Kevin Gates Says He Was Molested As A Child: “Music Was An Escape”

Kevin Gates Says He Grew Up Real Violent & Aggressive Because He Was Molested As A Child

Kevin Gates is one of the toughest hood rappers and his lyrics are often violent in the early days of his career. However, little is known about why he’s like that until now. In a recent interview, Gates explained his predicaments.

According to Kevin Gates, he turned to music to escape the trauma of being molested as a child.

“I’mma say something, I never said this in no interview, no podcast or anything like that. I grew up real, real violent. Real aggressive. Not because I wanted to be, ’cause I was molested when I was a child,” Kevin told Mike Tyson.

“I had this fear of being vulnerable so I took every kind of martial art you can take and I even boxed, I did everything,” he continued.

“I wanted to be the toughest person on earth, but writing and making music was always an escape for me. Like, I never had the nuts to come out and say that. This my first time saying this today.”

The rapper who recently crashed his Lamborghini SUV, also talked about his reputation.

“That’s my story. But it was really everything that I did, even when people say like, ‘Kevin Gates, he’s this killer,’ I’m not. I’m not. But, at the end of the day, I started, we started killing and things of that nature because we had a fear of being vulnerable.”