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Before I trash anyone or anything, I like to give it a fair shot. Even though I felt like I gave Gucci a fair shot listening to his guest appearances and a couple of other songs off of his mixtapes, I still listened to his album. Yeah…big mistake.

Actually listening to the album made me less objective to all future Gucci projects. Whenever I hear that familiar tag “Gucci”, it will be an automatic shut off.  I hated this album with a passion. It lacks any kind of soul to it. It has hot beats, great guest appearances, and a rapper that lacks any kind vision for the actual album itself. It was basically, let’s go into the studio, rhyme a couple of words together on a hot beat, and then get paid. I mean seriously, how can this guy be any kind of rival to Young Jeezy? Jeezy is not the most lyrical person out there, but he comes off at least semi intelligent and has an amazing flow. I guess gibberish passes for flow these days.

Let’s be clear I am not a lyrics have to be great kind of guy. I can enjoy a song without the lyrics being on the border of excellence. One of my favorite songs of the past year was “Turn my swag on” by Soulja boy. Someone I use to trash but now I am kinda convinced that he could show potential(as long as he stops telling his pre teen audiences to super soak a ho). And this isn’t a down south thing. I grew up half of my life in the south. No this is a trash rapper thing.

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I am not going to give the album a full review because frankly, I don’t have the time. I listened to it, forced myself not to skip any songs, and basically heard some of the most garbage, babyish, lyrics that I have ever heard. All I ask from a rapper is to at least sound like you have a sixth grade education. That’s it. I don’t care if you spit drug talk, party raps…whatever, just come off as if you have brain cells not ravaged by years of syrup drinking. We are not even going to get into his partner in crime Wak…you know what, as a grown man I refuse to write that name down.

I will say this, I can see a little bit of the reason why people like his music. The guy knows how to pick a great beat. The album is filled with them. Of course it also filled with trashy beats such as “Lemonade” which for lord knows what reason they chose to make a single out of. If that song becomes a hit then I guess I am truly out of the loop.

I will give the public a year or two to get Gucci out of their system. His stint in jail will help a great deal with that. It’s a good thing that I barely listen to the radio or I would be going nuts. There are a ton of rappers in the south that can represent better than Gucci can. From the storied tradition that brought us Outkast, UGK, Geto Boys, Ludacris, and even Ti…we get this?

Gucci Mane – Lemonade