1.Ĭydney Lee: DS4Ever is a continuation of Gunna’s early Drip Season series, so that alone is an excitement factor.
I also think a combination of viral moments during the rollout - including his and Young Thug’s encounter with the racist pilot, the explosion of “Pushin’ P,” and the 16th letter in the alphabet becoming a culture-setting phenomenon - elevated Gunna’s chances of landing at No. 1 album Wunna and DS4Ever becoming his fourth top 10 effort. The brother is an elite streamer and a formidable rap contender, proven by his 2020 Billboard 200 No. Holding out the Drake collab “P Power” (which then leaked online) also appears to have worked to the set’s advantage, since it created extra interest around the album, and then drove further streams when it was included on the DRIP SEASON 4EVER reissue late on Thursday, near the very end of the tracking week.Ĭarl Lamarre: For us to consider Gunna an underdog is “P,” respectfully. Focusing solely on the Gunna side of it, what about DS4Ever and its rollout allowed him to pull off the feat?Īndrew Unterberger: People really like Gunna! And it seems like buzz was on his side this time, particularly with “Pushin P” taking over the Internet and driving interest towards the project. Few would have predicted Gunna’s DS4Ever to emerge victorious in this week’s Billboard 200 race against a new album from a crossover heavy-hitter like The Weeknd. This article originally appeared in the Dec. “That comes with staying humble, staying in the studio, making more music and not feeling like I’m done, like I already did it,” he says. But still, he recognizes that being hot at the moment doesn’t guarantee a long career. “I got a studio on the bus,” he says, explaining that he records on off-days or right after shows. He’s been touring with Travis Scott but still recording nearly every day. He has a feature on the new Mariah Carey album (“Stay Long Love You”) and his next release, Drip or Drown 2, is already finished. Gunna has plans to one day design his own fashion line, but for right now, his future is musical. You’ve got to have an image for the words.” A lot of artists can really rap but don’t have the image. “Swag was not our word - my era is drip, that’s our swag.” Fashion is an important part of Gunna’s creative mojo and he often slips brand names into his lyrics. “Drip is just another word for swag,” he explains. Gunna doesn’t claim to have invented the word “drip” but beginning with his first full-length mixtape, 2016’s Drip Season, he has clearly made it his brand. “We’re both young, from Atlanta, we like the same things, so when we get in the studio we just feed off each other.” “We just started hanging with each other because we had mutual friends.” After Quality Control honchos Coach K and Pee convinced Baby to try his hand at music in 2017, he and Gunna just clicked. “At first, Baby wasn’t even a rapper,” says Gunna. Their 2018 joint mixtape Drip Harder has brought comparisons to Rich Gang and Outkast, and has spawned the biggest hits of Gunna’s career: “Never Recover,” a moody creeper that features a verse from Drake, reached No. 9 on the rap charts, and the intoxicating “Drip Too Hard,” which hit No. Hanging out in the studio with Thug, Gunna met another key collaborator, Lil Baby. Ranking Every Track From Lil Baby and Gunna's 'Drip Harder' Album When Iverson was playing basketball, he used to come to Old National with Troup.” He used to always be with people who were already doing good, like Allen Iverson. Stay out of trouble.’ He always tried to let us know there’s more to this. “Troup would always try to tell us, ‘Get some money. It was a studio in my friend’s garage.” The first song he ever wrote was called “Swag So Cool,” but for a long time, he was just another kid with dreams of hip-hop stardom.Īn older head in the neighborhood named Keith “King” Troup became a mentor. “When I was 13, I went to the studio with some neighborhood friends. He was barely a teenager when he first started recording.
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My family taught me about saving and how to stretch to make ends meet.”ĭespite growing up in Atlanta, the music he cites as his first love actually came from New Orleans: Lil Wayne, the Hot Boys and Master P‘s No Limit Records. We weren’t dirt poor but we weren’t rich. “I didn’t have life that good coming up,” the 25-year old rapper says. Gunna was born Sergio Kitchens and grew up in College Park, on the southside of Atlanta, where his mom worked in the cafeteria at his elementary school. Get to Know 'Drip Too Hard' Rapper Gunna: Watch
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