Baby Faced Crooner: Freddie Gibbs & Kaytranada Heat Up the Summer
Evan Nabavian owns several Harold’s franchises. It helps to enumerate the reasons why Freddie Gibbs might be the best rapper alive. He straddles seldom-crossed genre boundaries while pleasing...
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The World is My Ashtray: Freddie Gibbs & Ski Beatz
Thomas Johnson rides for black diamonds Freddie Gibbs’ music has always straddled the line between thuggery and attempts to reconcile it. His narration of failed relationships, how he funded his...
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A Pimp C parable underscores the latest Gangsta Gibbs mini-movie: “Dear Lord, I know you don’t condone the things I be doing out here in these streets. And I hope that, you can overlook the wrong that...
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Cocaine Parties are Better than No Parties: Freddie Gibbs Defenestrates Your...
Mobb Deen will never stop going in. Since I first started following him in 2009, one of the things I’ve always appreciated about Freddie Gibbs is how rarely he does ‘freestyles’ or ‘[insert rapper...
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Down But Not Out: On Freddie Gibbs’‘You Only Live 2wice’
Deen is not here for your Woody Allen apologies. 2016 was a crap year for a good chunk of the planet but Freddie Gibbs would probably argue that he had a worse year than most. Artistically, he started...
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Freddie’s Back: The Return of Gangsta Gibbs
This website is user-supported. Any donation is immensely appreciated: https://www.patreon.com/passionweiss MobbDeen freestyles over “Everybody Loves the Sunshine.” Gangsta Gibbs dropped last year’s...
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Half a Milli off a Motorola: Freddie Gibbs is a Nervous System Stimulant on...
Steven Louis is the Mike Miller of the bakin’ soda. Fetti, the nine-track collaboration between Curren$y, Freddie Gibbs and The Alchemist that dropped on Halloween, is lush and endlessly listenable...
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Audio Dope 2: Vault Full of Fetti
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Bridges Burn, Tables Turn: Freddie Gibbs & Madlib’s Bandana
Please help us make sure we won’t have to start moving thangs. Support Passion of the Weiss by subscribing to our Patreon. Only union Joel Biswas got is the Western. Once upon a time, Madlib and...
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Butter, Cream, Product: Freddie Gibbs and the Alchemist Serve Up ‘ALFREDO’
We still twist up in the Chevy or the ‘Lac, goddammit. Please support your perennial Street Pulitzer nominees by subscribing to Passion of the Weiss on Patreon. Steven Louis is not an essential...
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