MONEY STOP AND TIME WON'T STAYBROKE MOTHERFUCKERS SAY CRIME DON'T PAY
― J0rdan S., Friday, 9 March 2012 18:27 (twelve years ago) link
BACK ON THE TURF LIKE I NEVER LEFT THE NERFFEEL SORRY FOR MY MOTHER SHOULD'VE NEVER HAD THE BIRTH
― J0rdan S., Friday, 9 March 2012 18:28 (twelve years ago) link
I NEVER HAD A GIFT DAMN SURE HAD A CURSENOW WHO'S THE NEXT TO CLIMB OUT THE BACK OF THAT HEARSE?
― J0rdan S., Friday, 9 March 2012 18:29 (twelve years ago) link
HOSTILE, SINCE COKE IN THE NOSTRILSSKINNY AS 'POSTLE, WITH A BIG OL MOSSBERG
― J0rdan S., Friday, 9 March 2012 18:31 (twelve years ago) link
COLOMBIAN COCAINEGALLARDOS AND GOLD CHAINSHOGGIN UP THE LANESMOKE FOGGIN UP MY FRAMES
― J0rdan S., Friday, 9 March 2012 18:33 (twelve years ago) link
HAVE YOU EVER MET A MENACELOW INCOME HOUSING TENANTMY PEN MADE ME SOME PENNIESBUT I'M STILL FACING A SENTENCE
― J0rdan S., Friday, 9 March 2012 18:34 (twelve years ago) link
SHE LICK IT LIKE A STAMP EAT IT LIKE A RACK OF LAMBNOW BRING THAT STACK BACK TO DADDY WHILE I WHIP A YAM
― J0rdan S., Friday, 9 March 2012 18:35 (twelve years ago) link
HUMAN METHADONENOW LEAVE ME THE F ALONEI TAKE YOUR BITCH AND F HER DOMEIT'S ME THEY WISHING DEATH UPON
― J0rdan S., Friday, 9 March 2012 18:38 (twelve years ago) link
MODELS NAKEDBOTTLES BREAKINTHE HOG'S OUTHOW'D YOU BREAK IT?AND PRAY YOU MAKE ITSHOWIN OUT ON A DAILY BASISMY POCKETS FAIRLY RACISTCOULDN'T COPY MY HUSTLEOR BARELY TRACE ITI KEEP A THROWAWAY ON MY WAIST JUST TO WASTE ITTOP OF THE FOOD CHAINYOUR CHAIN LOOKIN TASTY
― J0rdan S., Friday, 9 March 2012 18:44 (twelve years ago) link
STILL SNORT PILLS AND WHITE AVALANCHESBLACK MAGIC WHEELS JUST SNAPPING AT YOUR HEELS
― J0rdan S., Friday, 9 March 2012 18:46 (twelve years ago) link
GO AND TELL THE AMBULANCE CHILLTRYNA CHILL BUTI COULD TURN SAVAGE AT WILL
THIS THE MOB BITCHAIN'T NO TIME FOR SOB FACESWHEN THAT HAMMER HIT THE SHELLTHAT'S THE LAW OF NATURE
― J0rdan S., Friday, 9 March 2012 18:47 (twelve years ago) link
NO PRINTS ON THE RENTALAND MO TINTS ON LORENZOSFOGGIN UP THE WINDOWSPINNIN UP A PRINCESSEVERY MOLLY GOT MY BODY FEELIN LIKE I'M OUTTA BODYI BE HIGHER THAN ABOVE THE RIMAMARE STOUDEMIRE
― J0rdan S., Friday, 9 March 2012 18:49 (twelve years ago) link
LIVIN OUTLANDISHDEUCE DEUCE ON CAMPUS
― J0rdan S., Friday, 9 March 2012 18:52 (twelve years ago) link
YOU BE RUNNIN WITH THE BUZZARDSI BE RUNNIN WITH THE BUDGET
this shit has be back in the lab like 09 gucci
― J0rdan S., Friday, 9 March 2012 18:58 (twelve years ago) link
is inglorious bastard a good place to start?
