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“It’s another album of the year. I’m about to go and work with Pharrell next week. Madlib, Working On Dying, The Alchemist, Sevn Thomas, Hit-Boy, I just talked to [Mike Will Made It]. It’s gonna be the best produced album that I ever made.” Gibbs is cognisant of the lane he occupies now — he’s an artist that provides holistic bodies of work. With comrades and hip hop mavens such as Benny The Butcher, Kenny Beats and Ebro Darden routinely emphasising his consistency in the curation domains.

Outside of sonics, Gibbs is compelled to delve into his artistic storytelling more — he stays abreast with hip hop and its evolution through social media. “When rappers get to 30, some get bored, some aren’t inspired anymore,” he says. But on 'SSS' (he won't reveal what it means just yet), he’s adamant about staying competitive and shedding more of himself as it pertains to fatherhood, vowing to be transparent on balancing the dynamics of co-parenting as a father Freddie Jr. and Irie. Here, he’s combating ageism in hip hop with wisdom and expertise.

He promises that his upcoming album will feature the biggest names, including but not limited to Pusha T, Lil Baby, Rick Ross, the Neptunes, Puff Daddy and Hit-Boy. It’s bound to be his best body of work yet following the GRAMMY-nominated Alfredo with The Alchemist, and he doesn’t see anybody standing in his way… except for maybe Tyler, the Creator, who thoroughly impressed Gibbs with his latest album CALL ME IF YOU GET LOST. “Shout out to Tyler,” he says, “but other than that, I feel like everything else is like, ‘Okay, cool.’ The game is real bland right now, man. I think that when I got nominated for the GRAMMY, they put me up there with guys that I should have been standing up to anyway. I feel like I’m definitely one of the best rappers in the game pound for pound. So I gotta keep proving that.”