"Hottest Breakthrough MCs of 2010" Candidate: Freddie Gibbs

Of course Freddie Gibbs wants to get a little paper, but he's still giving away whole bodies of work for free. His fans should be familiar with his mixtapes Miseducation of Freddie Gibbs, Midwestgangstaboxframecadillacmuzik and The Labels Tryin to Kill Me, and the buzz around those projects have him in the running for "Hottest Breakthrough MC of 2010." He introduced us all to his forceful baritone and Midwest flow. In the next couple of weeks, he'll drop his Str8 Killa, No Filla Mixtape (July 29) and the Str8 Killa EP (August 3).

"I been giving my fans the music with the Miseducation of Freddie Gibbs and Midwestgangstaboxframecadillacmuzik. I had so many projects with nothing for sale," the Gary, Indiana, MC said of the EP; he did note that the EP will have several records the mixtape doesn't, such as "Oil Money" with Bun B, Chuck English, Chip the Ripper and Dan Aurbach.

"I just wanted to throw something in stores that people who ain't on the Net can grab," he said. "Really, you're getting 25, 30 songs for $8. Get the mixtape first and try it before you buy it. If you wanna support, you can support."

Gibbs' first release from Str8 Killa is "National Anthem."

" 'National Anthem,' all I was really doing was documenting my personal struggle, the things I've been dealing with," he said. "The struggle, that rebellion is a theme that everybody can relate to. I used my tailor-made flow."

Gibbs said the follow-up record is called "Face Down": "Straight gangster sh-- for the clubs and the streets."

"The whole process, man, it was just me taking my time doing what I wanted to do musically," he added about the tape. "Getting creative, making my sh-- sound more like an album than a mixtape. I look at dudes like 50 Cent. His mixtapes was sh-- that sounded like records. Even if he was rapping on other people's beats, he made them his own. I studied him, and I put my own flavor and came with the Str8 Killa. It's going to jump me off like Trap or Die did for Jeezy.

"Str8 Killa is gonna blow your mind, he added. "The world kinda got A.D.D. right now. You gotta keep fresh material. With me putting out a body of work, it works in my favor. I want people to fall in love with me as an artist. I don't want one song to be bigger than Freddie Gibbs. People get attached to one song with dudes, then when they done, they throw them out the window. I want the people to really fall in love with me. That's why I put out good, structured bodies of work."

Freddie and 19 other up-and-coming MCs are in the running to become MTV News' [article id="1642015"]"Hottest Breakthrough MC of 2010"[/article] -- and the winner will be decided by you!

Cast your vote for the "Hottest Breakthrough MC of 2010" right here. The top five will be revealed beginning July 19, and the winner will be announced on the "Sucker Free Summit" July 25!