letz talk abt gucci mane

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

basically there's a huge percentage of hip hop fans that are basically groundhogs that poke their head out every now and again when there's a lot of hype for something, but most of their time see their shadow and go back to bumping 36 chambers

that's basically how i overuse the word basically to an extent

its funny tho -- supreme clientele was like what, #87 on pazz and jop the year it dropped?

i don't get the feeling that ghost solo records are that big of a deal to these people - i think it's like al said, lots of old wu listening (and like new lupe records)

it was #14 -- big critix touchstone from the jump (xpost)

huh never realized.

j0rdan's post is totally wrong tho -- those are exactly the ppl who are apeshit about ghost solo albums

u might be right

basically there's a huge percentage of hip hop fans that are basically groundhogs that poke their head out every now and again when there's a lot of hype for something, but most of their time see their shadow and go back to bumping 36 chambers

rings sooo true :(

the only IRL conversations i've had about gucci mane are with hip-hop journalists and djs. jordan, a while back one of your friends posted an amazing take on the "gorgeous" lyrics on your fbook which gets stuck in my head as often as the actual lyrics - "i keep hearing voices/telling me to eat, so i buy hershey's kisses" or something.

hahahaha, i don't remember that \o_O/

idk what my gucci top 10 '09 will be but i pretty much know that "my shadow" will top the list. the backing ad libs, the way the intensity just rises and rises...such a great song.

something like "foreign" should be a mainstream single, not trash like "spotlight"

bricks...bricks...bricks...rats...rats

<3 foreign, but it's too weird to be a mainstream single imo. it's so throbbing and almost droney in its ungrooviness, it could almost be a madlib beat.

lex its 'racks' -- a rack is $1000

lol thx

"rats" kinda fits the backstreets paranoia of it all though!

i love how drake's verse in "street cred" is mixed real quiet, makes it much easier to ignore. mike fucking slays his verse

i'm not sure if i'm 100% behind street cred. they sound so exhausted, like it was 3 am at the studio and gucci was like "okay, fuck, alright, i'll do another take" and that's the one they picked.

yeah that song is only okay - i mean the chorus is dj drama shouting - i love dj drama shouting as much as the next guy but

oops i thought you were talking about this "street cred"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCPTQmPCv-E&feature=related