Still Coachable.
Still Coachable.
After noticing Freddie Gibbs’ insightful and often humorous observations on sports through his Twitter account, Rap Radar decided to give him a forum to express his thoughts on the thrills of victory and the agonies of defeat. It’s Gangsta Gibbs Wide World Of Sports. The black Bill Simmons is here. And for his ninth column, Gibbs bids adios to the winningest coach in sports history, Phil Jackson.
[…] “Can I Speak to You,” produced by DJ Pain 1 and featuring ScHoolboy Q, is the best track on the project. The beat is lush and sample-forward, in a dusky, early-2000s Just Blaze lane. Q, a rising TDE rapper, takes a substantial verse. 50 Cent sounds re-energized. He becomes the trash-talking 50 that was missing from the other songs. The closer imports a younger West Coast voice onto a Queens street album and returns 50 Cent to competitive writing after a run of money and sex records. […]