American rapper from Indiana, currently based in Southern California.
Freddie Gibbs was the first rapper from Gary, Indiana to sign a major label deal, Interscope Records. However, their collaboration was not particularly successful: his first album was never released. After signing a contract in 2006, Gibbs moved to Los Angeles, where he recorded his debut album, but a year later, the label changed and the rapper was asked to leave.
Freddie Gibbs has worked with renowned producers such as Red Spyda, Just Blaze, Buckwild, Alchemist, Polow Da Don, and Collipark, among many others. Freddie Gibbs considers himself a follower of Houston rap and Pac, which is reflected in his ability to combine eerily tense street stories of violence against the backdrop of comedy tales of women and marijuana.
His skill, wit, and dedication to the street make Freddie Gibbs a true artist. He is ready to represent Gary, the Midwest, and anyone involved with street life. As Freddie Gibbs says: “For some people, my music is, of course, gangster shit. But this is what I was raised on and what I saw. How can I talk about anything else? “
Over the eleven years of his career, Freddie has released more than ten mixtapes and 5 successful EPs that have received many accolades from critics and ordinary listeners.
Biography
Fredrik Tipton, known as Freddie Gibbs, is a hip-hop artist from Gary, Indiana.
In 2004, he started rapping, releasing two parts of the Full Metal Jacket mixtape in a year. The releases were to the liking of the managers of Interscope, in 2006 Gibbs signed a contract and was ready to release a studio album, for which he even moved to Los Angeles, but for unknown reasons, the management decided to release him from the contract. In 2007 and 2008, he released two parts of the “Live From Gary, Indiana” mixtape, starting to build a loyal fanbase. 2009 was the year of his breakthrough to the masses – Fredrik released as many as three mixtapes in a year – “midwestgangstaboxframecadillacmuzik”, “The Labels Tryin To Kill Me” and the most prosperous is “The Miseducation of Freddie Gibbs”. All releases were distributed over the Internet and over time Gibbs became quite popular. In 2010, he released the hit EP (later mixtape) “Str8 Killa No Filla”, and in 2011 he received an offer from Jeezy to join his label CTE World. He did not stay there and left the label in 2012, having released two more mixtapes by this time, as well as joint EPs with Statik Selektah and Madlib.
At the same time, they worked so well with Madlib that from 2011 to 2014 four joint EPs and a whole studio album “Pinata” were released, which became one of the best releases of 2014. At the same time, in 2013, Gibbs’s first solo album was released on his label ESGN. He did not have much success and was overshadowed by mixtapes, as well as the project with Madlib. In 2015, Gibbs released the EP Pronto and the second album Shadow of a Doubt.
In total, Freddie has 22 releases – three studio albums, 7 EPs, 10 mixtapes, and two joint releases.
Facts about Freddie Gibbs
- From 2011-2012, he worked with the label (Young) Jeezy under the name CTE World, but he was not satisfied with the indifference of the label and Jeezy to his career, so he left him. Gibbs and Jeezy also exchanged a few disses;
- Fredrik has a tame pitbull;
- His uncle raps under the pseudonym Big Time Watts and has appeared on several of Gibbs’s releases;
- His tracks appear in the video games Max Payne 3, NBA 2K12, and GTA V;
- In 2014, he was assassinated by an unknown person while Gibbs was sitting in a car near a store. Gibbs himself was not harmed, two members of his retinue escaped with minor injuries;
- Admittedly good over a wide variety of beats, from Madlib to Young Chop;
- Gibbs’s hometown is statistically one of the most dangerous cities in the United States;
- Names rappers such as Jay-Z, Nas, Scarface, DMX, Tupac Shakur, Bone Thugs, UGK, Ice Cube, Three 6 Mafia, OutKast, Raekwon, Eminem, Twista, Nore as his idols
