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Hailing from Gary, Indiana, a set whose murder and crime rates have ranked it various times at the top of the "Most Dangerous Cities" list, Freddie Gibbs is the true definition of a street survivor. Raised on Gary's east side, Gibbs lived the severe life firsthand in a run-down industrial community plagued with vice and neglected by the establishment.
After performing at Ball State on a football scholarship, Gibbs was kicked out of college. Over the following few days he went through court-ordered boot camp, joined and got fired from the military, and held down a serial of 9 to 5 jobs without success. Feeling like the organisation had failed him, Gibbs turned to hustling; pimping and selling check out of a local house. Inspired by rappers like UGK, The Geto Boys and 2Pac, Gibbs started rhyming about his spirit and the issues facing urban youth in Gary and the innumerable other impoverished cities just wish it. The Steel City's most notable musical residents to date are the Jackson Five, whose name still adorns a marquee on a falling-apart theater in Gary's blighted downtown. His hope to rep the Midwest and his city led Gibbs to start recording mixtapes and push them online as good as the streets, where he quickly began garnering fans drawn to his original style, diverse flows, and deep personal lyrics about his see as a young dark man growing up under the poverty line in a forgotten American city. Freddie has worked with respected producers like Red Spyda, Just Blaze, Buckwild, Alchemist, Block Beattaz, Burn One, Polow Da Don, Statik Selektah and Jonathon "J.R." Rotem among many others. Gibbs' influences from Houston rap and Pac manifests in his power to jump between chillingly tense street stories of fury and set back comedic tales about women and weed. Ultimately Gibbs shows and proves with his rhymes, which establish the hope of a fable in the making. His skills, wit, and street credibility establish Freddie Gibbs as a genuine artist. He's set to be for Gary, the Midwest, and anyone who relates to the battle of inner city life. As Gibbs tells it: "My medicine is emphatically on some gangsta shit. That's what I was elevated on and what I witnessed. How can I talk on anything else?" Sold Out Sold Out
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