There’s a lot of undertones and underlying things gentrification. “He’s speaking about a lot of sh*t in his verse. He breaks down why the song makes sense speaking to the minds of those from an impoverished background. I felt that he was that respected I admired that probably more than anything.”įreddie raps along to the song, as guests do on the Verses series.
He ain’t have to have a gun he ain’t have to have nothin’.
I felt like Scarface is one of those guys can walk through any neighborhood and nobody’ll touch him. I love it because the ghetto always shows me love back. He’s basically saying in that sh*t, Yo, I can live in the suburbs and do what I want to do, and still come to the ghetto whenever I want to. The Gary, Indiana MC says he was in junior high school preparing for manhood when he encountered this song.
I love that,” Gibbs testifies at the beginning of the video. I buy into everything, not just the music-especially nowadays with music being so fast-food and so disposable. Scarface Says He Is The GOAT MC & Explains Why Over an interpolation of Whodini’s “Friends,” Scarface’s 1998 single breaks down how he’s able to maintain a platinum career without compromising his credibility and authenticity in the South Acres neighorhood that raised him. The My Homies single that featured a posthumous Tupac Shakur appearance as well as Master P and Doracell. The Houston, Texas Rap legend appeared on the very same album, courtesy of “Broken.” Over the last decade, Freddie Gibbs has recruited some of the former Rap-A-Lot Records hit-makers that have worked with ‘Face, including Mike Dean.įor Pitchfork‘s “Verses” series, Freddie Kane breaks down Scarface’s “Homies & Thugs (Remix)” (embedded below) as his favorite verse. On Pinata, Gangsta Gibbs dedicated a song to the Geto Boys member, reworking the lines from his eponymous Grip It! On That Other Level song. Freddie Gibbs has always been very open about how much Scarface has influenced his Rap style.
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