THREAD FOR GUNPLAY

http://www.freeonsmash.com/news/2012/03/01/gunplay-jump-out/

its time he had his own thread

http://iblog126.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/Gunplay-Torch1-520x347.jpg

#gunsounds

it's almost unfair that we're getting a PREQUEL to BOGOTA

BOY I'M BOUT TO BRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR FFFFFIREEEEE

lmao he called himself the 'human LA riot'

today i was listening to 'rich forever' and just imagining every guest rapper that isn't nas or styles p being replaced by gunplay

LIFT HIM UP, HE THOUGHT I RAISED THE FLOOR

HOES PLAYIN TURKEY ON MY DICK GOBBLE GOBBLE

Excited to listen to this tomorrow.

Love this dude. Kinda hated all the rewinds on his last tape though. You can rap man, why not show it?

Ok I need to check this out sounds like

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lO77CfffIs

MASK ON... MASK OFF

Still my favorite of his.

ROLLIN IN MY BENZ LIKE ITS BORDERLINE BENTLEY,
MY FO-FO NEVER CLOSED SO DONT BORDERLINE TEMPED ME
IM IN TOTAL CONTROL MODE, MOVE YOU LIKE A CHECKA
2 BARRELS ON MY WEAPON, NOW THATS A DOUBLE DECKA

he reminds me of earlier ludacris in a way, got that kinda outsized personality and exaggerated delivery

like the way he says "Shell catchers with the infrared beeaaams" kinda reminds me of luda

Definitely.

a ludacris for a post-flockaveli world

gunplay is such a good rapper

this track is so fucking hard!

he has the same frantic energy as meek mill and the beats these guys are getting are just spot on. MMG feels like an unstoppable force really it's crazy

haha otm

serious amount of gun sounds here

he's a force

i hate DJ Holiday

2 seconds before i clicked on this thread i was thinking "i love DJ Holiday"

jesus christ the "bitches ain't shit" freestyle i'm dying right now

MAYBACH MACHINE
ALL YOU HEAR IS CH-CHING
NEVER FLEW WHAT I FLAUNT
ALL YOU SEEN WAS THE WING
ALL BLACK UP, FROM THE SHOES TO THE RING
INCLUDING THE MINK, I AM AS RUDE AS YOU THINK

I HIDE NO FACE
STILL FIND NO TRACE

WINDSHIELD TO THE WIND
CUP OF GIN TO THE CHIN
JEWELS ON MY LIMBS
DO NOT ATTEMPT
REACH AND I TEACH YA
STAY AT ARM'S LENGTH

STREETS SO CRAY
SKY STONE GREY
WHERE THE BITCHES?
LET'S SEE WHAT THE IPHONE SAY

MONEY STOP AND TIME WON'T STAY
BROKE MOTHERFUCKERS SAY CRIME DON'T PAY

BACK ON THE TURF LIKE I NEVER LEFT THE NERF
FEEL SORRY FOR MY MOTHER SHOULD'VE NEVER HAD THE BIRTH

I NEVER HAD A GIFT DAMN SURE HAD A CURSE
NOW WHO'S THE NEXT TO CLIMB OUT THE BACK OF THAT HEARSE?

HOSTILE, SINCE COKE IN THE NOSTRILS
SKINNY AS 'POSTLE, WITH A BIG OL MOSSBERG

COLOMBIAN COCAINE
GALLARDOS AND GOLD CHAINS
HOGGIN UP THE LANE
SMOKE FOGGIN UP MY FRAMES

HAVE YOU EVER MET A MENACE
LOW INCOME HOUSING TENANT
MY PEN MADE ME SOME PENNIES
BUT I'M STILL FACING A SENTENCE

SHE LICK IT LIKE A STAMP
EAT IT LIKE A RACK OF LAMB
NOW BRING THAT STACK BACK TO DADDY WHILE I WHIP A YAM

HUMAN METHADONE
NOW LEAVE ME THE F ALONE
I TAKE YOUR BITCH AND F HER DOME
IT'S ME THEY WISHING DEATH UPON

MODELS NAKED
BOTTLES BREAKIN
THE HOG'S OUT
HOW'D YOU BREAK IT?
AND PRAY YOU MAKE IT
SHOWIN OUT ON A DAILY BASIS
MY POCKETS FAIRLY RACIST
COULDN'T COPY MY HUSTLE
OR BARELY TRACE IT
I KEEP A THROWAWAY ON MY WAIST JUST TO WASTE IT
TOP OF THE FOOD CHAIN
YOUR CHAIN LOOKIN TASTY

