Noisey: Gucci Mane is the most influential rapper of the last decade.

[Biscayne]

Gucci's fashion and production are far more influential than Kanye...

All Day is Kanye's attempt at following the Gucci blueprint..CD, LR era Ye would have never made that song..

More Black males from urban areas have dressed like Gucci the past 10 years than Kanye.. Don't let college campuses and trendy dance clubs fool you..You go to inner city Atlanta, Baltimore, D.C., Cali and nobody is wearing that sh1t GQ praises Ye for..

I wonder how many regular Black folks some of yall are in contact with on a daily basis sometimes..

So now we're gonna give Gucci credit for going outside shirtless and sagging? In that case, can we credit Wayne for skateboarding and Dreadlocks?

It's also a reason he took on the nickname "Sosa Chamberlin" and used to sound like this...



Dude is a an avid Gucci stan along with Migos, Fetty Wap, Peewee Longway and a bulk of other new generation street rappers.

They're also Wayne Fans.

 

[RTF]

Pound for pound Gucci is the most influential simply because he's the Godfather of trap.

Kanye and Wayne did more sales first week on their biggest albums than Gucci gas ever done. Of course they are influential. Heck, when Wiz was on fire he was influential. That's what happens when you move records.

consudering the lack of sales Gucci's influence is next level. It doesn't make sense.

 

[Palm Tree's & Blunts]

Kush is my cologne was my shyt

 

[Biscayne]

Gotta disagree

The brick talk and the production is Wop's biggest contribution to these young cats but Wayne the foundation from the autotune, to the junkie behavior, to the red flagging




So yo argument is bums dress like Gucci?

I thought we was talking about influence in rap, no? Atlanta rappers don't even dress like Gucci. They all in tight Bape, Balmain, Adidas, Raf, Versace, Margiela, etc

red flagging, lean sippin, wearing form-fitting tighter clothing as opposed to oversize clothes, drug-slurred rap, skateboard weed rap, <---All Wayne. That's the difference between Wayne and Gucci's influence. Wayne went through many transitions from 04-10. He went from Tee wearing D-Boy, to Lean-Sipping/Pill Popping Druggy Blood rapper, to skateboarding/weed smoking/pop-punk influenced blood rapper and along that 6yr transition he influenced a whole new generation of rappers. Those Drought Mixtapes were just as influential as anything Gucci came out with in the last 10yrs.

 

[FSP]

Can anyone believe Wakas mom managed all these negros at once? Lol she da real mvp

 

[Biscayne]

They'd have a better argument if they said most influential in the past 2-3yrs. But 10 yrs? How can the answer be anyone but Wayne? Gucci Manes cadence didn't even get recognition till the early 10's. Even then, there's been rappers who've rapped similar to Gucci going back to the late-90's. I'll simplify it for y'all. Every rapper who was influenced by Gucci will readily and easily admit they were also influenced by and fans of Wayne. The same can't be said vice versa. All those Drill Rappers, underground Atlanta rappers, etc were all listening to those Drought and Dedication mixtapes..

 

[OG Talk]

They'd have a better argument if they said most influential in the past 2-3yrs. But 10 yrs? How can the answer be anyone but Wayne? Gucci Manes cadence didn't even get recognition till the early 10's. Even then, there's been rappers who've rapped similar to Gucci going back to the late-90's. I'll simplify it for y'all. Every rapper who was influenced by Gucci will readily and easily admit they were also influenced by and fans of Wayne. The same can't be said vice versa. All those Drill Rappers, underground Atlanta rappers, etc were all listening to those Drought and Dedication mixtapes..

I think Wayne and Gucci are neck and neck with their influence actually.. I see them both as more influential than Kanye..

Who did the heavy face tats first Wayne or Gucci? I remember when Gucci got the ice cream tat on his face people were calling him crazy and mentally ill.. 6 months later every grimey hood n1gga had huge face tats..Not just the tear drops or crosses like back in the day..Dudes were getting AKs tatted on their foreheads...

 

[Poitier]

Nah man you might as well just say every rapper that raps. Future? Maybe? Wiz? Ok and Thugger? Of course.. but everybody else nah

yes man.... All of those cadence based rappers don't exist without Wayne.

 

[Poitier]

Only Lil Wayne child we got now young thug..oh and he Gucci's too. lol.

lol no

 

[Dushane Hill]

Any of you think it's funny how music channels such as Noisey deal with 90% black music, culture and artists, yet all the people involved with the channel are cacs

 

[KOohbt]

Cacs on this site pissed that no black people feel Gucci js the most influential.


Lil Wayne was a god since the early 00s Gucci was big from about 07-11 but Wayne was waaaaaaay bigger and more Influential. The only year I can say Gucci was even close was 08-09 other then that Wayne is gonna go down as top 10 most influential rappers ever. Only cacs even no what noisey is. I've never seen anything about that shyt.

The booth is so damn

Why did we let white folks have an opinion on out music

 

[Fukwatutalkinwatisaylaw]

Gucci is no doubt influential, but "trap" isn't a style that Gucci made up. T.I. broke through the mainstream with that style back in 2003 before anyone even heard of Gucci. T.I. gave it an identity and helped establish it sonically with DJ Toomp.

Late 2004 is when you had Gucci and Zaytoven and Jeezy and Shawty Redd come through and upgrade it sonically. It wasn't as complex lyrically as what T.I. was doing, but more so along the lines of Ghetto Mafia was doing years prior.

2009/2010 is when Gucci started pushing what became THE trap sound. Beginning with Lex Luger, all of these other producers that Gucci was discovering started the influx of trap producers. Everybody started mimicking the hi-hats and the drum patterns to the point that it became the dominant sound in Hip Hop. From there it spread to the Euro club scene and spawned EDM trap. Now you have Pop stars using the sound too.

Good point but Gucci was years before 08 he really hit after So Icey then he dropped Trap House I think that was 05-06 and Zay was way before Lex Luger.. Lex didn't get popping til 09 when he produced Bmf for Ross

 

[JustCKing]

Good point but Gucci was years before 08 he really hit after So Icey then he dropped Trap House I think that was 05-06 and Zay was way before Lex Luger.. Lex didn't get popping til 09 when he produced Bmf for Ross

Yeah, Gucci was grinding and was consistently putting out anthems before '08. I acknowledged him and Zaytoven along with Jeezy and Shawty Redd were changing the sound of trap around late '04.

 

[Gotright]

Cacs on this site pissed that no black people feel Gucci js the most influential.


Lil Wayne was a god since the early 00s Gucci was big from about 07-11 but Wayne was waaaaaaay bigger and more Influential. The only year I can say Gucci was even close was 08-09 other then that Wayne is gonna go down as top 10 most influential rappers ever. Only cacs even no what noisey is. I've never seen anything about that shyt.

The booth is so damn

Why did we let white folks have an opinion on out music

You sound like the cac

 

[KOohbt]

You sound the cac

you soung the cac??



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