Name: Kevin Gates | This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von #593
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Kevin Gates | This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von #593' from Theo Von on Comedy Buff. Published 2025-07-01. Transcript available.

Kevin Gates | This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von #593

we're getting into the final shows for the return of the rat tour gosh this red
is almost fully
returned um july 9th will be in philadelphia rochester uh new york on july 10th
then we're
in detroit after that uh moving on we're in los angeles anaheim uh at the honda
center in
oceanside california uh you can get all your tickets at theovahn.com slash t-o-u-r
and uh just
thank you so much uh for your support today's guest is a musician out of baton
roach louisiana baby out
the boot he crosses many genres like rap r&b soul he does it all this dog he'll
wanna want he'll wanna
one he's got a new album on the way luca brasi four and he's heading out on a
huge tour this october
i'm grateful to sit down with my louisiana amigo mr kevin gates
it has tough man yeah i got this from uh i collect these kind of hits i bought
two of them this time
because i put dents in them really every time i travel what just traveling
setting it somewhere and
they get smushed every time yeah yeah a hat is kind of hard to take care of
that's the only thing i
don't love about a hat like if i'm on a plane i'll put it and then i'll take a
nap it'll fall off the
seat or something every time um yeah you look sharp man thank you recently i
started feeling in my own
life man i wish that i dressed up a little bit more it's like how you do
anything is how you do
everything so i'm like i prepare to for something great to happen every time i
leave the house i
prepare for something great to happen like even when i go to the gym i prepare
for something great to
happen yeah that's an energy i think i just started thinking that like yeah i
want to i want to just
because then i want to be excited about how i even look you know like i never i
mean i only got
well i got multiple suits but i only got like four colors that i wear i got a
gray suit got like three
or four of them got like three or four black suits got like three or four navy
suits and i got like
three or four they like different shades so i say like a tan and a darker tan
you like them yeah i just love suits i love them they look fly you've always
been pretty stylish
actually i remember you and i went to a super bowl together i don't know if you
remember it or not
yeah that's when i had the turtleneck on with the slack yeah that's when i
realized i was like oh kevin's
doing something different because you hear rumors about kevin you hear people
like kevin you know kevin
i'm like bigfoot yeah he's staring at the moon kevin out there he you know he
he hiding in the tree
branches and stuff you hear a lot of rumors like that you know like shooting my
bow and arrow yeah
he's out there he babysitting bats or something excuse me shout out to mike at
uh at cabela's
he's your guy yeah he the one who um he he dialed my bow and arrow in for me
like dialed it in like
set the sights on it for me i haven't used one but yeah you hear everything
about that kevin gates he's
out there he breastfeeding pelicans and stuff like that you hear a lot of the
mystery right the lore
and i love the lore because it makes things really it's like advertising
without you really doing
anything in a way except being yourself but i remember we were on a like a limo
bus they were
taking us to the super bowl everybody's on their phones or something like that
kevin just sitting
there just look you look like the happiest guy in the thing it's um it's this
thing i do called breathwork
mm-hmm and i think i said it one time in another interview but like i'm super
into like navy seals
and shit i like watch don't don't don't think i'm weird but i am oh yeah i just
sit there and watch
like videos or like the training that they do and i watch people take the navy
seal test and fail and
then try to come back and do it and i just watch that shit and i'll be watching
like david goggins and
and shit like that and it's like you know the first thing they teach them how
to do is breathe
so that's why i'll be doing the box breathing and it really helped with anxiety
explain it to me
you you inhale for four seconds it's like you pretend like you're looking at a
box you inhale for four
seconds you hold it you exhale for four seconds and then you hold it and it
keep you super calm
and does it get a little scary at certain points or hard to remember i guess
you just get used to the
pattern if it if it if you ever get off you just reconnect to your breath
because you're gonna talk
you're gonna interrupt yourself right then you reconnect to your breath and it
keep you calm like
no anxiety yeah oh yeah i get right i get rattled pretty easy and i'm an over
thinker like
especially if i'm about to go somewhere like i put unrealistic expectations on
myself about the
outcome yeah and we say that we and i might say that i'm going in there with a
positive attitude but
oh i want to know everything yeah i want to know how it's going to go i want to
be able to like
make sure i'm okay no matter what's going on i knew this shit was going to be
cool because i was
already around you at the super bowl i was like man that dude crazy oh i don't
think anybody could
out crazy you at this point kevin you know you lost everybody man yeah it's
gonna be a little hot
and you can maybe scooch to your left just a little bit do we have any ice we
don't have any i don't
need no ice i'm good okay i'd like i was kind of nervous to talk to you because
i've known of you
you know i'm from louisiana so i've known about you like louisiana bread even
growing up i remember
the first time i ever heard about you some this girl i was talking to from bogalusa
was like have
you heard of kevin gates and i thought it was a subdivision and it is it is
really
it is now kevin gates damn i said i don't know i don't know you know i got a
friend that lives in