― a little tiny crunk person (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 9 March 2012 19:28 (twelve years ago) link
yep
― J0rdan S., Friday, 9 March 2012 19:29 (twelve years ago) link
J0rdan transcriptions aren't as fun without [??]
― kony indie fuxx (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 9 March 2012 19:30 (twelve years ago) link
lol
― J0rdan S., Friday, 9 March 2012 19:32 (twelve years ago) link
this is a good! i think i'm getting the stuff outta this that y'all get out of waka and gucci but he's got enough "traditional" type skills which is good for me
― a little tiny crunk person (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 9 March 2012 19:45 (twelve years ago) link
i was going to make a joke about how the next 'official hip hop lyric archive' site will be j0rdan doing one for trap music even before i realized that the acronym would be OTMLA
― Pato The Cape GOAT (some dude), Friday, 9 March 2012 19:45 (twelve years ago) link
― a little tiny crunk person (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, March 9, 2012 2:45 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark
his lyricism has gotten more pronounced since 'inglorious' imo, which was more like a waka album. it def has it's great lyrical moments but some of the stuff off 'bogota rich' is kinda on another level imo
― J0rdan S., Friday, 9 March 2012 19:49 (twelve years ago) link
holy shit i cannot wait to hear this
― art dealin' thru the west coast (tpp), Friday, 9 March 2012 20:03 (twelve years ago) link
― a little tiny crunk person (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, March 9, 2012 1:45 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
gucci had those too tho
― D-40, Friday, 9 March 2012 23:24 (twelve years ago) link
not in the way i like i guess, and i kinda disagree in some ways, his diction is not good enuf for me i guess, kinda mushmouthed
― a little tiny crunk person (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 9 March 2012 23:29 (twelve years ago) link
i will admit to lolling every time when gunplay says "HEIL LOGAN"
― J0rdan S., Saturday, 10 March 2012 04:58 (twelve years ago) link
PAINT FILLED TO THE BRIMSPILLED ON MY RIMSWINDSHIELD TO THE WINDCUP OF GIN TO THE CHINJEWELS ON MY LIMBSDO NOT ATTEMPT REACH AND I TEACH YA STAY AT ARM'S LENGTH STREETS SO CRAY SKY STONE GREY WHERE THE BITCHES?LET'S SEE WHAT THE IPHONE SAY MONEY DON'T STOP AND TIME WON'T STAY BROKE MOTHERFUCKERS SAY CRIME DON'T PAY I HIDE NO FACE STILL FIND NO TRACE A WRAP SINCE I PUT THAT FIRE ON THAT LACE HOSTILE, SINCE COKE IN THE NOSTRILS SKINNY AS PASTA, WITH A BIG OL MOSSBERG MAYBACH MACHINE ALL YOU HEAR IS CH-CHING NEVER FLEW WHAT I FLAUNT ALL YOU SEEN WAS THE WING ALL BLACK UP, FROM THE SHOES TO THE RING INCLUDING THE MINK, I AM AS RUDE AS YOU THINK BACK ON THE TURF LIKE I NEVER LEFT THE NERF FEEL SORRY FOR MY MOTHER SHOULD'VE NEVER HAD THE BIRTH I NEVER HAD A GIFT DAMN SURE HAD A CURSE NOW WHO'S NEXT TO CLIMB OUT THE BACK OF THAT HEARSE?
