Freddie Gibbs has proclaimed that there’s only five other rappers out right now as good as him.
In an interview with Ebro Darden on Apple Music, the Soul Sold Separately artist made the bold claim about his rapping talents. He suggested as such when he was asked about why he doesn’t take his various beefs with other rappers, namely Gunna and Benny the Butcher, all that seriously.
“I’m one to leave the street stuff in the streets and let the music play out how it’s going to play out. That’s why I don’t really care about really saying nobody name on my records and stuff like that,” he explained. “I don’t need to humiliate nobody to build up controversy, to be one of the best. I feel like some people need that. If you in the rap game and you need an enemy, hit up Freddie Gibbs, you know what I’m saying? I’m the perfect enemy for you because I’m not going to back down from you.”
He added that he’d rather make memes of other rappers, or tease them on social media than provoke them on a record. “I’m all about the comedy end of it, because rapping, they can’t really rap better than me,” he said. “It’s probably only five guys walking the planet Earth that rap as good as me. So I’m not worried about a rap battle, especially with somebody that I deem under here when it comes to rapping. So it is all fun and games to me.”
Gibbs didn’t say who the other five rappers are, but it’s a safe bet to assume at least a few of them showed up on his recent album, Soul Sold Separately. “I feel like a lot of these guys take themselves too seriously so they try to make you think it’s a serious thing, you know what I mean? When it’s really not,” he continued. “My track record speaks for itself. My people in the streets know how I get down. So that’s why I said I leave that in the streets. The streets take care of that.”
Elsewhere in the interview, he said that he plans to release a deluxe edition before the end of the year, although he doesn’t have a specific release date yet. He also said that he hopes to win a Grammy, but only so that he can make his Mom proud.
Check out the interview on Apple Music above.