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...
View ArticleBridges 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...
View ArticleAudio Dope 2: Vault Full of Fetti
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View ArticleHalf 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...
View ArticleFreddie’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...
View ArticleDown 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...
View ArticleCocaine 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...
View ArticleWhere The Scale At? Freddie Gibbs’“Fuckin Up the Count” Video
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...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleBaby 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...
View ArticleSatin Black in the Desert: Hanni El Khatib x Freddie Gibbs
Max Bell never gives up. The second season of True Detective has been cast. If only Hanni El Khatib and Freddie Gibbs had auditioned, if only they acted. Instead, both would rather reflect on 2Pac in...
View ArticleMovin’ Them Ki’s like Bob James: Freddie Gibbs & Mike Dean “Sellin’ Dope”
Deen is on the block like he’s eight feet tall I don’t recall exactly how I learned that Gangsta Gibbs and the legendary/destined to be foreverly underrated, yet, I suspect, properly paid producer,...
View ArticleThe Knicks Remix ft. Freddie Gibbs & Action Bronson & Ransom & Joey Bada$$
All in for the Freddie Gibbs and Action Bronson remake of Miami Vice. Bam Bam in all white like Don Johnson. Freddie Gibbs transforming Tubbs into an Adidas sweat-suited real killer and drug dealer....
View ArticleVideo: Freddie Gibbs & Madlib –“Harold’s”
Fried chicken, bathroom liaisons, Gary rotting in the snow, mild sauce, cookies, bandos, outstanding rapping, a loop with all the soul squeezed out of it from Madlib. What really gets me is the fries...
View ArticleYoung Thug, Freddie Gibbs & A$AP Ferg Walk Into a Bar
“My jewelry gold like the tokens at Chuck E. Cheese.” Quoth semi-professional gemologist, Jeffrey Williams. Thug raps like he’s only been eating weed brownies, Strawberry syrup and soda and molly for...
View ArticleGangster Nouveaux: The Return of the Bayou, Perm, Set and 50 Cent
I’ve spent a significant part of the last few years taking the death of gangster rap for granted. The narrative that I’ve run with tracks the rise in popularity of artists like (duh) Kanye West, the...
View ArticleThe Most Villainous: Freddie Gibbs & Madlib Break the Piñata
Max Bell is not against rap or those thugs. Freddie Gibbs rose from scary Gary to Interscope refugee to widespread critical adoration. Some argue that the dexterous Gibbs can rap well over anything....
View ArticleSpitta Andretti’s Drive In Theatre
Max Bell also enjoys the New Beverly theatre. After 30 plus projects, summarizing and/or describing the tropes of Curren$y’s music seems futile. The kush is from L.A. and the wax is from the Bay. The...
View ArticleDeuces Wild: Gangsta Gibbs & Young Chop Connect
Will Hagle blames Young Chop for getting “Guap” stuck in his head. Gangsta Gibbs. Young Chop On The Beat. Retrospectively the greatest, most unexpected soundtrack possible for the Mike Tyson v....
View ArticleMobbDeen: Freddie Gibbs – Still Livin 2…
Deen is not berserk. Gangsta Gibbs never really gives us much time to breathe. To quote that now boring, but still genius white nigga, “rap feels so empty without (him).” At least for those of us that...
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