KREAYSHAWN - GUCCI GUCCI

the thread where you all submit to the jam of the summer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WJFjXtHcy4

girl just signed for a mill http://www.missinfo.tv/index.php/kreayshawn-signs-million-dollar-deal-off-of-one-hit-gucci-gucci/

Her mom played guitar for the Trashwomen:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wR844wZKKSY

*submits*

Hated it the first few times... but finally gave in and submitted my will over to it, CRACK. Its all so wonderfully juvenile and care-free.

She kinda looks like Marissa Tomei.

kinda, but then you kinda owe marissa an apology

is the deal for just wayne or garth too

i think garth is going to be relegated to memph bleek duties, tho that could be worse

Well yah, Marissa=9.5 vs Kreyshawn=6. But still... kinda.

and v-nasty can be her earl

she does some cool things lyrically on this too -- the "coop"/"coupe" pun that went over my head the first few times, switching up her flow a lil bit

also succeed for being neither too juvenile nor too serious -- disses involving arby's & kitty litter balanced out by "you can catch me serving me fiends by the golden gate / bridge"

ive played this every time ive been in the car this wkend

still trying to figure out why the inauthenticity works for her -- i think it's cuz you can tell she's seriously into rap

CRUNCH OTM

i'm colder than the fridge and the freezer / i'm snatchin up your bitches at my leisurrrrrrrrre

said this already in the gun sounds thread, but girl here did this during a roach gigz set i saw back in march. p fly

she does some cool things lyrically on this too -- the "coop"/"coupe" pun that went over my head the first few times

― J0rdan S., Monday, 30 May 2011 22:45 (2 minutes ago) Bookmark

cmon son...

lol

yea otm abt neither overly juvenile nor serious/hard -- too much in either way and shes either asher roth or idk da brat

still dont like this but my fav couplet & the songs realest moment is

I'm yelling "Free V-Nasty" 'til my throat is raspy
Young, rich and flashy I be where the cash be

wish the whole thing was written in this solid & mean relentless flow and not "lookin like madonna flossin like ivana/trump"--mb its just what i look for in a woman idk

Her flow really reminds me of Das Racist, for some reason. I know that's not universally thought of as a good thing but it works for me.

Lee-zhurrrrrrr is the best bit.

I kind of hated this at first but it's been insanely stuck in my head for like two weeks now. I woke up this morning with "number 2, super size, hurry up I'm starving" going over and over in my half conscious brain.

her mate with the glasses looks a bit awkward.

v nice bassline

kinda jungley

best bit imo is "the editor, director, plus i'm my own boss" -- inflection at the end is just dope & memorable

there seems to be some kind of an interview with her here
http://kingdrake.com/blog/kreayshawn-interview-52111

(sry)

was talking about this w/ whiney (natch) on im & ppl saying that video is vice mag / hipster are kinda offtm ... shes like a circa '03 hipster (I mean, she proudly listens to 'brazillian booty music') which is basically pretty entrenched throughout pop culture now ... wiz khalifa fans dress like that, the vice aesthetic is pretty deep into pop culture all over now. whiney called her a 'scene kid.'

pop culture now pop culture now pop culture now

pop culture all over now

sauce all over me

sarai >>>>

^^^fuckin' guy

cmon son...

― r|t|c, Monday, May 30, 2011 5:50 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark

i like this line, sorry

she has definitely internalized the lacrate legacy

its a hot line, well executed imo. i think he was prob 'rme' about you not getting what she did there when its like, a remedial slow burner lol

the production is dope yeah -- the drums & bass that come in halfway thru the verses are key

its a hot line, well executed imo. i think he was prob 'rme' about you not getting what she did there when its like, a remedial slow burner lol

― lebroner (D-40), Monday, May 30, 2011 9:03 PM (16 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest

right -- well it took ppl weeks to get lil wayne's lasagna joke, so i think i'm excused

still lol when i think of real gs move in silence

she doesn't code as vice hipster to me -- i think she comes off distinctly as 'young person from la/oakland'

feel like that line cut thru a lot of baggage that was keeping me from appreciating wayne & deserves dap for that alone

it's a great line

'nails posh so fierce with the gold gloss' is my fav

would be 'lookin like madonna but i'm flossin like ivana' if she didn't say '...TRUMP!' afterward.

song's sort of like lil b for me, though, where i will never listen to the song on my computer without watching the video along with it

needs lil b on the remix

you've seen that rare vid of them smoking a blunt right?

yes -- also she directed "insane", one of my secrete fav lil b videos

ya his beads are majestic in that vid

haha i like 'trump'

so shes been signed to a million dollar 360 deal with sony

SUBMIT

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

still great

A genuinely epochal, stunning single. The video is a work of art, too

I still have a Lil’ Debbie tee somewhere

video belongs in the l.a.-on-screen pantheon

Great song

Great enjambment.

