letz talk abt gucci mane

if that production list is real it's good to see he's still working with Cyber Sapp, I interviewed him for Scratch when he did "Freaky Gurl," good dude

there's not enough oj for my liking, but otoh good thing there isn't too much waka flocka. so far those tracklist looks pretty great! i got a question for the resident gucci heads: how many of those tracks are already out on mixtapes/singles? i recognize a couple (wasted, party animal, spotlight) but i wouldn't be surprised if there're a bunch more.

thats it as far as i know

at the behest of tape store i made a small primer of the best gucci songs (imo) of 08 & 09 for those that are still looking

http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?imdmzddiyzi

the tracks are all out of order & stuff so i would order them like this on a playlist if so inclined

09 (wasted not incl since it's v readily available)

first day out
weird
she got a friend
gorgeous
30 inches remix
wonderful
wrist gliss
ice
birds
everything

08

grapey
running back
like a lambo
nickelodeon
photo shoot
hot damn
rims dancin
light show
colors
haunted house

if you want to cherry pick

poppier stuff

she got a friend, weird, grapey, running back, like a lambo, photo shoot

more str8 ahead mc-ing

first day out, gorgeous, 30 inches remix, birds, nickelodeon light show, rims dancin

dark, druggy, haunting stuff

ice, birds, everything, colors, haunted house

thx jordan! have about 3/4 of those but the remaining 1/4 v appreciated

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOOmarUAL50

oh snap nodj version of "hurry" leaked

just came here to post that. hooray.

"i'm goin in," too

obv playing these like 4 times back to back before i even think about watching the omarion / gucci vid. the dance moves in the making of clip looked highly suspect

http://nahright.com/news/2009/11/10/video-omarion-feat-gucci-mane-i-get-it-in/

that brings it up to 12 no dj writing on the wall songs by my count. awesome.

HELLA TOIGHT

let it be seen as a sign of gucci's great output this year that none (other than maybe "ice") of jordan's picks would be in my top 10

'first day out' & 'wonderful' belong in everyone's top ten

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0-t17cIlO8

this song is such a jam

def interested to see everyone's top 20 gucci tracks at the end of the year ... dont sleep on 'the gooch'

'cocaine cowboy' is probably my fav non-'first day out' zaytoven beat

yeah 'first day out' is really good - it's a really hard song but in a very controlled way that is menacing but not over the top in a silly way - also it's one of zaytoven's best beats (after maybe "walkin on ice"), super melodic with different synth sounds playing off each other

'wonderful' has probably hands down his best lyrics & he plays off the beat really well - the beat is really tightly coiled & gucci's verses are appropriately super dense

deej do you know who produced 'wonderful'? it also has one of his best hooks

red bezzle on my jacob lookin like a sliced tomato
fuck a hater i blow acres of jamaica in decatur
i'm so extraordinary while my bracelet so canary
choppers that my niggas carry probably scare the military
half your budget spent on luggage, spent your mortgage on a portrait
purple bud look like an orchid, can't afford it watch me torch it

^just saying this in my head makes me need a glass of water

no idea who produced

did a good-quality version of it ever leak? every copy i have sounds like shit

never heard drumma boy do a beat like 'party animal' before, that's sick

snoop's verse is like fall-on-its-face bad ... he cant improv like he used to

http://www.parisdjs.com/images/hip_hop/Snoop_Dogg-The_Lost_Sessions_Vol_1_b.jpg
i hear this is really good btw -- previously unreleased songs during his 1992-1997 years with Death Row Records. The Lost Sessions Volume 1 contains classic unheard gems such as Eat A D*ck, Caught Up, and Fallin' Asleep On Death Row. Guests include George Clinton, The Lady of Rage, Tha Dogg Pound, Bad Azz, Tray Deee... An exclusive version for Best Buy/Napster includes three bonus cuts.

"wonderful" is wonderful - what's the sample, it's on the tip of my tongue...

i hadn't heard "colors" before either!

paint like playdough, the alfredo lambo
shrimp scampi chevy and the guts look like egg yolk

haw lex that was in the shrimp's top 5 for '08

yeah that song is amazing - best young dro song he never wrote

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XzLzwGHoHAc

snippet off 'worst enemy' from the album

zzz

maybe they highlighted a boring part or something but that sounds like shit

that's not on either tracklist posted itt so i wouldn't worry about it

pretty sure that snippet came from a link on gucci's twitter

gucci1017

The State vs Radric Davis-Hear a preview of a NEW GUCCI MANE track "Worst Enemy" by texting DecemBURR 2 the keyword 484848 from ur mobile ph

word

for some reason i really like freestyle 2 on writing on the wall. to the point where i'd still say it's in my top 10 of 2009 just because of how many times back to back i played it when the tape dropped

soft co caine white pretty as alicia keys

lol just walked by a kid on the street wearing earbuds and going "my shadow even if i try my best i couldnt run from my shadow"

have yet to talk abt gucci mane irl, disappointingly

except for w/ friends i try to sell him to

er, on

lol just walked by a kid on the street wearing earbuds and going "my shadow even if i try my best i couldnt run from my shadow"

― luol deng (am0n), Tuesday, November 10, 2009 7:45 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

odd because that's an unusually tough chorus to rap along to, imo

practically my only IRL convo about gucci has been w/ my sister-in-law who was kind of disturbed that "i'm a dog" is the most popular song among the 5th graders she teaches in southeast DC

i talked to two 11/12 year olds at a park about gucci after i overheard them talking about him - i probably posted about it itt

also i had a few cursory conversations with my irl friends who read music blogs after they got wind of the shrimp top 50 thing, but they didn't see too interested

moved on to hypnagogic pop no doubt

more like wale & kid cudi

& old wu-tang albums

man that's what i dont get, how do kids big on wu end up digging wale and cudi?

wu-tang is probably the most popular rap group of all time amongst stereotypical white people (along with maybe snoop & dre) — ESPECIALLY indie rock fans — so it's pretty easy to see them buying into the 'new class of rap stars meme' surrounding wale & cudi

in lots of respects wu-tang serves the same fanbase as like the roots even tho wu rap about drugs & murder and all that - they have the nerd/geek vibe to them that basically every other legendary gangsta rap artist/group doesn't

and wu are seen as very cerebral rap which is how guys like cudi & wale were marketed

basically, ppl are stupid