Name: Kevin Gates on Hustle and Getting Out of Hard Times
Uploaded: 2025-07-28T14:30:12.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Kevin Gates on Hustle and Getting Out of Hard Times' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2025-07-28. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Kevin Gates on Hustle and Getting Out of Hard Times' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2025-07-28. Transcript available.

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 to be locked in and you got to be
focused whatever
your hustle is you got to give it 110 because being from louisiana ain't really
nothing to do
but dial go to jail yeah so whatever it is that you focus on you got to be
locked in
like juvenile say we snatched out the holes and bows and retenters we didn't
give a we bow for three
minutes i might have said it backwards that's all right look man we'll we could
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 put up a
sign you get like a i started off working at um they got a they got a car wash
on corset and that was
my first job washing calls with that 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 washer
you dry it off and that's
how i learned how to get the fender well get the fender wells and the door jams
last oh yeah why
because that's where all the dirt is so if you drying the car you got to try to
buy the other
car first then you go back and get the fender yeah back and get the door jams
and the fender wells
last that's where all the dirt is because otherwise you're going to get the rag
dirty and put it
you're going to put dirt on it yeah yeah and then even when you and then even
when you wipe the rims
you hold the towel and wipe the rims you spray the you spray the tie off but
you hold the tile and wipe
the rims on the inside clean them real good yeah and the best thing to clean
windows i mean the white
windows with his newspaper oh yeah no streaks yeah why was that i wonder i don't
know i know it don't
leave no streets make it look good yeah that was nice dude yeah when i was
growing up washing
your car was one of the it was one of the best things you could do of course
could you leave that
that thing felt beautiful boy that was your that was your that was your office
yeah that was your
office that was your escape ain't nothing like a little late night ride yeah
off the house yeah
dude i remember exactly if i lit it if i lit a cigarette at this one point
right when i take off
out of work it would get me all the way home i pull up right into the driveway
when that cigarette
was done it was like this perfect kind of like kind of seance that i had in my
life i love that
that was your first call my first call was a 84 ford escort that was chill but
somebody first
calls a nissan central yeah really what year was it i don't know the old the oh
oh pull one up
just pull up a uh pull up a tan one pull up pull up a 1990 let's see what they
got let's see if we close on
it that nissan i was a little newer than that no oh yeah that's a little too
old pull up a uh 2001
that's it right there oh yeah that tasted boy yeah
and so so your first hustle was car washing and did you get into stuff in the
streets did you get
into stuff that was kind of illegal type of stuff or no yeah a little bit yeah
not nothing major but a
little bit i did a little something yeah was it does it feel like if you grow
up in certain areas that
you have to do that you're gonna want to they're the only people getting money
right that's what a
girl's like yeah oh yeah the girl's like somebody got a little bit of cash like
i remember telling uh
gillie and whileo i was like man when i was young i remember all i wanted was a
car some money a
girlfriend and a gun yeah because that's all you see oh yeah yeah i gotta pull
out a bank road that
was just you know just to show it all then they start did they start calling it
rex yeah yeah we got
rex we will stay one from stacks to rex yeah i think the name the do you think
like like over the
years you hear like things have changed like the hood the block uh the trenches
the mud like it all
there's always kind of this evolution of the name i feel like man we always i
call it the section
yeah they from the section they're from our section yeah are they from out the
section yeah
like if somebody if if you from my section or you from my area where i'm at at
the time and i'm
oh yeah he from out the section right or i'm asking or say i'm just coming home
from jail and
i see new faces like who are they from out the section yeah that's such and
such people that's
such and such people you know what i'm saying yeah do you feel like that do you
have to live in fear
like in like in the section do you feel like in a black area do you have to
live in fear did it feel like
no because it's anything that you do every day is going to feel regular to you
you know anything that
is new to you say if it's new if it's new okay you're going to be a little
apprehensive you know
what i'm saying so you're going to have to sit back scope it out and then you
fall in you know you
in the mix now but if you grew up in them type of environments it ain't gonna
feel like somewhat
dangerous it's gonna feel like home oh yeah so whatever go on it just went on
right you don't
know any different from the outside looking in it's like oh god it's so
horrible there but when you in
it it's like man that's my people this is my auntie this is my cousin this you
know this is the culture
yeah it's like right a fist don't know it's in water really it's family you
know yeah do you think
because you always hear over the years you hear like we got to change these
areas right you hear
like you have people we got to make things safer we got to change these areas
um do you think that
the people actually in those communities do you think they really want those
communities to change or
that is if given the opportunity does the question make any sense to you or no
it make a lot okay if
given the opportunity anybody would do better right people do a man uh yeah
this is a wise quote a man
is what he know not what he's told and i'll say it in like a vernacular okay
man is what he knows
and not what he's told you are what you know not what you told you are what you
do not what you say you
will do so i could sit around and somebody could tell me man you know what you
should change and
you should do this and there's so many other opportunities but if i've never
been exposed
to these opportunities all i know is what i know right and that's like that's
what recidivism that's
people that can repeat offenders habitual offenders because it's recidivism
because they don't know
anything but what they know and i was like that i was locked in focused on one
thing until i started
experiencing other things i brought my horizon i opened my mind yeah oh i've
watched a lot of uh interviews
with you man and a lot of it's been really fascinating man i i feel really
thankful that you're
here today to spend time oh what an ambient