I'm in the coupe cruising, I got the stolen plates
Serving all the fiends over there by the Golden Gate
Bridge, I'm colder than the fridge and the freezer

I’m snatchin all yo bitches at my leisure!

i googled "one big room full of bad bitches" and got this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YM-XmtbP5oM

ah going back to this it was indeed a great track (and video).
I haven't read the (loooong) thread but listening to the album for the first time, it's actually pretty good/fun.
I like "summertime" in particular.
She seems to have totally disappeared after this, right ?

she put out an ambient ep a few years ago iirc

video belongs in the l.a.-on-screen pantheon

Wait, it wasn't shot in Oakland?

haha uh idk, maybe some of it? there's a "fairfax ave." street sign and the first part is clearly beverly hills.

ONE BIG .RAR, FULL OF DOG PICTURES

— bandit (@UtilityLimb) November 7, 2011

Words that will remain lodged in my mind until death.

lmao

https://www.stereogum.com/2147613/kreayshawn-gucci-gucci-anniversary-interview/interviews/tracking-down/

This is a classic record label cautionary tale. It's interesting how she basically says it wouldn't have gone down like this a few years later -- everyone records at home so she wouldn't have been spending $$$$ on studio time (which of course she didn't know she had to pay back), wouldn't have had to fly around doing press at radio stations, there would be better framework & expectations around getting paid for streaming, etc. I wonder how true that is, or rather exactly how young viral artists are getting taken advantage of now.

aw that's a depressing article/interview...

maybe, idk. i love how real it is. she seems so much stronger as a person now.

actually it is pretty sad

I remember seeing this when it had like 100 views on youtube, having it stuck in my head incessantly for a bit, then completely forgetting about until years later when I was in a mall in Las Vegas and walked by stores from all the fashion entities right by each other and getting it stuck my head again.

I just heard this song for the first time. LOL you idiots will hype up anything.

Thing I learned today, inspired by this thread:

Lil Debbie released 3 albums between 2014 and 2017

when ilx gets around to doing a best trax of the decade for the 20teens this will be my #1.

Accidentally ran across a V-Nasty video a couple of years ago and whoo boy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9W7ZzlX9co

tried this again just now for the first time in like eight years and it is still not good

Gotta say I feel like I'm in a bizarro world where this is fondly remembered as a banger or great song. I thought it was awful in 2011 and it has not improved with age.

it's aggressively mediocre

it's alright, been a long time since i heard it or thought about it

also sometimes i get a little nostalgic for ilm's "goop on ya grinch" era

Gucci Gucci Louis Louis Fendi Fendi Prada
I'm looking like Madonna but I'm flossing like Ivana
Trump. You know I keep that work in my trunk
Got my hand on the pump if you wanna press your luck

one big room, full of bad opinions

new board description

Lil Wayne’s opinion >>> forksclovetofu’s

also sometimes i get a little nostalgic for ilm's "goop on ya grinch" era

― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, May 17, 2021 3:33 PM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

damn the times people liked actually popular rap songs .. RIP

gonna come roaring back when "back in blood" wins the eoy singles poll

How is Back in Blood related to Gucci2?

no one cares if you came around on lil durk 10 years into his career forks

don't you DARE like lil durk the wrong way!

We should be showing the US Lady Sovereign more respect

How is Back in Blood related to Gucci2?

― Draymond is "Mr Dumpy" (forksclovetofu), Monday, May 17, 2021 10:19 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

*"the times people liked actually popular rap songs" are gonna come roaring back when "back in blood" wins the eoy singles poll

Wait, it wasn't shot in Oakland?

― Joe Bombin (milo z), Monday, May 17, 2021 8:27 AM (yesterday)

uh, lol Oakland didn't have any stores like gucci, fendi, or prada in 2011 ... no, not shot in Oakland. also: street signs the wrong color and font; vacant lot that bears a resemblance to various vacant lots in Oakland, but with a sign showing the 310 area code ... not Oakland.

I have only the vaguest memory of what the video looked like but 99% of her brand was about Oakland (including lines in the song). I expected her video to be shot there.

she's from here, yeah, and some of the locations in the video do resemble Oakland. Like there are definite similarities between parts of L.A. and parts of Oakland architecturally and in terms of like, landscaping and plants. Like, if the street signs had been green and in the font Oakland uses for street signs and the names were familiar, I could have been convinced that it was shot in Oakland ... I mean, if someone told me that the shopping district street scenes were shot on Lakeshore Ave and they just photoshopped the L.A. signs and cut away to the fancier stores, I wouldn't say it was impossible ...

in the interview linked above she talks about the l.a. video shoot and how she had moved to l.a. three years earlier. sounds like it was all shot in l.a. including the apartment stuff (at the "orsini". the interview is worth a read! she sounds like a pretty cool person honestly).

xp to vc: ah, okay i get it now. i killfiled deej several years ago and a quick clickthrough on his blocked posts reminded me why that was such a good move.

don't you DARE like lil durk the wrong way!

― bobo honkin' slobo babe (sic), Tuesday, May 18, 2021 4:21 AM (fourteen hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

"the wrong way" ... lmao ... yeah look at me gatekeeping a ten year career in rap with an artist youve only had endless opportunities to encounter happens to make a song exactly like 483749 of his other songs just more successful and broadcast from larger platforms and performed on fallon ... coincidentally the one forks likes

devastating revelation.

this is still a fun song

i can always call on it when i need a boost

for the record i don't like back in blood or pretty much any lil durk song i've ever heard

but even back in blood is better than gucci gucci

'epochal' 'stunning'