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Freddie Gibbs goes on an absolute tear on his latest collaboration with producer Madlib, “Flat Tummy Tea.” 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’t 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 (“Fuck Spike, he mostly show Malcolm on coke and white whores/Did the shit so he can get funding up from them white boys”) and caps everything off with the savage one-liner “Took the sword and knocked white Jesus off of that white horse.” – Rolling Stones