Nearly a week after Freddie Gibbs & The Alchemist dropped their critically-acclaimed latest album and easily one of the best albums in not only Hip-Hop, but all of music here this year, Alfredo 2. They return to the album with the debut a few short hours ago through of the new Nick Walker-directed accompanying video for one of the album’s most standout tracks, A Thousand Mountains. That also happens to be the album’s closing track too.
The cinematic samurai-inspired new video that was shot in Japan. Finding Gangsta Gibbs in a temple getting a massage from a very fine Japanese masseuse before actually training with two senseis in the mountains. His opening lines of, “Still slammin’, still ’bout it, still countin’. Feel like the only n***a rap cold as me, André 3000. B**ch, I raised a generation, kicked game on a thousand albums. I should go get me a flute and just disappear in the mountains.” Being brought almost literally to life through Freddie being in the literal mountains as he performs and raps the track. The concept of Freddie Gibbs as a samurai and being as sharp with his sword as he is lyrically on the mic, actually quite brilliant. To bring the record even more to life in a funny and entertaining way.
