Gucci Mane Empties His Hard Drive On To The Internet
- story Felipe Delerme
There’s a popular saying in sports that claims, “hard work beats talent when talent doesn’t work hard.” The part you never hear, however, is that when talent does work hard, everybody’s fucked. This past Saturday, October 17th (10/17), at 10:17pm, in a move of unprecedented internet generosity, 1017 Brick Squad’s Gucci Mane attempted to explain his now months-long hiatus with three whole mixtapes of original music. To think that all this time he was just locked in the studio amassing enough material for three street albums. If you’re like us and just getting around to downloading these after a long weekend of not being on the computer, then you’ve got your work cut out for you. But if you were actually dialed in Saturday night, by now you surely have some idea of which one is paramount and should feel free to leave the answer in the comments.
Download: Gucci Mane , Cold War Mixtape Series (via Rap Radar)
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posted on Oct 19, 2009 in MP3 / STREAMS, MUSIC, MUSIC NEWS tags DJ Drama, DJ Holiday, DJ Scream, Gucci Mane, hip hop
DJ Drama f. Lil Wayne, “Million Dollar Baby” MP3
- story Peter Macia
- photo Jason Nocito (F47)
According to Eskay and Just Blaze’s Twitter (also the site of an ongoing debate over Just Blaze’s production and hearing), pieces of “Million Dollar Baby” were recorded for Drama and Wayne’s first Gangsta Grillz—which is still an undeniably crazy album—but was never finished until now, and only partially. The fact that they bothered and that we and a bunch of other people are posting it is probably the best barometer of Wayne’s weight. And Twitter’s. Christ. Has Wayne done a song about Twitter yet? Must have. Here’s FADER’s.
Download: DJ Drama f. Lil Wayne, “Million Dollar Baby”
Video: Mariah Carey f. Gucci Mane, “Obsessed” + New Gucci Mane Mixtape
- story Matthew Schnipper
Gucci Mane in a crisp white suit looking like he has no idea what he is doing + Mariah Carey as a pseudo Unabomber with gnarly face pubes = Everyone wins. Gucci hopped on the video for “Obsessed,” which he added a verse to. Yesterday he also dropped a new mix with DJ Drama, The Movie Part 2, with a grip of Drumma beats and a couple of sweet lines from Shawna and a couple of not so sweet ones from Rock City.
Download: Gucci Mane The Movie Part 2 mixtape
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posted on Jul 24, 2009 in MP3 / STREAMS, MUSIC, MUSIC VIDEO tags DJ Drama, Gucci Mane, hip hop, Mariah Carey, r&b
Deconstructing Beezy, Part Four: Soulja Boy’s Gangsta Grillz – The Twitter Edition
- story THE FADER
The other day a FADER editor vehemently opposed to Twitter actually tweeted something on the FADER Twitter on his own accord, and it was not about how ridiculous Twitter is, though he continues to say that loudly and unprovoked around the office. This thawing occured mainly because he’d witnessed something that he wanted to tell everyone about yet wasn’t really bloggable. And so, sort of like how a family lost in the wilderness will eventually eat their fattest child, Twitter became a valuable asset.
Which leads us to the newest Gangsta Grillz with Soulja Boy and DJ Drama, subtitled The Twitter Edition because they want you to follow them, on which Drama yells the word “Twitter” more frequently than Soulja Boy says “Soulja Boy.” It’s a problem. And yet, like Twitter, the idea of Soulja Boy continues to fascinate us, both for his failures and successes. There are at least 10 songs on this mixtape that make us cringe at Beezy’s lyrical inability, most notably “Get Em Got Em” and “Bands” with Gucci Mane because Gucci truly transcends most people’s assumptions of Southern rappers not “crafting bars” or whatever, while Beezy isn’t even worried about people’s assumptions. Both are admirable for their approach: Gucci for the same reasons everyone respects Jay, Wayne et al, Soulja Boy for his natural ability to rap and sing in a way so easily hateable yet impossible to hate. Second to second you find yourself laughing at how ridiculous it is, then singing along before the song is over. That is a skill.
