FREDDIE GIBBS - TEN PACKS OF BACKWOODS VS. DOPE IN MY STYROFOAM

AND WHEN I DIE BURY ME RIGHT BY MY BITCH MARY JANE
SHE BEEN BY SIDE EVER SINCE 95
WE DONE BEEN THROUGH EVERYTHANG
WAKE UP FIRST THING ON MY LIST
GOTTA TASTE THAT BITCH
THAT'S JUST HOW MY DAY GOES
THEN A NIGGA HIT THE ROAD IN THE RANGE
SOLD 20 OF THE THANGS
YEAH I'M ON MY J-O ten packs of backwoods that's how my day go, d-edge showing admirable interest in sticking to the theme, "trainwreck in them honeyberries / put bananas with that bubba / o.g. wrapped in the sweet aromatics." + love that combo of woozy bump and synth wheeze and serious guitar and piano on the verse.
VS.
in tradition of syrup in styrofoam tracks from outside houston: built off pimp c guitar and bassline, the sorta bluesy echoed lick carried to parody in the beanie sigel/bun b syrup track, 1-900 number infomercial funk + freddie gibbs deliberate hard murder dog raps like he's never had any interest in sipping codeine until he can't open his eyes + "just scooped my blood bitch in a blue brougham / leather feel so soft these hoes like ridin with no shoes on"

influence of weed on rap music
vs.
influence of opiates/opioids/benzodiazepines on rap music

i should make it clear, it sounds like pimp c but

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltGdQTKJ-XQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75O0maiWEtU

personal og is my preferred gibbs weed track

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

I was in Big Sur just a few days ago.

Ten Packs for me, the other sample is too obvious and All 4 the Money is already one of my favorite tracks ever so it's impossible to overwrite that.

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

finally!

http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/18930-freddie-gibbs-and-madlib-pinata/

How is this one?

I like Gibbs a ton but his fill lengths of the last few years haven't done it for me for some reason

Excellent!

dope delia derbyshire sample on "real"

production on this is kinda boring :/

Yeah this is just barely OK to me. Shitsville and Real are the standouts but I like ESGN better as a full length.

i dug 'cold day in hell' but 'esgn' grabbed me zero at the time. he still gets outsparkled by his guests, but i think madlib sort of autopiloting the production is ok, it's got stuff going on to complement gibbs' gruff monotone.

cold day in hell is the best of the last few years yeah. esgn has Eastside Moonwalker, FAME, DOA, Ten Packs of Backwoods and 9mm which were all very good.

I guess i just expected Madlib not to autopilot on this.

so did i for some reason, but oh well

i don't really know what i want from gibbs, i think just srs raps, it can get kind of exhausting to be endlessly on the hunt for fresh style or a bearable persona and beatmaking innovation. i can't really think of a super positive way to put that, though.

closing track is p awesome

Is that the track that ends with Mac miller making a billy Madison reference in 2014

It all seems really stale. I think the label was in sample clearance hell for a while because they've been sitting on a lot of these tracks. A majority of the times I've seen madlib these past few yrs, Gibbs has come out and been pretty boring so I didn't have high hopes for this, but the production is wayyy more uninteresting than I thought it would be.

http://www.spin.com/reviews/madlib-and-freddie-gibbs-pinata/

pretty posi

dig this. not amazing, but it's worth a listen.

stand out tracks: real, pinata, broken, shame, thuggin and shitsville

harolds is good

this is growing on me.

HATE the posse cut tho.

me too - unremarkable at first but after 3 listens am with this

used to fingerfuck her singin usher

i'm into reactionary producers remaking albums projects like god's stepson type albums
also into hard conventional rappers making single auteur producer type albums
love freddie gibbs

I need to hear it a second time, first spin somehow made no impression on me

when i think of gibbs i often think of this etahn p post

"Flint Town" by Dayton Family

at least i think i do, can't read it to check whether i'm remembering it right, think it has this great description of listening to the same thing every day back and worth walking to work, getting deep into this kinda boring no frills record

"This blog is open to invited readers only"
:(

I'm not sure if it is a valid comparison, but I find myself listening to the new Isaiah Rashad more than this.

IR album is more provocative, maybe just b/c IR hasn't made a ton of material with the same flow yet

"listening to the same thing every day back and worth walking to work, getting deep into this kinda boring no frills record"

haha that is EXACTLY what i'm doing with this Gibbs record -

I love this album, if the production is Madlib on autopilot then he def needs to stay on autopilot.

production is certainly more interesting than the rapping but yeah, echoing everyone's comment that this feels like a RAP ALBUM without being necessarily worthy of great praise or insult and while totally listenable it's difficult to care deeply about

His rapping is sublime on this album!! Cause motherfucka I'm thuggin' Selling you the science of the street rap.

