Freddie Gibbs has suggested that $oul $old $eparately will be his final album, and said his highly anticipated collab project with Madlib might not happen.
During a recent Ask Me Anything (AMA) session on Twitter, an eager fan asked if Montana, the rumored follow-up to 2019’s Bandana, would ever see the light of day.
“No. this my last album. Ask Madlib,” he wrote. Elsewhere, a fan asked what advice he had to give for newcomers to the music industry, to which he replied: “Own as much shit as you can.”
The claim that $oul $old $eparately is his last album coincides with a separate interview Gibbs did with Bootleg Kev earlier in October, where he was asked to comment on Alfredo 2 potentially being in the works with Alchemist.
“It’s funny you say that,” Gibbs said when Kev brought up the idea, “but I just told you that every time I do an album I feel like I might not do another one. I got a lot of stuff to do.”
He added, “This whole process recording an album. I barely got to see my kids a lot, touring, man I’m really ready to just chill, dog. I don’t know if I can go through the process of recording an album no more. I don’t know if I can.”
He went on to say that the pair “flirt” with the idea all time, but that he believed $oul $old $eparately to be his best work.
“If I was to do another album it would be that one,” Gibbs said. The original Alfredo was a massive success when it dropped in 2020, and was even nominated for Best Rap Album at the Grammys.
In another interview with The Breakfast Club, Gibbs also said his fifth studio album was recorded during a dark period in his life.
“When I was recording the album, I was in a real dark place,” Freddie Gibbs said. “I was going through a lot of stuff, getting in fights, I had street stuff going on, homies getting killed; legal stuff, you know? And I was putting all of that into the record. And then when DJ Paul came in there, he really cheered me up. He really lifted my spirits to help me finish the album in the correct fashion.”
Unfortunately, the rollout of Gibbs’ latest work has been marred by a series of beefs the rapper’s engaged in with Jim Jones and Benny The Butcher, though the Indiana rapper didn’t seem to keen on elaborating on them.
“I don’t initiate the violence, I just do what a man would do and handle himself in certain occasions,” he told The Breakfast Club. “I ain’t never initiated no violence on no rapper. And if I did, you wouldn’t know about it. I done had problems with people that done went way too deep. But I don’t need to publicize it.
“I think that a lot of these guys that done had issues with me,” he continued, “they come in the fight with camera crews. You know, we in the clout era. I don’t gotta do no stuff like that to get no clout up. Music speaks for itself, my brotha.”
Freddie Gibbs $oul $old $eperately was the rapper’s most successful solo project to date, debuting within the top 20 and moving around 22,000 album equivalent units.
Nah, it ain’t his last. The dude is too nice on the mic.
Trying to pull a Jay. Might as well called SSS the Black Album.
I highly doubt Warner Records signed Gibbs for just one album…and I think/hope we get “Montana” with Madlib in 2024. It was 5 years between “Piñata” 2014 & “Bandana” 2019. So if my theory holds up, we should get something in 2024.
There are plenty of rappers I wouldn’t mind putting the mic down for good. Gibbs is not one of them. Social media fuckery be damned, it can’t be denied that the music is good/great.
Yeah just because there was a 5 year gap between piñata and bandana hardly means “something” should be coming in 2024 but nice try.
As if
Madlib: “Uh, i mean, yeah he said it was, but you know these rappers, they say one thing and then do another. Logic retired not long before working with me!”
This album straight fire. ?
Hope rabbit talking smack just to up the album sales.
So what did I miss from this guy having no buzz to being Grammy nominated an him have a fan base?? For years he put out music an was signed to jeezy …still wasn’t poppin ..where did the connection to a fan base come into play??..this is a serious question
He just started putting out fire as work and people recognized it. Go listen to Banada and Fetti and his new album.
2 critically acclaimed albums with Madlib, 1 with Alchemist, solo projects.. guy has been grinding putting out quality work for about a decade now. good thing the Jeezy situation didnt work out.
“Shadow of a Doubt” and “You only live 2wice”