Deep Album Cuts Vol. 293: Gunna
Yesterday I posted my Lil Baby playlist, so I figured I should follow it up with a Gunna playlist, given that they've done an album and countless other tracks together, and for a while were kind of the biggest duo in rap. And of course, it's been a strange year for Gunna. He started off 2022 by releasing his biggest album, DS4EVER, which outsold The Weeknd in its first week. But 4 months later, Gunna, Young Thug, and the rest of YSL were locked up in a massive RICO indictment and it's not really clear if Gunna's coming home anytime soon, or if his career just ended while he was at his peak.
3. Drippin'
4. Business Is Business (with Lil Baby
5. Outstanding
6. Cooler Than A Bitch (f/ Roddy Ricch)
7. Pedestrian
8. Don't Play With It (f/ Young Thug)
9. Outta Sight Outta Mind
10. YSL (f/ Playboi Carti)
11. Baby Birkin
12. P Power (f/ Drake)
13. Invest
14. Blindfold (f/ Lil Baby)
15. Off White VLONE (with Lil Baby, Lil Durk and NAV)
16. Belly of the Beast
17. Solid (f/ Duke)
18. Nasty Girl / On Camera
19. So Far Ahead > Empire
20. Shopping
21. King Kong (f/ Young Thug)
22. Can't Relate
23. South To West
24. Richard Millie Plain
25. Argentina
Tracks 9, 17 and 22 from Drip Season (2016)
Tracks 10, 16 and 20 from Drip Season 2 (2017)
Tracks 8 and 13 from the Drip Or Drown EP (2017)
Tracks 3, 7 and 21 from Drip Season 3 (2018)
Tracks 4 and 15 from Drip Harder with Lil Baby (2018)
Tracks 1, 5, 11 and 24 from Drip Or Drown 2 (2019)
Tracks 6, 14, 18 and 25 from WUNNA (2020)
Tracks 2, 12, 19 and 23 from DS4EVER (2022)
Hearing Gunna's "gotta watch out for the RICO" line on 2018's "King Kong" with Young Thug hits different now, oof. I'm a big Young Thug fan and for a long time it was hard for me to hear Gunna or Lil Baby as anything but sidekicks doing variations on Thug's rap style. But in the last couple years they've both really come into their own. Gunna's more tight-lipped, reserved style made him kind of my least favorite of that trio for a long time. And until this year's "Banking On Me" he'd never really had a solo hit, his biggest songs were always collaborations and features. But he's grown on me, I've started to enjoy more of his solo tracks. I wish he kind of did a more energetic delivery like on "Solid" more often.
Putting together this playlist gave me an appreciation for Gunna's ear for beats, he draws from the same pool of producers as his associates but I think he ends up with great memorable beats way more consistently than Lil Baby. Some of my favorite beats on here include "Poochie Gown" (Metro Boomin), "Outstanding" (Turbo), "YSL" (Pi'erre Bourne), and "Invest" (Wheezy). I also dig Gunna's two-part tracks, "Nasty Girl / On Camera" and "So Far Ahead > Empire," they're not exactly prog rap but they're both pretty strong examples of combining two songs into one track, would love to hear Gunna take that approach more often, hopefully the trial goes well and he becomes a free man again next year.
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