I Don T Get Rich Analysis

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Gates, “I Don’t Get Tired”

Kevin Gates is an inspirational artist. He went from living down in the streets to making his life as a successful artist. From his first song successful song “Get in the way” to his last top hit “I Don’t Get Tired”. Gates is continuing to make his singing career more successful, and making rap look even better.
Kevin Gates was born on February 5, 1986, in Baton Rouge, LA. Gates was born in a single parent household. Like any other kid who grew up in the Ghetto, Gates grew up around drugs, alcohol and gangs. When Gates mom married his step-dad, Gates was never treated equal as his younger siblings. When Gates finally decided to follow the right path, was because of his Grandfather. It was in his Grandparents home …show more content…

Gates song “#IDGT’ has many meanings to it. What do you think it means? One reason this song is successful is because of the inspirational message of Gates referring to events in his life that also could also relate to people in their life and people outside the rap game. The song is also telling you to work hard, play hard, live hard, even if there are rough times. To show that the song talks about working hard through rough times, the song “I Don’t Get Tired” uses figurative language to show the main message in the song. In the song Gates says “I want them dead presidents” (l,2), Gates is referring to wanting money. Gates also says “Get it, get fly, I got six jobs I don’t tired” (l,4), and he is saying that even he has “six jobs” and even though he has 6 jobs he doesn’t get tired. Gates refers to many other things, another example is “I was tryna get it how I live”(l,1) he is saying to make the best of what you have. Also Gates says “Don’t mimic pretenders, just be who you are” he is saying to just be yourself, to never pretend to something that you aren’t in life. So Gates, refers to many thing in the song that are inspirational to him and could be inspirational to other people in the

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