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Last October, nine months afterwards Kevin Gates alone Islah, his platinum-selling admission album, he was sentenced to 180 canicule in bastille for array after kicking a changeable fan in the chest during a appearance in Florida. This accomplished March, aback Gates was appointed to be released, he was held and again sentenced for an added 30 months in bastille for a gun charge in Cook County, Ill., which stemmed from a 2013 incident. Now the rapper won't get a adventitious at abandon until he's appointed for absolution in the summer of 2018.
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Kevin Gates - Time For That (Lyrics) - YouTube | time for that kevin gates lyricsUp until Islah, Gates gradually congenital himself a cult-like afterward because of his deluge of music and his honest, ardent records. Aggregate afflicted for Gates in 2013, afterwards dropping The Luca Brasi Story. The mixtape began to broadcast in the South and with the advice of the internet, admirers began to ascertain the 6-foot, 3-inch street poet. From there, Gates, built-in Kevin Gilyard, began to go on an absolutely batty mixtape run. He ended 2013 with Stranger Than Fiction, dropped By Any Means and Luca Brasi 2 in 2014, and put out Murder for Hire in 2015.
In amid all that, Gates fabricated the 2014 XXL Freshman Class, his distinct "I Don't Get Tired" went certified gold and became his aboriginal distinct to be on the Billboard Hot 100. Oh yeah, he additionally created an activity drink, because, why not.
Gates was on the bend of superstardom afterwards Islah, but the arrest and bastille time has put a abeyance on his ascent. Still, Kevin's name has remained afloat while he's abaft confined because of his wife, Dreka Gates, who has helped to accumulate his business and music going. For years, she has been by Kevin's ancillary and has helped put calm every activity that he has released. She understands what Kevin brand and knows what music resonates with his fans. The process for acrimonious through Gates' music isn't adamantine for her.
"It's all about accepting a balance. Kevin makes so abundant music," Dreka tells XXL. "We’ll aces things that he recorded years ago because at that time aback he recorded it, it was advanced of his time and the admirers apparently wouldn’t apprehend it. And it's all about a vibe. You accept to accept article for the ladies, you accept to accept article for the day one admirers to go out and get the project, the artery stuff, it’s aloof about capturing that vibe. It’s consistently fun because we get to ride about and accept to music. It’s consistently a acceptable time with us."
Along with Dreka, Jeff Vaughn, Vice President of Artist Partner Group, helps put calm Gates' projects. Together they put out the Baton Rouge native's By Any Means 2, a 14-track mixtape that was appear in September. The project took about a ages to put together. Dreka capital to accumulate the band centered about the affair of Gates outgrowing assertive individuals in his life.
"Well, of course, if you noticed, all the songs on the activity accept the aforementioned affectionate of vibe," she explains. "It hurts to let go of bodies but you got to do it. He affectionate of recorded those songs about the aforementioned time. It all aloof formed together. It's absolutely not that adamantine putting Kevin’s activity together. The hardest allotment is that you accept so abundant music to accept from and I affirm to you I'm not aloof adage that because of my claimed accord with him. There’s so abundant acceptable music to aces from. So this project, we aloof backward with the aforementioned affectionate of vibe, with him absolution go of bodies and acid ties and affective on."
A standout clue off the tape is “Had To.” The video for the almanac is a agitating attending at the moments that helped appearance Kevin Gates' activity over the aftermost nine years. In the visual, admirers get to see Kevin affairs his aboriginal mixtape, accepting shot, accepting his signature gun boom of his duke done and so abundant more.
"There was so abounding things that has happened aback I’ve been a allotment of his activity for the accomplished 14 years," Dreka shares. "Everything that happened that was a allotment of the video, it triggered some array of change. Aggregate all played a role to the actuality he is today."
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time for that- kevin gates - YouTube | time for that kevin gates lyricsSpeaking from her home in Louisiana, Dreka tells XXL the adventure abaft Kevin Gates' "Had To" video, shares aback admirers can apprehend new music from him and gives an amend on how the rapper is accomplishing in prison.
XXL: How did this abstraction of the video appear about?
Dreka Gates: Basically it was Kevin’s idea. So we had to get a little artistic with the visuals and aggregate [since he was bound up]. POV is article that we never done afore and we aloof anticipation it was a absolutely air-conditioned idea. Aloof activity through some cardinal moments and contest that occurred in his life.
How do you absolutely get Kevin’s ascribe from jail?
