Anybody who even moderately pays attention to music knows how difficult it is to survive as an independent label nowadays — the shit is brutal. What’s even harder is surviving when you’re uncompromising about your product, discriminating with your roster and meticulous about your craft. Such is the case with Los Angeles’ Stones Throw Records, […]

Gary, Indiana’s great Freddi Gibbs returns with his latest video from the Str8 Killa No Filla album, “Rock Bottom”. Directed by the ICU. UPDATE: It was announced this morning that Freddie Gibbs just signed with Young Jeezy’s CTE Records. The Atlanta-based label will be releasing Gibb’s next mixtape, A Cold Day In Hell, later this […]

The King of Gary, Indiana, rapper Freddie Gibbs released the much-loved mixtape Str8 Killa No Filla a couple weeks back to much acclaim. This week, however, he’s removing all the tags from the audio (thank god) and making it a DJ-free mixtape. Along with guys like J Cole, Gibbs is undoubtedly one of the harbingers […]