Although violent and uncouth, Gibbs’ talent harks back to a rap era when street lyricism was infused with visceral vigor instead of lazy braggadocio.
In [youtube link]
Blu
Place went numb when the bass hit the drum,
Had the ace by the waist but ain’t say nothing…
Lines on the mind like hymns at the shrine,
Told Gibbs keep them hinges in, we going in
Freddie Gibbs
Air Jordans and a motherfucking attitude,
Packing the pistol wrapped in plastic, make sure my package move…
Prior situations had my Mama at the station
Everyday that I wake, I probably violate probation
I’m a young thug, with hot slugs, that got his name on ‘em
Chi-town that 9 pound and took the train on em…
Homeboy Sandman
Way too hard for taming and taking part in entertainment awards,
My attitude is every tune is for taking it to em,
Now peep the place that we taking it towards, good night
Fuck Rap Pt. 2 [youtube link]
Even my love of playing ball couldn’t keep me out of the crack spot
Cause crack rock will turn a have-not to a fat knot
Don’t fuck with rappers, rappers is clones when the rapping stops
In my hood you had to be known to have your hat cocked…
That nigga Lupe said he ain’t a gangster or a hustler,
I’m all of the above, plus I’m one cold rapping motherfucker…
Lotta drug bars, cause ain’t no real drug bosses in the rap game,
If these niggas was, these niggas wouldn’t be trying to rap man,
Gangsta Gibbs, hit ‘em with the facts man
World So Cold [youtube link]
She told me I’mma have a son, I’m the one,
And she at the Doctor’s office for a visit, can I come
Near silence, dead in the room
Pregnancy complications left you dead in the womb
Maybe I take the blame, God punish me for old sins
The tears hit me when I think of what you could have been
I flame Jane, try to smoke away the pain
But I know the bond that we made wasn’t vain
Could have been my little Freddie, but I guess you wasn’t ready
For the world, a world so cold…
Let Me Ride [youtube link]
KD
They setup blacks, heroin and crack
And them racist-ass crackers tried to take that shit back,
To way before 1964, when they sprayed all the niggas with the firehose
And Dr King know that we ain’t no joke
50 years later and we still ain’t straight,
Just check the episodes on First 48,
That there is my city’s only claim to fame…
Freddie Gibbs
Let’s take a ride through the G.I. East Side,
Where the Vice Lords, Stones and GDs ride
And I never gave a fuck about a color or a sign
On the grind cause you know a nigga need mine……
Scottie Pippen [youtube link]
I issue eternal rest, sign up and be a subscriber
The price of life got so high that I must make sure I stay higher
Stay with the purp out of pizo
Stay smackin these niggas needles
Stay running the rock just like I play quarterback for the Eagles
Randall, Donovan, to Michael
‘Fore I picked up this mic I was hittin licks with some Lords
And did dirt with plenty Disciples
I’m gang-banging affiliated, federal investigated
Self-educated, all my co-conspirators catchin’ cases
I dropped straight outta college and I majored at home invasion
Believe I got the balls to clear up all of my altercations
Leave faces with alterations, the closed casket console
Tryna make a million dollars, fuck a million downloads…
Rob Me a Nigga [youtube link]
Freddie Gibbs
Spent all my last money, the bills too high
His jewelry, his whip game, the wheels too fly
I’m thinking about murder every time we cruise by…
Born in this world of tears, but died laughing
Put that on the headpiece right above my casket
Still in the game, my batteries still lasting
‘Bout to put some gas up in my Caprice Classic
Alley Boy
We be taking so much, now the shit fun
We be lookin for your shit ‘fore your shit come
Forty eight hours, nigga round my way, everyday nigga looking like a sitcom
In this game of lose or draw nigga,
You can be the one that get robbed, or be the one to rob a nigga
But we all gotta eat, so we get no sleep:
We gonna wait it out and kill a nigga!
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