Gary, Indiana, MC tells Mixtape Daily he won’t duplicate, but ‘I’m trying to do this gangsta music.’ By Shaheem Reid, with additional reporting by Rahman Dukes Freddie Gibbs Monday’s Main Pick Street King : Freddie Gibbs Holding It Down For : The Midwest Mixtape : Str8 Killa (EP); Str8 Killa No Filla (mixtape) Real Spit : Gangsta Gibbs doubled up a few weeks ago with the selections you’ll read about here. He gave most of his music away for free, but tried his hand at bringing home sales as well. “I did that,” Freddie Gibbs said . “I dropped a mixtape on Thursday and the following Tuesday, I dropped an EP in stores. “Really, what I wanted to do was go get some points on the board. Put something in the stores for my fans to support and still give them music like I’ve been giving them on the Internet. You get like 28 songs for eight bucks. I’m creating my own way to sell music. I feel like the ground-roots people that’s supporting is loving the music, so it’s cool. “Str8 Killa No Filla is the mixtape. It’s got 22 joints. The EP is Str8 Killa. On the EP, you’re gonna get the songs off of the mixtape with no samples. It’s a lovely package. We packaged it together real nice.” Gibbs, whose official LP Babyface Killa is being cooked up now, said the name Str8 Killa is just his declaration that he doesn’t deal with the B.S. “I’m trying to do this gangsta music,” he said. “I just wanted to hit people right in the mouth with this. Let the world know what I’m on. Let them know I’m at the forefront of this. That’s what I grew up on. That’s the music everybody gravitated towards in the early ’90s. I’m not trying to duplicate that, but I’m carrying the torch.” Joints To Check For :
