Flatbush Zombies: Freak Show with Freddie Gibbs, Danny Brown, Coast Contra, & Col3trane at Red Rocks Amphitheatre

The hip hop group from the Flatbush section of Brooklyn, New York City, Flatbush Zombies is composed of rappers Meechy Darko, Zombie Juice and Erick Arc Elliott, the trio are also part of the East Coast hip hop supergroup Beast Coast, with fellow Brooklyn-based rap groups the Underachievers and Pro Era. The group grew in popularity through two mixtapes and several music videos, leading to their 2016 debut studio album, 3001: A Laced Odyssey, and have collaborated with various artists, including RZA, ASAP Mob, Z-Breezy, Jim Jones, Juicy J, Danny Brown, Action Bronson, Mr. Muthafuckin eXquire, Tech N9ne, and Anthony Flammia among others. They have performed at music festivals such as The Hudson Project, JMBLYA, Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, Pemberton Music Festival, Afropunk Festival, Olly Mac Sesh, Paid Dues, North Coast Music Festival, SXSW, Roskilde, Rolling Loud in Miami, and Wireless in London.

Rapper from Gary, Indiana, Fredrick Jamel Tipton aka Freddie Gibbs formed his own label, ESGN in 2013 and released four solo studio albums, as well as four collaborative albums, two with Madlib, as MadGibbs: Piñata in 2014 and Bandana in 2019, and two with The Alchemist: Fetti in 2018 and Alfredo in 2020, the latter of which won him a Grammy Award nomination for Best Rap Album at the 63rd Annual Grammy Awards in 2021. Soul Sold Separately is Freddie Gibbs' upcoming fifth solo studio album. Its title is likely taken from “Education”, a track from his 2019 album Bandana with Madlib. On its closing line, he raps, “Drugs for the free, soul sold separately.”