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Here’s another unlikely co-sign. Wrapping things up for 2009, The New Yorker couldn’t forget about one of the year’s best, Freddie Gibbs.

…He has now released five mixtapes onto the Internet, some using the material originally intended for Interscope. These are not quite like other hip-hop mixtapes circulating, where the standard practice is to record new material over other artists’ well-known beats. They are closer to fully formed albums, especially the newest one, Midwestgangstaboxframecadillacmuzik. The beats are almost all original and there is a minimum of filler.