A couple of months into the year, it’s becoming increasingly apparent that Atlanta’s 1017 Bricksquad crew are pretty much determined to dominate the street-rap landscape. Since the year started, we’ve already heard strong mixtapes from Young Scooter, Waka Flocka Flame, Gucci Mane, and Young Thug. (Maybe there was a ...

Last year, after spending way too long in the drug-haze-and-prison-time wilderness, a reawakened Gucci Mane released three mixtapes, and all of them were pretty good. The most recent of those was October’s Trap God, and last night, Gucci released its sequel. Trap God 2 has appearances from Lil Wayne, Wiz Khalifa, Waka Flocka Flame, You...

Waka Flocka Flame mixtapes tend to dissolve into one long continuous blur of bellowing and gunshot noises, but 2011′s Duflocka Rant was one of his best, and now he’s released the sequel. Duflocka Rant 2 has a pretty serious list of guests: Lil Wayne, Gucci Mane, Young Thug, Frenchie and French Montana appearing on the [...]

Obviously, if Gucci Mane and Waka Flocka Flame are going to release a video on Halloween, they’re going to go all the way with it. Specifically, they’re going to put on rubber masks and gloves and chainsaw-murder dominatrixes. In fact, the only thing that confuses me about director Gabriel Hart‘s “Crazy&am...

There aren’t too many sure things in this world, but here’s one of them: If Waka Flocka Flame records a song called “Randy Savage,” in which he and various other rappers scream professional wrestlers’ names and yell the word “flex” a lot, I am going to love it. This song has a...