― J0rdan S., Saturday, 10 March 2012 05:42 (twelve years ago) link
EVERY MOLLY GOT MY BODY FEELIN LIKE I'M OUTTA BODYI BE HIGHER THAN ABOVE THE RIMAMARE STOUDEMIRE
^^ deliery of this is insane
― art dealin' thru the west coast (tpp), Monday, 19 March 2012 10:55 (twelve years ago) link
are there any must-listen gunplay mixtapes out yet? feeling like i'm missing out on a lot of his stuff
― chilli, Wednesday, 21 March 2012 07:19 (twelve years ago) link
106 & SNORT // 106 & SNORT // 106 & SNORT
http://edge-img.datpiff.com/mcb7c982/Gunplay_106_Snort_Freestyle_Highdayz_Vol_1-front-large.jpg
― frogbs in the trap (J0rdan S.), Wednesday, 2 May 2012 01:29 (twelve years ago) link
a MONTH?
― Number None, Wednesday, 2 May 2012 01:32 (twelve years ago) link
lol @ "freestyle highdayz"
― suidavyvan eht nioj (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 2 May 2012 01:33 (twelve years ago) link
which i had to decode like a fucking black metal logo
― suidavyvan eht nioj (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 2 May 2012 01:34 (twelve years ago) link
HE RAPPED OVER "GUILLOTINE (SWORDZ)'
http://smokingsection.uproxx.com/TSS/2012/04/new-music-gunplay-guillotine-swords
― frogbs in the trap (J0rdan S.), Wednesday, 2 May 2012 01:34 (twelve years ago) link
FUCK ALL THE LAWSSUCK ON MY BALLSFOR FREE ON THE HOUSEBEAM, BEAM, AHHHHH
― frogbs in the trap (J0rdan S.), Wednesday, 2 May 2012 01:38 (twelve years ago) link
RICH AND I'M RECKLESS, SAME DAMN TIMEWHITE AND THE BROWN IN THE SAME DAMN LINE
― frogbs in the trap (J0rdan S.), Wednesday, 2 May 2012 01:39 (twelve years ago) link
*SELF-INDUCES 29 DAY COMA*
GOT A GREEDY ASS GRIN AND A SCHEME ON MY SMILE
― frogbs in the trap (J0rdan S.), Wednesday, 2 May 2012 01:41 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idhFWNGQy8A
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 22 May 2012 15:22 (twelve years ago) link
not enough of this guy on Self Made 2
― Number None, Thursday, 21 June 2012 14:25 (eleven years ago) link
and no 106 & snort :-[
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 21 June 2012 15:37 (eleven years ago) link
i think he said he wants to release the 'bogota ep' and '106 & snort' at the same (damn) time, so that would explain the delay...
― sisilafami, Thursday, 21 June 2012 17:54 (eleven years ago) link
― Number None, Thursday, June 21, 2012 10:25 AM (4 hours ago) Bookmark
he looks suspiciously like Omarion on the cover art, too
― here's my lumber, so jack me maybe (some dude), Thursday, 21 June 2012 18:55 (eleven years ago) link
im pretty sure MMG realizing that he'd somehow developed comparable buzz to their a-listers is a fairly recent phenomenon
― littledotheyknow (D-40), Friday, 22 June 2012 18:16 (eleven years ago) link
lol xp
― carly rae (flopson), Friday, 22 June 2012 18:17 (eleven years ago) link
omarion sounds suspiciously like frank ocean on that entire album
― J0rdan S., Friday, 22 June 2012 18:25 (eleven years ago) link
GUNPLAY @GUNPLAYMMGContracts is signed. Ink is dry!! #BOGOTA (full length album) coming soon!!! #MMG imma turn dis dirt to diamonds,momma dats a promise!!!
― J0rdan S., Friday, 29 June 2012 20:22 (eleven years ago) link
Won't come out before God Forgives i'd imagine
― Number None, Friday, 29 June 2012 20:25 (eleven years ago) link
yeah i mean the guy has three month delays on his mixtapes
just nice that they're investing in him
― J0rdan S., Friday, 29 June 2012 20:25 (eleven years ago) link
what do you guys think he'll change his name to if/when he catches enough buzz to be a priority at Warner Bros. -- G. Play? Funplay?
