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Necessary Necessary. Necessary cookies are absolutely essential for the website to function properly. This category only includes cookies that ensures basic functionalities and security features of the website. These cookies do not store any personal information. Non-necessary Non-necessary. Growing up in South Baton Rouge, where he was primarily raised by his Puerto Rican grandmother, Gates tells me he started dealing with depression in seventh or eighth grade around the same time he started rapping.
Death, unfortunately, is relatively familiar to Gates. You can look at his three teardrop tattoos and figure that much out. Gates is 28, although he sounds a decade older both in his music and in the way he talks.
I recently talked to him on the phone while he was in New Orleans, which is about an hour and a half southeast of Baton Rouge.
His tangents go on longer than his responses to my actual Qs. Sure enough, By Any Means just about doubled his first-week sales record.
It took Gates some time to get comfortable with his audience, to really vent, possibly because such openness has yet to reach the Tipping Point. Rappers and their civilian counterparts have different approaches to dealing with struggles like death and mourning.
In April, a month and a half after the death of his older brother Treon by police taser, I spoke with Miami rapper Denzel Curry at his tour stop in Minneapolis. On the other hand is Gates. Gates needs to make music.
Then, fast-forwarding the narrative as if to explain what he wants the boy to avoid, Gates recounts being shot and different romantic failures. The music video depicts all this, of course.
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