The albums have held up well with critics for the most part, but Gucci has never been associated with a “classic,” perhaps his penance for being more focused on quantity and not quality. Gucci has been known to record whole albums in less than a week (see 2016’s Everybody Looking, whose 15 tracks took six days to record or last year’s second album in just over two months: El Gato: The Human Glacier, which took two days). (Shouldn’t he always be doing that though?) He recently said in an interview that he usually just “takes 20 songs and puts them out,” presumably indiscriminately.įor Evil Genius, he said he recorded about “60 or 70 songs” and when it came time to turn in the album (per his label’s schedule), he picked the ones he thought were the best. Gucci, who recently shared the list of features for his upcoming album, Evil Genius, admits that he had to slow it down for 2018.
In the years between 20 alone he released 40 mixtapes (with only two of those getting to the top half of Billboard’s 200-position chart). Since 2005, the Atlanta-based rapper has released 12 studio albums and over 70 mixtapes. There could be several reasons, not the least of which is Gucci Mane’s over-proliferation of the market. 1 album artists like Future, Migos and Travis Scott all benefit from always the proverbial groomsman but never the groom when it comes to having chart toppers? So why is the man who is largely credited with pioneering the rap sub-genre that No. Davis album by Gucci Mane debuted at its peak of No. Last year, his eleventh studio album, Mr.
He’s come close a couple of times though.Įverybody Looking, his ninth studio album and his first in five years following a stint in jail, reached No. 1 slot on the nation’s authoritative album chart, none have had Gucci Mane’s name attached to them. Of the more than 180 (see List) rap or hip-hop albums that have occupied the No. 1 album on Billboard’s main chart, the Billboard 200. 11 last year).īut there’s one thing that has eluded him in the 13 years he’s been recording professionally: he’s never had a No. 1 (2016’s “Black Beatles” as a feature on Rae Shremmurd’s hit) and a near-miss top-10 as the lead on “I Got The Bag” (No. No stranger to the charts, Gucci’s had a few big hit singles either as lead or featured artist, including his first No. But lose his self-respect? He’d rather die.At 38 years old, trap god Gucci Mane is considered one of hip-hop’s OGs… a founding father of rap’s sub-genre de jour with a long list of albums that date back to when the word “Migos” was only known as an abbreviated form of the Spanish word for friends.
The pace of the work-more than 100 releases between 20-not only pointed to his day-in, day-out work ethic, but his intoxicating confidence: He put teardrops under his eye because he wished he could cry. One of the first great rappers of the trap era, Gucci-born Radric Davis in 1980-helped bring the sound of Atlanta street rap into the mainstream, turning out tough, funny records that examined his hustle with equal parts ruthlessness and glee, not to mention showcasing a string of producers that became superstars in their own right: Zaytoven (“Pillz”, “Bricks”), Southside (“Trap House 3”), Mike WiLL Made-It (“1st Day Out Tha Feds”) and so on. Really? That’s it? “I was selling dope!” But doesn’t money change things? Like, make life more complicated? “Life shouldn’t get tough when you got a bunch of money in the bank,” he said. Gucci Mane? “Man, I started rapping for money,” he told Apple Music in 2018. Some do it because they need to quote-unquote express themselves.
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