Starting next week, we’ll all be treated to not one but two releases from Freddie Gibbs in a matter of days. Since I’ve gotten several emails asking, here’s a few specifics to clear it up the questions.

Presented by Statik Selektah, DJ Burn One & Josh The Goon, the FREE mixtape, Str8 Killa No Filla, will be dropping on next Thursday over @ XXLMag.com. 21 tracks in total, all heat. Click to enlarge and check out the tracklisting as well as the features and production credits.

Really though, the main attraction hits on August 3rd when the Str8 Killa EP will be available in stores everywhere and online. Eight songs, two of which are completely exclusive to the EP plus another exclusive bonus track when you purchase the full EP on iTunes. A few weeks back, the discussion of price-points for CDs came up and many agreed that if they kept it under $10, labels could probably push more discs. Well, the EP is $8 so there should be no excuses from true supporters. The key here is Freddie’s partnered with Decon Records for the release. Equal partners. No suits getting a check; the bread goes to Fred.

If you’ve frequented TSS enough, the backstory for Ms. Watts’ grandbaby isn’t a secret. Get signed to Interscope and then get dropped when the label attempted to ride a wave with Sonic and similar artists. Left for the vultures, Gibbs never flaked on the music he was prepared to make and never sought to switch his image up. Instead, he stayed true to his sound and approach. Freddie’s always rapped and repped for the more concrete side of life. When things went sour, he fell back but never let his goals fall out of focus.

And now, we’re all about to see it come full circle in a matter of days. To see it continue, we all have to go out and support it by spending. Money talks.

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The thank you above is sincere. No amount of money can buy the mutual respect that’s there. No fuckshit. Just like any other artist we support, we heard the music and I think it’s safe to say everybody on the Crew saw how powerful an emcee Fred was on the first few listens. When it’s your task to sift through an inbox full of submissions daily, you recognize those rare diamonds when they make a rare appearance. And it’s different from certain other artists who seem to forget who rode for them early or only come through during their album’s press run. They can all eat 7,000 wee wee’s and die © Pimp C.

Since you can see Freddie’s thank you’s above, let me add mine quickly.

– Peace to Lambo & Archie for believing in TSS and constantly showing love to our supporters. Peace to Josh The Goon & Big Kill, we ain’t stuntin’ these hoes.

– Respect to “OG Molly,” Sasha Frere-Jones and especially to Jeff Weiss, who believed me and helped take the music to a larger platform. Real is real, respect to every site, journalist, DJ, artist, etc. listed there. That’s damn near every outlet that took the time and space to share Freddie’s music.

RMF!