Pill f. Freddie Gibbs, “Run Up To Me” MP3
- story Sam Hockley-Smith
We told ourselves that we wouldn’t blog every leak leading up to Pill’s 4075: The Refill (coming for free on Tuesday), but then every leak was so solid that we couldn’t resist. This time Pill links with occasional collaborator Freddie Gibbs for “Run Up To Me,” which features producer Ced L. Young throwing down a distinctly RZA-esque minimal beat built around thick bass drops.
Download: Pill f. Freddie Gibbs, “Run Up To Me” (via The Educated Villains)
Video: Freddie Gibbs f. Pill, “Womb 2 the Tomb”
- story Sam Hockley-Smith
There have been some excellent arguments for a full-on collab album between two of our favorite working rappers Freddie Gibbs and Pill, and this video for “Womb 2 the Tomb” (which comes from Gibbs’ most recent mixtape), is just another reason to lock them in a studio together. They could be rapping about the phone book, and as long as it was delivered with Gibbs’ ominous control and Pill’s completely off the rails rasp, we’d be into it.
Video: Freddie Gibbs, “Boxframe Cadillac”
- story Sam Hockley-Smith
Watching this video is just further proof that Freddie Gibbs can do alright without the major label record machine. He’s already got an outlet for his music, and between these Yourstru.ly videos and the one we shot in a hotel room, Gibbs has plenty to look at as well. They’re all pretty simple performance-based pieces, but that’s kind of what Gibbs is all about. Dude likes to rap—on stage, on record, in hotel rooms, in really dark studios, wherever. Up above watch as Gibbs performs “Boxframe Cadillac,” a song that both celebrates and makes us feel kind of sad about weed.
Freddie Gibbs Live at The Levi’s/FADER Fort NYC
- story THE FADER
Leave it to Freddie Gibbs to completely dominate Room 501 at Ace Hotel New York, where we have been filming bands all week. Gibbs is a secret veteran of the rap industry, pushing through major label purgatory and coming out the other side with literally hundreds of unreleased songs and a grip of mixtapes that are as cohesive and solid as albums. This week, Gibbs has been rapping all over New York city, and here raps all over our room at the New York outpost of the Levi’s®/FADER Fort. Watch the video above.
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posted on Oct 23, 2009 in EVENTS CHANNEL, EVENTS LEVI'S/FADER FORT SHOW, FADER TV tags Freddie Gibbs, hip hop
Video: Freddie Gibbs, “Murda On My Mind” (Live)
- story Sam Hockley-Smith
On paper it seems like Freddie Gibbs is making 0.00 dollars off his music. He’s releasing free mixtapes that are full cohesive albums on the low, he’s shockingly consistent, clearly puts a lot of effort into what he does, and has a knack for linking with like-minded people (see: his collaborations with Pill). “Murda on My Mind” is probably the darkest track on the already somewhat bleak Midwestgangstaboxframecadillacmuzik, but it’s also a showcase of what Gibbs does best, which is draw you into his often supremely fucked up world, no matter how depressing and upfront it might be. This is just the latest in a series of videos from the Yourstru.ly dudes—totally sparse, in stark black and white and makes us want to go home and curl up in a ball until winter is over, which Gibbs somehow makes appealing.
Freddie Gibbs, Mixtape With Longass Name
- story Sam Hockley-Smith
Based on the title of this mixtape, Midwestgangstaboxframecadillacmuzik, it’s pretty obvious that Freddie Gibbs is an Outkast fan (who isn’t). Much of the production owes some debt to the murkier Organized Noize produced material, although “Sumthin You Should Know” sounds like a Dr Dre outtake circa 2001. More importantly, Gibbs, who is from Gary, Indiana is equipped with a charismatically nasal, often doubletime Midwestern flow that helps make this tape solid across the board. The first listen through isn’t going to yield any ridiculous highs, but it does show that having an authoritative and unique voice, something lost on a fair amount of new rap dudes, makes Gibbs someone to look out for.
Download: Freddie Gibbs, Midwestgangstaboxframecadillacmuzik Mixtape (via TSS)
