Freddie Gibbs has received a playful warning from Don Cheadle over jokes about them looking alike.
As the Oscar-nominated actor celebrated his 58th birthday on Tuesday (November 29), fans flooded Cheadle’s Twitter mentions with jokes about him looking like Gibbs, referencing the long-running joke.
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When a Twitter user jokingly wished Freddie Gibbs a happy birthday alongside a photo of Don Cheadle, the Gary, Indiana rapper replied: “Happy birthday to The Don, my mentor @DonCheadle.”
Cheadle responded to Gibbs: “We gonna get it in one of these days, fam …” to which Gibbs replied: “I challenge you.”
“You misunderheard my tweet, daddy-o!!” Cheadle wrote back, with Gibbs replying: “My bad,” along with laughing emojis.
Cheadle then called Gibbs a “goofy bastard.”
Freddie Gibbs and Don Cheadle crossed paths for the first time in February at the Super Bowl, with both men detailing their interaction on Twitter.
“N-gga walked up to me last night and said ‘people say we look alike’ and it was Don Cheadle,” Gibbs wrote at the time. “The fucking goat.”
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Cheadle responded to the tweet: “true story. great meeting you, nephew. to be continued …”
In September, a Yahoo! reporter joked about the pair looking alike on a red carpet. The interviewer told Cheadle as he walked over: “Freddie Gibbs! My favorite rapper,” to which the 58-year-old thespian responded: “Nope. Close, but not at all.”
Freddie Gibbs and Don Cheadle have both acknowledged the lookalike comments many times over the years. When a fan pointed out their similarities during Gibbs’ performance at Day N Vegas in November 2021, Cheadle joked about showing up to the festival to prove they’re not the same person.
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“i’m at @WynnLasVegas right now,” he wrote on Twitter at the time. “i should pull up. only way to prove it once and for all …”
