Kevin Gates recently sat down with Shade 45’s own Hip Hop radio legend Sway Calloway about meeting Lil Wayne for the first time.
"When Wayne sat across that table with Mack Maine—me and Fee sitting right there," says Gates, "and Wayne says 'man if you not over here, you ain't gon' eat. If you not over here, you know what I'ma do to you if you not over here?"
After Gates asked the Hip Hop icon to elaborate, Wayne, by Gates account, replied with “I’ma eat ‘chu.”
The incident apparently rocked the Baton Rouge spitter to his core when he received the thinly veiled threat of being blackballed from the industry, especially when he was just getting his feet wet at the time. "That was the scariest moment of my life," admits Gates.
"I'm making a transition from being in these streets. I hate to even namedrop, I hate to speak on this shit. But that was the scariest moment of my life when you a young artist, you trying to learn the game, you don't really know the game, and you got an artist at the top telling you that if you don't sign over here all or nothin', you ain' going to sign nowhere," he added.
Check out the interview below.