Kevin Gates Comes Clean About Traumatic Childhood Experience

Kevin Gates is known for his musical abilities, but he opened up to Mike Tyson in a big way recently. Gates revealed something that he has never come clean about in public, because he was molested as a child.

The Louisiana rapper shared a very private story with Mike Tyson on Hotboxin with Mike Tyson about a traumatic experience that he has never spoken about publicly. Tyson got the scoop as Gates explained in crushing detail about this terrible experience he went through during a very dark time in his life.

“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.” 

“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. 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.”

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Mike Tyson then said he “knows that route, too” and he told Gates he wanted to become “the meanest motherf*cker on the planet because someone did something to him. Gates confirmed, “yes, sir, I didn’t want it to happen again, so I became this guy.”

Kevin Gates commands a lot of respect at this time in his career, but that was a hard road to travel. It turns out that a very painful memory was hiding in the back of his head for a long time. Hopefully, through Gates’ honesty he can help inspire others.