In the latest episode of Noisey’s “The People vs.” segment, Freddie Gibbs responds to a series of YouTube comments about his Pinata track “Thuggin’” and the accompanying video.
Responding to a commenter questioning the morality of the message contained in the song and video, Gibbs alluded that it’s a parent’s responsibility to filter whatever media their children might consume.
“Well, you know what man, MechanicalAnimal? I’m soon to be a parent,” Gibbs said. “I kind of understand you but I don’t. You supposed to control the media and things that you’re kids see in your household so that’s not my job. I do this to feed my family. My mom living good off these thug-ass raps, me rapping about crack and shit like that. You want me to stop my money so a kid—that’s the parent’s job. You lucky that you’re kid just seen that shit on YouTube ‘cause I was seeing that shit up close in person. I think I kind of turned out to be alright so I think your child will be fine.”
In a similar answer, Gibbs reiterated that “smoking crack is not cool but it’s definitely a reality.”
“With this video, what we were trying to bring across was the reality of the situation,” he added. “He was really smoking crack in that video but we weren’t trying to just sell it on that angle. We just wanted to give you a vivid interpretation of what really goes on. Had to had a guy smoke crack. He liked it. It was good crack. We put our good mix on it.”
Replying to a user under the name Kevin King, Gibbs addressed the dirty dishes visible in parts of the video.
“In that kitchen, we were kind of cooking crack there,” he said. “So we gotta cook our crack, get our get-back, then we’ll do our dishes. We’ll have a dope fiend do the dishes later on. So, the dishes’ll get done, we just didn’t get to that part in the video. Sorry about that Kevin.”
Explaining his pride in being able to release Pinata independently, the ESGN emcee also spoke more generally about his filling several roles in the making of the project.
“I think at the end of the year, on the end-of-the-year lists, you definitely gotta put me up there with some of the best albums of the year,” he said. “To accomplish that and do that with no backing, no no label, no nothing. To do [it] totally one hundred percent on my own is a beautiful thing ‘cause I’m the investor, I’m the executive producer, I’m a CEO, and I’m the talent. So I big homie everything.”
Watch Noisey’s “The People Vs Freddie Gibbs” on HipHopDX here.
you make a whole article about a video and you cant even embed the thing on this page? CMON thats some hack shit
“Watch Noisey’s “The People Vs Freddie Gibbs” on HipHopDX here.”
Or just go to the videos section and look for it there.
lazy ass nigga can’t even go to youtube by himself to watch the goddamn video lmao
how hard would it be to embed the thing on this page,
“Well have a dope fiend do the dishes later on”
Lol, gotta love Gangsta Gibbs.
fuck dat! i wouldnt want a dope fiend doing my dishes, just gonna have to do them again
Lol…..true.
Another self righteous rapper, defending promoting bullshit, because he’s making money of it, like that’s actually a valid argument. Sad but not surprising
why should he even have to defend his lyrics? gangsta rap isn’t dead even though your backpackin ass probably wishes it was. go listen to A Tribe Called Quest while you masturbate to how cool you think you are
“You lucky that youre kid just seen that shit on YouTube cause I was seeing that shit up close in person. I think I kind of turned out to be alright so I think your child will be fine.”
I swear I hate this nigga and everything he’s done but that’s the realest shit I’ve heard this year.
if you don’t like Gibbs then suck a dick, and no shit it’s real, gibbs always keeps it real
He’s weak. Madlib is wasting tracks on this nigga. People are so desperate to hear something dope that they’ll act like a mediocre rapper like this is better than he really is. I’ve given his shit an honest unbiased listen, because I’m looking for rappers to listen to, but this nigga is just nothing special. How many gangsters do we fuckin’ need? I’m so tired of the “I’m not promoting it, I’m just a product of my environment, showing people how it is in the hood”. Nigga, we all know how it is in the hood. Part of the reason it’s like that in the hood is because when people of influence actually have a platform and an opportunity to change things they never do. They’re so afraid they might lose one fuckin’ dollar that they won’t risk doing something uplifting or positive for their people. Just like Cormega said, “Gangster rap used to be a risk, now it’s a risk to make music that’s positive for black people.” Fuck all these niggas man. I can’t act like that shit is all good anymore. It takes a stand-up guy to risk losing a little money in order to do the greater good, but since none of these niggas in the rap game are stand-up guys, you don’t never hear that shit. Fake ass niggas. They’re all half-way gangsters anyway, that’s why they enjoy showing it off like a kid with his first gun. The real niggas that lived it are too disgusted by it and too close to it to even want to portray that.
Couldn’t agree more, well written
didnt read lol. suck a dick hater.
