Gucci Mane: Back To The Traphouse

Gucci Mane has a message to give to the gangsta rap and Southern music world. After going Back To The Traphouse for his fourth album, it's clear that Gucci Mane has come back out and delivered. "Gucci The Prophet," as he calls himself in the song "15 Minutes Past The Diamond," is relaying a message that is fresh, hood and on course for his career. Releasing his first album for Atlantic Records after doing three on Big Cat Records is proving to be the right change for Gucci Mane. With a set of 14 songs and a list of respectable artist collabos, Gucci Mane leaves us wondering just what's in his "traphouse" that makes him produce songs worthy of a listen.

Gucci's albums, Hard To Kill and Trap-A-Thon, featured the smash song "Freaky Gurl," but by the time, Back To The Traphouse came around, Ludacris and Lil Kim wanted their piece of the pie too -- creating the remix. The "Freaky Gurl (Remix)" was done separately by Ludacris and then by Lil Kim. A third version with both Ludacris and Lil Kim rounded out the track, yet listeners and radio stations still never got tired of it. That says a lot for a song that was essentially done five times.

The remix is the first song on Gucci Mane's latest album and the order of his album flows well, leading into the potential hits -- "16 Fever" and "I Know Why." The dynamic beat and background chant of "hey" gives that feel good song vibe or maybe it's because Gucci features the late Pimp C, Rich Boy and Blaze-1 on one track that makes this a feel good song. "Bitches love me, their n----s hate me, I know why." Yeah, we know why too, and we're with you Gucci Mane. We're also with you on the tracks, "I Might Be" featuring Shawnna and The Game, and "Drink It Straight" with Trey Songz. The hooks on these two songs are just as hot as the individual verses, noted by the spin time of the songs in clubs.

While some rappers complain about women that are referred to as "chickens," Gucci Mane has found a way to make that catch phrase popular. The songs "Bird Flu" and "I Move Chickens," play on the words. Not only does he reference "chicken" to shorties, but also cooking "chicken" to reference grams of cocaine. This innuendo could mean either aspects of the slang word or just one aspect. Either way, Gucci Mane was creative as hell with the subliminal messages in these songs.

Ending his album with "Ballers" featuring Shawnna one more time, it's clear that this "Prophet" is on top of his ballin' game. Gucci Mane has done it again and we can't wait to hear his next message for us.

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