{"id":482468,"date":"2019-02-20T11:27:50","date_gmt":"2019-02-20T18:27:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=796794"},"modified":"2019-02-20T11:27:50","modified_gmt":"2019-02-20T18:27:50","slug":"hear-freddie-gibbs-madlib-reunite-on-ruthless-new-song-flat-tummy-tea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/music-news\/hear-freddie-gibbs-madlib-reunite-on-ruthless-new-song-flat-tummy-tea\/","title":{"rendered":"Hear Freddie Gibbs, Madlib Reunite on Ruthless New Song \u2018Flat Tummy Tea\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Nick_Walker.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"\/><\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/freddie-gibbs\/\" id=\"auto-tag_freddie-gibbs\" data-tag=\"freddie-gibbs\">Freddie Gibbs<\/a> goes on an absolute tear on his latest collaboration with producer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/madlib\/\" id=\"auto-tag_madlib\" data-tag=\"madlib\">Madlib<\/a>, \u201cFlat Tummy Tea.\u201d The song clocks in at a quick two-and-a-half minutes, with Madlib splitting the track in two distinct sections, the first a swift, blown-out beat, the second a hazy head-nodder.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Gibbs starts the track in scorched-earth mode and doesn\u2019t let up: He packs in references to the titular detox drink and lean, to the prison industrial complex and the slave trade, tosses in a Spike Lee diss for good measure (\u201cFuck Spike, he mostly show Malcolm on coke and white whores\/Did the shit so he can get funding up from them white boys\u201d) and caps everything off with the savage one-liner \u201cTook the sword and knocked white Jesus off of that white horse.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cFlat Tummy Tea\u201d will appear on Gibbs and Madlib\u2019s forthcoming album, <em>Bandana<\/em>, which is expected to arrive later this year. A limited edition 12-inch vinyl single of \u201cFlat Tummy Tea\u201d is also available via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rappcats.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Rappcats<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><em>Bandana<\/em> follows Gibbs and Madlib\u2019s 2014 album, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-album-reviews\/pinata-126985\/\"><em>Pi\u00f1ata<\/em><\/a>, as well as the duo\u2019s three EPs, <em>Thuggin\u2019<\/em>, <em>Shame<\/em> and <em>Deeper<\/em>. Last year Gibbs released his most recent solo project, <em>Freddie<\/em>, as well as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/curreny-freddie-gibbs-fetti-750220\/\"><em>Fetti<\/em><\/a>, a collaboration with Curren$y and the Alchemist.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/freddie-gibbs-madlib-new-song-flat-tummy-tea-796794\/\" target=\"_blank\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Freddie Gibbs goes on an absolute tear on his latest collaboration with producer Madlib, \u201cFlat Tummy Tea.\u201d The song clocks in at a quick two-and-a-half minutes, with Madlib splitting the track in two distinct sections, the first a swift, blown-out beat, the second a hazy head-nodder. Gibbs starts the track in scorched-earth mode and doesn\u2019t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-482468","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-14 08:09:28","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KQZR - The Reel","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=482468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482468\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=482468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=482468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=482468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}