Gibbs, latest project 'Shadow of A Doubt' is hopeless and nihlistic street rap, that passion and anger missing largely from Jeezy's latest effort, while Jeezy is restrained and remorseful, Gibbs is self destructive and self-aware, careening out of control in a hedonistic haze of smoke, sex, pistols, and drugs, consumed and sold with the knowledge of all the pain, past, present and future, that come with it. 'Am I a dope fiend or a dope boy"? Lines from "Forever And A Day' cut deep into the pysche of a lost generation like me of kids that got kicked out young, and embraced the streets, with their backs to their loved ones.
'Rear View' is a Pac worthy intro track, chronicling his LA lifestyle with haunted production and dark lines. Gibbs music has a sweeping, consuming vulnerability and edge to it, as well as a world weary tone which puts him one foot in the current rap generations lane, and another in our beloved 90's icons....reserved hustlers like BIG and Jay, who rarely got as personal as Gibbs, and embraced disipline and aloofness, rather then the kind of reckless, painful rap which Gibbs so frequently excels in. A worthy album of a great artist, who switches flows and production with all the skill and ease of the great rappers from any generation.
"What's up with all this singing?"
"Talking about me lately like some hoes"
