BURR!!!?!?!?!?!?!!

1st, that's the first time I yelled that or Gucci since the random screams during Superbowl...A brother was hammered. It happens, heard about it the next day...kinda sucks to hear that about yourself.

So Many Shrimp (remember the great Pimp-C line about I eat so many shrimp, i got iodine posioning) posted the best 25 Gucci verses of 2009.

http://somanyshrimp.com/2010/02/26/guccis-top-25-verses-2009/
http://somanyshrimp.com/2010/02/27/guccis-top-25-verses-2009-pt-2-the-top-ten/

More importantly, they have a quote which states what I really like about dude:
"So what is so fresh about Gucci’s lyrical style? It’s the way he’s managed to figure out a method of writing so many verses by doing minor variations on a narrow slice of themes to keep things vibrant. If you imagine a Gucci archetype — a track about ice, and cars, and girls, where he says “burr” and the basic Gucci lines like “higher than an owl,” you might think “yeah this guy is generic.” If you listen to more than that, you get this feeling that his is the art of endless variety — that there are a thousand ways to play with “higher than an…” (eagle on california reefer) (mountain lion) (pelican) (skyscraper) (giraffe pussy) (do you see the trees??). Or “press the button, roof turn into nothin” “eazy e drop top, call the car roofless,” “panoramic roof clearer than a cup of water.” He cycles through all these different lyrical themes w/ endless possibility for variety. His ‘dumb flow’ is just panache, letting these kinds of clever lyrics in without having turn his flow into some super-technical overwritten Slaughterhouse-style garbage (mea culpa — I’m a Royce/Crooked I fan). His verses are really tight, & his best ones avoid unneccessary verbiage — his ‘dumb’ delivery actually lets him get away with say more, since he can fit more ideas into a shorter amount of space. & the way this style works almost improvisationally has really upped the bar in terms of productivity for other rappers (poor Gorilla Zoe). So Gucci can release so much material, and have it all be entirely listenable."


Is he Talib, old Common, Jay Electronica..NO! Dude just makes great music that I enjoy hearing.