--nicci mane
― luriqua, Thursday, 9 August 2007 07:56 (sixteen years ago) link
supposed to be ''eron' sry
― luriqua, Thursday, 9 August 2007 08:04 (sixteen years ago) link
Gucci Mane :: Trap House :: Big Cat Records/La Flare Ent. as reviewed by Steve 'Flash' Juon The most famous thing Radric 'Gucci Mane' Davis has done yet in his young life is be arrested for murder. Before May 19th the only knowledge the public had of Mane was the small amount of success his single "Icy" featuring Young Jeezy had found in some markets before the scheduled national release of his debut album "Trap House" on May 24th. Starved for any kind of press, good or bad, Gucci Mane's people immediately sent out a statement touting that Mane had voluntarily turned himself in to face these charges; subsequently Mane and his attorney managed to post bail and get him out of jail just as the album hit stores.
There was a time in hip-hop music when such an announcement would be viewed as a tragedy - a young man set to make his name nationally throws away his opportunity and faces an uncertain future possibly including jail time. Instead it's a sign of the cynical world that we live in that not only is this news fodder for a press release but viewed as the kind of publicity that could propel him to the top. While it's true that there is a disturbing correlation between the success of rappers and violent gun-related crimes, most were the recipient of the violence. Tupac Shakur survived several attacks on his life, and with each failure the already highly talented artist achieved a more iconic status; his ultimate demise making him a martyr in many eyes and keeping album sales high well after his death. Notorious B.I.G. was already a worldwide rap superstar before he was gunned down and had been for some time. Even 50 Cent had risen beyond local notoriety with several singles like "How to Rob" before the attempt on his life nearly blew his face off. In short, rappers are the victims of their fame, not the perpetrators of the violence in an ATTEMPT to gain fame.
Recently the trend has swung heavily in the other direction. Whether they are truly innocent and being railroaded by the system or as guilty as their convictions would indicate, MC's from Shyne to C-Murder to Pimp C to T.I. have had to do time for their crimes. The remarkable thing about all four is that being locked up has been no impediment to releasing a new album that appears in stores. While Gucci Mane's album was already in the can before he wound up in the pen, it's still telling that all parties involved used the timing of the incident to their advantage. One can only hope Mr. Davis was really not looking for more publicity via these means and that this is just a case of wrong place/wrong time or at the very worst self-defense. When the smoke clears from this incident the debut album "Trap House" still remains as the TRUE platform for Gucci Mane to achieve his success, not these unfortunate charges. Clocking in at 18 tracks including an intro, outro and several skits, this full-length release puts both Mane and Big Cat Records on the map. The latter clearly has big plans, as they even put an ad for an upcoming album by Magic and a "404 vs. 504" compilation underneath the clear tray on which Mane's CD sits.
Now as for the artist himself, the sad truth here is that there's not much to write about other than his arrest record. Mane follows in the recent tradition of debuting Southern rappers whose rhyme schemes are overly simplstic, accents are extra thick, and beats are incredibly uninteresting. Even the lead single "Icy" has a barely passable beat by Xavier Dotson, p.k.a. "Zaytoven" according to the liner notes. I'd hold off on the comparisons to Beethoven just yet if I were him - a simple series of electronic beats and beeps does not a maestro make. Neither rapper in the song has anything interesting to say, but Mane comes off half as clever as Jeezy, who at least manages a semi-clever reference to Ginuwine in his opening verse. Mane has nothing:
