Freddie Gibbs Announces "Pinata" 10 Year Anniversary Shows

BYLavender AlexandriaPublished on January 22, 2024914 Views

WEST HOLLYWOOD, CALIFORNIA - MARCH 23: Freddie Gibbs attends the Spotify and Hulu "RapCaviar Presents" Premiere Celebration at Ysabel on March 23, 2023 in West Hollywood, California. (Photo by Kayla Oaddams/Getty Images)

The three show run will take place in May.

2024 will see a number of influential and celebrated rap albums celebrating their 10th birthday. J. Cole's 2014 Forrest Hills Drive, Schoolboy Q's Oxymoron, and Azealia Banks' Broke With Expensive Taste all slicked with mainstream rap fans in 2014 while projects like Killer Mike and EL-P's Run The Jewels 2, and Clipping's CLPPNG stunned the underground. Somewhere in the middle is Freddie Gibbs and Madlib's landmark first collaborative project Pinata.

The 17-track collaborative album was met with massive critical acclaim when it dropped. Madlib's nostalgic, sample-heavy instrumentals were praised as the perfect palette for hard-hitting bars from Freddie and his collaborators. Speaking of collaborators the album sports some spectacular features. Danny Brown, Raekwon, Earl Sweatshirt, Scarface, Domo Genesis, Ab-Soul, BJ The Chicago Kid, Polyester The Saint, Casey Veggies, Meechy Darko, Big Time Watts, G-Wiz, Sulaiman, and Mac Miller all appear on the record. The pair teamed up for a second collaboration called Bandana in 2019. They also released an absolutely massive deluxe edition of Pinata back in 2021. But now they have entirely different plans for the album's 10th anniversary.

Freddie Gibbs Celebrating 10 Years Of Pinata

Now, in celebration of a full 10 years passing the Pinata was originally released, Freddie Gibbs is playing a trio of live shows. He'll be joined by opening acts Eyedress and Pink Siifu. Soul band El Michels Affair will also be joining the performance fresh off a collaborative album with Black Thought last year. Freddie will be hitting up Boston, New York, and Chicago with the special series of performances.

Freddie Gibbs' last studio album $oul $old $eperately dropped back in 2022. The project featured fan favorites like "Dark Hearted" and "Gold Rings" which have racked up millions of streams since the album dropped. What do you think of Freddie Gibbs playing special live shows for the 10th anniversary of Pinata? Do you think you'll attend any of the performances? Let us know in the comment section below.

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Lavender Alexandria is a music and culture journalist based in Los Angeles, California. She’s covered dozens of musical genres and styles from the most mainstream to the most experimental and underground on her blog and accompanying YouTube channel that looks at music, pop culture, and Billboard charts since 2017: Lav’s Music Corner. Lavender has produced editorial and listicle content both in written and video form over the past far years and has also interviewed up-and-coming artists like Censored Dialogue. Her experiences covering culture have taken her from Hyperpop parties in LA to underground rap shows in Atlanta, to DIY punk shows in Charlotte. Lavender has also written for iHeartRadio, covering some of the biggest artists in Hip Hop such as Ice Spice, Drake, Doja Cat and Cardi B. She also has bylines with ScreenRant and continues to write for Ringtone magazine. Lavender is a lifelong Charlotte Hornets fan and her favorite rap artists include Clipping, Little Simz, Earl Sweatshirt, and Kendrick Lamar.