#276: Kevin Gates

A Waste Of Time with ItsTheReal

ItsTheReal

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4.8 • 817 Ratings

🗓️ 14 October 2019

⏱️ 90 minutes

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This week on A Waste of Time with ItsTheReal, we welcome Baton Rouge's own Kevin Gates to the Upper West Side for a deep, hilarious, revealing, extremely meaningful and one-of-a-kind conversation. Kevin does a deep dive into great energy, the influence he's had on the game, recording songs at his grandmother's house, how his music career almost never happened, where his confidence came from, what he learned from Cash Money and what they learned from him, what Atlantic Records offered him during their first conversation, what his wife Dreka has meant to his life and career, real ones he can relate to like Jim Jones, Maino and Fred the Godson, how much fun he's having these days, what it's like when he hears that his music has saved lives, how he learned to forgive his mother, how he saw past the hurt in DJ Akademiks, what yoga has meant to his every day, the street mission that led to his brother's death and could have also led to his own, and so, so, so much more!

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0:00.0	Hey, Jeff. Hey, Eric. How are you? I'm pretty good. How are you? Doing well, thank you.
0:03.7	When you look back on all of our episodes, when you think back on each and every podcast that we've done,
0:13.2	which I love doing. I'm somebody who definitely. When you go to sleep, Jeff, are you just like,
0:19.0	okay, 275 Trinidad James, 274 and on and on and on.
0:23.5	Until you go to sleep.
0:24.2	I'm somebody who can quote every podcast.
0:27.0	Wow.
0:27.5	I do all the voices.
0:28.6	When you think back.
0:29.7	By the way, for anybody who's listening out there, that is not me.
0:33.6	Right.
0:33.9	I don't listen to any of our podcasts.
0:35.2	When you think back to all the podcasts,
0:41.3	and I know you remember a lot about the podcast. Sure. When you think about all the people who have come over to our home, who have sat down in this chair between us and talked for an
0:47.3	hour, hour and a half, what is the weirdest, strangest, most surprising thing that has happened
0:53.1	from a guest?
0:56.0	On mic?
0:57.0	No, not necessarily.
0:58.0	Just like we've welcomed them into our home and they have done something out of the ordinary.
1:03.0	Okay.
1:04.0	My first thought, yeah, is that we had somebody come over here and the person used my bathroom.
1:14.4	Right.
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