"She diggin my fit, she think I'm the shit Is this a chain on my neck, or the watch in my wrist Maybe the ice in my ear, or the brace-eh-let But she look like the type that could take a dick Uhhhhhhh... young Gucci Mane Don't kiss me baby you can kiss my chain Uhhhh - ya gotta be a dime piece just to look at the rocks in my time piece"
The lyrical critique here is not just of the inane materialistic content, because that type of material is so prevalent in today's hip-hop anyway and there are some who do it well or at least have enough charisma to make it interesting. Mane is charismatic and not completely unpleasant vocally, but adding an extra syllable to the word "bracelet" in order to rhyme it with "take a dick" insults both your eardrum and your intelligence. Furthermore after a certain amount of time one has to question the quality of chicks these "iced out" rappers pull, when they look like tens on the outside but are so vapid on the inside they only care about how much sparkle you wear. It's not as if this song is an exception to the rule and Mane offers more profound wisdom elsewhere on his album. Rather this song is the height of what are otherwise a string of lyrical lows. Here's another example of how clever Gucci Mane is: "Don't let yo' mouth write a check that yo' ass cain't cash/I'm the lawnmower man, and yo' ass is grass." That might have been clever back in 1992 but it's heavily dated today, and the fact it's the hook of a song NAMED "Lawnmower Man" isn't helping. Here's some more of Mane's talent on this track:
"Uhhhhh, I'm from the hood I'll punch ya lights out ... I took your jewelry, now I'm iced out (icy icy) Gucci Mane got that 'caine in (I ain't got no bricks) I swear I never tuck my chain in ... You just a thug in trainin ... I'm a thug entertainin"
No Mane, you're not entertaining. The closest this album gets to entertaining is a parody of Dem Franchize Boyz "White Tee" entitled "Black Tee" that features Bun B, Lil Scrappy and Jody Breeze among others - and while the talent on their version is better the Franchize Boyz still win for having a better beat than the one Zaytoven provides here. I'd like to say Gucci Mane has a bright future in front of him as a rapper if he beats the charges, but songs like "Damn Shawty" contradict the statement with ridiculous lyrics like "Shawty got an ass on hurr, I'ma put my hands on hurr, I'ma spend a couple grand on hurr, I'ma pop a rubber band on hurr." Much as I knocked Mike Jones in a review a few weeks ago, one has to give Jones credit for three things: more interesting beats, better hooks to his songs, and a gimmick that's memorable no matter how ridiculous it might be. Gucci Mane has none of these things going for him. His only gimmick right now is his infamy, and even that won't last when people see how vapid his music is.
Music Vibes: 4 of 10 Lyric Vibes: 4 of 10 TOTAL Vibes: 4 of 10
― luriqua, Thursday, 9 August 2007 08:07 (sixteen years ago) link
mod delete that asap
― luriqua, Thursday, 9 August 2007 08:08 (sixteen years ago) link
how to rob, lool
getting shot must hurt!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
― luriqua, Thursday, 9 August 2007 08:10 (sixteen years ago) link
"Zaytoven" according to the liner notes
YOU HEARD IT HERE FIRST
― luriqua, Thursday, 9 August 2007 08:11 (sixteen years ago) link
"Zaytoven" !
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACa7M4A7hso
― luriqua, Thursday, 9 August 2007 08:12 (sixteen years ago) link
trap house VS back to the traphouse
― am0n, Thursday, 29 May 2008 17:18 (fifteen years ago) link
'i know why' is a jam
― am0n, Thursday, 29 May 2008 17:20 (fifteen years ago) link
-- am0n, Thursday, May 29, 2008 1:18 PM
― am0n, Thursday, 29 May 2008 23:11 (fifteen years ago) link
SHAWTY ASKED ME WHAT TIME IT IS I SAID 15 MINUTES PAST THE DIAMONDS, BITCH
― deej, Thursday, 29 May 2008 23:12 (fifteen years ago) link
shit how did i miss this revive!!! back to the traphouse is my shit
― J0rdan S., Friday, 30 May 2008 02:31 (fifteen years ago) link
ah-choo im rich say gesundheit bitch
― J0rdan S., Friday, 30 May 2008 02:34 (fifteen years ago) link
game kills his verse
Ha-choo! I’m rich/Say gesundheit, bitch/Please excuse me, miss/Excuse my French/My necklace look like Cris/Your diamonds look like piss.