STILL SNORT PILLS AND WHITE AVALANCHES
BLACK MAGIC WHEELS JUST SNAPPING AT YOUR HEELS

GO AND TELL THE AMBULANCE CHILL
TRYNA CHILL BUT
I COULD TURN SAVAGE AT WILL

THIS THE MOB BITCH
AIN'T NO TIME FOR SOB FACES
WHEN THAT HAMMER HIT THE SHELL
THAT'S THE LAW OF NATURE

NO PRINTS ON THE RENTAL
AND MO TINTS ON LORENZOS
FOGGIN UP THE WINDOWS
PINNIN UP A PRINCESS
EVERY MOLLY GOT MY BODY FEELIN LIKE I'M OUTTA BODY
I BE HIGHER THAN ABOVE THE RIM
AMARE STOUDEMIRE

LIVIN OUTLANDISH
DEUCE DEUCE ON CAMPUS

YOU BE RUNNIN WITH THE BUZZARDS
I BE RUNNIN WITH THE BUDGET

this shit has be back in the lab like 09 gucci

is inglorious bastard a good place to start?

yep

J0rdan transcriptions aren't as fun without [??]

lol

this is a good! i think i'm getting the stuff outta this that y'all get out of waka and gucci but he's got enough "traditional" type skills which is good for me

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjeBxR_yOq4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjeBxR_yOq4

such a crime that we cant know for sure that there is a gunplay album coming. i mean, french montana got an album! (not that i hate FM like a lot of people seem to do, but still)

id be happy if he just did an album rapping over old beats like ghetto bird (i bet he would sound incredible over steady mobbin).

for some reason that old rick ross interlude where he talks about gunplay being a different kinda dude made me think that MMG really were behind him but now im not so sure.

like, there must still be a decent, sizeable market for hardcore rappers in 2013, no? or if not, shouldnt it at least be a rap label's DUTY to put out a solid hardcore rap album?

gallardo is hot IMO - gunplay kills it but trina and rozay sound good also.

french montana has multiple hits

one of which is even in his aesthetic wheelhouse, rather than a purchased Banger(tm)

french montana has multiple hits

― rap steve gadd (D-40), Thursday, August 15, 2013 1:32 PM (7 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

chinese food makes me sick

lol

haha ^5

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHz91aXMrL8

^Nardwar interview

Kinda boring tbf

https://soundcloud.com/rickyrozaymmg/gunplay-feat-rick-ross-aiight

a good part of his album will be bad

http://www.audiomack.com/song/diesel-dmp/comin-down-ft-gunplay-cdq-explicit-2

this is a good feature

there's still illusions about him someday dropping an album?

idk this year def jam already released the roots & dj afrojack's albums, and has planned release dates for big krit & fabolous. Why not gunplay ?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRtkJEVb2MM

great verse

So good

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdDz874e2DA

vid got deleted

tomorrow
http://www.livemixtapes.com/mixtapes/30150/gunplay.html

^_^

has some moments but this is p disappointing, dude badly needs to drop his album and actual "songs" which iirc was prob discussed upthread like 2 1/2 yrs ago

yeah otm

oh this tape is a mess. As if the second rate material weren't bad enough the DJs render this unlistenable

drugs are bad I guess

didnt realise he changed his name. hope this means the album will finally come out this year. also hope there arent many features on it - gunplay really sounds best by himself.

bogota rich is still one of the greatest mixtapes of the last 5 tears imo

years... tears...

what do you guys think he'll change his name to if/when he catches enough buzz to be a priority at Warner Bros. -- G. Play? Funplay?

― some dude, Monday, October 8, 2012 11:19 PM (2 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Playgun

― Spottie_Ottie_Dope, Monday, October 8, 2012 11:22 PM (2 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Tity Play

― Mary Ty$ Band (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, October 8, 2012 11:41 PM (2 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Gumplay

― lil dirk (J0rdan S.), Monday, October 8, 2012 11:47 PM (2 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

2 Gunz

― Gelados n cream (longneck), Tuesday, October 9, 2012 2:41 AM (2 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Plumgay.

― Gelados n cream (longneck), Tuesday, October 9, 2012 10:26 AM (2 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Unplay

― some dude, Tuesday, October 9, 2012 10:41 AM (2 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Cosplay

― The rain in Spin circles mainly on the mansplain (D-40), Tuesday, October 9, 2012 10:42 AM (2 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Rossplay

― some dude, Tuesday, October 9, 2012 10:43 AM (2 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Nunplay

― Cap'n Hug-a-Thug (The Reverend), Tuesday, October 9, 2012 3:41 PM (2 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Bunplay ft. Sweet Young Jones.

― Gelados n cream (longneck), Tuesday, October 9, 2012 4:06 PM (2 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

"free gunplay"

― sisilafami, Tuesday, October 9, 2012 6:35 PM (2 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

buttstuff

― lag∞n, Tuesday, October 9, 2012 6:37 PM (2 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Gun P. ft. Bun B.

