Gary, Indiana emcee Freddie Gibbs surprise-dropping his 4th extended play. Blowing up initially 2 decades ago with his debut mixtape Full Metal Jackit, he would sign to Interscope Records for a brief period of time until he left without dropping an album with them. This was made up for with the mixtapes The Miseducation of Freddie Gibbs & Str8 Killa No Filla, which would catch the attention of Jeezy & land Freddie a contract with CTE World in 2011. However, Gibbs eventually left CTE the following year only releasing the tapes Cold Day in Hell & B.F.K. (BabyFace Killa). In 2013, he decided to form his own label E$GN Records & finally dropped the full-length album E.$.G.N. (Evil $eeds Grow Naturally). He & iconic Oxnard producer Madlib would drop their MadGibbs debut Piñata the year after that, which is EASILY one of the greatest hip hop albums of the previous decade. Gibbs’ profile continued to grow his with Shadow of a Doubt, You Only Live 2wice, Freddie & the Curren$y collab EP Fetti & who can forget MadGibbs’ sophomore effort Bandana or Alfredo produced by The Alchemist? $oul $old $eparately made for a valiant major label debut under Warner Records & You Only Die 1nce took it back to his independent roots, coming off Alfredo II to give us RBT.
“Immigrants” produced by Boi-1da opens up with what could possibly be my favorite track here talking about laughing to keep himself from crying & a homicide staying on his mind while “Rabbit Mode” boasts the fact that his shows have been selling out when Instagram constantly banned him for the wild memes he posted. The outro “Axxtion” ties things up sampling “Flex” by Mad Cobra telling a woman to get in his 2-seater to fuck.
In preparation for Freddie Gibbs’ upcoming 7th album entirely produced by KAYTRANADA set to arrive in 2027 along with The Alchemist returning for Alfredo III & the final MadGibbs album Montana, we get a solid 3-pack from Gangsta Gibbs filled with the boastful gangsta rap lyricism he’s become known for bouncing between boom bap & trap for almost 9 minutes. Because of RBT’s brevity on the contrary, I can’t necessarily call it superior in comparison to YOD1 or Alfredo II.
Score: 3.5/5
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