Freddie Gibbs
Gary, Indiana's finest, at his best across the table from one producer.
- Albums graded
- 11
- Critic’s grade
- Highest grade
- Average grade
- Graded S
- 2
- Span
- 2012 to 2025
No. 5 on Top 10: Rap Discographies, graded A as a body of work.
Freddie Gibbs in the ShowcaseEvery album
11 albums, 2012 to 2025, each placed by its grade, then sorted onto the board.
The records
Newest first, each with the line its review opens on.
2025Alfredo 2Freddie Gibbs and The AlchemistThe reunion arrives comfortable rather than urgent, and comfortable from these two is still worth playing.
2022Soul Sold SeparatelyThe big budget major label record, wrapped in a casino concept that never once earns its own framing.
2020AlfredoFreddie Gibbs and The AlchemistThirty five minutes of soft focus soul loops and hard writing, without a wasted second anywhere on it.
2019BandanaFreddie Gibbs and MadlibThe sequel that had no business working, harder and stranger than the first and only slightly less complete.
2018FettiCurren$y, Freddie Gibbs and The AlchemistThirty minutes of luxurious loops and two rappers who never sound like they are trying, which is the appeal.
2018FreddieA short, disposable joke record made in a hurry, with a cover parody and very little underneath it.
2017You Only Live 2wiceTwenty two minutes made straight out of a European jail cell, and the weight is audible in every bar.
2015Shadow of a DoubtThe commercial one, and it is both more flexible and more uneven than the album that made his name.
2014PiñataFreddie Gibbs and MadlibGangster rap over dusty soul loops, and one of the great pairings of a rapper and a producer in any era.
2013ESGNA hard, cheap, independent album that proves the rapping and not a great deal else.
2012Baby Face KillaElite rapping on the cleanest beats anyone had handed him yet, and it still runs about six songs too long.