Madonna may have been the first to fully exploit this when she continually sought out the latest producers to stay relevant (followed by Jay-Z). The most frequent are usually the winners.Р”В«y being frequent, you refuse to let the public forget about you. This same principle applies to blogging (or Medium for that matter) or Tweeting or posting videos on Youtube. The more often you release music (or publish) the more popular you become. Gucci understood the concept of frequency and how it relates to todayРІР‚в„ўs media landscape. All this while getting arrested a few times a year.

Since IРІР‚в„ўd first heard him, heРІР‚в„ўd released a staggering 45 mixtapes along with a dozen or so official albums and EPs. This is what Gucci Mane seems to understand. I wonder what people will think of Stranger Things in 5 years. TodayРІР‚в„ўs water cooler talk is tomorrowРІР‚в„ўs faded memory. In the age of the internet everything is impermanent. And I have to say I learned some lessons. So I started to pay more attention to Gucci, to avoid writing him off as I had before. Except now, he had an ice cream cone tattooed on his face. Gucci was still there, saying basically the same thing. Imagine my surprise when I found that Gucci was even more popular when I moved across the country and began teaching in Arizona. They come and go, these guys, and I assumed the same for Gucci. I figured Gucci was just another fad another Chamillionaire or Chingy or LilРІР‚в„ў Flip. Every year I make the statement that rap canРІР‚в„ўt get any worse than this. My head was ringing from exhaustion and annoyance. On the way, the kids threw in a CD and cranked it so loud my speakers gasped for air.Р”В«ricks/All White Bricks/Light Tan Bricks/Just Hit A Lick/For 50 More Bricks They were more fun anyway.Р”В«ut thatРІР‚в„ўs not what this article is about.Р”Р„fter the event, I drove a few of the kids back to the bus station at Dudley Square, as far away from my safe, white Newton suburb as you can get. So I over-compensated and spent the night with the kids, tossing out trash, cleaning up the floors, trying to help out. You could sense the divisions all night and I was uncomfortable as their white teacher, overly aware that I was kind of part of this. The first year they werenРІР‚в„ўt able to sample the food, but instead were given lukewarm ghetto pizza. I was there as a teacher, a chaperone watching over my students as they ran the coat room and waited tables. You know, the type you pay $100 for a plate and watch people exhibit their money on overpriced auction items. But lose his self-respect? HeРІР‚в„ўd rather die.The first time I experienced Gucci Mane was in 2008 after an upper scale benefit. 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 (РІР‚СљPillzРІР‚Сњ, РІР‚СљBricksРІР‚Сњ), Southside (РІР‚СљTrap House 3РІР‚Сњ), Mike WiLL Made-It (РІР‚Сљ1st Day Out Tha FedsРІР‚Сњ) and so on. Really? ThatРІР‚в„ўs it? РІР‚СљI was selling dope!РІР‚Сњ But doesnРІР‚в„ўt money change things? Like, make life more complicated? РІР‚СљLife shouldnРІР‚в„ўt get tough when you got a bunch of money in the bank,РІР‚Сњ he said. Gucci Mane? РІР‚СљMan, I started rapping for money,РІР‚Сњ he told Apple Music in 2018. Some do it because they need to quote-unquote express themselves.

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