

The incident feeds into Gibbs’ third album, which has the 33-year-old glancing back with gritty honesty at a gangsta life he thought he’d escaped, but still seems tangled in.Īfter growling into action with the menacing ‘Rearview’, on ‘F***in’ Up The Count’ he wonders if this life was always his destiny: “//Freddie, where your bills at? Teacher told me to get a job, I said ‘where the scale at?’//”. Asked why someone might want to kill him he responded, simply: “I’m Freddie Gibbs.” But I’m still living,” Gibbs told the //New York Post// outside the Brooklyn building.

On November 4 2014, someone tried to shoot Indiana rapper Freddie Gibbs while he was sitting in his car outside the Rough Trade record shop in New York.
