September 25, 2020
Freddie Gibbs on Being a G.O.A.T. and Surviving the Game
[ad_1] ConversationsAs Freddie Gibbs gets further into his career, life just keeps getting better.Words: Kris ExEditor’s Note: This story originally appeared in the Fall 2020 issue of XXL Magazine, on stands now.Freddie Gibbs is your average rapper. He lives in Calabasas, Calif., a city so de rigueur as a haven for newly successful celebrities that it has become a punchline. Freddie—after years of releasing mixtapes capitalizing on street-level views of impoverishment and criminality in his Gary, Ind. hometown—speaks of himself in an aggrandized sense, with the mix of ego and confidence that comes from having defied the odds to become the kind of artist regularly covered by national platforms and debated by...