OK, an actual Gucci single from an actual commercial album: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QpLZrG-TlFU
Huge departure, and I think it's incredible.
― Evan R, Tuesday, 12 March 2013 20:15 (eleven years ago) link
don't know if i love it but on a purely melodic level it's pretty great
― some dude, Tuesday, 12 March 2013 22:09 (eleven years ago) link
this would instantly seem worse if it was "the debut single from Guwop," though, so happy that bullet was dodged
― some dude, Tuesday, 12 March 2013 22:10 (eleven years ago) link
me too that was an awful idea
― bish (bosch), don't kill my vibe (rennavate), Tuesday, 12 March 2013 22:12 (eleven years ago) link
changing it for a half hour and then caving was a great idea, though, so hilarious
― some dude, Tuesday, 12 March 2013 22:15 (eleven years ago) link
i wish young dro did the same thing ugh "3krazy"??!
― bish (bosch), don't kill my vibe (rennavate), Tuesday, 12 March 2013 22:18 (eleven years ago) link
God, hadn't even thought about that, but the fervor over this would have been intense
― Evan R, Wednesday, 13 March 2013 01:09 (eleven years ago) link
Has any established rapper other than Tity 2 Necklace ever benefited from a name change?
― radric: the guccining (The Reverend), Wednesday, 13 March 2013 06:34 (eleven years ago) link
I suppose there's the 500 hats of Bartholomew Combs, but they didn't really seem to alter his career for the worse or better.
― radric: the guccining (The Reverend), Wednesday, 13 March 2013 06:35 (eleven years ago) link
hmmm, it occured to me Andre 3000 is the answer to this
― only built 4 cuban twinx... (The Reverend), Wednesday, 13 March 2013 21:54 (eleven years ago) link
hmmm he was still putting his music out under the outkast name
i'm surprised whiney didn't say freddy foxxx/bumpy knuckles already.
― sisilafami, Wednesday, 13 March 2013 22:12 (eleven years ago) link
Common?Biggie?Kendrick?
― tsrobodo, Wednesday, 13 March 2013 22:39 (eleven years ago) link
Andre 3000 is still a much more recognizable name than ultra-generic Dre tho and fed into his personal mythos. (On further reflection, I'd argue Puffy's name changes did the latter, too.)
Biggie and Kendrick were still new kids on the block. Bumpy Knuckles is a classic rap name but it's not like he gained that much by adopting it. Com's a good answer.
― only built 4 cuban twinx... (The Reverend), Wednesday, 13 March 2013 23:43 (eleven years ago) link
Zev Love X
― only built 4 cuban twinx... (The Reverend), Thursday, 14 March 2013 02:04 (eleven years ago) link
Uh, The Disco Three?
― devendra banhard (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 14 March 2013 02:14 (eleven years ago) link
yes best answer
― sisilafami, Thursday, 14 March 2013 09:29 (eleven years ago) link
trap back 2 drops today
― whos next with plex (prettylikealaindelon), Friday, 15 March 2013 14:16 (eleven years ago) link
incredible
― Evan R, Friday, 15 March 2013 14:22 (eleven years ago) link
drops at 10:17 p.m.
― Evan R, Friday, 15 March 2013 14:26 (eleven years ago) link
postponed :(
He actually has two tapes dropping today - Trap Back 2 and a collabo tape with Young Dolph.
― longneck, Friday, 15 March 2013 14:30 (eleven years ago) link
who drops a mixtape on friday night at 10pm...
― bish (bosch), don't kill my vibe (rennavate), Friday, 15 March 2013 16:15 (eleven years ago) link
I think the last Young Thug tape came out around then, too. It's crap timing, because I would have liked to have ridden with it that Friday night but had to wait until sleepy Saturday. Plus it means there's no fun insta-Twitter reaction to follow.
