![]() The pace drops later with the autotuned double-header of ‘Lately’ and ‘Basketball Wives’, but the overall impression is a bruising one. And on the even darker ‘Extradite’, a track reminiscent of jazzy experimental producer Flying Lotus, he asks: “//Trying to understand why I want to kill a man/ Ever seen a dead body in the streets then eat breakfast?//”. The incident feeds into Gibbs’ third album, which has the 33-year-old glancing back with gritty honesty at a gangsta life he thought he’d escaped, but still seems tangled in.Īfter growling into action with the menacing ‘Rearview’, on ‘F***in’ Up The Count’ he wonders if this life was always his destiny: “//Freddie, where your bills at? Teacher told me to get a job, I said ‘where the scale at?’//”. ![]() Asked why someone might want to kill him he responded, simply: “I’m Freddie Gibbs.” ![]() But I’m still living,” Gibbs told the //New York Post// outside the Brooklyn building. Check the great "Extradite" ("Man, I stay on point like icicles") for instant gratification or "Basketball Wives" for an abstract take on the Miguel-flavored bedroom number, then appreciate how this album goes 17 tracks deep and never runs out of inspiration or ideas.On November 4 2014, someone tried to shoot Indiana rapper Freddie Gibbs while he was sitting in his car outside the Rough Trade record shop in New York. This has happened before, as The Miseducation of Freddie Gibbs and Piñata both shine, but here, the beats come from up and down the hip-hop spectrum as Boi-1da, Mike Dean, Kaytranada, and other producers all offer vibrant, often kinetic constructions. Gary, Indiana rapper Freddie Gibbs is a tough, urban storyteller who can rifle off a steady stream of greatness before he lands on the hook, and with his 2015 release, Shadow of a Doubt, the hooks, plus production, are on the same level as his rhymes. See more Your browser does not support the audio element.
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