Freddie Gibbs
Album Review: Machinedrum – ‘A View Of U’
As Machinedrum, LA-based producer Travis Stewart has been steadily outputting innovative records broadly influenced by rave, jungle, hip hop and soundsystem music for the past two decades. 2011’s breakthrough album Room(s), released on Planet Mu, came the same year as the Sepalcure, a collaboration with Praveen Sharma aka Braille, self-titled debut album. He’s since gone …
Droppin’ Knowledge: Watch: Freddie Gibbs, Madlib and El Michels Affair Tear It Up At The Diamond Mine Sessions
If the world has got you down or quarantining is making you climb the walls, Freddie Gibbs, Madlib and El Michels Affair are here to raise your spirits. Gibbs, the gritty Gary, Indiana emcee, who now lives in Los Angeles, and the legendary producer, rapper and multi-instrumentalist Madlib, have formed a fruitful partnership over the …
New Music: Freddie Gibbs / Young Thug / A$AP Ferg – Old English
‘Old English’ really shouldn’t work. A track which features such disparate vocal talents – Gibbs’ guttural gangsta rap growl, Young Thug’s unhinged yelp and A$AP Ferg’s demented bark – with such different approaches in their own music – it’s hard to imagine that hip-hop traditionalist thinks much of Young Thug’s ‘Picacho‘ – shouldn’t work, but …