Freddie Gibbs

Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

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Society & Culture

4.7 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 24 September 2019

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Critically acclaimed rapper Freddie Gibbs joins Bullseye to talk about his music career. He was born and raised in Gary Indiana - the birthplace of the Jackson 5. Gibbs grew up seeing his neighborhood change for the worse in a lot of ways. People were in poverty and times could be described as desperate. As a young adult, Gibbs used that pain to spark an impressive rap career. He creates stories of a past and present he feels very fortunate to have escaped. Gibbs talks to us about his career, his collaboration with Madlib and he even talks to us about a very trying time in his life. Plus, he'll tell us why he starts every live show with a prayer!

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0:00.0	Bullseye with Jesse Thorn is a production of MaximumFun.org and is distributed by NPR.
0:13.5	I'm Jesse Thorn, it's Bullseye.
0:22.5	Freddie Gibbs, the rapper, grew up in Gary, Indiana.
0:26.0	It's about an hour outside of Chicago.
0:28.8	A rust belt town.
0:30.7	It also happens to be the home of Michael Jackson, which acts in five.
0:35.1	Freddie will be the first to tell you.
0:36.6	Gary is a pretty rough place.
0:39.6	Growing up there, he didn't really think much about becoming a rapper, like not once,
0:45.0	when he was a teenager.
0:46.5	He was a good athlete for one thing.
0:48.6	But like a lot of kids in his neighborhood, he had a hard time staying out in the streets.
0:53.4	It wasn't until he was a grown man that he learned he had a gift for rhyming, a sense
0:57.6	of rhythm and a voice that commands attention.
1:01.6	Freddie wraps about the streets.
1:03.1	About the time he spent there, about the friends he knows who still are there.
1:07.2	About friends he lost.
1:09.1	And if there's a central theme in Gibbs' music, it's pain.
1:12.1	A few years back, his career took an interesting turn.
1:30.2	He started collaborating with Madlet, a producer and sometime MC from California.
1:35.7	A guy who makes impressionistic sometimes strange beats, who's known more for working
1:41.1	with Artsier Weirder MCs, like MF Doom.
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