letz talk abt gucci mane

was there anything of note in those dozen mixtapes of leftovers that 1017 Records released in 2015?

how wuz it

― johnny crunch, Saturday, July 23, 2016 7:54 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

good

I'd say it's better than most of what he has released since 2010. It's far from perfect, though. It lacks burrrrr and everyone (including the producers) meet in the middle, so it's rarely exciting, just focused. Guwop Home has got to be his best single in a while though. Before he went in, he and Thug mainly co-existed on tracks. Now there's a sort of magic happening, even though it's mainly because thug found his voice while gucci was away.

i'm kinda disappointed for the most part he's not rapping as good as on his features for dreezy and kodak black...

His rapping is fine imo - it's just in a declarative mode for the most part. My main problem with it is that too
many of the songs are trying to do the same thing sonically. When Thug shows up he pushes everything towards the edges. This album could need a bit more of that.

rapping is fine but not up to '09 gucci level.
this on the other hand...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Olpe_FOe2ns

was there anything of note in those dozen mixtapes of leftovers that 1017 Records released in 2015?

Nothing essential, but most of those tapes were way better than you'd expect given the circumstances. Save a total bomb or two most were about on par with Brick Factory. Trap House 5 was good.

I was hoping for a return akin to his 2012 Trap Back/Trap God second renaissance, but little here is anywhere near that caliber. There's an emotional immediacy to the album that I like, though. I'm excited to hear him rap more about sobriety and self-actualization and the difficulties of sustaining both.

And he does sound happy on the tracks he wrote after prison, so I see why so many people are connecting with the album. It puts me in a good mood, why hasn't been the case with most of his stuff since 2014.

waybach bangs

this is extremely stoned music for a sober person lol

as a very casual fan i find this to be an enjoyable, enaging rap album to listen to. i have not heard his last 12,000 mixtapes.

what's the easiest way to find production credits for gucci's old mixtapes?

smoke some dust and watch the shapes of the beats

Find a mixtape streaming site that displays the back cover, or do a Google image search for the specific tape and hope an image of the back cover comes up

you can tell if it's a zay beat just by hearing it

listen to the track, bitch

its almost always zay, nitti, fatboi, or drumma

or mike will like no pad no pencil

oooh also dj speedy, and there's a few shawty redd jams in there too

*rolls eyes* yes i'm aware of which producers gucci uses a lot and what their drops sound like, very helpful

listen to the track, bitch

― Whiney G. Weingarten, Tuesday, July 26, 2016 5:39 PM (2 hours ago)

lol

holy shit that lockjaw verse!!!!

i'm tryna stay sucker free i aint fuckin with blow pops
i keep runnin lights i fear the feds not patrol cops
i had to shower in my boots i had to sleep in my shoes
i'll hide a snitch in the trunk like he rae carruth
my ex chick drove a acura my plug drove a maxima
took the gold off my teeth and put the goal in my ?
my blow white like my audemar lil ma got that superjaw
and her jaws keep lockin cause she only suck superstars

More specifically a Google image search for Gucci Mane Tape Title tracklist should bring one up, should it exist.

smoke some dust and watch the shapes of the beats

― Blowout Coombes (President Keyes), Tuesday, July 26, 2016 1:09 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol

i really like this album! "guwop home" is amazing. obviously the worst songs on it are the kanye and drake features

I like it too ("Robbed," "Waybach") and I'll indulge its inclination to play it safe.

i wouldn't really call it playing safe (and did gucci ever really come out with a curveball vis-à-vis his own well-defined aesthetic?) - but it's so focused and effective, and i love (as evan pointed out) hearing him rap about specific emotional stuff in his signature way

its completely playing it safe & doesn't sound substantially different from the last 30 gucci tapes aside from a few references to his changing circumstances. per usual folks are responding to peer interest & hype & not the actual music

i like the quality of the mixing and mastering but it cldve been cool if they took some more time writing the songs

i know thats not the gucci way but hes supposed to be changing his ways and id be curious to hear his take on a minutely crafted album

some of the songs are good but what if they all were idk just spitballing

exactly my take also

like i don't think the process of A&R is necessarily antithetical to what makes Gucci great, it just has been historically bc they didn't really get what he was doing

Is this not a minutely crafted album?

No snark, just curious.

he recorded it in six days

otm this whole thing is just ok.

I'm not defending this album as a masterpiece, but the mix and arrangements sound polished to my ears idk

sounds better than your run of the mill mixtape thats true

it is well engineered but i think we're looking from more of a songcraft perspective

ya the engineering is great but itd be cool if the songs were a lil more rigorous to match

mike will/zaytoven et al seems like spent more time on it than gucci did

he recorded it in six days

― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Tuesday, August 16, 2016 6:59 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

all kinds of canonical masterpieces were recorded in less than 6 days

Guccilluminati: The 6 Day Theory

all kinds of canonical masterpieces were recorded in less than 6 days

― Pull your head on out your hippy haze (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, August 23, 2016 3:54 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Of course including some of gucci's own tapes. That wasn't the question tho it was over whether or not this album sounds "minutely crafted" lol

"first day out" gives me chills tbh

this album is just verses he wrote in prison rapped over random instrumentals, right? surely that has more to do with the product than the time it actually took to record

Sigh. I'm just worried about him. I've been rooting for dude for so long now but I can't see how he's ever coming back from this.

― longneck, Tuesday, 10 September 2013 12:56 (three years ago) Permalink

Yeah, man. I'm thrilled about his reinvention. Could not have predicted it. And the new songs keep getting better - as in he's sounding more and more at home on them? I'm not expecting a classic but Woptober should be good.

I think a lot of the recent tracks have been only OK, but even on the mediocre he sounds really engaged again. It's really great to hear

This is very fun:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nr2fObAF93Q