MobbDeen: The Video for Freddie Gibbs’“BFK.” Or How To Set Your Project Off....
Deen stays ’bout it. Hey there. It’s your resident Freddie Gibbs stan again. Call me biased, but Baby Face Killa hasn’t left the rotation since it dropped. But you already knew that. In any event,...
View Article360 —“Own Thing Remix” ft. Jadakiss & Freddie Gibbs
If I was a rapper with a budget, I would fork over cash for features to only a few: Freddie Gibbs, Gunplay, Roc Marciano, Kendrick Lamar, or Schoolboy Q. Even when those guys mail in a verse, it still...
View ArticleMobbDeen: The First Freddie Gibbs Song of 2013 co-starring Y.G. & Lil Sodi
Deen’s been sleeping so much he started getting carded again. Hola. Hope you enjoyed the holidays. I didn’t – being crippled and all, but that ain’t your problem. Guess it’s back to the grind again...
View ArticleGreetings From Gary & Mike: Freddie Gibbs Explains the time the King of Pop...
“I’m seeing killers cry…with tears in their eyes.” “I know Mike liked motherfucking fried chicken. I know that for a fact. Finger licking good.” I never understood the Gibbs is boring slander. He...
View ArticleShots Fired Episode 21: Ballin’ w/ Freddie Gibbs
In what might be the appropriate guest for a podcast named Shots Fired, we had Gangsta Gibbs on this week’s episode. Since Freddie is on the short-list of both best rappers breathing and most...
View ArticleFreddie Gibbs & Problem –“187″
Gangsta Gibbs has laid low for most of the year. But as Chance the Rapper said, everyone dies in the summer, so it’s fitting that he’s returned to the warpath. MadGibbs is finished and ESGN is...
View ArticleFreddie “Soprano” Gibbs
For rap music’s sake, let’s hope that Gangsta Gibbs never finds peace nor serenity. There is something pure and cathartic about watching him spit ferociously over soul beats. Freddie Soprano calling...
View ArticleVideo: Freddie Gibbs –“Eastside Moonwalker”
For someone whose music is theoretically the furthest thing from fun, I have a lot of fun listening to Freddie Gibbs. This makes me want to moonwalk into the nearest liquor store and rob it. The title...
View ArticleMobbDeen: Freddie Gibbs’ Evil Seeds Grow Naturally
Deen is already preparing for his June 27 Celebration. If you’re a longtime Freddie Gibbs’ fan, you definitely detected a slight difference in his demeanor while he was with Young Jeezy’s CTE. One...
View ArticleFreddie Gibbs and the Art of Laying it Down
As I Tweeted yesterday, I listened to ESGN at the gym and after 45 minutes was asked to leave for trying to stick up the Gatorade machine. Gibbs dropping arguably the most hardest video since “We...
View ArticleGangsta Gibbs & Giftz – Money Making Mitch
Jordan Pedersen has not seen Paid in Full, but he was a big fan of ER. The degree to which a rapper is freed from the need to say much of anything is in direct relation to how good said rapper is at...
View ArticleFreddie Gibbs & Madlib Get Deeper
The odds of Freddie Gibbs delivering audio dope when he starts a song off with the word “Slamming,” are even higher than the winning percentage of a regular Gangsta Gibbs song — or even higher than...
View ArticleFreddie Gibbs & Madlib Go to Harold’s
Part of Gibbs and Madlib’s campaign to get people to no longer rely on KFC. We all know the chicken is mostly worthless there and the sides are what it’s all about. Harold’s is a Windy City...
View ArticleStrangle Holds: Flume & Freddie Gibbs
Will Hagle has seen you’ve played knifey spooney before. Flume’s self-titled debut album was released less than a year ago, but the SoundCloud comments on the LP’s re-released, revamped “Holdin’ On”...
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...
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 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$y’s music seems futile. The kush is from L.A. and the wax is from the Bay. The...
View ArticleThe Most Villainous: Freddie Gibbs & Madlib Break the Piñata
Max Bell is not against rap or those thugs. Freddie Gibbs rose from scary Gary to Interscope refugee to widespread critical adoration. Some argue that the dexterous Gibbs can rap well over anything....
View ArticleGangster Nouveaux: The Return of the Bayou, Perm, Set and 50 Cent
I’ve spent a significant part of the last few years taking the death of gangster rap for granted. The narrative that I’ve run with tracks the rise in popularity of artists like (duh) Kanye West, the...
View ArticleYoung Thug, Freddie Gibbs & A$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...
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