Video: Dig Of The Day: Freddie Gibbs – How We Do (2009)

Today we have a dynamite video in a form of a session, which features the beautiful 1985 vintage Lasonic TRC-931 Boombox and a cassette tape that has Souls Of Mischief ’93 Til Infinity beat on it, over which Freddie Gibbs kicks the lyrics from his independent mixtape album The Miseducation Of.. The track is titled How We Do and apparently it’s a freestyle. I’m not sure but I think this video was recorded after he released the mixtape in 2009. I heard the track (nevermind the title) which played automatically on YT after this video, also from Freddie, and it has that new, awful and fakin’ the funk sh*tty sound with no soul whatsoever ’cause it’s made with too much $$$ on the mind and therefore no quality can be present since obviously the listeners criteria fell way way down in this past few years, like in the most of today’s music, no matter the genre.

There has always been bad music, meaning there were artists that didn’t had “that something”, made a lousy job when playin’ certain music genre, and on account of that, those folks couldn’t push their mateiral anywhere. Music that was toppin’ charts back in the day was really good, ’cause “bad music” more precisely untalented individuals simply could not compete. Today’s music toppin’ the charts? As Carlos Santana would say on today’s musical landscape: “People have gotten synthetic these days. It’s like trading your soul for plastic.”

And another great quote from him I read some time ago, to connect and end the post with: “The ’60s were a leap in human consciousness. Mahatma Gandhi, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Che Guevara, they led a revolution of conscience. The Beatles, The Doors, Jimi Hendrix created revolution and evolution themes. The music was like Dalí, with many colors and revolutionary ways. The youth of today must go there to find themselves.”

This is where it’s at.