Realistically, every Freddie Gibbs video should be shot in Gary or some other rotting Midwestern industrial town. But if not, Downtown LA amidst the fiends and the forgotten, is a suitable alternative. From the Str8 Killa No Filla EP.

Since Kanye discovered robot techno three years late, rap’s been on an Itchy and Scratchy Land-style collision course with electronic music. Of course, there’s the long history: “Planet Rock,” Juan Atkins, disco-rap, Whodini, Egyptian Lover, hip-house, “Bombs over Baghdad,” hoobity blah. But when Kanye sampled “Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger,” it indirectly annexed a new realm […]

2113215417 Uploaded by yardie4lifever2. – Explore international webcam videos. As much as Gibbs draws from UGK, the Screwed Up Click, and Bone Thugs, his West Coast influences are equally salient. So Compton’s Most Wanted is on my mind today, what with Freddie’s debut on late-night television. Not bad for a dude without a real label. […]

The Blogz are calling the union of Freddie Gibbs, Chip the Ripper, and Chuck Inglish, a super-group, but they are no Bad Company. The trio of Midwestern MC’s move impressively as a unit, but pairing the Gary gangsta with a Kid Cudi consigliere and a Cool Kid better known for production, does not a super-group […]

Closed Sessions: “Something New” Feat. Freddie Gibbs & YP from Ruby Hornet on Vimeo. Gibbs going in over the “Xxplosive” beat. In the words of this man: come on. On a side note, rappers are going to need to do something a little more creative with their names if they think I’m going to be […]

Never heard of Homebase. Never been to one of their parties. Does that make me out of it? I might be down though after this. They must have that Chilly Tee money. After all, I assume that Blu, Sandman, Gibbs subscribe to Danny Brown’s dictum laid down in “LOL”: don’t text…if it ain’t about dough. […]

During my interviews with Gibbs for the 2009 LA Weekly story, the legend of “It’s all Cognac” was repeatedly bandied about. It was the one song that he and his team decided to leave off Miseducation and Midwestgangsta,  the track that everyone thought had the most commercial viability and needed to be saved for the […]

I’ll presume that this was left off the new G-Side record because it recycles the beat for “Feel The,” from last year’s Huntsville International. That said, this is my favorite Block Beattaz beat and I wish that rappers would opt to recycle this instead of “6’7” or “Black and Yellow.” I tend to agree with […]

The people who brand Gibbs little more than a “traditionalist” remind me of a tediously “progressive” Creative Writing professor I once had, a strait-laced shrew who once informed me that the traditional narrative was dead. If other rapper’s live life like a soap opera, Gibbs constructs evocative worlds in 16 bars. “Freddie Gibbs grew up […]

Like fossil fuel shortages, rappers in the future will be hard-pressed to think up new ways to describe being rich. American manufacturing is dying and having “nanotechnology money” lacks the linguistic panache of being filthy oily rich. Brandon Davis money. The supergroup that will never come to fruition because Dan Auerbach can’t even make the […]