DX: Let’s just end this Q&A with one loose question I been wanting to ask you since reading your LA Weekly feature, did I understand correctly that while you were with Interscope Eminem passed on working with you?
Freddie Gibbs: Yeah, Eminem passed on me, man. [Laughs] That’s one of the craziest things of my career. I love Eminem’s work…but him and [Shady Records co-founder] Paul [Rosenberg], I guess they figured that I wasn’t up to they standard. I don’t know what the fuck they was thinking when they did that, ‘cause I see other muthafuckas on they label that can’t hold a candle to the shit I do. But that’s they business, that’s they company, I don’t got nothing against what the fuck they doing. Until a muthafucka say something bad about me, then I’ll go in on these niggas. But I ain’t got nothing against nothing they doing. That was a stage of my career I was at, and maybe I wasn’t appealing to them at the time. But, I ain’t trippin’, it is what it is, I ain’t bitter about that. At first I felt surprised, especially when I saw other muthafuckas that they signed. I’m like, “Man, this [dude]? C’mon man, get real.” [Laughs] But at the same time, it was a blessing in disguise ‘cause it got me to this point where I’m at and letting me know I don’t need no muthafucka to get my name out there. I don’t need no Eminem. I don’t need no co-signs from none of these niggas to get where I need to be in this game. So that [experience] was just kinda opening my eyes to something, and showing me to go another direction. I [could have been] on Shady [Records] and shelved or dropped or forgotten about right now. I’m 28 right now, [and] I think I’m at an age where I can definitely see things better than what I could see ‘em at 23. So I’m glad I ain’t sign with Shady Records.
DX: I just can’t believe there was no Midwest love coming from Em [Laughs.]
Freddie Gibbs: Yeah, that’s what I said, man. And [then] they signing bustas. [Laughs] Straight bustas. I don’t even gotta say these bustas' names. But, I ain’t trippin’ my nigga, like I said, that’s they company. Hopefully, I can come up and be on the same level as Eminem one day.
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said Em signed some bustas, lmao dead... Hope he's talking about flopperhouse
old as fuck but man this is gold, Em lost since Gibbs just dropped potential roaty Eminemlost.gif
