Learn how your comment data is processed. Skip to content. Davis album by Gucci Mane debuted at its peak of No. That is, until now. DJRob Gucci Mane. Like this: Like Loading Your thoughts? Cancel reply. Like, Not Even! Loading Comments Email Name Website. Sorry, your blog cannot share posts by email. These days, everybody's looking and everybody wants a piece. But to truly understand Gucci's influence on rap music, we have to go underground.
With the trap wars of the mids long since won by Gucci condolensces to T. The shadow he casts over and outside of Atlanta is so long, so pervasive, so all-enveloping that younger crowds don't even realize how much Young Thug, Waka Flocka Flame, Future, Migos and many others owe their careers to Guwop, whether through mentoring, co-signing, collaboration or through style-copping alone.
Most of Gucci's impact was done in the streets and it manifested most tangibly in his mixtapes. With the mixtape world having blown up to insane proportions over the last several years, some might find it surprising that no one has quite matched Gucci's dominance and masterful ab use of the format and that includes Lil B.
But Gucci's absurd prolificacy is simply unprecedented: his run of 20 or so tapes from to continues to be a high-water mark for rap music and with roughly 50 more tapes released since then with over two dozen released while in prison , Gucci has shown that the path he helped pave is as reflective of his artistry as his business savvy. Highlighting just a handful out of roughly 70 Gucci mixtapes is an arduous task— an almost criminal one.
But after much suffering and great hardship, we managed to pull something together. These are the essential Gucci Mane mixtapes you need to hear right now. And be sure to check out RBMA Radio this week as it touches down in Atlanta for a week of ATL-focused programming and events, including Patchwerk , the famous studio where Gucci has made many classics.
Inside Dr. Zone 6" Not all of Gucci's mixtapes are designed with cohesion in mind. Tapes like "Mr. But then we get something like "Mr. Zone 6. In fact, "Mr. Zone 6" has earned a reputation as the best showcase of Gucci's technical talents as a rapper. Which was a big deal: Gucci, at the time, got a lot of flak for his perceived lack of skill, with purists unable to wrap their heads around the trap sound.
They're still trying to, actually. The score is mostly settled now, but at the time, "Mr. Zone 6" was Gucci's big, bold artistic rejoinder. Download: Gucci Mane, "Mr. Zone 6". Gucci Mane's not just a rapper — he's a brilliant scouter and he proved this when he dropped his collaboration with Future way back in , roughly a year before Future released his debut, "Pluto. It's shaky and rough, sure, but it shows just how rooted his now much-revered, much-copied style is in Atlanta trap aesthetics.
Gucci, meanwhile, was still peaking, flaunting some of his best bars on the tape's final track, "Go For It. With more collaborations lined up for the future, including one with Drake, the tradition moves forward. One of the greatest things about Gucci is his willingness to get conceptual, to zoom out from the niche concerns of mixtape culture and make big, risky statements.
The "World War 3" trilogy was one of them. Like most of the two dozen mixtapes released while in prison, the "World War 3" trilogy was culled from the Brick Factory vaults and compiled with help by longtime engineer Sean Paine. The series got a reprise of sorts the following year, when Gucci released three color-themed solo albums from Migos green , Young Thug purple and PeeWee Longway white.
Gucci's influence, then, clearly isn't limited to his own artistry; it also speaks to his curation abilities and not even confinement could stop him from creating a sense of community and cohesion in Atlanta rap. The monster track tape was released right around the time that his second studio album, the Zaytoven -produced "Hard to Kill," was dropped in October But while the latter could be found in record stores courtesy of Big Cat and Tommy Boy, "Chicken Talk" was for the streets, at one point literally being sold out of the trunk of DJ Burn One's car in a mall parking lot.
On this release, Gucci flaunts classic mids trap, with his unique rhyme schemes and slurred flow just beginning to foment. It's rough, dirty and lovingly lopsided. It's also a true endurance test. In this sense, "Chicken Talk" is neither a good entry point nor a proper example of Gucci's talents, but its bass and hook heavy aesthetic kickstarted one of the most dizzying mixtape runs in rap's history.
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