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drug trafficking was prominent so that’s what turned it
to the impoverished city itis taday but it has so much
culture/history and that’s what makes it special. 'm
blessed! to have been able to experience and grow up
in a city like that, it made me the way Lam it has it’s
good and its bad but nonetheless Pm forever grateful
and thankli

East Oakland tl I die, they say you can make it here
you can make it anywhere. ABM: What inspires you
aan artist and what are your early influences? 3
Kings Gunna: Other artist and life experiences

inspire me. I believe in real music, music that is written
about real things, real experiences, or with real mean-
ing, It doesn’t necessarily have to be hip-hop ot

either it just has to be put together well. Don't get me
wrong though I rock with function music and I make
function music as long as its real and something that
you know about or that you like doin cuz that’s what
makes it authentic and what makes me inspired is
artist that can spit about their ives and inspire other
people. Antist like Nipscy Huss, ‘Tupac Shakur, 50
Cent, Philthy Rich, Meck Mil, YG, Jeezy, and Boosie
are all artist that I ook up to. These are artist that
came from my similar background, my similar situa-
tion and made something out of it and what they rap
about is real life experiences of shit that they've done
or seen and that within itself is keepin it real to the
They not just makin music cuz it sells they
makin music cuz its from the heart, feel me? So that’s
‘what inspires me to be the artist that Iam, one that
speaks from the heart not afraid to say shit ya know?

ly rap about? 3
tell me you
sound different on different tracks and I always tell
them like life is good and bad you don't just get one
you get both so you cant expect me to rap about posi-
tive conversations all the time and you cant expect me
to rap about negative conversations all the time ya feel
me? cuz my life has ups and downs. Hike to turn up
and party but I also got shit that u struggle wit, stress
over, and gotta deal with everyday so I put all that in to
my music, With that being said all my song will draw

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a variety of emotions from the listener because I cap-
ture different feclings in certain songs at differ

points ABM: What are your last fll length release

people can go check out right now23 Kings Gunna:

Go cop that hostile takeover on soundeloud once
again that wwwsoundcloiud.com/3kings_ gunna.
By Any Means necessary just dropped June 27th
soif you aint heard it you need to learn about
it and Go check that you tube channel under
BM: What are you currently
Working on?3 Kings Gunna: [just shot 4 new
videos for the next four singles off of By Any
Means Necessary. So subscribe to my youtube
channel and look out for the video series coming,
Tow can people reach you?3 Kings
nd cect on 1G

5/0 to all bay music they stay holdin a
brotha down since Iwas comin out the gates with
ny first project they re
young nigga ya feel me? And watch where I t
the skys the limit, S/o bay area compass they
first to pick up on my single hurricane from my first
release Hostile Takeover they really took it and ran
\with it put us on the compilation tape and on the
S/o my whole squad everybody that’s there
when I need em and S/o my inspirations the ones
that [look up to that keep me writing and in the
booth Pac Nip Boosie Meek YG Jeezy all my niggas
hip hop alive.

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