― some dude, Tuesday, October 9, 2012 6:41 PM (2 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Gunpal

― Number None, Tuesday, October 9, 2012 6:47 PM (2 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

http://www.xxlmag.com/rap-music/new-music/2015/05/listen-gunplay-feat-yg-wuzhanindoe/

this is cool, though kinda minor for all parties. like something from one of mustard's mixtapes.

i like it

same

its good but it should have come out a year ago

whither gunplay

his lyrics are pretty uninteresting on this and it sounds like an outtake from 'my krazy life' that someone prob sent gunplay thru gmail

beat is harder than usual mustard fare come on

beat is
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uatWbf1aM_o

its good for his profile, but not sure gunplay works that well with mustards precision style of production, doesnt sound like hes totally into it. also, when i saw it was produced by mustard, i was pretty excited, but its just a bit too typically mustard (and a bit after-the-fact)

well, it's here

http://www.xxlmag.com/news/2015/07/stream-gunplay-new-album-living-legend/

looking fwd to it, but given its had the gestation period of an elephant during a time when DL has himself said he fell out of love with music, I'm not expecting too much. single was meh I thought.

it's meh

dark dayz is cool

yeah it's weak, and dark dayz is definitely the best track by a long way. he's sounds really tired. you can tell right from the intro track - and I love absurd self-aggrandising statements of intent, but its without the sort of punch that sort of track needs. he regularly cedes ground to underwhelming guests and only appears as if reluctantly on some songs. that's crazy, he's usually all over his tracks like a terrier, other guests basically having to get him to pipe down ('don't say a sound, gunplay!'). the production around his voice is oddly cotton-wool like on a number of songs, with rick ross (who i find tedious generally) out-gunplaying gunplay on Be Like Me.

he's always been open to comic self-dramatisation - it's one of his best aspects ('What the fuck is Gunplay thinking? What he drinking? Moonshine?!). In fact he frequently comes across as a bit of an ADHD goofball (as numerous interviews and that six flags vid attest, even the nazi stuff, christ), giving a requisite salt to the ultraviolence. a surprising number of his songs involve him coming off second-best: failure and the cussed nature of things often attend the hi-octaine hysteria and hustle.

here that self-dramatisation and cocaina-laced-with-failure attitude becomes a mood of self-pity and recrimination, mainly about the court case he ended up spending his album advance on (among other things you presume). as well as those local circumstances for the uncharacteristically low-key mood, you just feel Gunplay isn't an album person, and that this 1st album has been hanging round his shoulders like lead weights. His mixtapes have always been uneven anyway - it's almost like the album is too self-important a form for him, without enough room for him to just mess around.

at his very best - bible on the dash, the guest on cartoon & cereal, it feels like taking his nervous system to the edge is the instrument he plays (see also Take This). It's the sound of someone running out of fuel, surviving on surviving, and it's unsurprising that's the sound that's most successful on the album. aside from dark dayz, blood on the dope's probably the next best - edgy, end-of-the-road, heist-gone-wrong game's-up desperation, the central image the only thing that matters any more.

dark dayz is the sound of someone on the outside again (as he always has been in a way - slightly older than his peers, congenitally self-destructive), always *just* on the wrong side of the edge between failure and success. 'Straight rum and cake crumbs, not enough birthdays and way too many graves dug' is how he describes where he came from and one of the best lines on the album. And although he goes on to brag about the money he has now, the main message is of someone still having to work the music game with the drug game, in an increasingly reductive pairing: 'So close to just being another stat, being another cat who got capped in his cap, just another a dealer with a 9mm. Can't blame me if I still sound a little bitter.' He's continually *just* evading oblivion and destruction, and knows that that's not a game he can keep on playing. The continually hanging 'they may there to hurt you...' in the chorus, suspended momentarily over the sparse piano and strings, is great - bravado in the face of existential uncertainty is one of his best sounds.

he's like a one-man jim thompson story basically, and there's a weird fascination to listening to this underperforming long player - the sound of the consequences of his life. Maybe Living Legend is the right title in a way - legends usually have the work that established them behind them, and survive of that work. you wonder if he can come back again really, though that is after all the place he seems to thrive best.

ddej nailed it : http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/20807-living-legend/

deej*

yeah, thanks sisilafami - just read that, and this "The pathos of his unrealized potential deepens the colors of his best work" is otm isn't it.

deej's review is v good

I didn't find this quite as disappointing as some, but there's an unquestionable aspect of roteness to some of the songs, mostly the MMG-featuring ones. he is just so fierce and charismatic even in boilerplate settings.

"he's like a one-man jim thompson story basically" is a good line

"dark dayz" is still so fucking good meh album or nah

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRbTisUk2Xc