Seein Freddie w/ Tech N9ne tonight

This crowd is fulla terrible people. Incl Juggalos

Juggalos love tech 9

Ick. I actually like a lot of his stuff but yeesh i just saw a guy w/ a juggalo hat that was underage fish an unfinished mixed drink OUT OF YHE TRASH and try to chug it before security could catch him.

Haha

Freddie was good! had nice stage presence and energy but it was kind of adorable how he kept looking at his watch nervously, realizing how much time he had left. got him to sign my ESGN shirt afterwards, very nice guy, took time to meet all the fans.

Tech N9ne actually put on a real good show but I knew like 2 of the songs - have like 5 of his albums yet he managed to do mostly stuff I didn't know, despite this. still, he's a good showman, even if yr not into his devilesque speed rap thing.

tech has SO MUCH MATERIAL

yeah, dude's released a gazillion albums. a lot of itw as Krizz Kaliko stuff tonight tho and Collabos material.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ReHyQtYQls

the piñata album is really great imo and I am not even really a huge madlib fan

just into hard rappers on soft beats
this is one of my alltime favorites

it had good videos too!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGaRbhat-FA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbxcPy1qJTU

NIGGAS BE LIKE FRED YOU AIN'T NEVER LIED / FUCK THE RAP SHIT MY GANGSTA BEEN SOLIDIFIED / STILL DO MY BIZNESS ON THE SIDE / BITCH IF YOU POLICES PAY ME NO NEVERMIND / I WAS THUGGIN BLACK AND RED LACES IN MY NUMBER THREES / TAKE PULL UP OFF THE 'WOOD AND LET THE MOTHERFUCKER BREATHE / SIT OUTSIDE THE BUSTER CRIB AND LET THAT MOTHERFUCKER LEAVE / WALK HIS ASS BACK IN AND PUT HIM ON HIS MOTHERFUCKIN KNEES

white range is p good

for those of you who (like me) enjoy gibbs w/ madlib the most

http://www.rappcats.com/freddie-gibbs-madlib-cocaine-parties-in-la/

damn
http://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/hip-hop/7393574/freddie-gibbs-fredrick-tipton-arrested-for-alleged-rape-in-france

http://bigstory.ap.org/article/edb5f10271054dc1b43d20ac2ead545a/rapper-freddie-gibbs-charged-sexual-abuse-austria

fuck

2017's you only live 2wice is pretty good

He deserves a lot more attention by the press. Everything he touches is gold since at least Piñata.

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i misread #influence as #flatulence

madgibbs vol. 2 is pretty damn solid, if unspectacular. fake names, practice, and half manne, half cocaine are the standouts imo

the "obscure soul sample & weak drums" version of Madlib does nothing for me and quick listen to this has me under impression that's 95% of it

Been enjoying this the last few days -- can't really sit through it all the way through but Crime Pays is an earworm and I like Flat Tummy Tea

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1alXHOMDBN4

this tiny desk concert is pretty old but new to me. and it's very good.

alfredo feels wildly overrated to me, doesn't hold a candle to either madlib-produced album or boldy's alchemist collab from last year

First I heard it of it but then I’m just struggling to keep my head above water so I’m no kind of gauge of clout.

In honor of Freddie Gibbs' long-awaited major label debut dropping tomorrow, @Willydasquid ranks every album in the Gary legend's discography.

I don't personally agree with the order, but let the arguing commence. https://t.co/AkGJB1AeQe

— Otto Von Biz Markie (@Passionweiss) September 29, 2022

Yeah was not aware he finally got another shot at a major label release, and this time it's out! Looking forward to hearing it but surprised some of the early Warner singles are not on the album. Special Editions will be coming no doubt.

it ain't bad but one listen isn't killing me

Gah Joe Rogan cameo wtf. Sadly I read that before I listened to the release, then I listened to that James Blake-produced number — just awful, they both phoned it in. Or quite possibly James Blake ran out of ideas long ago.

So anyway that’s as far as I got so far. Maybe I need a palate cleanser or just some time to reflect and I will be ready to give it a go.

not freddie’s best by a long shot, i liked both pre-release singles more than anything that actually made this

also completely disagree with the passion of the weiss list, cold day in hell is way too low

& shadow of a doubt as #1 is def wrong