Gucci Mane

Gucci Mane is like the Brock Lesnar of rap. Brock Lesnar used to legitimately beat the shit out of people in the UFC, however now he's settled into fak-I mean "predetermined" fights in the WWE. No matter how “predetermined” these fights are, Brock still looks intimidating and is very terrifying. There was a point where Gucci Mane was legitimately trapping and rapping at the same time. He was rapping about selling drugs and getting away with murder as he was legitimately selling drugs and murdering people. His career was PROLIFIC as everyone knew he was really about that life. However, as he got older he decided to leave the gangsta shit behind. Actually, it was less of a decision and more of a mandated Prison sentence, but I digress. Gucci Mane, like Brock Lesnar, isn't living the life he's portraying, but he is still scary because it is clear that he could go back to that life at any given time. I can go on and on about Post Prison Gucci, but this is about the music and not about the man. So let’s talk” El Gato The Human Glacier”.

Gucci Mane is not just one of the funniest rappers in the game, he can also say things I could never get the nerve to say. Sometimes I just listen to him, so I can picture what life would be like if I didn’t care about anything. There is so much power in not caring what people think. That’s what so great about music. Artists like Gucci Mane can take us to places we will never go in real life.

For lots of folks, its T.I. and Gucci who traditionally rep the hustler Trap mentality of the South, and arguably, T.I. was the one with more crossover looks, while Gucci Mane seemed more handcuffed to the streets. He could have gone away forever, considering how the judicial system tends to throw the book at rappers who are in and out of jail because of murder, assault, and weapons charges, but luck was on his side throughout this tribulations, allowing him to serve out severely commuted sentences and hit the scene healthy and ready to go. Since he last got out he’s lost some fans, but also gained possibly even more new ones, thanks to finding a synergy of what both civilians and the streets would respond to, and in the process, he kept out of trouble, which only made interesting Pop-orientated collaborations more possible. At the same time, the image of a killer with blood on his hands never stopped working wonders for his career or his subject matter. Like Drake, the man is too big too fail because he is a corporate media darling, yet where Drake plays with the idea of employing a team of killers, Gucci’s gangsta aura is so air tight that he can basically rap about anything he wants from here on out without ever having his authenticity questioned.