That’s dope. With this new Atlantic Records partnership, what do you hope to accomplish?

Kevin Gates: [I feel like] I’m in college again. I have a label called BWA, Bread Winnner’s Association, so as I partner with Atlantic, I’m learning the mechanics. I’m learning the inner workings of a label. So I can apply those same things to my structure. I’m learning how to structure a label.

How are you measuring your success?

Kevin Gates: When I come to New York and people take pictures with me that lets me know one thing: I’m on the right path. Now we got to make it so that we can’t go in any airport without causing unlawful assembly and pandemonium. Because if I go in an airport and everybody stop and rush me and I disrupt business, that’s pandemonium. And then it’s all these people around me taking pictures, signing autographs, that’s unlawful assembly. So when I start catching those kind of charges, we know we’re doing what we suppose to do.

With each mixtape gaining popularity and doing better and better on the charts what has that done for you?

Kevin Gates: I don’t pay attention to numbers. Numbers lie. People make numbers say what they want them to say. I can write 600 and you can add a 0 at the end. People have told me how great the mixtape is doing but I don’t really feel like that’s all that great to me. Because we don’t got people waiting at the airport. They’re not rushing us through the line yet.

How did you first link up with Pusha T?

Kevin Gates: I didn’t meet him at first; we met at a video shoot. I had cut a bunch of different hooks and I guess my team was in contact with his team and he liked the song. I put a verse at the end of it. I was surprised that he would even pick a hook on one of my songs. You like me?

You and Lil Boosie  had a song together back in 2006. Since his release, have you two reconnected?

Kevin Gates: I haven’t spoken with him since he’s been reinserted back into society, but I know that we know a lot of the same people. And the reason I haven’t reached out to him is because I know things are probably going a million miles per hour for him right now, so I just wanted to let him get settled and get in his own space. Eventually, we’ll step inside the booth, loosen up the tie. Superman is still alive.