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 fukk they was thinking when they did that, ‘cause I see other muthafukkas on they label that can’t hold a candle to the shyt I do. But that’s they business, that’s they company, I don’t got nothing against what the fukk they doing. Until a muthafukka say something bad about me, then I’ll go in on these nikkas. 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 muthafukkas 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 muthafukka to get my name out there. I don’t need no Eminem. I don’t need no co-signs from none of these nikkas 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.
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Like seriously my nikka pass on him, for these other wack nikkas?
I'M SCREAMING