Download: Soulja Boy Gangsta Grillz: Follow Me Edition (via Dat Piff)
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posted on Jun 12, 2009 in MP3 / STREAMS tags Deconstructing Beezy, DJ Drama, Gangsta Grillz, hip hop, Soulja Boy, Twitter
Freeload: Cam’ron ft. Vado & DJ Drama, “La Bomba” MP3
- story THE FADER
Walking down 6th Avenue yesterday we passed a DJ Drama promo van parked in front of the old Comfort Diner, a shuttered establishment where many a fried food and milkshake were consumed by FADER staff over the years. The van was dusty, dented and driven by a couple guys who might have just bought if off a marketing company for cheap. The vortex of sadness created by the Drama van and empty Comfort Diner nearly took us down to the sidewalk, but we recovered, had some curry chicken up on 27th and found this new Cam song from his upcoming Gangsta Grillz tape with Drama, Boss of All Bosses on Nah Right. And then the rain came, making the streets look like rivers of pearl and the Drama van sparkle like a diamond (not really, that shit looked like runny mascara afterward).
Download: Cam’ron ft. Vado & DJ Drama, “La Bomba” (via Nah Right via DramaTweet)
Freeload: Yo Gotti, “Phone Ring”
- story THE FADER
There was once a time when dropping a mixtape with DJ Drama meant you had a major label album about to drop. Nowadays, tapes with Drama are albums. The latest example, Yo Gotti’s Cocaine Muzik 2, is only 13 tracks (perfect album length!) and is incredibly well-rounded for an album inspired by cocaine.
Download: Yo Gotti f. Zed Zilla & Jeff Johnson, “Phone Ring”
Freeload: Brisco, Gangsta Grillz: Underworld Rise Mixtape
- story THE FADER
You may recognize the name Brisco from Wayne’s “La La”, Flo-Rida’s “Birthday ” remix, countless Ross and Khaled guest spots, or, less so, as the dude who wants to beat up Yung Berg for reasons we don’t have the time to investigate. He recently put up this Drama-screamt-on (OPA LOCKA!!) Gangsta Grillz for free on his MySpace, which proves him to be a little more than the Memphis Bleek of Miami. Dude clearly has been influenced by the less-pensive side of Tupac, which is not a bad thing, and considering he’s got basically every major label rapper in the state of Florida riding for him, expect to hear a lot more.
Download: Brisco, Gangsta Grillz: Underworld Rise Mixtape
Freeload: Re-Up Gang, We Got It 4 Cheap, Vol. 3
- story THE FADER
The wait is over. We Got It 4 Cheap, Volume 3: The Spirit of Competition (We Just Think We Better) bka WGI4C3TSOCWJTWB is up for real on reupgangrecords.net. This version is the high-grade, fully mastered version with Drama drops and proper sequencing, so trash whatever you got already. If Drama is too much for you, you can register to download a Drama-free version there as well, but we kind of enjoy being yelled at.
Download: Re-Up Gang, We Got It 4 Cheap, Vol. 3
Audio: DJ Drama f. Pharrell & Clipse, “Cheers”
- story THE FADER
This is another one from that Gangsta Grillz album coming out in December that also birthed “Da Art of Storytellin’ (Part 4)” but isn’t nearly as exciting in its entirety as that snippet was. Produced by Grand Hustle’s Khao, “Cheers” sounds a lot like a Kingdom Come/In My Mind leftover of massive flossitudinal excess and might’ve been one of the tracks recorded early in the Grillz chronology (hopefully).
Audio: Outkast f. Marsha Ambrosius, “Da Art of Storytellin’ (Part 4)”
- story THE FADER
We’re bugging just as hard as everyone else at this snippet of Andre’s verse from Outkast’s contribution to Drama’s Gangsta Grillz album (especially if you combine it with Big Boi’s verse off “I’m So Hood”), but it’s measured bugging because these dudes have been teasing us with suggestive raps for a minute now. So, for now, we’re just going to take “Part 4″ for what it is and go repurchase Kast’s whole catalogue because we feel like it. UPDATE: Full version below.
(via Nah Right via You Heard That New)
