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 others Big Pussy. What I love about Gibbs is that every song is essentially filled with subliminals at his enemies. He has never assimilated […]

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 imminent. And on a day when Kendrick and Q drop one of the hardest songs of the year, Senor […]

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 knowledgeable sports fans, it seemed only natural that he would help us break down the history of athletes trying to rap. […]

“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 remains the funniest interview I’ve ever had. No one gives less of a fuck and no one does better imitations. Ask to […]

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 for all of us. And by “all of us” that means Gangsta Gibbs too. You must have been insane to […]

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 somehow sounds better than 99.9 percent of their peers — so much that I am contractually […]

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, Fredericko decided to shoot a video for one of my favorite tracks on the mixtape – “BFK.” The second I […]

Hola. It’s been a minute since I wrote anything about anything – that’s Freddie Gibbs’ fault. I’ve been bumping Baby Face Killa on a loop for a while now and I’ve had zero interest in listening to or writing about anything else. It’s that serious. I realize that it isn’t a perfect mixtape, but I’d […]

Doc Zeus is the blog game, Roger Dorn. Things seemed so promising in 2008. Rap blogs had seemingly democratized how new artists were heard and a generational shift of new stars was ostensibly on the way.  A Zeitgest-capturing XXL cover hailed these “diverse” Internet-incubated rappers poised to lift hip hop out of the doldrums — […]

Freddie Gibbs, the last of the Mohicans, drops Baby Face Killa today. I will refrain from a full fledged review because Deen is on it and it may be the last thing he reviews this year. Thus, is the power of Gangsta Gibbs to steer him away from whatever else drops. How good is this […]