Albums
Free Crack
2014
Release Date: 2014
By Ernest Wilkins
Reviewed January 14, 2016
The Chicago rapper Lil Bibby got his introduction to the world with the drill scene gold rush of 2012, with every rapper with a 773 or 312 area code getting a look and/or a deal. His latest tape, Free Crack 3, feels like a game attempt to escape the box that being labeled a "drill" artist puts you in.
There's an area in the South Shore neighborhood of Chicago known as Terror Town. It’s a 2-block-by-4-block area that has seen no less than three large-scale shootings in the last 3 years. This is where the rapper Lil Bibby lives, he of the boyish looks and the grown-ass man voice. He debuted nationally in August of 2012 alongside lifelong friend Lil Herb via "Kill Shit," a song that stands out as the absolute hardest song recorded by children I’ve ever heard. Bibby's work is a live play-by-play of chaos, with numerous references to paranoia that comes with simple trips to the store—"This real life, real facts, this ain't rap/ Walk into that corner store, we had to stay strapped/ Yeah, most of these niggas can't relate to that," he raps on "EBT to BET."