― some dude, Monday, October 8, 2012 11:19 PM (2 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Playgun
― Spottie_Ottie_Dope, Monday, October 8, 2012 11:22 PM (2 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Tity Play
― Mary Ty$ Band (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, October 8, 2012 11:41 PM (2 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Gumplay
― lil dirk (J0rdan S.), Monday, October 8, 2012 11:47 PM (2 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
2 Gunz
― Gelados n cream (longneck), Tuesday, October 9, 2012 2:41 AM (2 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Plumgay.
― Gelados n cream (longneck), Tuesday, October 9, 2012 10:26 AM (2 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Unplay
― some dude, Tuesday, October 9, 2012 10:41 AM (2 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Cosplay
― The rain in Spin circles mainly on the mansplain (D-40), Tuesday, October 9, 2012 10:42 AM (2 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Rossplay
― some dude, Tuesday, October 9, 2012 10:43 AM (2 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Nunplay
― Cap'n Hug-a-Thug (The Reverend), Tuesday, October 9, 2012 3:41 PM (2 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Bunplay ft. Sweet Young Jones.
― Gelados n cream (longneck), Tuesday, October 9, 2012 4:06 PM (2 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
"free gunplay"
― sisilafami, Tuesday, October 9, 2012 6:35 PM (2 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
buttstuff
― lag∞n, Tuesday, October 9, 2012 6:37 PM (2 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Gun P. ft. Bun B.
― some dude, Tuesday, October 9, 2012 6:41 PM (2 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Gunpal
― Number None, Tuesday, October 9, 2012 6:47 PM (2 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― lag∞n, Saturday, 25 April 2015 02:36 (nine years ago) link
http://www.xxlmag.com/rap-music/new-music/2015/05/listen-gunplay-feat-yg-wuzhanindoe/
this is cool, though kinda minor for all parties. like something from one of mustard's mixtapes.
― StillAdvance, Tuesday, 19 May 2015 20:56 (nine years ago) link
i like it
― dadbod moghadam (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 19 May 2015 21:32 (nine years ago) link
same
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 19 May 2015 21:34 (nine years ago) link
its good but it should have come out a year ago
― deej loaf (D-40), Tuesday, 19 May 2015 21:34 (nine years ago) link
whither gunplay
― dadbod moghadam (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 19 May 2015 21:41 (nine years ago) link
his lyrics are pretty uninteresting on this and it sounds like an outtake from 'my krazy life' that someone prob sent gunplay thru gmail
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 19 May 2015 21:43 (nine years ago) link
beat is harder than usual mustard fare come on
― dadbod moghadam (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 19 May 2015 21:54 (nine years ago) link
beat is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uatWbf1aM_o
― ANU (sisilafami), Tuesday, 19 May 2015 23:11 (nine years ago) link
its good for his profile, but not sure gunplay works that well with mustards precision style of production, doesnt sound like hes totally into it. also, when i saw it was produced by mustard, i was pretty excited, but its just a bit too typically mustard (and a bit after-the-fact)
― StillAdvance, Wednesday, 20 May 2015 09:41 (nine years ago) link
well, it's here
http://www.xxlmag.com/news/2015/07/stream-gunplay-new-album-living-legend/
― Number None, Monday, 27 July 2015 18:21 (eight years ago) link
looking fwd to it, but given its had the gestation period of an elephant during a time when DL has himself said he fell out of love with music, I'm not expecting too much. single was meh I thought.
