Those detractors should take a good, hard listen to the late-album track "Worst Enemy"-- a rare introspective moment where Gucci extends something resembling an olive branch to Jeezy and frankly discusses his own self-destructive tendencies, all without compromising his dense, frantically hopscotching sense of wordplay. Im new to the whole Gucci Mane (Brick squad 1017 in general) and I was really impressed. In that time he still managed to release, by my count, six mixtapes (including the three-in-one-day Cold War series) and one official album.

For the uninitiated, Gucci is a tough sell. The State Vs. Radric Davis comes after a slew of independent releases, mixtapes and features over the past few years. And he means business. That means Gucci only had about eight months of freedom in 2009. He had quite a year.

Trap masters like Fatboi, Bangladesh, Mike Will Made It and Zaytoven provide the production highlights on the album. I love gucci and the way he spit on this album and his guests this album, jadakiss, Cam'ron & Rick Ross brought it to the table on this album.


This shopping feature will continue to load items when the Enter key is pressed. Even when he's describing crack houses in detail, he keeps telling jokes and making up goofy metaphors. He keeps finding unexpected ways to say the same stuff: "I be runnin' gunnin' stunnin' with a hundred killers riiiiiidin'/ And you snitchin' bitchin' tattle tellin' and scared to stand besiiiiiide me." Album Reviews. He's found his audience by elevating ignorance to expertly absurdist art, thus making his 2009 a worthy successor to Cam'ron's 2004 or Lil Wayne's 2005. Mostly, though, the LP does a good job keeping Gucci's culty selling points intact on a larger stage. The members of his inconsistent 1017 Brick Squad crew all nail their verses on the trio of posse cuts. At the end of the day, The State vs. Radric Davis delivers the full spectrum of Gucci Mane, showing both the cash and yellow diamond-loving side, as well as his more reflective (or at least more self-aware) side.

He's been on a very, very serious roll. Gucci is not always so reflective; sometimes he's as broad and bracing as a ball-peen hammer....But more often than not, the prolific MC (in 2009, he released more than 100 songs on mix tapes) limits his id, and emphasizes a surprisingly gripping superego.

A southern masterpiece that, as of late, has been criminally underrated. The sheer volume of his output means there's no go-to entry point. But the mixtape's greatest asset might be its sneakily melodic sensibility. Mostly, though, the LP does a good job keeping Gucci's culty selling points intact on a larger stage.
Instead, our system considers things like how recent a review is and if the reviewer bought the item on Amazon. Yellow. He says some stuff that barely makes sense: "Eat rappers like Jeffrey Dahmer/ Dope color Sinead O'Connor."

He favors one simple, monotonic type of beat: a tense, sproingy, synth-based thing that always just sounds cheap. And since Gucci almost never raps over other people's beats, that means you're getting an hour's worth of full-on songs, something that not even Cam and Wayne offered during their peak-era runs. G ucci Mane is the most talked about rapper in the US, despite it often being impossible to make out a single word he's saying. In March 2009, Atlanta rapper Gucci Mane came home from prison after serving six months for violating parole. There's one song about turning down ugly groupies and another about how he has to hang out with his shadow because he's so far beyond everyone else. Gucci's delivery has a casual singsong elegance that you never quite see coming, and the result means virtually every chorus is memorable-- something unthinkable from almost any other rapper. He has one song about wearing all-yellow everything and another where guest crooner Bobby Valentino offers to fuck you in front of your father. Pitchfork is the most trusted voice in music. There's a problem loading this menu right now. Reviewed in the United States on December 8, 2009. He's ascended to a very particular type of cult stardom in an age when rap stars aren't supposed to exist anymore.

There are a bunch of memorable, catchy tracks here like Wasted, Gingerbread Man, Shirt Off, Lemonade, and Heavy. While largely simple is subject matter, Gucci is more than technically profecient. It brings together some of the best production work from Polow Da Don, Drumma Boy, Sean Garrett, Mannie Fresh and others. Regular collaborators Zaytoven and Fatboi turn in several beats each, and many of the other tracks, from name producers like Jazze Pha and Scott Storch, sound a lot like Zaytoven beats. Maybe at first listen you will shun him off as mindless gangsta rap. Radric Davis is deeply flawed, and ultimately Gucci has committed the worst crime in rap: he’s boring. I encourage all … There's plenty of Gucci to go around. He also found time to crank out an absurd number of guest-verses, videos, and live shows, buried a long-raging feud with Young Jeezy, and made minor stars out of proteges OJ Da Juiceman and Waka Flocka Flame. Like Wayne's Tha Carter II, it translates Gucci's mixtape triumphs into something more digestible and immediate. I would have preferred to know if it was uncut or edited.

