letz talk abt gucci mane

i'm sure that cover's been in the works for weeks and predated the tattoo

HE IS ON A HOVERBOARD IN THE HOLOGRAM

and in the main pic!

wow u know theres a lot of awesome things in a pic when you miss the hoverboard

it's moments like this that i love rap music

not being american this is hard for me to gauge: what is the relative popularity of gucci vs waka? when i was in the states last waka was on the radio all the time and i heard 'wasted' once or twice.

gucci is still much more popular than waka from what i can tell - waka is really sticking around though i wouldn't have seen that coming 4 months ago

Gucci has decent-sized fame, but he's like Michael Jackson-meets-Lady Gaga in Chicago

waka's the bigger star now, def not true a year ago. 'no hands' is a bigger hit than lemonade iirc. id say gucci's fanbase is a bit more like large devoted cult though. the buzz around gucci died down a bit this year after lemonade

i mean - rap fans know both, but gucci's been around longer and obv has a much larger body of work. i don't think minivan driving moms know either

xp ignore whiney obv, whether he's being serious or not

yeah the the "executive producer: waka" thing made me wonder....crazy

what whiney means is that outside of the new york bubble, so-called 'regional rap' continues to outsell 'more deserving' fabolous mixtapes

yeah i'm gonna go back on "much more popular" and stick with my second statement - waka is the hot artist now so it's hard to accurately gauge

hahaha deej

yeah the the "executive producer: waka" thing made me wonder....crazy

― whitney from mtv's the city (tpp), Friday, January 14, 2011 2:44 PM (12 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

i dont think thats rlly about putting people on to gucci or something, thats more about 'hey guys we're friends again' type synergy. ppl who pay attention to waka tapes also check gucci tapes. the diff in audience is at the crossover urban pop radio level

yeah ok. weird to think waka could potentially be a more successful crossover artist but really nowadays who knows

really excited to hear this mixtape. haven't had proper internet connection all week so i haven't heard 'gucci 2x' or anything. wanna stay up till 10.17 your time

Didn't seem like Gucci & Waka ever really fell out despite the former cutting his ties to Mizzay?

And yeah, Gucci probably has a stronger fanbase, but "No Hands" is a bigger hit than Gucci has had.

i like 'no hands' a lot but wonder if a lot of the crossover appeal is the hook etc and not waka

waka's appeal is more straightforward at some level but also prob more one dimensional / less enduring in the long run

xpYeah, Waka's not really a huge presence on it, compared to Roscoe, but it's certainly building on the buzz and momentum had from "O Let's Do It"/"Hard in the Paint" more than Whale or Roscoe Dash's burgeoning careers.

incidently gucci's album outsold waka's first week sales wise

what the second one??

http://www.google.com/trends?q=gucci+mane%2C+waka+flocka+flame

face tats are only going to widen the gap

61k first week of The Appeal vs. 37k first week of Flockaveli...i wouldn't be surprised if the latter's sold more by now

i wouldnt either although appeal was still floating around the charts a few weeks after it dropped. burrrprint 2 hd did that too

Flockaveli is still on the charts, whereas Appeal is not.

nobody who isn't a septuagenarian is gonna type out "waka flocka flame"

flockaveli as of November 7, 2010 the album has sold 86,000 copies in the United States

the appeal has sold an estimated 100,000 copies as of the week ending October 24, 2010

both those figs are 2+ months old and from pretty shortly after they were released, don't really tell us any more than the first week figures

haha removing the "flame" really does change it substantially!

http://www.google.com/trends?q=gucci+mane%2C+waka+flocka&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all&sort=0

yah but call him 'gucci' & ... etc

you'd have to be pretty new to the internet if you think typing "gucci" is the quickest way to find information on him, as opposed to shortening the name of a guy who's name is three nonsense words

new years resolution is not to get into stupid arguments with whiney at all so

u win i guess

both those figs are 2+ months old and from pretty shortly after they were released, don't really tell us any more than the first week figures

― some dude, Friday, January 14, 2011 4:43 PM (13 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

yeah i know, im sure waka has gained some ground but at best they're in the same ballpark. its not like flockaveli is crushing him or something

i mean, im the dude who thinks album sales mean jack shit ... just sayin

new years resolution is not to get into stupid arguments with whiney at all so

lol did you not have a better irl resolution to make??

lol haha

guys maybe help deej w/ his resolution and resolve to stop baiting him?

http://nsaney.com/pics/idiocracy-batin.4.jpg

whiney will stop throwing sand in ppl's faces the day he stops eating subway

i haven't eaten at a subway in a hot, toasted minute btw

5 mins

http://www.livemixtapes.com/mixtapes/12974/gucci_mane_gucci_2_time.html

i've bookmarked & been reading thru like 1/2 dozen subway threads on ILX, that shit is addictive

most of this stuff has leaked already

Do you expect us to believe this is some sort of MAGIC xylophone?

what

aren't you dj-ing somewhere