Gucci, meanwhile, was still peaking, flaunting some of his best bars on the tape's final track, "Go For It. With more collaborations lined up for the future, including one with Drake, the tradition moves forward. One of the greatest things about Gucci is his willingness to get conceptual, to zoom out from the niche concerns of mixtape culture and make big, risky statements. The "World War 3" trilogy was one of them. Like most of the two dozen mixtapes released while in prison, the "World War 3" trilogy was culled from the Brick Factory vaults and compiled with help by longtime engineer Sean Paine.
The series got a reprise of sorts the following year, when Gucci released three color-themed solo albums from Migos green , Young Thug purple and PeeWee Longway white. Gucci's influence, then, clearly isn't limited to his own artistry; it also speaks to his curation abilities and not even confinement could stop him from creating a sense of community and cohesion in Atlanta rap. The monster track tape was released right around the time that his second studio album, the Zaytoven -produced "Hard to Kill," was dropped in October But while the latter could be found in record stores courtesy of Big Cat and Tommy Boy, "Chicken Talk" was for the streets, at one point literally being sold out of the trunk of DJ Burn One's car in a mall parking lot.
On this release, Gucci flaunts classic mids trap, with his unique rhyme schemes and slurred flow just beginning to foment.
It's rough, dirty and lovingly lopsided. It's also a true endurance test. In this sense, "Chicken Talk" is neither a good entry point nor a proper example of Gucci's talents, but its bass and hook heavy aesthetic kickstarted one of the most dizzying mixtape runs in rap's history. It was, in short, a statement of purpose, and everyone — including Jeezy, who was called out on it — was listening. Download: Gucci Mane, "Chicken Talk".
One benefit of releasing music at such a frantic, breakneck pace is that any stylistic changes that occur sound natural and organic. But listen to "Writing on the Wall" immediately after Gucci's debut tape "Chicken Talk" a flash-forward that jumps two and a half years and 12 mixtapes and you can clearly hear just how much Gucci had evolved as an artist.
His voice in was arguably its most masterful and realized; it was less rough and diffuse, more urgent and exploratory, his bizarre enunciations trumped by his emphasis on intonation and cadence. If "Writing on the Wall" represents anything, then, it's that the quintessential Gucci — the Gucci that most of us know best and love most — never settled to get where he was. And by the time this mixtape came out, released after a string of compilation tapes while he was serving time, Gucci was back on top of the mixtape game, blanketing us in his warm Southern presence.
Download: Gucci Mane, "Writing on the Wall". While the critical apparatus has somehow forgotten the impact of "No Pad, No Pencil," the mixtape was huge at the time. Gucci himself called it one of his "biggest mixtapes" it was his first mixtape to chart and it remains a cult favorite today. Wonderfully hyped throughout by Supastar J. Kwik, "No Pad, No Pencil" showed that Guwop didn't need to write his lyrics down, boasting a bevy of trap bangers balanced by a no-pad, no-pencil freestyle approach.
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