Last month, Kevin Gates was charged with battery for kicking a fan at a concert in Florida. The rapper responded with a song called “The Truth,” saying that the woman was inappropriately touching him before he hit her. He further explained the situation in a recent interview with Complex.
“Life is about conduct and how we conduct ourselves,” he says. But two wrongs never make a right. But I’ll say this, I’ll use Nicki Minaj again ’cause people tell me that women love her and people love her: If I was to go front row while she was on stage performing and stick my finger in her pussy, and she kicked me in the mouth and knocked one of my gold teeth out, I would be wrong. I would be wrong for that, and that’s all I’ll say. To touch someone’s genitals without their consent is a sexual battery. To touch someone without their consent is a simple battery.”
The Louisiana rapper says that he learned a lesson after fighting with kids in school influenced his response to the woman.
“My grandmother taught me if somebody touch you, make sure they don’t touch you again,” he says. “That’s what my grandmother taught me. When I was having fights in school, my grandmother came and hit the teacher, and told the teacher, ‘Now, you didn’t like that, did you?’ The teacher was like, ‘No!’ She said, ‘Imagine how he feel.'”
He says that his grandmother’s death helped him to not care what people think of him and allowed him to become more transparent in his music and everyday life.
“It’s like, no matter what you do, people will find a reason to hate you,” he says. “So the people that love you, they’ll love you for you. So I was like, ‘I’m gonna be me to the hundredth power.’ And I made the conscious decision. I’mma be me, and I’mma accept what comes with it. You don’t like it, don’t talk to me. Don’t be around me.”
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Im gonna be.me to the 100th power. Thats dope.
agreed. Kevin Gates gave us some real wisdom there. People gonna hate you no matter what
“To touch someone without their consent is a simple battery.” — This guy is a freaking moron. He could em have easily avoided the situation. If it’s bothering that bad, don’t stand there on stage. Fack Kevin Gates and all he stands for. This guy is a dumbass. His music sucks. Trap sucks. Get a life
Don’t you know that penitentiary rules are in affect?
Dnt stand there on stage? Wtf are you talking about you moron. I should kick yr fkng face in!!!!!
This guy kicks it with stitches and doesn’t check his white ass for saying the word nigga over and over like he’s entitled. Fuck Kevin Gates
What do you expect, he a pussy. Anybody who fuck with a downsyndrome-boi like “Snitches” is a disgrace, a fukin embarrassment. Kevin would never check Snitches cus he scared of him. Kevin only picks fights with girls, smfh.
@UNDOPE….FUCK YOU…IF IT WAS A MAN TOUCHING A WOMAN WHILE SHE WAS PERFOMING AND SHE KICKED HIM EVERYBODY WOULD HAVE BEEN CLAPPING…THE POINT IS DON’T TOUCH SOMEONE’S ELSE PRIVATE PARTS…PERFOMING DOESN’T GIVE FANS A RIGHT TO TOUCH YOUR CROUCH
Mane……fuck this woman beating pussynigga Kevin GAYtes . Even thisl nigga music is trash.
Dumb talking dude! Any man that beat on women or hit them please die! I hate dudes that do this to our beautiful women. And… That goes for all women, black and white etc… Wake up men!
The double standards of life