― deej, Monday, 23 June 2008 16:29 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4tRd3KSqkA&feature=PlayList&p=EAF97ADC0CFFD900&index=1
― J0rdan S., Monday, 23 June 2008 16:32 (fifteen years ago) link
you can't be me or see me unless you see me on tv
― J0rdan S., Monday, 23 June 2008 16:36 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWXN5n_y1s8
luv this song
― am0n, Monday, 23 June 2008 17:05 (fifteen years ago) link
and bird flu
― am0n, Monday, 23 June 2008 17:50 (fifteen years ago) link
gucci dont drink beer but he do drink dom
― deej, Monday, 23 June 2008 17:50 (fifteen years ago) link
gucci mane get cake its my birthday party
― deej, Monday, 23 June 2008 17:52 (fifteen years ago) link
you just had to post the "drink dom" line on the one forum on the internet where that has a really disturbing connotation
― some dude, Monday, 23 June 2008 17:54 (fifteen years ago) link
i like gucci cuz he sounds like he is always having the most fun of any rapper around
― J0rdan S., Monday, 23 June 2008 17:54 (fifteen years ago) link
-- some dude, Monday, June 23, 2008 12:54 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Link
was kinda hoping someone would run w/ that one
― deej, Monday, 23 June 2008 17:56 (fifteen years ago) link
gucci mane you stupid man i love the way you flowin ridin in my drop but i dont know where Im goin on 285 i keep ridin in a circle the inside of my ride smellin like a pound of purple
― J0rdan S., Monday, 23 June 2008 17:59 (fifteen years ago) link
You mix a little Coke with a little Dom Passantino/ And a little Fennessey/ You know we fine to carry on
― am0n, Monday, 23 June 2008 18:23 (fifteen years ago) link
ok ban me
― am0n, Monday, 23 June 2008 18:29 (fifteen years ago) link
lol
― some dude, Monday, 23 June 2008 18:29 (fifteen years ago) link
-- am0n, Monday, June 23, 2008 1:29 PM (29 seconds ago) Bookmark Link
in the spirit of a luriqua thread
― J0rdan S., Monday, 23 June 2008 18:30 (fifteen years ago) link
'freaky gurl' is so great
― lex pretend, Monday, 23 June 2008 21:01 (fifteen years ago) link
Gucci Mane is some dirty mofo tho. He actually shames me with his existance.
― VeronaInTheClub, Monday, 23 June 2008 22:19 (fifteen years ago) link
jordan s was right about the album :D
― lex pretend, Monday, 14 July 2008 15:17 (fifteen years ago) link
thx i posted this upthread already but i'm still d-_-bing it. soulja boy's been getting some real rappers on his tracks lately (two w/ gucci-- the one w/ gucci and shawty lo is only aight) and this one is the best of the collabos. pretty sick verse from gucci http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4tRd3KSqkA&feature=PlayList&p=EAF97ADC0CFFD900&index=1
― J0rdan S., Monday, 14 July 2008 15:25 (fifteen years ago) link
yeah i know! i heard that last week i think. immediate faves off nback to the traphouse - 'bird flu', 'i move chickens'. and this is the first i've heard from shawnna in an age, too
― lex pretend, Monday, 14 July 2008 15:28 (fifteen years ago) link
http://a235.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/58/l_9a238e4a62390869af87bdb7dc064be2.jpg
― am0n, Monday, 14 July 2008 16:00 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.zshare.net/audio/17858112c400b8d0/
― J0rdan S., Saturday, 30 August 2008 20:49 (fifteen years ago) link
im not richie rich bitch but im rich as fuck
― J0rdan S., Saturday, 30 August 2008 20:52 (fifteen years ago) link
/!\ ALERT /!\ gucci mane said ti's balls were brittle /!\ ALERT /!\
-- luriqua, Saturday, July 21, 2007 6:42 PM (1 year ago)
― am0n, Sunday, 31 August 2008 20:36 (fifteen years ago) link
like garfield odie nigga ima dogg
― johnny crunch, Monday, 1 September 2008 16:22 (fifteen years ago) link
loool amon
― J0rdan S., Monday, 1 September 2008 18:01 (fifteen years ago) link
i'm a junkyard dog not a scooby dooi got that white girl true i'm talking betty boop
^^leave it to gucci to come up w/ the only original white girl reference 10 months after it was a "thing"
― jordan s (J0rdan S.), Wednesday, 22 October 2008 05:09 (fifteen years ago) link
