I’m riding in the car, recently, listening to two rappers whose verses I never thought I’d look forward to: Jay? Nope Em? No again. Ye? (sigh) no… Bow Wow and GUCCI!!
Below are the two verses I speak of where their flow is undeniable. But before you completely discredit me as a Hip-Hop head, I wanna say that if Gucci wasn’t a “trap star” and Bow Wow didn’t already think he was the “best looking, best singin muthaf#$a in the world, hol my drink bi#$h” (RIP Rick James and Mike Jackson).
If either of these guys decided to place some depth in their verses and talk about something other than birds, Benzes, and bitches, I think they would garner acclaim from people other than 16 yr old girls and 12-40 yr old southern hood cats (they like Gucci a lot in Maryland as well, weird).
Now don’t get me wrong, these two verses are not examples of them expanding their lyrical subject matter. Bow Wow is talking about stuntin and swag and Gucci is talking about getting to da money via the bird but I use these as examples of the potential that they, like a lot of other rappers, possess to be much better than they are. What can I say, I’m a hopeful optimist. Are you?
Bow Wow's verse is at 1:35
Gucci's verse is at 1:18
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