![]() Gates was signed to the management wing of the label later that year. Although he was signed to the management wing, Gates never signed a record deal with Young Money. In 2012, he earned some buzz with the mixtape Make ‘Em Believe. He also caught the attention of Lil Wayne‘s record label, Young Money Entertainment. Due to his good behavior, he got an early release.Īfter his stint in prison, Gates began working on music again almost immediately. During this time, he pursued and earned a Master’s degree in psychology through a prison education program. Unfortunately, Gates had a brush with the law soon, and he had to spend more than two years in prison. Kevin Gates began his career in the year 2005 after he signed to Dead Game Records, a local label. His father died of complications from AIDS when Gates was 14 years old. He lost contact with his father at a young age, but he later reconnected with him as a teenager. However, rap wasn’t always his focus, Gates was caught up in street life and all that entails for all of his youth, which resulted to him being arrested for the first time in 1999 at the age of 13 for joyriding in a stolen vehicle as a passenger. Gates is an American rapper, singer, and entrepreneur currently signed to Bread Winners’ Association with a partnership with Atlantic Records. Kevin Gates a Baton Rouge native was born as Kevin Jerome Gilyard on February 5, 1986, to a Puerto Rican mother and an African American father.
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