Jan 18, 2016
Words by Mark Molyneux
Freddie Gibbs has revealed the inspiration behind his work with Black Thought and his plans for his own weed strain.
Talking to Cypress Hill leader B-Real in the Smokebox, Gibbs cited Black Thought as a major inspiration when working on his latest album Shadow of a Doubt, along with Future and Drake. “I just feed off a lot of that energy that they bring.”
“I’ve got to keep up… If I don’t I stay stagnant,” the rapper continued.
On album highlight “Extradite,” Gibbs and Black Thought combine to paint a grim picture of society on both an observational and personal scale. Gibbs debates the moral dilemmas of how, “I got thousand dollar jeans, on my ass cheek. Cousin got her lights, and her gas cut last week. How that make me look, if I don’t help her get up on her feet?” while Black Thought enters with a wider perspective of a world that is struggling while in the grips of insanity. “Seven year old kids, carrying flame spitters. Fortified fences, mortify senses. Crossfire, miss my little daughter, by inches. Chemical dependence, medical expenses.”
The conversation then inevitably turned to weed, with Gibbs declaring his plans for starting up his own business with his own strain to the king of weed B-Real. “I’m trying to open up that Freddie Kane weed store out here [California]. That’s my goal.”
“It's Freddie Kane OG. We coming with the oils, all different kind of flavors so be on the lookout for that Freddie Kane OG!”
The 33 year old then distanced himself slightly from his profession as he declared, “I'm really not just a rapper like, I'm about to put my name on weed. I'm definitely working with the culture.”
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