![]() ![]() The Movie was drug-fueled mania at its peak output levels, synapses firing, and circuits burning at their brightest "I'm a Star" is the feeling of everything overloading. The beat could have been a hit song with another artist the hook is as catchy as anything Gucci ever released. What makes it work-the reason it's not a purely destructive, chaotic process-is that it still holds on tightly to a traditional song form. There's the gas station owner telling the young drug dealer Gucci to get away from the store, the hoes and the chevy doors, all making you question his sobriety, and your own. "I'm a Star" found the rapper pushing against his audience, borderline-unintelligible. For Gucci, it had more hedonistic implications. In hip-hop, rappers often talk about "blacking out" on the beat, that moment when their flow kicks into some double-time intensity. He aimed for crossover at the same time he became more bizarre. ![]() The Movie was a tipping point, a moment when Gucci's apparent mania diversified, intensified, became more exaggerated and more extreme. Written by David Drake ( COMPLEX MUSIC ON FACEBOOK RELATED: Do Androids Dance? - The 20 Best Trap Remixes of Non-EDM Tracks RELATED: Twitter Reacts to Gucci Mane's Insane Rant Listen to Complex's Best Gucci Mane Songs playlists here: YouTube/ Spotify/ Rdio It's a trajectory that yielded one of rap music's most controversial and unexpectedly brilliant catalogs, which is to say nothing of the most prime cuts from it. Yet, while that period of his catalog is too new to be properly canonized (for the moment), Radric Davis's greatest tracks-from the start of his career through 2010-are the result of an improbable star's hard work. While he hasn't hit the level of crossover interest that he did in '09, Gucci's post-Appeal work has started to see the acclaim stack up again history's shown it wouldn't be smart to count him out early. As evidenced: Tuesday night, Gucci dropped Trap God 2, his 33rd-yes, 33rd-independent release in eight years, on his 33rd birthday no less. From his beginnings in the era of album Trap House to the aesthetic that coalesced on Chicken Talk, to his distinctive "country" vocal style, to the creative evolution of his frequent collaborators ( Zaytoven, Fatboi, Drumma Boy), Gucci's lived several rappers careers' and then some, and yet, he's still going strong. ![]() His method? Per the name of one of his most celebrated mixtapes: No Pad, No Pencil, an improvisational approach driven by his fanbase's nonstop thirst for new material.īecause he's dropped so much, in so little time, the variety of the Atlanta born rapper's catalog doesn't get its fair due. They haven't stopped him from becoming one of the most productive, prolific rappers of the last few years either, having releasing hundreds upon hundreds of songs in his relatively young career. Gucci Mane has emerged as one of the most divisive rappers of the past few years. ![]()
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