― Fizzles, Monday, 27 July 2015 18:24 (eight years ago) link
it's meh
dark dayz is cool
― ANU (sisilafami), Monday, 27 July 2015 18:26 (eight years ago) link
yeah it's weak, and dark dayz is definitely the best track by a long way. he's sounds really tired. you can tell right from the intro track - and I love absurd self-aggrandising statements of intent, but its without the sort of punch that sort of track needs. he regularly cedes ground to underwhelming guests and only appears as if reluctantly on some songs. that's crazy, he's usually all over his tracks like a terrier, other guests basically having to get him to pipe down ('don't say a sound, gunplay!'). the production around his voice is oddly cotton-wool like on a number of songs, with rick ross (who i find tedious generally) out-gunplaying gunplay on Be Like Me.
he's always been open to comic self-dramatisation - it's one of his best aspects ('What the fuck is Gunplay thinking? What he drinking? Moonshine?!). In fact he frequently comes across as a bit of an ADHD goofball (as numerous interviews and that six flags vid attest, even the nazi stuff, christ), giving a requisite salt to the ultraviolence. a surprising number of his songs involve him coming off second-best: failure and the cussed nature of things often attend the hi-octaine hysteria and hustle.
here that self-dramatisation and cocaina-laced-with-failure attitude becomes a mood of self-pity and recrimination, mainly about the court case he ended up spending his album advance on (among other things you presume). as well as those local circumstances for the uncharacteristically low-key mood, you just feel Gunplay isn't an album person, and that this 1st album has been hanging round his shoulders like lead weights. His mixtapes have always been uneven anyway - it's almost like the album is too self-important a form for him, without enough room for him to just mess around.
at his very best - bible on the dash, the guest on cartoon & cereal, it feels like taking his nervous system to the edge is the instrument he plays (see also Take This). It's the sound of someone running out of fuel, surviving on surviving, and it's unsurprising that's the sound that's most successful on the album. aside from dark dayz, blood on the dope's probably the next best - edgy, end-of-the-road, heist-gone-wrong game's-up desperation, the central image the only thing that matters any more.
dark dayz is the sound of someone on the outside again (as he always has been in a way - slightly older than his peers, congenitally self-destructive), always *just* on the wrong side of the edge between failure and success. 'Straight rum and cake crumbs, not enough birthdays and way too many graves dug' is how he describes where he came from and one of the best lines on the album. And although he goes on to brag about the money he has now, the main message is of someone still having to work the music game with the drug game, in an increasingly reductive pairing: 'So close to just being another stat, being another cat who got capped in his cap, just another a dealer with a 9mm. Can't blame me if I still sound a little bitter.' He's continually *just* evading oblivion and destruction, and knows that that's not a game he can keep on playing. The continually hanging 'they may there to hurt you...' in the chorus, suspended momentarily over the sparse piano and strings, is great - bravado in the face of existential uncertainty is one of his best sounds.
he's like a one-man jim thompson story basically, and there's a weird fascination to listening to this underperforming long player - the sound of the consequences of his life. Maybe Living Legend is the right title in a way - legends usually have the work that established them behind them, and survive of that work. you wonder if he can come back again really, though that is after all the place he seems to thrive best.
― Fizzles, Saturday, 1 August 2015 08:56 (eight years ago) link
ddej nailed it : http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/20807-living-legend/
― ANU (sisilafami), Saturday, 1 August 2015 09:43 (eight years ago) link
deej*
yeah, thanks sisilafami - just read that, and this "The pathos of his unrealized potential deepens the colors of his best work" is otm isn't it.
― Fizzles, Saturday, 1 August 2015 10:08 (eight years ago) link
deej's review is v good
I didn't find this quite as disappointing as some, but there's an unquestionable aspect of roteness to some of the songs, mostly the MMG-featuring ones. he is just so fierce and charismatic even in boilerplate settings.
― extremely lag∞n postings voice (slothroprhymes), Saturday, 1 August 2015 13:01 (eight years ago) link
"he's like a one-man jim thompson story basically" is a good line
― let's not get too excited w/ the ouches (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 1 August 2015 16:10 (eight years ago) link
"dark dayz" is still so fucking good meh album or nah
― if young slothrop don't trust ya i'm gon' rhyme ya (slothroprhymes), Thursday, 3 March 2016 22:34 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRbTisUk2Xc
― ANU (sisilafami), Thursday, 3 March 2016 23:01 (eight years ago) link