Freddie Gibbs Quotes

If I hadn't fought back, I might have been Gidget forever.

A lot of people thought I was going to be a one-hit wonder, so I had that chip on my shoulder.

Your past should not be a life sentence.

I'm from Louisville, Kentucky, and nobody gets out of there. So I'm like, how am I gonna get out of there? Nobody else can. So it took some time. The struggle made me realize I didn't really want to be 'normal' anymore.

The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself.

I've lost count of the number of times that I've been approached by strangers wanting to tell me that they think I'm brave or inspirational, and this was long before my work had any kind of public profile.

I still feel like I gotta prove something. There are a lot of people hoping I fail. But I like that. I need to be hated.

I think it's your duty to overcome what you inherit in life.

By making a comeback, I'm changing the attitude of people toward me. If I'd known that people would react so enthusiastically, I'd have done it years ago.

I was told I would become nothing. Now I am showing people how big nothing is.

I wanted to get on with my life when I was 16. I knew I wanted to be an actor. I wanted to get out of Detroit.

It's the best thing, me leaving Stone Sour.

I just feel lucky that I somehow escaped from the confines of the business class... I feel so fortunate that somehow I managed to break out of that world and get to do something that really had more meaning.

I think it's the same for everyone in any walk of life - if people put you down, you want to prove a point.

I named my first album 'The Sound of Revenge' because I wanted to get revenge on everyone who doubted me. But when I finally got revenge, I didn't enjoy it.

I don't care how my past was or what I had to go through.

A lot of people underestimated me, and I'm used to that.

Obviously, we've proved a lot of skeptics, who thought we'd be gone after a record or two, wrong.

I like being the underdog. I like turning around and shutting people up when they tell me I can't.

People do think I was a one-hit wonder, that I'm maybe not the kind of singer that I can really be - that impression is there. I have to work really hard to break down those walls.

I look at Puff Daddy as somebody that gave me a chance to prove the whole world wrong. Cause when I used to think about rap, everybody would say, 'Well, you talk too slow,' or, 'You rap too slow,' when in reality, that was my uniqueness.

People have been counting me out since Day One.

I've thrived on people writing me off. Because if you write me off, I'll shut you up.

I've faced the undefeated, young up-and-comers, everybody counting me out before, on a big card, with big lights, TV.

When I was 20, I was the hustler - rubbing my temples, stressed, trying to get out the streets, trying to take my life to another side of the game with something I really loved to do: rap music.