He calls whenever and I’ll run actuality by him and he’ll say, "Yay" or "Nay" or "Make abiding you get this in there." He’ll put in his two cents because there’s so abundant he can do. But that’s appealing abundant how it all goes.
What was it like to bethink some of these moments in the video?
I anticipate it was air-conditioned the actuality we were able to go aback and reenact these things. Especially like him accepting his easily tattooed. I absolutely wasn’t there, I was on FaceTime but in the video, you’ll see me absolutely there with him. But I was on FaceTime aback he was accepting his easily done. The allotment aback he got shot, that affectionate of fabricated my affection bead because it was like, Oh my God.
Describe Kevin Gates aback he put out his aboriginal mixtape, "Pick of Da Litter"
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TIME FOR THAT" LYRICS by KEVIN GATES: Yeah Do you think... | time for that kevin gates lyricsHe was over the hill. Afore this, he was recording absolutely in the closet in his grandmother’s room. That was like his aboriginal official mixtape area he recorded in the flat and affectionate of did things the able way. He was absolutely aflame about that.
A huge moment was aback he alone The Luca Brasi Story. How was that time in his life?
That was a cardinal moment aback we larboard our bearings and it was our aboriginal activity alfresco of that situation. The admirers admired it and they ate it up.
After that release, the afterward year was appealing impactful for him.
In 2014, he has aloof got out of jail, we had Islah and we aloof had Khaza [our son]. He was built-in in May of that year. It was so funny, we were absolutely activity to this adornment abundance in the capital in Atlanta and he was activity to get some adornment for himself. He was like, “Look at the rings. Acquaint me if you see annihilation that you like” and I did. Next affair I know, he’s bottomward on one knee and allurement me to ally him. That was absolutely crazy and absolutely unexpected.
Kevin is such a ancestors man. Bodies absolutely don’t see that a lot.
For him growing up, he didn’t absolutely accept that so his absolute activity he aloof capital his own family. He is actual abundant so a ancestors man. Anytime he gets to absorb time with his kids, he does. Anytime he gets to absorb time with me, he takes advantage of it. He loves actuality about us and actuality with us.
When Islah dropped, what do you anticipate was activity through his mind? Also, what was his acknowledgment aback it went platinum?
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Kevin Gates quote: Anything lost, can be found again, except for ... | time for that kevin gates lyricsMan, bottomward the Islah anthology was huge to us because it was his aboriginal absolute flat album. Aggregate in the accomplished was a mixtape, alike admitting it was all aboriginal music, but Islah was a actual agitative moment for both of us. Again aback it went platinum, it’s alike bigger because he said he did not appetite to bead an anthology until he knew it was activity to go platinum. Islah aloof so happened to go platinum so it was amazing.
What about the wedding?
Whenever we went into the reception, anybody was talking about how he was animated from ear to ear. Aback anyone asks him now he says that the bells day was the best day of his life. And it was like a big ass party. It was a lot of fun.
How was it activity to the Mecca in September 2016?
That is an acquaintance clashing any other. Aback I allocution to him now he consistently talks about activity aback and activity aback every year. I was advantageous to go aback this year but he wasn’t able to. It’s an acquaintance like no other. I apperceive a lot of bodies who haven’t been there. Aback you go over there you’ll see bodies of all altered contest and backgrounds. You see bodies from all walks of activity there. You can’t acquaint who’s loaded with money or active in a agenda box because anybody is the same. It was a admirable acquaintance and absolutely life-changing from him and I.
I apperceive he annal all the time. Will this be the alone activity you put calm for him to absolution afore he gets out of jail?
I don’t know. I'd adulation for him to appear home and accomplish some new actuality and absolution that. We accept music that are unreleased and are abundant songs but the capacity that he talked about in those songs are no best the affair for him. So I anticipate that he prefers to appear home and accomplish a agglomeration of actuality and bead it. But you never know.
How's Kevin appropriate now?
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Time for that by Kevin Gates | Music/Quotes | Pinterest | Kevin ... | time for that kevin gates lyricsHe’s accomplishing abundant and he told me article I was absolutely blessed to hear. He said, “I’m assuredly blessed with myself and who I am." That aloof fabricated me really, absolutely blessed because he consistently struggled with that. He was the one that got best on and that’s affectionate of why he concluded up activity bottomward the aisle that he did as a teenager. But, he’s in a abundant amplitude appropriate now and I can’t delay for him to appear home so the blow of the apple can see the guy that he's become. And aloof seeing him abide to grow.
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