Gibbs and GZA played the Echoplex last Tuesday, and though Liquid Swords is officially my second favorite rap album of all-time (ATliens will always own the top spot), I think Freddie may have won the duel of the iron mic. Granted, I only caught the latter half of his set thanks to a fracas with […]

Consider this post a placeholder until my team of Bangalore ghostwriters cash their check. Soon, I swear. I know the tagless version of Str8 Killa No Filla has been posted on every blog already, but maybe you didn’t catch it and you want to hear a version without Statik Selektah screaming his name ad nauseum. […]

Freddie Gibbs – Do Wrong Part 2 from Scheme Engine on Vimeo. This is not done wrong. Though a Pill appearance would’ve been a nice touch. Download: MP3: Freddie Gibbs ft. Pill-“Do Wrong”

For all the derision that Pitchfork’s hip hop coverage inspires, Nate Patrin’s treatise on the ongoing influence of Dilla reads among the most compelling and comprehensive that I’ve read anywhere. It’s easy to play the connect the dots game with Dilla, but much harder to assess the specifics of his subtly shifting sound and analyze […]

It’s nearly 3 p.m. on the East Coast, which means that I’m roughly 12 hours late posting this tape. It’s probably pretty passe by know. I think there’s a preview of a preview of Kanye releasing a snippet of his new single at Friendster. He’s bringing old-skool social networking back in 2010, y’all. XXL is […]

Full disclosure: like every other blogger, Gibbs has me on the payroll. Thus, I am compelled to post this video if I want to collect my weekly shipment of lemonade kush, grape swisher sweets, and Luc Longley jerseys. Y’all can’t ball like Chicago centers. Str8 Killa No Filla drops next Tuesday on Decon.  I am […]

The term “blog rapper” was always an easy crutch. Aside from Mickey Fact and Charles Hamilton, the latter of whom actually had a blog and released mixtapes every time he flushed his RSS Feed, it lumped a whole bunch of rappers who didn’t deserve to be compared. “Boutique rapper” was better and this isn’t 2007-08 […]

MTV approval means far less than it did during the days of Devo, but there is something very heartening about seeing Freddie Gibbs premiere a video on the ancestral home of Yo! MTV Raps. If I hadn’t already made it abundantly clear, Gibbs headlines tomorrow night’s Passion of the Weiss Presents show. Spaceland is not […]

Like Topper Harley forced out of his Buddhist hermitage to save a squadron of Iraqi hostages,  Passion of the Weiss Presents Part Deux is going down next Saturday, May 8th at Spaceland. Expect Freddie Gibbs and DaVinci to supply me with the requisite ammunition, performance-enhancing drugs, and unsavory women to complete the mission. After all, […]

Only Internet rap critics complain about whether or not a rapper whom 99.9% of the world has never heard of is overrated. If there was a secret PR formula that Freddie Gibbs and his team possessed, he wouldn’t be living in the seediest part of Van Nuys, with overturned shopping carts littering the sidewalk and […]