates Quotes About Love, Song, Betrayal, Life, Fake Love, Instagram, Loyalty, Friends, Funny & Success! Kevin Jerome Gilyard, known professionally name Kevin Gates, is an American rapper, musician, and businessman. Gates was born on February 5, 1986, in New Orleans, and he had a deep passion for music since he was a little child. After signing a contract with Dead Game Records, a local label, Kevin Gates launched his professional career in 2005.

Gates soon ran into trouble with the law, and he had to spend upwards of two years in jail. Throughout this time, he went to work in prison and got a Master’s degree in psychology. Because he was a good boy, he was early released from jail. As soon as he got out of prison, he started working on his music. He put out a mixtape called “Make Em Believe,” which didn’t do too well.

‘By Any Means was released in 2014. With a debut position of 17, it debuted on the Billboard 200. The album’s top three singles were “Don’t Know,” “Posed to be in Love,” and “Amnesia.” It sold 17,000 copies in the United States. The reviews were largely favorable for it. The same year in December, he released ‘Luka Brasi 2′, another financially successful mixtape. It was given by Atlantic Records and Bread Winners’ Association, his own record company. It went to number 38 on the US Billboard 200, and inside ten months, it had bought over 83,000 copies in the United States.

In 2015, he set to marry Dreka Haynes, whom he’d been dating for a long time. In 2016, they became Muslims and took a trip to Mecca for the hajj. Therefore, he had Immediate success in Billboard charting with his first studio album, “Islah,” released in January 2016.

Best Kevin Gates Quotes

1. “Don’t get mad at me for being the best of what I was created to be.” – Kevin Gates

2. “Never break or fold, that’s what it takes to be major.” – Kevin Gates

3. “If you associate yourself with peer pressure or complacency, you’re destined for failure.” – Kevin Gates

4. “I don’t sleep much. I don’t sleep much – I work, I work, I work.” – Kevin Gates

5. “I live by the ten percent rule. Save one, you save a thousand.” – Kevin Gates

6. “You can’t make everybody else happy and still stay on top.” – Kevin Gates

7. “You can learn from a dummy. You can watch a dummy and learn what not to do. I’ve always been an observant individual.” – Kevin Gates

8. “I’ve had mixtapes that have been better than albums I’ve heard from other artists. I take my time; I put my heart into it.” – Kevin Gates

9. “Out my window.. I see everything I dream about and wished I had”– Kevin Gates

10. “I’m inspired by everything that goes on around me. I’m a sponge. I’m very analytical. I notice the things that most people don’t notice.” – Kevin Gates

11. “Why accept failure when success is free?” – Kevin Gates

12. “I don’t pay attention to sales because it’s not about that for me. It’s about the music. Music is all I have.” – Kevin Gates

13. “I suffer from deep depression, so my only release is music.” – Kevin Gates

14. “I always had music growing up, but music was also like a journal. It was like my personal diary or personal journal. A lot of the things I couldn’t express to an individual, I would express them in my music.” – Kevin Gates

15. “I could care less about the particular. I like to make music.” – Kevin Gates

16. “Rap was more of a release for me, a journal.” – Kevin Gates

17. “A hot producer might not make a hot beat for me. I just love music.” – Kevin Gates

18. “I love to make music, I love to get tattoos…That’s just what I love. If I wasn’t getting paid I’d still do it.”– Kevin Gates

19. “I know I write a lot of my best music in the car, like late night. Three, four in the morning.” – Kevin Gates

20. “Music’s the most therapeutic thing for me. Because I suffer with depression, and it’s my only form of releasing it.” – Kevin Gates

21. “Music is all I have.” – Kevin Gates

22. “My music is incredible. I don’t know what to call it because I’ve yet to see an artist display the different talents I display or create the different genres that I have created; from The Rock and roll to heavy metal to soft rock to rap to country. I display so many styles. That’s why they love me.” – Kevin Gates

23. “Marriage is the most wonderful thing ever.” – Kevin Gates

24. “Some may consider this a problem, I easily fall in love.” – Kevin Gates

25. “I like being with my family. That’s my party.” – Kevin Gates

26. “To be honest I am not looking to be romantic, already got someone at home.” – Kevin Gates

27. “To inform, to improve, to make better, and I believe that’s what my first daughter did to me, so I named my first album after my first daughter.” – Kevin Gates

28. “I love God, I love everybody else around me as myself, and I love my enemy.” – Kevin Gates

29. “I always wanted a family.” – Kevin Gates

30. “It is illegal to steal my feelings and leave.”  – Kevin Gates