THREAD FOR GUNPLAY

STILL SNORT PILLS AND WHITE AVALANCHES
BLACK MAGIC WHEELS JUST SNAPPING AT YOUR HEELS

GO AND TELL THE AMBULANCE CHILL
TRYNA CHILL BUT
I COULD TURN SAVAGE AT WILL

THIS THE MOB BITCH
AIN'T NO TIME FOR SOB FACES
WHEN THAT HAMMER HIT THE SHELL
THAT'S THE LAW OF NATURE

NO PRINTS ON THE RENTAL
AND MO TINTS ON LORENZOS
FOGGIN UP THE WINDOWS
PINNIN UP A PRINCESS
EVERY MOLLY GOT MY BODY FEELIN LIKE I'M OUTTA BODY
I BE HIGHER THAN ABOVE THE RIM
AMARE STOUDEMIRE

LIVIN OUTLANDISH
DEUCE DEUCE ON CAMPUS

YOU BE RUNNIN WITH THE BUZZARDS
I BE RUNNIN WITH THE BUDGET

this shit has be back in the lab like 09 gucci

is inglorious bastard a good place to start?

yep

J0rdan transcriptions aren't as fun without [??]

lol

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

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

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, 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

holy shit i cannot wait to hear this

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, March 9, 2012 1:45 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

gucci had those too tho

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

i will admit to lolling every time when gunplay says "HEIL LOGAN"

PAINT FILLED TO THE BRIM
SPILLED ON MY RIMS
WINDSHIELD TO THE WIND
CUP OF GIN TO THE CHIN
JEWELS ON MY LIMBS
DO 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?

EVERY MOLLY GOT MY BODY FEELIN LIKE I'M OUTTA BODY
I BE HIGHER THAN ABOVE THE RIM
AMARE STOUDEMIRE

^^ deliery of this is insane

are there any must-listen gunplay mixtapes out yet? feeling like i'm missing out on a lot of his stuff

106 & SNORT // 106 & SNORT // 106 & SNORT

http://edge-img.datpiff.com/mcb7c982/Gunplay_106_Snort_Freestyle_Highdayz_Vol_1-front-large.jpg

106 & SNORT // 106 & SNORT // 106 & SNORT

a MONTH?

lol @ "freestyle highdayz"

which i had to decode like a fucking black metal logo

HE RAPPED OVER "GUILLOTINE (SWORDZ)'

http://smokingsection.uproxx.com/TSS/2012/04/new-music-gunplay-guillotine-swords

FUCK ALL THE LAWS
SUCK ON MY BALLS
FOR FREE ON THE HOUSE
BEAM, BEAM, AHHHHH

RICH AND I'M RECKLESS, SAME DAMN TIME
WHITE AND THE BROWN IN THE SAME DAMN LINE

*SELF-INDUCES 29 DAY COMA*

GOT A GREEDY ASS GRIN AND A SCHEME ON MY SMILE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idhFWNGQy8A

not enough of this guy on Self Made 2

and no 106 & snort :-[

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...

not enough of this guy on Self Made 2

― Number None, Thursday, June 21, 2012 10:25 AM (4 hours ago) Bookmark

he looks suspiciously like Omarion on the cover art, too

im pretty sure MMG realizing that he'd somehow developed comparable buzz to their a-listers is a fairly recent phenomenon

lol xp

omarion sounds suspiciously like frank ocean on that entire album

GUNPLAY ‏@GUNPLAYMMG
Contracts is signed. Ink is dry!! #BOGOTA (full length album) coming soon!!! #MMG imma turn dis dirt to diamonds,momma dats a promise!!!

Won't come out before God Forgives i'd imagine

yeah i mean the guy has three month delays on his mixtapes

just nice that they're investing in him

this verse sounds incredible

http://www.yamborghini.com/post/27008245817

once she blow my whistle
she know it's dismissal
spread the news i'm official
now hop out my foreign vessel

The swastika tattoo is a big controversial topic amongst your fans as well as critics. Can you clear the air on that?

Yeah, it’s just my symbol of genocide to the bullshit. Mass murdering the bullshit. Too much bullshit out here. I came to Nazi that shit. I came to Hitler that motherfucker. Put all the fake motherfuckers in the gas chamber and gas your fuck ass. That’s what I’m here to do. So niggas better walk light around a nigga. I’ma show niggas. I can talk but I’ma show niggas. All that fake shit, I’ma call that shit out and I’ma stomp that shit out. I got a mission. Just playing the game for the meantime.

omarion sounds suspiciously like frank ocean on that entire album

― J0rdan S., Friday, June 22, 2012 2:25 PM (1 month ago) Bookmark

lol when i listened to the FO album i thought "how come nobody talks about how this motherfucker sounds like Omarion"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PzbSiSsR4Cg

this guy is just the greatest. the absolute greatest.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSqTXGH93rE

601 is top 5 rap albums of the year fuiud

was about to ask if I need the new mixtape but I suppose that's my answer.

well it's not that good. it could be way better than it is. it doesn't do much more than make you wish for a realer release imo. but of course it still has insane & amazing raps.

ban J0rdan

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)

well, it's here

http://www.xxlmag.com/news/2015/07/stream-gunplay-new-album-living-legend/

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.

it's meh

dark dayz is cool

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.

ddej nailed it : http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/20807-living-legend/

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.

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.

"he's like a one-man jim thompson story basically" is a good line

"dark dayz" is still so fucking good meh album or nah

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRbTisUk2Xc