Rapper Freddie Gibbs spoke to New York City’s Hot 97 FM about claims made by his former mentor, CTE head Young Jeezy, in an earlier interview with the radio station. Jeezy blamed Gibbs for ruining his relationship with hip-hop superstar Eminem, a claim that Gibbs flatly denies.
“He also spoke on something about an Eminem song,” Gibbs said. “And I want to clear that up. Because I didn’t — how did I mar your relationship with Eminem? I didn’t do anything of the sort. I wasn’t involved in that whole process. I got — he brought a song to me. Asked me to get on it and I got on it. I was just doing what my superior at that time was telling me to do … I actually, honestly was against it. To be honest. I didn’t want to get on the Eminem song because that isn’t the approach that I wanted to [take] … For one, I didn’t like the song. I’mma keep it real with you. Let’s just be real. I didn’t like the song. So, I ain’t want [sic] to get on it … I told him I didn’t want to be on it. It wasn’t my thing. And it’s something else under that, but we ain’t gon’ [sic] speak on that. But I just didn’t want to — I wasn’t comfortable being — I’m not really comfortable with being on records with cats really if we don’t kinda like talk. So, I kinda wanted to establish that first — ’cause to me it kinda looked like you thirsty.”
Prior to speaking on the record with Eminem, Gibbs said the rift between himself and Jeezy, who he said he still has respect for, stemmed from their varying approaches to the music industry.
He later revealed that he began to lash out against the CTE World emcee when he felt that Jeezy made it seem that he was a charity case and began to make false claims.
“Well, yesterday you heard the movie version of that,” Gibbs said in reference to Jeezy’s claims. “And I’m about to give you the real version of that. Well, first and foremost … I have a respect for Young Jeezy. If I didn’t, then I wouldn’t have decided to go over to CTE to try to further my career over there. So, let me get that out the way first. But the reason that things didn’t work out between me and Young Jeezy was … just because of our approach to things, to the industry. My approach to the industry was a tad bit different than his is. So, I wanted to approach my career in a different way. He wanted to go a different way. And us not seeing eye-to-eye is eventually what happened. The reason why I lashed out the way I did with the records and the words I said is truly because of — I mean, because of what was said yesterday.
“He made it seem like he saved some little, poor Gary boy. To the rap game. And that definitely isn’t the case,” Gibbs continued. “Before I got with Young Jeezy I was on the cover of XXL. Before I got with Young Jeezy I was on tours. Before I got with him I was making money. I didn’t take a dollar from Young Jeezy. So, that 300K, 400K thing, that’s a total lie. I’ve never took a dollar from Young Jeezy. No advance, no anything of that nature. We shot one video. That video that he spoke of. And that video got trashed because it wasn’t to my liking. So, there were no videos. This the business. We all do things that lose money. I shoot videos all the time out my pocket. And if I don’t like ‘em I just trash ‘em. You know what I mean? And go back to the drawing board. So, he might have took a loss right there. But any other losses that he was speaking of that was totally untrue.”
