While Gibbs has never been one to spare details, Bandana gives us Gibbs in full, raw frame: villainous, traumatized, and sickened by injustice. He even mentions his lady’s ultimatum after he’s caught with another woman. Family members drop dead alongside Gangsta Kane. No detail seems fleeting, especially his failures. ![]() The ramifications of his antiheroism remain a matter of optics, but the caliber of his pen isn’t up for discussion: He sprays the most gruesome details at a semiautomatic pace, gracefully shoving the listener through every kitchen, shootout, and foreign ménage he can remember. On his best day, Gibbs is the sorest winner with the cleanest smirk: He spares no opportunities to gloat his successes, but not without every intricate reminder of what he’s sacrificed to earn them all. This album’s a victory lap after the winning driver almost spun out seven times before even pulling up to the raceway. If one found Gibbs’ previous works hard to stomach, Bandana’s surely not for the faint of heart, no matter how luscious Madlib’s selections treat the ear. ![]() The incident deflated his momentum and his creative spirit he disappeared from public view for almost a year, and Bandana marks his fourth album since resurfacing in March 2017. Given Gibbs’ trajectory in particular, the brightness justifies itself: After riding Piñata’s success into international touring - quickly followed by the release of Shadow of a Doubt - sexual abuse allegations landed Gibbs in an Austrian prison in 2016, though he was completely exonerated in a matter of months. ![]() The latter album pops the top on their specialty of claustrophobic coke rap to present a brighter worldview, even with many more pounds of flesh to offer for the scale. Five years after Freddie Gibbs and Madlib’s Piñata brought street rap to another echelon, the duo widely acclaimed for their intoxicating film-grained spectacle brings Bandana as both a companion piece as well as a successor.
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