Like Jordan or Kobe, Gibbs is an apex predator who seems to need prey to achieve peak performance. Their music really sucks.” When it comes to Benny the Butcher, specifically, he says: “His best song is a song I wrote for him, and the other of his top songs has J. He continues, “A lot of these guys nowadays, man, they’re not even real artists.
And of course now, there is perhaps the most serious beef of his career with Benny the Butcher, over a falling out that resulted in Gibbs getting jumped in Buffalo and his girl being pulled into the feud in a lame knockoff of what Tupac attempted to put on Biggie in the ’90s.
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In 2020, he took a shot at Gunna for a misunderstanding over whether Gunna had appeared on a show called Crime Stoppers. The same year, he was enmeshed in an ongoing war of shit-talking attrition with professional rap troll DJ Akademiks. In 2014, he traded shots with Lupe Fiasco on Twitter over Fiasco donning a clan robe and hood in a music video. In 2021, it resulted in an alleged brawl in a Miami steakhouse with Jim and company. In 2013, he called out Jim Jones for a potential misunderstanding over Jim claiming the Vice Lords, a gang Freddie is affiliated with in a feud that has lasted nearly a decade. A quick Google search will get you this abridged list: In 2012, he was involved in a battle with Jeezy, whose label he was briefly signed to, that involved trading diss tracks and threats. $$$ is being released at a tumultuous time in Gibbs’ life-like many others over the course of his career, which you can practically measure in enemies.
This project is as close as Gibbs has come to mainstream, crossover appeal the rapper has always existed comfortably in the underground, bridging the divide between the goons and hipsters that make up rap’s underbelly.
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You could credibly describe $$$ as his Life After Death, a sprawling and kaleidoscopic array of energies and tones that displays Gibbs’ full range, at one moment sounding like he could easily step in as the sixth member of Bone Thugs-N-Harmony in Cleveland, and trading bounce with DJ Paul in full Memphis patois the next. It’s a 15-track effort with multiple splashy features, ranging from mainstays like Pusha T and Rick Ross to bucket list guest stars like Scarface. “It’s not a lot of guys from my generation in my age range that have been doing it as long as I have and as consistently as I have ever.”īut $oul $old $eparately is a departure. Gibbs has made this style of rap nerd dog whistles a specialty, along with the two he dropped with Madlib over the course of five years. He’s coming off the high of one of the very few universally celebrated Best Rap Album Grammy nominations for 2020’s Alfredo, a full collaborative project with Alchemist. This is an interesting moment in Gibbs’ career. The hardest of hardcore rappers who would openly share his exploits on the streets in graphic detail, both on wax and on the record, is now as much an artist as he is a certified media personality. He’s simply one of the most consistent rappers we’ve had this century-bar to bar, song to song, album to album.Īnd yet the Freddie Gibbs that Complex spoke to on a recent Friday afternoon, from his home in Los Angeles, couldn’t be more different than the raw rapper who emerged from the streets of L.A. The other part of it is his apparently bottomless well of flows. He came into the game as a dexterous prodigy with a textured, world weary, old soul instrument that didn’t require words to tell his story. Part of this has to do with Gibbs’ physical gifts. When I listen to the first track on the ageless artist Freddie Gibbs’ stellar new effort $oul $old $eparately, “Couldn’t Be Done,” and compare it to the first song of his I ever heard, 2009’s “Boxframe Cadillac,’’ what’s striking is how little has changed sonically. You feel that in a number of ways-both in their content and subject matter, and physically, their voice earns a pleasant layer of dust and grit. With generational rappers, part of the joy of their longevity is aging alongside them.
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