Who Is Kevin Gates? Bio, Career, Early Life, Net Worth, Personal Life & More!

As of June 2022, it is thought that Kevin Gates’ net worth is about $1 million.

Kevin Jerome Gilyard is a rapper and singer from Louisiana who is better known by his stage name, “Kevin Gates.”

When he signed with the label Dead Game Records in 2005, he became well-known. Pick of Da Litter, Gate’s first album, came out in 2007.

He is signed to Bread Winners right now, and they work together with Atlantic Records.

 Kevin Gates Career

Kevin started his professional career when he was 18 and went to a professional studio for the first time. He fell in love with music and got the attention of Dead Game Records, which gave him a contract in 2007. Kevin’s first big-time mixtapes, Pick of the Litter and All or Nothing, came out the very next year. Kevin talked about “a lot of pain…a lot of true stories” on these two mixtapes.

He then spent all of his free time giving away thousands of CDs every day. Slowly but surely, word of his music started to spread like wildfire. Soon, he was playing at events and getting paid $600 to $1,000. A lot of people came to hear him play. Just as things were getting better for Kevin and Boosie Badazz, who he was working with, they were both arrested and sent to prison on separate charges. Kevin didn’t get out of jail until 2011, but as soon as he did, he went right back to work. He had a lot of new fans, and a lot of them wanted new music, so he went to work.

Kevin Gates came up with the idea to release mixtapes like I Don’t Know What to Call It, Vol. 1, In the Meantime, Vol. 2, and Make ‘Em Believe. Lil Wayne and his record label, Young Money Entertainment, heard about him because of this work and the buzz it was getting. They offered him a deal. But Gates politely declined after hearing Cash Money Records co-founder Birdman talk about how it took him 20 years to build the Cash Money Records brand.

Then, Gates put out the mixtape Luca Brasi Story, which rolling stone called one of the 20 best hip-hop albums of 2013. In the same year, Kevin put out another album called Stranger Than Fiction. It had Juicy J and Wiz Khalifa on it, and Spin, Complex, Pitchfork, and everyone else loved it. He got a contract with Atlantic Records and put out a bunch of mixtapes. At the same time, Kevin worked with several well-known rappers, such as Jamie Foxx, Ty Dolla Sign, and 2 Chainz.

 Kevin Gates Early Life

As Kevin Jerome Gilyard, he was born on the 5th of February 1986 in New Orleans, but he was reared in Baton Rouge after his family of four relocated to the city. Kevin, the middle child in a family of three, did not meet his biological father until eighth grade when he was a senior in high school.

While growing up, Kevin’s family had a large collection of music CDs and vinyl albums, and he was quickly enamored by artists like Snoop Dogg and Master P, as well as Bone Thugs-N-Harmony and Dr. Dre. Listening to music quickly evolved into a therapeutic tool for him. Kevin has also admitted that he’s depressed. His family used to have fun impersonating the rappers they saw on TV before he became a professional rapper. He remembers being a bit of an outsider in middle school. He was frequently the object of taunts and epithets.

Kevin turned to street life to generate money while he was not working in the music industry. He spent a lot of time with his uncle, rather than with older people, and felt more comfortable with those who were older than he. ” In addition, his great-grandfather was the object of his intense affection. Kevin briefly attended Baton Rouge Community College when he was 17 years old.

Kevin Gates Net Worth

As of 2022, Kevin Gates Net Worth is estimated to be around $1.5 million. We can say that he is still at the beginning of his career and it looks like in the upcoming year he will be on the list of top rappers. Gates has already earned a lot of popularity in the music industry. He began his career at an early age and received various accolades and awards throughout his career.

I Don’t Get Tired (#IDGT) is an energy drink that Kevin released in the middle of 2014, and he also released a song with the same name. Among Kevin’s many musical heroes are the likes of Nas, Biggie Smalls, Tupac Shakur, Eminem, and Jay-Z, among others. Kevin Gates earns $400,000 a year, and that sum, like his net worth, is steadily rising. He has more than 7.5 million subscribers on his YouTube channel.

 Kevin Gates Personal Life

Kevin Gates and Dreka Haynes began dating in 2004 and married in 2012 after a long engagement of almost a decade. Kevin Gates married Dreka, his longtime girlfriend, and business partner, and manager, in October of 2015. Khaza Kamil Gates and Islah Karen Gates are the children of Kevin and Dreka.

 Kevin Gates Biography

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