Born 2 Roll
Freddie Gibbs makes really good hip-hop. In fact, ’82 born Indiana boy is releasing tracks that have more story-telling, truth-speaking, & hard southern rapping than most established artists between here & ’98. Gibbs speaks with honesty and ease of an older artist, perhaps why he gets the ‘revivalist’ tag so often-but I don’t see great beats, honest lyrics, & god-given talent as a throwback, you know? In 2010 the world of rap seems to be swelling with young guns that are making genre saving rap music, just happens that Gibbs is riding the crest.
Good news for you is this free EP via XXL will be some of the best new rap you’ve heard in a long time, and at the same time make the blow of Pimp C’s departure from hip-hop just a little bit softer.
‘My sentiments exactly/these niggas they can’t out-rap me/even if they could they already did/they hip-hop hall of famer’s/don’t run up unless you got/a whole catalogue of bangers‘ -Crushn’ Feeling’s
