Gibbs using the first official leak from A Cold Day in Hell to take tacit slaps at Rick Ross, make Steven Seagal references, and talk about his preference for the CPA over the DEA. Finally, a rap song I can play for my father. Gibbs has staked his career on honesty and rapping extraordinarily well. Hence, the line “I speak a foreign language, I think they call it the truth.” His values are old-fashioned and so is his aesthetic, but it’s never revivalist and rarely nostalgic. Unless you consider nostalgia to be curb stomping everything that aggravates you. Maybe it is. Modernity enjoys Big Sean after all.
Personally, I prefer Gibbs over Burn One instrumentals to the bell-ringing “BMF” beat that J.U.S.T.I.C.E. League gave him. But while I don’t see this getting radio play, Gibbs is making the kind of subtle anthems that could own car stereos all throughout areas forced to fork over $4.00 a gallon. If you can make music that people like to roll to, you will always eat well.
Download: (Via TSS)
MP3: Freddie Gibbs-“187 Proof”
