![]() It's not too often that someone can arrive on the mixtape scene rapping over brand-new beats from expensive producers like Just Blaze or Polow da Don, but that's what's happening here. He's not anymore, but he recorded a pretty hefty chunk of songs with the label. Two years ago, Gibbs was signed to Interscope. Sportswriters call that the "nobody believed in us" factor when the world has written you off, you're that much more determined. On The Miseducation of Freddie Gibbs, the first of two very good mixtapes that Gibbs dropped this summer, he complains about not even being able to get on local Chicago radio. ![]() If beaten-down regional defiance is one of rap's great animating forces, Gary is a great place to be from. Here's how Gary rapper Freddie Gibbs describes the city on his song "From the G": "Land of lost hope/ Clouds of mill smoke/ Community devoured by hard and soft dope." ![]() The town has been hit by wave after wave of economic disaster, and when you drive through it today, it looks like a ruin. Gary, Indiana is a small, depressed steel town outside of Chicago, best known as the birthplace of music's Jackson family.
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