Kevin Gates

Kevin Gates streamed a freestyle, so good we wish he would have kept for a mixtape: The Law

Two lyrical wonders with too few breathing time between 'em. We're talkin' bout, if you weren't hooked on his official youtube channel (kevingatesTV), 'Flicka Da Wrist' and 'The Law'. Provocative and very intuitive like always, Gates provides the traps and rap fiends with exactly what they crave for: that straight out raw, no fake, no phony, no jokes, the songs are like two quick jabs that'll wake you from your ataraxia.

His style has gotten under our skin by now. Some bars he's showing off with his mob ties, or rap industry friends (only the most refined artists, like Rico Love, or Gucci Mane), other bars he's giving out gold keys to surviving in the hood, sometimes he's reminiscing past incarceration, other times he's goin' all metaphorical on us, screwin' with our heads, mumbling that word play that we all love.

This particular song, 'The Law', ends in a peculiar manner. After another sheer rap skills exposition, he tells of the ordeal he went through when losing his daughter during his incarceration, and then right afterwards, losing his granddad. We all been through that, and Gates already predicted that much with the verse "Death in the family, damn, everybody feel it", but what he felt we fear few men can go through without having to go to a shrink. The man settled his soul by studying psychology. He's a do it yourself kinda guy. We all cope our different ways. Anyway, one line shook us from head to toe, in the ending there, and it's the line we'd like to finish this article. It's "It was when my grandfather died when I really / Went outside and said I'mma make the streets cry this year!"

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