i'm just getting through those mixtapes now
i really like this weird raspy croak that he's got when he sings his hooks ("nickelodeon", "haunted house") and originally i thought his mixtape tracks were too blunted to really register for me (whereas back to the traphouse is glossy as fuck and tons of fun to listen to) but i'm kind of digging the mood but maybe i'm just projecting
― jordan s (J0rdan S.), Wednesday, 22 October 2008 05:14 (fifteen years ago) link
nickelodeon is insane
no wayne flashbacks intended by using the phrase "weird raspy croak"
― jordan s (J0rdan S.), Wednesday, 22 October 2008 05:16 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.worldstarhiphop.com/videos/video.php?v=wshh96ru8A8umq54y386
video of gucci bussin mac bre-z upside the head
― and what, Monday, 12 January 2009 22:22 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.worldstarhiphop.com/videos/video.php?v=wshh99w7x526oig4pLlm
less entertaining more educational video of zaytoven talking about working w/ gucci -- real interesting actually
― xhuxk d (deej), Monday, 12 January 2009 22:24 (fifteen years ago) link
hmm i guess that vid isnt really entertaining as much as disturbing xp
― xhuxk d (deej), Monday, 12 January 2009 22:26 (fifteen years ago) link
― autogoblin (surfboard dudes get wiped out, totally), Saturday, 14 March 2009 19:08 (fifteen years ago) link
His voice just sounds like a different rapper to me now.
― Tim F, Monday, 17 October 2016 22:12 (seven years ago) link
That's mostly because he's sober, perhaps?
Anyway, falling out of love with someone is never pretty but it can't be helped I guess. Woptober is still one of my favorite albums this year and Everybody's Looking has its gems too.
― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Tuesday, 18 October 2016 09:05 (seven years ago) link
i wouldn't go as far as 'favorite albums this year' but i gave woptober a good listen & its def an improvement over everybody's looking
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Wednesday, 19 October 2016 18:42 (seven years ago) link
Projected 17-20k
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Wednesday, 19 October 2016 19:35 (seven years ago) link
http://images.pigeonsandplanes.com/complex/image/upload/c_limit,w_1030/uqrlpnnybw3u3aa8q8nu.png
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 15 November 2016 15:45 (seven years ago) link
“Last night, me and Future met up in Atlanta," Gucci Mane told Miss Info. "We ditched our entourages, we didn’t book my usual studio, or his usual studio… It’s like we knew we wanted to fly under the radar. There was like this positive competition in the room. I’d hear him go in on a verse, and I knew I had to step up.”
Explaining his chemistry with Future, Gucci continues, “He would say the same back, and we knocked out 6 songs so crazy that I knew we couldn’t just sit on it. We talked about recording some more, adding more songs. But I didn’t want to over think it or over plan things. Even Future didn’t think we were dropping this tonight. This is the freshest it can get. These joints ain’t even 24 hours old. That’s like bringing you in the studio with us.”
lol same ol gwop
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 15 November 2016 15:46 (seven years ago) link
This is bad
― Spottie, Tuesday, 15 November 2016 21:10 (seven years ago) link
yea not into it
― johnny crunch, Tuesday, 15 November 2016 21:16 (seven years ago) link
http://www.npr.org/2016/12/06/504593590/gucci-mane-tiny-desk-concert
Gucci doing 3 songs live accompanied by Zaytoven on piano by the NPR tiny desk
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 13 December 2016 01:44 (seven years ago) link
I don't understand why it sounds like this. Is he rapping over guide vocals? Is he rapping at all?
― Evan R, Tuesday, 13 December 2016 02:08 (seven years ago) link
? it sounds normal to me
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Tuesday, 13 December 2016 20:33 (seven years ago) link
I guess I must've been thrown by the delay on his vocals or something. The whole thing just sounded overdubbed and weird to me.
