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Gucci Mane - The Return Of Mr. Zone 6
#1
every song sounds the same, bad

Grade - 1.1

released Mar 22nd, 2011

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from the album - 24 Hours - 1.0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vC8gxuQQLxc

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Bio

The year 2005 was like yin and yang for Atlanta bling rapper Gucci Mane. He enjoyed success entering the charts with his first national hit, "Icy," became involved in a quarrel with that song's collaborator, Young Jeezy, and found himself facing murder charges in the Georgia courts. Before his career as a rapper, Gucci Mane, whose birth name is Radric Davis, loved to write poetry when he was in elementary school. He moved to Atlanta from Birmingham, AL with his single mother during the fourth grade. Since progressing to rap was a fairly easy step, Gucci Mane had already spent time in a recording studio by the age of 14. The glamour and sense of fashion of rappers like Big Daddy Kane motivated him to put words to music. His locally played debut single, "Black Tee," earned him a contract with Big Cat Records, and in May 2005 the label released his debut album, Trap House, which stood at the number one spot on Billboard's Heatseekers chart.

The beef with Young Jeezy originated from a fight over the rights to the album's "Icy" hit single, which spawned a number of dis tracks traded between the two. Within the same month of his LP's release, Gucci Mane was arrested for murder following an altercation in which he shot at a group of five men who burst into his friend's house, threatening to kill the rapper. As it turned out, the murdered attacker was an associate of Young Jeezy, who denied any involvement with the incident. Gucci Mane declared in court that it was self-defense, and by January 2006, Georgia prosecutors dropped all charges, citing lack of evidence.

After being released from jail (on charges unrelated to the murder) that same month, he quickly went back into the studio to make his second album, Hard to Kill, which was released in October. He took the song "Go Head" from his first album and made it the lead single for the second in order to make up for the time taken away from promoting Trap House. The State vs. Radric Davis, his second official album, was released in December 2009 following a dizzying array of mixtapes. The Appeal: Georgia's Most Wanted followed in 2010 with guest shots from Estelle, Nicki Minaj, and Wyclef. Featuring the single “Mouth Full of Gold” with special guest Birdman, the “street album” The Return of Mr. Zone 6 followed in 2011.

Album Review

An artist-certified street album -- a release somewhere between a mixtape and an official album, The Return of Mr. Zone 6 is slapped together and doesn’t care much for crossing over. Those are both reasons your everyday fan should be cautious, but they’re also the reasons fans of Gucci’s gutter music will be pleased and downright thrilled in parts. With Birdman on the cut, “Mouth Full of Golds” is the thug anthem of choice, and with no less than three Waka Flocka guest shots included, party people get to “go dumb” with a vengeance, which is a good thing. “I Don’t Love Her” (but “I love things about her”) keeps the golden-age idea of thug romance in check, but when the slow creeper “Pancakes” rolls around, offering a breakfast food as a victory metaphor, it’s something new, wacky, and entirely Gucci. This shouldn’t be a surprise as the man did get a facial tattoo of an ice cream cone, and if you haven’t acquired the taste for his lazy and crazy style after listening to his official releases, this hard set of lowbrow ballin’ won’t help. Anyone who arrived here because of underground mixtapes will be happy to hear the radio-friendly numbers and polish removed, and even happier when they notice Southern street producer Drumma Boy is responsible for all the beats.

Track Listing

1 24 Hours Gholson 4:35
2 Mouth Full of Golds Gholson 4:10
3 This Is What I Do Gholson, Malphurs, Williams 4:46
4 Reckless Gholson 4:28
5 Shout Out to My Set Malphurs 4:00
6 I Don't Love Her Dotson 4:06
7 Better Baby Gholson 3:32
8 Brinks Miller 3:27
9 Pretty Bitches Akintimehin, Gholson 4:48
10 Pancakes Gholson, Malphurs 4:19
11 Hell Yeah Gholson 3:45
12 My Year Gholson 3:53
13 Trick or Treat Davis, Malphurs, Malphurs 6:21

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#2
i should have accepted your 1.1 rating and not listened to this piece of crap!
why is everything "hoes" "niggaz" and "bitches" in hip-hop songs?...you'd think after almost thirty years they would have found something intelligent to say in their music, just think, after thirty years of rock music, it progressed leaps and bounds, didnt stay stuck in 2minute "love,love me do" simplicity!
....thank God for Eminem, you may not like everything he does but you gotta admit its better than crap that sounds like every other rapper out there.
"BTO....Bachman,Turner,Overweight
They were big in the 70s....for five minutes,on a Saturday,after lunch..."  -  Me 2014.


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#3
Anything 97 and up is pretty much trash, personally.
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#4
You guys really know your Hip Hop!
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#5
JazzyRandy Wrote:You guys really know your Hip Hop!

It'll be alright Randy
different strokes my man, different strokes.

Good to see you're still checking in to keep me straight.

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#6
Yeah, I check in from time to time. But when I see sweeping generalizations of Hip Hop based on the work of Gucci freaking Mane of all people, it makes me shake my head at the ridiculousness of it all. Not that you did that, but others in this thread did. It would be like making a sweeping generalization of all of Country music based on the work of Billy Ray Cyrus. Or making a sweeping generalization of Jazz based on the output of Kenny G. What would be viewed as ignorant, crass, and erroneous elsewhere is accepted when applied to Hip Hop.

<deep breath>

Okay, I understand. Opinions and crap chutes and all that good stuff. Time to go play with my children.

have fun,
Randy
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