THREAD FOR GUNPLAY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHz91aXMrL8

^Nardwar interview

Kinda boring tbf

https://soundcloud.com/rickyrozaymmg/gunplay-feat-rick-ross-aiight

a good part of his album will be bad

http://www.audiomack.com/song/diesel-dmp/comin-down-ft-gunplay-cdq-explicit-2

this is a good feature

there's still illusions about him someday dropping an album?

idk this year def jam already released the roots & dj afrojack's albums, and has planned release dates for big krit & fabolous. Why not gunplay ?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRtkJEVb2MM

great verse

So good

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdDz874e2DA

vid got deleted

tomorrow
http://www.livemixtapes.com/mixtapes/30150/gunplay.html

^_^

has some moments but this is p disappointing, dude badly needs to drop his album and actual "songs" which iirc was prob discussed upthread like 2 1/2 yrs ago

yeah otm

oh this tape is a mess. As if the second rate material weren't bad enough the DJs render this unlistenable

drugs are bad I guess

didnt realise he changed his name. hope this means the album will finally come out this year. also hope there arent many features on it - gunplay really sounds best by himself.

bogota rich is still one of the greatest mixtapes of the last 5 tears imo

years... tears...

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

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.

i like it

same

its good but it should have come out a year ago

whither gunplay

his lyrics are pretty uninteresting on this and it sounds like an outtake from 'my krazy life' that someone prob sent gunplay thru gmail

beat is harder than usual mustard fare come on

beat is
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uatWbf1aM_o

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