Judging by Freddie Gibbs’ social media behavior, one wouldn’t think he needs a burner account to talk smack — he already does that (just ask Akademiks). But in a recent interview with GQ, the Grammy Award-nominated MC admitted he does indeed have a fake account. While discussing the perceived ageism in Hip Hop and how he works around it, he inadvertently unveiled his secret.
“I’ve been doing songs with those n-ggas lately, so I’ve been taking notes,” Gibbs says. “You’re never too old to learn. N-ggas become irrelevant because they stop learning and being sponges to the game. I eat, sleep, and breathe this shit, every day. I’m looking at what everybody’s doing. I’m getting on fake Instagram pages leaving comments like, ‘That shit is wack.’ I’m doing all kinds of bullshit, taunting people.”
As Gibbs expounded on the topic, he also recalled a time when a woman once told him he was too old to rap.
“Oh you almost 40 buddy, it’s time for jazz,'” he recalled. “Them white n-ggas ain’t telling Paul McCartney, Willie Nelson and Bruce Springsteen that they need to stop dropping albums. They’ll have the No. 1 album in the world and those n-ggas are 66, so why the fuck do I have to stop rapping when I’m rapping the best I’ve ever rapped?”
And he’s got a point. Freddie Gibbs has released multiple critically acclaimed albums back-to-back, including HipHopDX’s Album of the Year Alfredo with The Alchemist. The project was also nominated for a Best Rap Album Grammy alongside Nas’ King’s Disease, Jay Electronica’s A Written Testimony, D Smoke’s Black Habits and Royce Da 5’9’s The Allegory.
Although Gibbs ultimately lost to Nas, he took it all in stride and used his signature brand of humor to brush it off, saying in an Instagram clip, “Look, I might have lost today, but I’m undefeated in court!”
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In September 2016, Gibbs was found not guilty of sexual assault, following an alleged July 2015 incident in Vienna, Austria that carried a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison.
“Imagine sitting listening to a bunch of Austrians talk in German, deciding my fate,” he recently told The Ringer. “I was nervous as fuck. I didn’t know what these people were going to do. I still think about it. That was the most nervous day of my life.”
Despite the hiccup, Gibbs has rebounded to find himself in the best place of his career. As he explained to do GQ, “By my age, a lot of guys’ careers are dwindling. Most rappers’ careers are over by the time they’re 30, to be honest. A lot of these n-ggas don’t make it to 30. But I’ve done the proverbial slow burn.”
Revisit Alfredo below.
Hahahaha Why all the effort creating a secondary IG account just to troll people? Grow up man…
Because clowns like you are doing the same thing for 20+ years now
Only a salty ass hater would say that. You probably freddie on here acting like a female.
They blocked his account.
I remember he dissed Rick Ross on multiple songs and on Twitter for being fake… Then he went and posed for pictures with him smiling and put him on his album. That was clown shit.
I remember him dissing a certain rapper multiple times for being a fake and a fraud. Then 5 years later he’s taking pictures with the same rapper and putting him on his album. Sucka move.
Ross
Damn, you made it seem like buddy hopped on a track straight after dissing him lmao. No telling if those two squashed their little beef (if one could even call it that) before they got on the song.
If he was a fake fraud then, what changed? It wasn’t even a beef because Ross never acknowledged him.
CLOWN
Weak move … at least when Pac dissed someone , the whole world knew it was him.
Lame ass hater.
Yup
Yeah and pac was also a fake gangsta lying on people that payed his ass no mind, he was suges energizer bunny
To all these lame ass haters right upon comment section ya all gotta STFU, talkin bout one of the bestest niggas alive in Rap and every fuckin where, with his talent he can do all shit you find “abnormal”, the true clowns.
Gibbs fake account ☝️
Fukkk you Freddie!?
Haha most these rappers are just broke azz actors anyways. Ain’t no integrity left. Gibbs just enjoying the entertainment
Thats that salty azz friend, that be hatin on his homies on da low. Questionable character
Funny as fuck this shit, Admitting to Trolling for fun with no strings attached.
Scared ass Freddie. Not even that good as a rapper. Got a good ear because the beats are more fire than the lyrics…
Say it their face Gibbs…
40yr actin like a child, shit is lame bruh
You stop rapping because you grow up, you grow out of that childish behaviour that all these rappers have these days. Hip hop right now is a childish industry. Somebody disses a grown ass man and he feels he has to respond. Grown men don’t pay attention to the barking.
not really. You stop rapping when you stop having shit to say or people stop paying attention to you, thus you don’t make money from it anymore.
Nas is winning Grammy’s at 47, but Solja Boy is already irrelevant at 30 & his last two albums didn’t chart.
El-P / Killer Mike of RTJ are both in their mid 40’s and are at the highest peak of their career, but nobody checks for Cheif Keef at 25.
It’s a content game. If you can talk about more than the run of the mill street shit, you can last in the game. If you’re a 1 trick pony, better save your scratch….
Been a fan of Gibbs, dude super nice on the mic but It ain’t no surprise for me that he’s an immature and insecure individual. The BS that he was posting on IG it was totally parallel with his rap-persona, thought it was a pupil that discovered the bad side of the internet and was eager to show it to the world to be cool.
Trolls gettin mad that rappers doin what they do, freddie funny af