meadowbrook or whatever but i've never been over there and she's like no you
have to hear some of
what this guy's doing and it was intense it reminded the first time i listened
to your music
it reminded me the first time i saw ufc i was like some of this stuff is a
little too hard for me
you know because it's you your stuff is very it's not all of it but some of us
it's graphic it is real
it's very really it's really raw that's my perception of it yeah um but so that's
how i got introduced to
you obviously was just from being in louisiana um do you miss those days in louisiana
coming up what was
that like for you just kind of coming up when you look back on it now i'm
grateful for louisiana
because it made me everything that i am right now and the things that we
cherish other people don't
really cherish when you go other places and then with us having that southern
hospitality like yes sir
no sir don't call me that you make me feel old when you go other places but we
used to catch whoopings
for not saying yes sir no sir yes ma'am no ma'am yeah you know i'd have been
beat with extension
cords and whatever they could find yeah oh yeah go get a branch out the tree go
get something oh dude
my mother would beat me with my younger siblings she would i'm like god damn
both of us getting it
grabbed by the ankle yeah like damn what um what would what was someone like
did you ever did you get to
work with other artists i know people ask you that kind of stuff all the time
but growing up like
when i was coming up they had like uh mr p uh master p mystical um master p did
a song together
and i done done i done work with wayne we talking about only louisiana yeah i'm
just talking about
kind of that that time i don't work with wayne i don't work with master p um if
you want to go
currently i don't work with fredo bang nba young boy tech um oh yeah i heard
that song you got with
young boy i just heard it the other day i don't know who you say i am yeah yeah
yeah yeah they had
i'm trying to think oh partners in crime remember them yeah it's that new mr amina
with that
dude they had partners in crime unlv oh is that unlv pump the pump the party
they had um i'm trying
to think of who else we love oh mystical was the best mystical was great bro i
like that bitch i'm
on that boot camp yeah danger yeah i like that he kind of had his own thing and
he had those horns in
it yeah if we going that way i like fiend mr magic i liked all i liked
everything that was coming out
oh you gotta say soldier slim oh yeah you gotta say soldier slim i didn't i don't
somebody didn't put me
on to a lot of soldiers you gotta say stone and like you gotta say the d boys
you got to say all of
them i think some of that i didn't get put on then yeah but i love dude that
was a special time i felt
like in louisiana because every oh there was so many eyes were focused on it
they had like just so much
sound coming out of there still do yeah like the sound different oh yeah well
things have changed
so much but at that time i just felt like i don't know there was something
really spectacular about it
at that time we still got our own signature song louisiana like that's where
the flavor is oh yeah you
get a you get a container of juice and you sit it on the table the flavor falls
to the bottom you have
to shake it up for the flavor to go to the top yeah the flavor always at the
bottom yeah the bottom of
the map that's it the bottom of the map man the bottom of the boot yeah dude i
love that time that
was a special time growing up man what was the styles that y'all had and our
tan art because in
covington we had like jabo jeans yeah polo with the big horse remember people
wear that sometimes
he'll figure polo crazy i want polo yeah i could see that i want polo i could
see that dead caps
collars jabo jabo's um i did alforce ones but my thing was the adidas stan smiths
oh yeah i did
the adidas stan smiths almost wore those today all day i dream about stacks
yeah dude it was some
that was a great time bro i mean it's all times are great but that was a
special time
it's just something you and i can't you know we both have a little bit of
similarity of that
yeah i was born in 86 so yeah you're younger than me what would do you ever get
to see mystical around
the way or no i seen him a few times when he was out of prison but i haven't
seen him since then yeah
yeah i'm trying to think i remember we go to the rec center over at br uh baton
rouge by lsu
yep and uh master p and his they would be in there playing ball uh with like
silk not i don't know if
see murder might have been in and out of there but they definitely had silk was
in there
yeah silk stay out here no does he yeah i'll be seeing him at 24 24 hours let's
go every now and
then when i used to go there yeah i just see him in that hoop and still hoop
yeah that was a special
time though man that was a big like explosion for i felt like uh for louisiana
rap um when you think
of like i know you there was a lot of hustling and stuff when you grew up what
do you what was it
like like the hustle like when people say i had to hustle a lot when i was
young like what does that mean
exactly hustle yeah i know what it means like you have to grind you got to stay
busy you got to figure
things out you got to be locked in and you got to be focused yeah whatever your
hustle is you got to
give it 110 because being from louisiana ain't really nothing to do but die or
go to jail yeah so
whatever it is that you focus on you got to be locked in like juveniles say we
snatched all the
holes and bows and retenants we didn't give a fuck if we bow for three minutes
i might have said it backwards that's all right look man we'll we can edit it
into the correct format
um what was your what was some of your hustles as a youngster what kind of hustling
did you have to do
personally i started off washing calls yeah what just like in the yard you to
put up a sign or you get
like a i started off working at um they got a they got a car wash on course and
that was my first job
washing calls with it like they had an inside and outside yeah inside and
outside i started on a
vacuum yeah and then i started being like once it come through the washe