Freddie Gibbs and Michael Jackson might not have had much in common musically, but the two both came from the city of Gary, Indiana. Years ago, Gibbs told the story of the one time that he ever saw Jackson in person, and Pitchfork turned it into an animated video for its Frames series. To hear Gibbs tell it, Jackson didn’t come back to Gary to sing — “Gary ain’t got enough money for Mike to sing a note on the mic” — but to make a speech at a baseball stadium. When he was there, according to Gibbs, Jackson went to a Kentucky Fried Chicken drive-thru and bought all the chicken that they had. Then, he took it to the baseball stadium and handed out chicken to all the kids.