Artistically, at least, he's just getting started. His unrelenting focus on materialistic shit rarely rankles because he's better at rapping about that stuff than just about anyone else. Both his monochromatic beats and his staggering productivity give his work a sense of immersion, hitting the same note again and again with immensely satisfying results-- like a daylong sick-day binge on James Bond movies. - To be certain, the push and pull is lost through most of The State vs. Radric Davis, replaced by a straddling of the line between commercial and street rap. And it certainly helps that his punchlines are often dizzily funny and inventively intricate: "Popping Cris, think that I need Alcohol Anonymous/ 45 in the club, I could kill a hippopotamus." Radric Delantic Davis (born February 12, 1980), known professionally as Gucci Mane, is an American rapper.He helped pioneer the hip hop subgenre of trap music alongside fellow Atlanta-based rappers T.I. That's where you are wrong. He never highlights his punchlines (or anything else, really); they just float by. You'd think that instinctive ear for hooks would convince Warner, Gucci's label, to let him do his thing unencumbered on the official album, The State Vs. Radric Davis. And now that he's going to be locked up for a while, the world has a chance to catch up. Your recently viewed items and featured recommendations, Select the department you want to search in. Case closed. This album rides so smooth. The October DJ Drama collaboration Movie 3D: The Burrprint remains the greatest of Gucci's 2009 mixtapes, in part because it's the purest example of his aesthetic. If you followed rap in 2009, you had to have some opinion on Gucci. In 2005, Gucci Mane debuted with Trap House, followed by his second album, Hard to Kill in 2006. Like the singles "Spotlight" and "Wasted," the songs on the album that jump out most aren't the ones with creepy rhythms, but those with Gucci Mane's witty lyrical delivery. reactions. Gucci is always evolving, and at 29 years old, he is in his prime. Gucci Mane's best album to date. Gucci's boasts and put-downs are playful but matter-of fact throughout: "You are not the owner of that car that is a loaner/ I got money stacks that's tall as you cause that's just my persona." There are a few missteps, like the run of mid-album R&B tracks that saps some momentum.

Reviewed in the United States on December 22, 2009, Southern Classic, from start to finish...Gucci kept it real and still was able to step out into the commercial lane without crossing over....Gucci has came a long way from So Icey til now...If he wasn't in jail this would get the proper promotion it deserves...BUUUR!....Jeezy, TIP yall up next, lets get it, Reviewed in the United States on November 5, 2011. What's this? Big-name guests like Wayne and Cam bring their A-games because they know they're dealing with a rapper on their level. Because he mushmouths his punchlines so hard, you have to listen harder and more often to hear them.

Just half a year from the release of the mysteriously unauthorized catalog clearinghouse/label kiss off Murder Was the Case, Gucci Mane returns with The State vs. Radric Davis, his latest on Warner Bros.’ Asylum imprint.True to form, the bling-loving rapper brings the club-ready Dirty South rap, complete with trunk-rattling bass and trademark synths. Prime members enjoy FREE Delivery and exclusive access to music, movies, TV shows, original audio series, and Kindle books. His new album The State Vs Radric Davis, which dropped today, is set to go down in history.

Gucci's detractors took the opportunity to declare his regional stardom a grand illusion. Every song on this album goes off, and this is easily the album of the year. He's broken through in '09 and shined through the clouds of controversy that have continued to dampen his career. Notable Video Game Releases: New and Upcoming, Music title data, credits, and images provided by, Movie title data, credits, and poster art provided by, Yeah, it's Gucci, what's up, baby? Gucci is always evolving, and at 29 years old, he is in his prime. "While Gucci continues to release mixtapes, including his latest The Cold War series, the new album will contain ALL new never before heard music and will include not only the mainstream hits, but also a slew of street anthems from Drumma Boy, Zaytoven, and Fat Boi.