Why Is Gucci Mane Always Brought Up Alongside T.I and Jeezy When Talking About The Inception Of Trap Muzik/Bringing It To The Forefront

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TI and Jeezy are both closet A&R/music business school alumni types

If you can’t see this

Notice when Gucci Mane is in a movie it’s a film production that’s indie as fukk, if not a full on hood flick

They would’ve fast tracked Young Jeezy into a Hollywood film like they did TI if Young Jeezy wasn’t so one-dimensional - yaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

Not realizing this means you haven’t acquired perspective

They’re not on Gucci Mane’s level

Gucci Mane is a real fukking walking living and breathing legend and I’m not even particularly a fan because his work is so few and far between from consistent

Edit: I read half the thread title before responding,

@ OP Young Jeezy and TI are plants

 

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He ain’t the father of shyt nikkas been rapping about selling dope he just named his album that

Jeezy, Gucci, Waka, Future more responsible for what trap music is sonically

All listed plus tip, Backbone, and the Youngbloodz are the children of late stage Hitman Sammy Sam (Way before the step daddy days) who also fathered The Diablo’s, CMB, and Intoxicated. I also think Gangsta Blac and Playa Fly contributed a lot to them as well. They were in Atlanta A LOT, constantly networking and influencing a lot of future artists and fans. I see a lot of Ghetto Mafia in early trap artist too.

The actually sound of trap music to Shawty Redd and them doing their best DJ Montay (probably the greatest Atlanta crunk producer) impressions. He was channeling Memphis himself.

The actual “trap music” genre, that you’re describing was just cheap ass, made in a basement/made on fruity loops Atlanta “crunk” before “trap music” became commercialized. Eventually all that shyt got a budget and started to sound more grand by the time Jeezy and Gucci blew up.

Yeah it’s nikkas rapping about selling drugs, but it was meant to literally sound like drug dealers were making songs in “Trap” house basements. Not even telling stories, just giving some kind of fukked up live from the trap news report.

Gucci is probably the only one who really kept that sound consistently, Ti only used that sound on his early “In Da Streetz” tapes. Jeezy’s sound just got more polished with each release.

 

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If Trap started in the south and Gucci was a factor in the south where it started at the time it started, to say he wasn't a factor when he was one of the two first people doing it in the region it started and he was the most influential is utterly retarded my boy.

I get opps point. T.I. was 3 albums in by the time So Icy came out. Jeezy had mixtapes with national recognition by that time too, but was still 1-2 years behind TI.

 

[Reptile]

So nobody gone answer the question in the OP?

 

[Playaz Eyez]

It’s probably already been mentioned, but Gucci Mane is directly responsible for a ton of rappers as far as putting them on and giving them their first big breaks. It’s almost an endless amount of names. Various ones may not have had sustained success, but he put the baton in the hands of so many ATL and southern rappers in general since maybe 2007.

 

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A lot of re-writing of history in this thread. All three get credit, but a lot of you are lying to say Gucci Mane was a factor prior to 2008-2009. You could argue, he is more influential on the sound now, which is why he is mentioned with T.I. and Jeezy. In terms of making that sound mainstream, T.I. laid the foundation and the framework. Jeezy added in the walls and insulation. Gucci put the paint on it and added a roof.

When T.I. and Jeezy were having their runs, Gucci wasn't really a factor. He was doing trap music, but it wasn't hitting on a mainstream level and a lot of people on here would've laughed if anybody put Gucci in that conversation 2003-2008. 2005 was his breakthrough, but he still wasn't on that level. Nothing he put out at that point was on the level of Trap Muzik or TM101. Anybody saying ANY Gucci project was on that level is lying to you.