― Evan R, Tuesday, 13 December 2016 20:36 (seven years ago) link
watched the "first day out" performance and found it a little lifeless but it's a cool idea i guess
― k3vin k., Tuesday, 13 December 2016 21:05 (seven years ago) link
he was def rapping over his own vocals some, standard practice these days, the piano/minimal beats were p cool imo
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 13 December 2016 21:21 (seven years ago) link
You can def hear him over the backing track, cuz he did his own radio edits lol
i thought the performance was great, i mean it's a tiny desk perf what more are you looking for
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Tuesday, 13 December 2016 21:44 (seven years ago) link
more banjo and glockenspiel tbh
― marcos, Tuesday, 13 December 2016 21:45 (seven years ago) link
this has been true for a long time, but online culture often celebrates ~the idea~ of a rapper more than the actual rapper, and this seems like a peak example of that
― Evan R, Tuesday, 13 December 2016 22:24 (seven years ago) link
that's kind of been the whole thing since he got out of jail tbh
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Wednesday, 14 December 2016 12:43 (seven years ago) link
East Atlanta Santa is way better than anything he's released since getting out. His best bars in years, and he seems to have pushed his producers, too.
― Evan R, Wednesday, 28 December 2016 00:03 (seven years ago) link
good inthttps://twitter.com/HQonESPN/status/817487936241307648
― Spottie, Tuesday, 10 January 2017 00:06 (seven years ago) link
his verse on the new big boi song feels vintage to me... suwoo bentley and the forgies suwoo too / and i know two jews eat a case like it's fast food
& considering that he raps about mapquesting to your house, the verse might actually be like 10 years old
― J0rdan S., Friday, 9 June 2017 15:13 (six years ago) link
well his delivery is today's.
― ANU (sisilafami), Friday, 9 June 2017 16:32 (six years ago) link
good song
― fo, fo, fo, fo (Spottie), Friday, 9 June 2017 17:29 (six years ago) link
Zaytoven is an inspiration https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CkHyL8Zxkno
― change display name (Jordan), Monday, 2 October 2017 14:27 (six years ago) link
I read the book, btw. It was a bit short for a guy who has released so much music and has been part of so much, but on the whole it was nice enough. Turns out that big pot belly before he went in was... constipation. Ugh.
― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Monday, 2 October 2017 14:59 (six years ago) link
i looked up yung pinch, brutal, post malone has a wave
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 3 October 2017 20:00 (six years ago) link
yeah that was a real anticlimax to the Zaytoven video
― change display name (Jordan), Tuesday, 3 October 2017 20:02 (six years ago) link
big time
― Spottie, Tuesday, 3 October 2017 20:03 (six years ago) link
yung pinch has such a terrible rapper voice
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Tuesday, 3 October 2017 23:18 (six years ago) link
6dogs is the next big white ironic rapper getting a push
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Tuesday, 3 October 2017 23:19 (six years ago) link
lmao yung pinch is terrible
― Erotic Wolf (crüt), Tuesday, 3 October 2017 23:29 (six years ago) link
https://www.thefader.com/2017/10/12/gucci-mane-malcolm-gladwell-full-interview/
― sleepingbag, Friday, 13 October 2017 07:22 (six years ago) link
not really a bombshell interview but amusing enough
― sleepingbag, Friday, 13 October 2017 07:25 (six years ago) link
"Gucci Mane Biopic in the Works"
http://variety.com/2018/film/news/gucci-mane-biopic-paramount-players-1202693921/
Paramount Players and Imagine Entertainment have launched development of a biopic on musician Gucci Mane based on his “The Autobiography of Gucci Mane.”The studio has obtained life rights to Mane, whose real name is Radric Delantic Davis, and movie rights to the book. Imagine’s Brian Grazer and Erica Huggins will produce the project. Mane and Todd Moskowitz will executive produce.Mane is a pioneer of the hip-hop genre known as trap music. He made his studio album debut in 2005 with “Trap House,” the first of a dozen studio albums, followed by “Hard to Kill.”The book tells of his childhood in poverty in Alabama and his move to Atlanta, where he became involved in criminal activity. He spent nearly three years in prison starting in 2004 after pleading guilty to possession of a firearm by a convicted felon. While incarcerated, he began releasing mixtapes from prison with rappers Migos and Young Thug.