Gibbs sure can rap, but Madlib still makes shitty-mediocre beats at his best. Good samples which deserved much more banging drums. It’s like listening to DJ Mustard with the The Eminem Show-era of Eminem rapping over his beats. Great rapper, seriously bad beats.
man shut the fuck. people like you are the reason rap is being diluted with feminized bitch ass rappers. i aint sayin gibbs is the savior. but hes gangsta and hes lyrical. something hip hop desperately needs. cant stand the fuck ass shit comin out these days
no way im reading all that hating ass shit. gibbs is one of the best doing it right now.
yeah im not gonna read that nerd rant above but if you know shit about hip hop you know that Gibbs is a beast and Madlib’s beats are insanely dope
Notice all the slow ass niggas that can’t bear to read more than one sentence at a time are tho ones who are impressed with this simple-simon ass rapper. I know more about rap and about actual thuggin’ than any of you fuckheads will ever know. Your man is a weak MC, and it got nothin’ to do with his ‘gangster’. I love good gangster shit. But just because a nigga claims this and this doesn’t automatically make it good. You can be ‘gangster’ and still be creative and original. Furthermore, it would behoove you dumb fucks to actually force yourselves to do some reading and open up your mind a little bit. What.
I can see the Jeezy dickridas are here to hate on my nigg@ Gibbs.
This dude is like White Zack from “The Principal…”
The dude that no matter what he does, people still won’t give a fuck…Dope beat…Wack rapper…How many times can you rap about drugs and hood shit?
Hey you!… Shut the fuck up!
go listen to Drake you emo fag
wackass negro
Freddie is right. What, we’re supposed to censor everything for children? This shit happens and is reality. The song is one part of a whole, and unless you judge his discography, you`re just assessing a small part.
I’m tired of cats who haven’t heard the shit speaking on it. You have no opinion unless you’ve listened to it. And i don’t mean hear, I mean listen.
who the fuck even payed attention to this clown’s lyrics?The production carried Pinata,shit could have been just as good without Gibbs.His delivery is wack,his flow is mediocre,his voice is ehh and his rhyhme rhyme schemes amateurish…
smh @ wackass rappers nowadays taking pride in their craft and shit..
and ur a fag
Sounds like a Jeezy fanboy to me. Betta be glad Big Guwop is in the Feds. He’ll put a bullet in that snowflake head called Jeezy.
..nigga i be balling like im stunna…dis nigga he be baldin like he stunna (bald head ass nigga)
“you definitely gotta put me up there with some of the best albums of the year”
Already both ESGN and Pinata & where the fuck so much hatin come from…
ESGN has always been better than Pinata.
you just dont like madlib
I love Madlib but still think ESGN and Baby Face Killa are better than Pinata.
Gibbs is our generations Raekwon
this nigga cad is a cop smfh
so what? So you cant be a thug if your dad is a cop making 20k a year?
Beanie Sigels momma was a correctional officer. Does that make him a fraud?
Last I checked Gibbs never tried to hide that fact that his dad was a cop or that he was in the military before being kicked out.
Gibbs is a dope mc. parents need to stfu and do better parenting instead of complaining about the art. be a better parent sit on a pickle and spin. and everyone hating on this nigga can stick a gerbal up their brown eye go bak to listenin to your swag faggets like yung thug cheif queef future migos and all the other over hyped label created garbage artist
couldn’t say it better myself
gibbs is the new generations Bun B. real, tight lyrics, and a different but ill flow
He’s more like Scarface or 8Ball to me.
THIS NIGGA DAD IS A COP SMFH
so what? you know cops can be some dirty mother fuckers right!
just cause your dad is a cop dont mean you’re a cop or an angel. my friends dad was a cop and he got in more trouble than most of my friends
Surviving off cold cuts and cold Spam
Can’t see eye to eye with my old man
Hiding my insecurities with this gang flag
We both despise the police, but he wore the same badge
And as I child I admired that, now I wonder how
He was a pig, but you was barely making 20 thou
I guess that’s why you put me on that lick for 20 pounds
A life of crime is all we ever shared from then to now
And I’m a crook and you crooked, that’s all we got in common
He chucked the deuce to my mama, so much for family bonding
But how could something so destined to be just get demolished?
Running through groupies and boppers, I guess I got it honest
And honestly I know I’m out here fucking up
Seven grams of rock, I stuff ’em in my nuts
And seven bucks an hour wasn’t good enough
Cause seven days a week I’m living in a rush
At least he was honest about unlike Ross who lied about being a C.O. It’s plenty of crooked cops out here.
fo sho. he always kept it real. pretty sure he was in the military too until he got discharged for weed or sumthin.
we’re in 2014 and these rap niggas still thinking they help the community with the “realism” of their music lmao
Face the problem, fuck ignoring the reality or only talking about brighter side, wont help. Your “good kids” dont contribute shit to them mad cities.
why is it his job to help the community through his music? he can kick these gangsta ass rhymes and take some of his money to help give back and educate
gibbs played himself trying to explain to a bunch of outsiders
yea i guess but at least he is being genuine
thats whats so funny about the series. they get artists to read youtube comments from complete retards and see their reaction and response. the action bronson one was good too.