India, Jan. 29 -- Baton Rouge rapper, Kevin Gates, caused quite a row on Wednesday by opening up on some of this life's traumatic experiences in a freewheeling interview with Shannon Sharpe on the 'Club Shay Shay' podcast.

From being sexually abused as a child to his mental health struggles, the 39-year-old laid bare his life for Shannon Sharpe and viewers, leaving many shocked.

One such experience that the rapper recounted was being suicidal around 2020 when the COVID-19 pandemic hit, and he was in a bad mental state. He told Sharpe that he even considered shooting himself in the head over the struggles. Gates revealed that he had completely lost his will to live in that phase.

"I ain't wanna live," he said. "I done shot myself in the...