The studio has obtained life rights to Mane, whose real name is Radric Delantic Davis, and movie rights to the book. Imagine’s Brian Grazer and Erica Huggins will produce the project. Mane and Todd Moskowitz will executive produce.
Mane is a pioneer of the hip-hop genre known as trap music. He made his studio album debut in 2005 with “Trap House,” the first of a dozen studio albums, followed by “Hard to Kill.”
The book tells of his childhood in poverty in Alabama and his move to Atlanta, where he became involved in criminal activity. He spent nearly three years in prison starting in 2004 after pleading guilty to possession of a firearm by a convicted felon. While incarcerated, he began releasing mixtapes from prison with rappers Migos and Young Thug.
also lol @: "UTA repped Mane in the deal."
― sleepingbag, Friday, 9 February 2018 20:29 (six years ago) link
I still listen “Lemonade” constantly, 13 years later or whatever it is
― treeship., Monday, 24 May 2021 21:50 (two years ago) link
Cool his career seems better than ever? Cool and surprising. The new stuff doesn’t do it for me though.
Burr!
― treeship., Monday, 24 May 2021 21:51 (two years ago) link
like him or not, when this dude was at the top, shit was much more fun. summers of 2009 and 2010 were enhanced by this dude.
I literally get transported back when I hear "Lemonade" or "Making Love to the Money" or anything from that era.
fuuuuuuuck.
― not up to Aerosmith standards (Neanderthal), Friday, 9 July 2021 14:21 (two years ago) link
agreed
― eisimpleir (crüt), Friday, 9 July 2021 14:22 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZAi_TNMPkk
The track samples 1996 song "Rundgang um die transzendentale Säule der Singularität" by Burzum throughout.[2]
― eisimpleir (crüt), Friday, 9 July 2021 14:24 (two years ago) link
haa nice
― lag∞n, Saturday, 10 July 2021 13:13 (two years ago) link
the new mixtape is pretty good! i like the way it's structured, with collaborations from his young label signees at the beginning, collabs with trap veterans like 2 chainz and project pat in the middle, and solo tracks towards the end.
the hook from this one has been stuck in my head for about a week
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_NLTOFPM5E
― bezos did the dub (voodoo chili), Thursday, 29 July 2021 19:27 (two years ago) link
Good Morning, pic.twitter.com/k4lbZjIEc7— Tune, MBA, CISSP (@CartuneNetwerk) October 23, 2023
― is he disgruntled adrian? (voodoo chili), Monday, 23 October 2023 17:19 (six months ago) link
― lag∞n, Monday, 23 October 2023 17:23 (six months ago) link
Retired NASCAR driver Mark Martin said his favorite artist is Gucci Mane 😂😂🔥🔥🔥 pic.twitter.com/sdh7qVSwmw— HoodFamousTV (@HoodFamousTV_) April 18, 2024
― brony james (k3vin k.), Saturday, 20 April 2024 03:13 (two weeks ago) link
real fan
― xheugy eddy (D-40), Sunday, 21 April 2024 00:47 (two weeks ago) link
that passed by like ten times on my timeline before I finally watched it, I thought it was gonna be another corny generic cred-burnishing cosign but he knows his shit lol
― xheugy eddy (D-40), Sunday, 21 April 2024 00:48 (two weeks ago) link
he’s serious!
― brony james (k3vin k.), Sunday, 21 April 2024 03:23 (two weeks ago) link
he mentions being a dolph fan in one of the other vids. a real one
― the defenestration of prog (voodoo chili), Sunday, 21 April 2024 15:07 (two weeks ago) link
datpiff mentioned
― lag∞n, Monday, 22 April 2024 01:32 (two weeks ago) link