― Evan R, Friday, 15 March 2013 16:20 (eleven years ago) link
yeah insta-Twitter reactions are so fun and not completely tedious and unnecessary and depressing
― îron swanson (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 15 March 2013 16:22 (eleven years ago) link
They can be all of those things, but I still like the shared experience of reacting to music, especially if it's from an artist I'm excited about
― Evan R, Friday, 15 March 2013 16:34 (eleven years ago) link
yeah there's interesting things to be found in instareactions, no one's saying they have to be the final word on releases
― bish (bosch), don't kill my vibe (rennavate), Friday, 15 March 2013 16:37 (eleven years ago) link
I'm also more tolerant of instareactions to mixtapes, which almost by design are meant to have a shorter conversational shelf life than albums. It's one thing when writers casts immediate judgement on years-in-the-making JT or MBV records; another when they fire off opinions about a Young Scooter mixtape most people might never get around to hearing
― Evan R, Friday, 15 March 2013 16:43 (eleven years ago) link
Gucci Mane @gucci1017Waka flacka flames officially dropped off brick squad 1017. Big Guwop say give me a offer fa this disloyal lil nigga
"waka flacka flames"
― tpp, Saturday, 16 March 2013 10:12 (eleven years ago) link
i feel guilty whenever i partake in twitter instareactions but really it's the only suitable place for them - communal excitement can be fun, à la old-skool ilm threads
i feel depressed and angry when i see professional album reviews that are pretty much instareactions. FIRST FIRST EVERYONE GOTTA BE FIRST WITH THEIR JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE OPINION
― flamenco drop (lex pretend), Saturday, 16 March 2013 10:15 (eleven years ago) link
word
― cunnilingus ah um (The Reverend), Saturday, 16 March 2013 19:26 (eleven years ago) link
guys "flames" is just possessive without the apostrophe...
what was up with that though? are they 4real beefing?
― k3vin k., Saturday, 16 March 2013 19:35 (eleven years ago) link
Anybody heard that Gucci/Young Dolph mixtape? Is it worth downloading?
― Evan R, Monday, 18 March 2013 22:57 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah it is. It sounded a bit like a mess at first, but it's falling into place now.
― longneck, Monday, 18 March 2013 23:09 (eleven years ago) link
So is it possible that Selena is the gal that has made Gucci sound so romantic and #based lately?
― longneck, Tuesday, 19 March 2013 00:33 (eleven years ago) link
Are there any particular highlights from the last two mixtapes?
― Walter Galt, Tuesday, 19 March 2013 11:00 (eleven years ago) link
Not a lot of highlights on Trap Back 2. It's his first disappointing mixtape in quite a while
― Evan R, Wednesday, 20 March 2013 01:31 (eleven years ago) link
never heard this verse before:
http://youtu.be/_aRIAFsgPHE
dammn
― tpp, Sunday, 24 March 2013 21:07 (eleven years ago) link
that was one of his first verses out of jail
"no sneakers i'm wearing creatures" is all time epic
― A$AP Rovi (J0rdan S.), Sunday, 24 March 2013 21:34 (eleven years ago) link
yeah that was done right around the same time as "break up" (prob even same session)
― some dude, Sunday, 24 March 2013 21:42 (eleven years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/PTHrRuY.jpg?1
― ְ֮֠֓֟֬֩ (gr8080), Wednesday, 17 April 2013 15:03 (eleven years ago) link
S M H
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 17 April 2013 15:06 (eleven years ago) link
I think the big takeaway here is "lol @ Complex"
― Call me at **BITCOIN (DJP), Wednesday, 17 April 2013 15:07 (eleven years ago) link
no way that's photoshopped, nope, nuh uh
― 乒乓, Wednesday, 17 April 2013 15:17 (eleven years ago) link
judge is always like, "are you guilty?"
― adam, Wednesday, 17 April 2013 15:18 (eleven years ago) link
well 'trap house 3' is out there and has 3x rich homie quan features
― tpp, Wednesday, 22 May 2013 20:58 (eleven years ago) link
Gucci has been so locked into a single aesthetic on his last 9 mixtapes or w/e that some of this is really jarring.
― Evan R, Wednesday, 22 May 2013 21:51 (eleven years ago) link
Also, why is this out so early? Thought it was supposed to come out in July; are they burying it?
― Evan R, Wednesday, 22 May 2013 21:52 (eleven years ago) link
get yr 'îron game up, rap
― luriqua, Thursday, August 9, 2007 2:55 AM (5 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
i think this is one of my favorite posts
― unfinest DN (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 22 May 2013 21:55 (eleven years ago) link
https://twitter.com/sisterolsen/status/337423098393542657
― sisilafami, Thursday, 23 May 2013 10:48 (eleven years ago) link
it's an independent album so i don't think it's possible to 'bury' it -- they're just tossing it out when they feel like without much advance hype, like a mixtape
i swore off checking out new gucci/bricksquad a while back because the diminishing returns and volume of output made it all feel like a waste of time, but if this actually doesn't sound exactly like all his other recent stuff i will have to at least give it a listen
― my mans ray manzarek (some dude), Thursday, 23 May 2013 11:45 (eleven years ago) link
We need a thread here dedicated to distilling the annual output of dudes like Gucci and lil b to absolute must haves
― Beatrix Kiddo (Raymond Cummings), Thursday, 23 May 2013 12:22 (eleven years ago) link