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[todayinhiphophistory]

Today in Hip Hop History:

Freddie Gibbs was born June 14, 1982

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[luuurien]

Freddie Gibbs - $oul $old $eperately

(Gangsta Rap, Trap, Boom Bap)

Returning to his trap roots with the technical refinements and raw power he's honed on jazzy boom bap beats in recent years, $oul $old $eparately is Freddie Gibbs' most varied and eye-catching project to date. While it lacks the cohesion and brevity of his past two full-lengths, his grab bag of beats and new musical ideas makes every moment here a surprise.

☆☆☆☆

$oul $old $eparately has been a long time coming. Ever since 2014's masterful Piñata, Freddie Gibbs has been jumping back and forth between left-field jazz rap collaborations with producers like The Alchemist and Madlib and the brash, explosive trap his early mixtapes and occasional 2010s releases, largely keeping them separate but letting them mingle every so often - think Baby $hit off Alfredo or Bandana's Situations. What that's caused, though, is his weaknesses in both styles to pop out more when they're all forced onto a single project - some of the jazzier beats are too empty and atmospheric for someone who commands the mic as dominantly as Gibbs, and his trappier projects often lacked the lyrical detail and technical precision that made those aforementioned jazz rap records such a delightful change of pace. But for his major label debut on Warner, $oul $old $eparately, Gibbs blends all the styles he's played with over the years into one 46-minute marvel, instilling the stylishness and charisma of his jazz rap records into heavier beats and bringing more hooks and melodies than ever before - if it feels less like a Freddie Gibbs album than ever before, it's because he's never approached an album with this mindset up until now. Thankfully, he's more than refined his craft over the years and treats these fourteen tracks to the most luxurious production he could find, $oul $old $eparately as gritty as it is elegant. The execution of all this isn't always clean, but Gibbs' energy never wavers. With producer credits ranging from Kaytranada to James Blake to DJ Dahi, one of the most refreshing things about $oul $old $eparately is how different it is from your usual Gibbs affair - sure, these are still stark gangsta rap songs with his signature humor thrown on top, but the many different moods provided to him means he's not stuck in the same mood the entire time. Blackest in the Room is the closest thing to Gibbs' past few records on here, produced by The Alchemist with all the calling cards of their Alfredo collaborative project, but there's hints of his recent jazz rap rendezvous in the gooey R&B jam Feel No Pain with Anderson .Paak and Raekwon and the smooth Rick Ross collaboration Lobster Omelette - combine this with hustling trap bangers like Pain & Strife with Migos' Offset and the wonderfully dirty South PYS with Tennessee rap legend DJ Paul, and you've got the most diverse and well-rounded Gibbs project to date, not looking to perfect a single sound so much as show off a little of everything he can do with the power of a major label behind him now. $oul $old $eparately is its own beast entirely, Gibbs showing off the various beats he can flow on top of and the allure he brings with his stories of family, drug business, and brutal violence that land no matter what his music sounds like. He's always been versatile, but never before has all his power been shown off in a single package. It can sometimes feel like $oul $old $eparately is jumping from idea to idea a bit too quickly, especially in the stretch of tracks from Feel No Pain to the Pusha T collab Gold Rings where the sound and themes each song explores are especially distant, but that also brings the album a sense of genuine energy and motion his previous projects never did. Not to say that Piñata or Alfredo didn't have a lot going for them, but their homogeneous sound delivered acuteness and immersion rather than the raw excitement and agility Gibbs shows off here. Where other rappers would begin to lag carrying so many different possibilities in their arsenal, Gibbs knows exactly where each of his weapons are and exactly when to use them, bringing a melodic flair to his verses on slick trap highlight Too Much and tapping into sensitive emotional corners on Grandma's Stove and not once losing his footing (although the variance in tone and intention causes these tender moments to feel strangely out-of-place compared to how similarly introspective tracks like Skinny Suge and Soul Right slotted in to their respective projects), $oul $old $eparately delivering smaller doses of Gibbs' usual magic but presenting so many options to choose from it's dizzying trying to choose a favorite. Every one of these tracks is engaging and fun in its own way, and despite the aesthetic changes and unique qualities of his other projects lost throughout the album, there's simply no denying how great the vast majority of these 15 tracks are. $oul $old $eperately isn't your standard Gibbs affair, but that's exactly what makes it work so well: unbeholden to the usual expectations of his albums, he lets loose and tries out a bit of everything, bringing to life some of the strongest songs in his career thus far and showing new avenues for him to explore through tracks like Feel No Pain and PYS. He's still one of the most recognizable and hard-hitting rappers today who can manage harsh street storytelling and a subtle emotional through lines within them and keep it all tightly packed and full of life, and the many different sounds he picks and chooses from here only serve to emphasize that ability. Whether he goes back to the hyper-focused intricacy of his last few projects or continues down this road of dynamic tracklists and a grab bag of refreshing beats, $oul $old $eperately proves just how well he can manage everything in one fell swoop.

