I Decided To Lose Weight After A Baby Tried To Suck My Breast- American Rapper Kevin Gates

“Sometimes its painful to relive the past. But sometimes you have to relive the past in order to heal from it”, Kevin Gates says to open the music video for Walls Talking, which serves as a visualization for Gates battle with mental health.

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The American rapper saw a meteoric rise after the release of his first album Islah in 2016, which took Gates from mixtape rapper to Billboard Hot 100 artist.

Gates has also achieved quite the physical transformation, dropping from 310 pounds to 215 over the last couple years.

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Speaking about his weight loss, Gates had the following to say:

“I ain’t gonna lie, sometimes I be walking by the mirror and be like: what the fuck? Double take. Because I was 310 pounds and now I’m like 215-220. Now if I eat too much, I feel fat and want to just go work out.

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When I first saw myself losing a little weight, my dream was to never wear a shirt anywhere. I didn’t want to keep hiding, because it was going to make me stop working.”

“I wanted to be slim and trim like a bicycle rim. Then, once I lost that weight I saw this guy come into the gym. His stomach had that V. I was like: I want that V, I’m gonna get that V. I got that V now.”

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“To lose weight, one word: commitment. But what really did it for me. I had my shirt off and I was holding my partners baby, and his baby tried to suck my breast. You know how babies open their mouth and do that? And I was just like: I am too fucking fat.”

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‘That was the most embarrassing shit. I’m a big gorilla, but I got feelings too. That shit hurt my fucking feelings.”