Rapper with gold hit, chart success to play Archer Music Hall

ALLENTOWN, Pa. — A rapper best known for a 2014 gold hit and who has put six albums in the Top 20 on the Hip Hop chart will play Archer Music Hall, it was announced.

Freddie Gibbs, whose song “Old English” (with A$AP Ferg and Young Thug) achieved gold record sales, will perform at 7 p.m. June 4.

Singer and multi-instrumentalist Geordie Greep, who formally was frontman for the British experimental rock band Black Midi, will open the show.

Tickets, at $46 general admission standing to $119.20 for seated table, go on sale at 10 a.m. Friday, Feb. 6, at the Archer Music Hall website or at the box office at 939 Hamilton St., Allentown.

Gibbs in July saw his most recent album, “Alfredo 2” (with the Alchemist) become his highest-charting disc when it hit No. 1 on the Indie chart and No. 13 on Billboard’s overall Albums chart.

Hitting the charts and continued success

Gibbs began releasing mixtapes in 2003, and first hit the charts in 2010 when his EP “Str8 Killa” peaked at No. 48 on the R&B/Hip-Hop chart.

He released his solo debut album, “ESGN,” in 2013 and it reached No. 4 on the Indie albums chart.

A 2014 collaborative album, “Piñata” (with Madlib), did even better, crossing over to the Top 40 on the overall Albums chart.

That same year saw the release of “Old English.”

He continued to have success and in 2021 was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Rap Album for his disc “Alfredo” (with the Alchemist), which peaked at No. 15 on the overall Albums chart.

Greep helped found Black Midi in 2017 and through 2022 released three albums that all hit the Top 50 on the Indie chart. The band’s most recent, “Hellfire,” peaked at No. 15.

Black Midi announced in 2024 that it was on indefinite hiatus.

Greep released his debut solo album, “The New Sound,” in 2024 and it reached No. 10 on the UK Indie Albums chart, but failed to chart in the United States.