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[jimweave]

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[hiphopdinromania]

20/11/2015 Freddie Gibbs - Shadow of a Doubt

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http://www.hiphopdinromania.org/2020/11/de-afara-freddie-gibbs-shadow-of-doubt.html

Shadow of a Doubt este cel de-al 2-lea album al lui Freddie Gibbs și a fost lansat în data de 20 noiembrie 2015, prin ESGN & Empire Distribution.

http://www.hiphopdinromania.org/2020/11/de-afara-freddie-gibbs-shadow-of-doubt.html

[dbs-superleggera]

Watch Album - Shadow of a Doubt on YouTube Music

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Big Boss SV

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[bigpapicolon]

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[purpleheartrainman]

Freddie Gibbs | Vice Lord Poetry (Champagne Poetry Freestyle)

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[vilegroove]

Finally got around to remixing the great Freddie Gibbs, but instead of just one track, here are two separate remixes boiled into one 3 minute track. As always, free download available at vilegroove.bandcamp.com

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[steakxeggs]

#FreddieGibbs takes on #Drake - #ChampagnePoetry beat with #ViceLordPoetry . Did he kill it? * * * #freestyle #gangstagibbs #esgn #hiphop #music #clb #certifiedloverboy #vicelord #garyindiana https://www.instagram.com/p/CTsZ32hp6r8/?utm_medium=tumblr

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[todayinhiphophistory]

Today in Hip Hop History:

Freddie Gibbs was born June 14, 1982

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[0gz]

Freddie Gibbs

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[sinceileftyoublog]

Freddie Gibbs & The Alchemist Album Review: Alfredo

(ESGN/ALC/Empire)

BY JORDAN MAINZER

It’s obvious by this time that Freddie Gibbs can work with anybody because he can work with anything. Having developed great chemistry with Madlib and now The Alchemist (Daniel Alan Maman), Gibbs never stays put or comfortable, seamlessly hopping among instrumental aesthetics. His latest effort with Maman, Alfredo, follows their Fetti (which was also a collaboration with Curren$y), and this time, it succeeds not just because of Gibbs’ ability to mesh but because he comes into his own. In other words, the contrast of his delivery to the deliberateness of Maman’s samples and beats is stellar as expected, but Gibbs’ verses are the star, impressively current, thoughtful, and introspective takes on living and dying while black in America.

Take opener “1985″, which introduces itself with a sample of Bernie Mac on the original Kings of Comedy tour, a slow beat, and electric guitar, as Gibbs flexes his gangster prowess. He travels “with a cocaine circus” (a reference to the drug use of the early 1980′s Chicago Bulls teams, a cultural touch point that’s regained relevance since The Last Dance), and he compares himself to Tiger King’s Joe Exotic. The message is clear: He’s been at the top for every decade he’s been alive, from the drug-addled 80′s to the COVID-19, stay-at-home-and-watch-Netflix 2020′s. With Gibbs, you’re bound to get at least a few brag tracks on every album; on Alfredo, those come in the form of the first track and the banging “Baby $hit”. But more than ever, these put-myself-on-a-pedestal moments best serve to contrast Gibbs’ reflections on his past and current fears for his safety. The solemn nature of the piano-laden, jazzy, Gil Scott-Heron-sampling “God Is Perfect” perfectly sets up highlight “Scottie Beam”. Over a fluttering piano line and sample of Wee’s “Alone (Reprise)”, Gibbs is eerily prophetic when he flips Scott-Heron’s most famous lines: “Yeah, the revolution is the genocide / Look, your execution will be televised.” Alfredo was released only four days after George Floyd’s murder, but the point is that a line like this could have been written at any moment. Gibbs continues with a reference to Kobe Bryant’s late daughter: “I pray for Gigi, wonder if she’ll get to see me next.” The age-old pandemic of racist police violence, gang and drug wars, or a freak accident: Gibbs here thinks about recent causes of black death with stunning specificity rather than theoretically. 

Gibbs continues his musings on how slinging drugs has affected his success as a black man--for better and for worse--on the eerie “Frank Lucas”, named after the infamous Harlem drug trafficker. “My name cocaine, they ain’t got put me in the nominees,” he raps, speculating that the subject of his music prevents him from achieving acclaim from the powers of the industry. Gibbs also subtly questions here gangsta rap’s long-standing obsession with the mafioso lifestyle despite the mob’s virulent racism. After all, Scarface and Al Capone are more common touchstones in the genre than someone like Lucas, and the outro of “Baby $hit” samples a line of dialogue from Godfather of Harlem where Chazz Palminteri’s Joe Bonnano uses the n-word. The difference is on display, and Gibbs knows he doesn’t have to spell it out. And on “Skinny Suge”, backed by appropriately dreamy synths and bass noodling, Gibbs thinks about what would happen were he to have given himself a better chance by sticking to rap: “Put down the crack, bet on myself / Like I went back to the future with a rap almanac,” he raps, delivering regretful bar after bar around all the drugs he’s sold, the same ones that, in a cruel twist of fate, killed his beloved uncle, who overdosed.

Perhaps the line that best encapsulates Alfredo’s full-circular nature is on “Something to Rap About”, in which Gibbs and guest Tyler, the Creator think about how they’ve changed from when they first started rapping. Tyler’s transformation, from early 2010′s shock jock to respectfully soulful, has been apparent. Gibbs has remained consistent in his rapping style, but lyrically become increasingly remorseful. He waxes, “Yeah, you...bringin’ out the old me / I’m tryna live to 93 and see the old me.” Or, the same drug-fueled egotism that brought him onto the map is what he’s trying to escape. On “Skinny Suge”, Gibbs talks about getting the phone call that Interscope was dropping him as he had prepared for himself a line of cocaine on his table. Last month, mere weeks after the release of Alfredo, Gibbs announced a partnership with Warner Records. He’s climbed all the way back up to the top, but still worrying every day that he’s not going to survive it.

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[half-a-tiger]

FREDDIE GIBBS & THE ALCHEMIST - “1985″, from the album 'Alfredo' out now via ESGN / ALC

Director: Nick Walker

Director Of Photography: Jordan Ritz

Creative Director: Ben “Lambo” Lambert

Editor: Riley Burke

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[glounderthechi]

Gif from Freddie Gibbs latest video Crime Pays

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