![]() ![]() He plays foil rather than co-star, but he’s a necessary counterweight that helps the hour-long record go down smoother than it would were it composed solely of Flocka’s madness. Flocka’s presence and the production palette injects some energy into a dude who has sounded catatonic on every other effort on which he’s been featured this year. To his credit, Gucci sounds better than he has in months. On the eve of his second album, Triple F Life, Flocka sounds lean, as magnetic as he’s ever going to be. In print, a refrain of “I’m just lane changin’, chain swangin’! / Lane changin’, chain swangin! / Lane changin’, chain swangin’!” sounds inane, but Flocka has been quotable maybe twice in his entire career. But this is Flocka’s show, simply because he can out-shout Gucci. Gucci can rap capably over plodding muck, but Flocka’s deficiencies as a rapper are exposed over the spare, whizzing trash over which Gucci sounds best. This is okay because the relationship between Flocka and Gucci is that between rectangle and square. So, Ferrari Boyz, cut in like a week and a half while getting high and playing pool in one of Gucci’s mansions, sounds more like a Waka Flocka record than anything else. ![]() Flocka is more or less as good as his production the quality of Gucci’s music varies, I think, in accord with the position of one of Jupiter’s moons. Conversely, listeners’ relationship with Gucci Mane has always been a trifle more complicated, since his genius floats in slippery pools of wordvomit that one has to wade through in order to appreciate. He’s one of the very best yellers hip-hop has ever known. It was terrific, but more importantly for the Atlanta collective, it posited Flocka as an emcee whose appeal is easy to grasp. Flocka’s towering official debut arrived fully formed-an unbroken string on heat mortared together with Lex Luger’s production aesthetic. The Flockaveli 1.In retrospect, it’s sort of obvious that the release of Flockaveli (2010) marked a sea-change within the 1017 Brick Squad crew. In the mean time, the Brick Squad rapper announced yesterday (November 7) on Twitter that he is releasing Flockaveli 1.5 as a “free album” November 19. Waka released the single “ Blue or Red” last week. Waka Flocka Flame has said that his label, Atlantic Records, will not release Flockaveli 2, the follow-up to 2010’s Flockaveli. The Atlanta rapper posted the image on Twitter and made a collage of the cover on Instagram.įlockaveli 1.5 is now scheduled to be released Friday (November 20). Waka Flocka Flame released the cover art for Flockaveli 1.5 on social media yesterday (November 14). (This article was last updated on Novemand is as follows.) A photo posted by WAKA FLOCKA on at 7:53am PST ![]()
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