Freddie Gibbs, Grammy nominated rapper

Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

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🗓️ 12 January 2021

⏱️ 52 minutes

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This week we're revisiting our 2019 conversation with rapper Freddie Gibbs. Freddie joined us to talk about his childhood growing up in Gary, Indiana, carving out space for himself as a rapper from the Midwest, and how he always knew that one day he'd be famous. Plus, he tells us about how he met his MadGibbs collaborator, producer Madlib.

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0:00.0	Bullseye with Jesse Thorn is a production of MaximumFun.org and is distributed by NPR.
0:20.7	It's Bullseye, I'm Jesse Thorn.
0:23.0	Freddie Gibbs, the rapper, grew up in Gary, Indiana.
0:26.7	It's about an hour outside of Chicago.
0:29.3	A rust belt town.
0:31.2	It also happens to be the home of Michael Jackson, Jackson Faw.
0:35.6	Freddie will be the first to tell you.
0:37.1	Gary is a pretty rough place.
0:40.1	Growing up there, he didn't really think much about becoming a rapper, like not once,
0:45.5	when he was a teenager.
0:47.0	He was a good athlete for one thing.
0:49.1	But like a lot of kids in his neighborhood, he had a hard time staying out of the streets.
0:53.8	It wasn't until he was a grown man that he learned he had a gift for rhyming, a sense
0:58.0	of rhythm and a voice that commands attention.
1:02.0	Freddie wraps about the streets.
1:03.6	About the time he spent there, about the friends he knows who still are there, about friends
1:08.0	he lost.
1:09.5	And if there's a central theme in Gibbs' music, it's pain.
1:12.5	A few years ago, I was a kid, and I was a kid, and I was a kid, and I was a kid, and I was
1:22.5	a kid, and I was a kid, and I was a kid, and I was a kid, and I was a kid, and I was a kid,
1:27.5	A few years back, his career took an interesting turn.
1:30.6	He started collaborating with Madlib, a producer and sometime MC from California, a guy who makes
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