Gucci Mane and DJ Drama have teamed up as soon as once more for a brand new Gangsta Grillz tape – saying it simply days forward of its launch.
Taking to Instagram with the duvet artwork and a music snippet, La Flare revealed that Best Of All Trappers will probably be out this Friday (August 16).
“Best Of All Trappers the GangsterGrillz mixtape dropping Friday hosted by @djdrama all actual Gucci followers drop a [goat emoji] if y’all prepared!! Hardest venture of the 12 months!!! #GreatestOfAllTrappers,” he wrote.
Gucci initially teased a venture of the identical identify late final month, however it was scheduled to return out in October and there was no point out of DJ Drama’s involvement. That Best Of All Trappers, with totally different cowl artwork than the Drama tape and a ten/17 launch date, is listed on Amazon Music as of this writing.
It’s unclear whether or not this can be a change of plan or if the Drama tape is a precursor to the October album.
Gucci Mane and DJ Drama have collaborated many instances prior to now, together with on the 2008 Gangsta Grillz venture The Film.
When the 1017 rapper initially introduced the tape to him, it included a verse from a then-up-and-coming Nicki Minaj. In the end, Drama determined that it was finest to take away the verse as a result of on the time, Nicki was nonetheless a largely unknown amount.
However years later, it’s a transfer that the Philly native now regrets.
“When he introduced it to me, the primary music on the tape, the primary voice you heard on the tape was Nicki Minaj,” Drama mentioned in an interview with Bootleg Kev final 12 months.
“Clearly, that is an early Nicki Minaj. And disrespectfully I felt like we are able to’t have a Gangsta Grillz with me and Gucci and the primary voice you heard not be Gucci, so I eliminated her verse from that music. I really feel horrible to at the present time.”
Later that 12 months, DJ Drama made it as much as Nicki Minaj — whose burgeoning profession continued to bubble — by ensuring she appeared on her future Younger Cash boss Lil Wayne’s eagerly anticipated Dedication 3.
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“However in protection, I’ll say that I made certain out of everybody that Nicki Minaj was on [Lil Wayne’s] Dedication 3 as a result of Nicki Minaj was about to get left off of Dedication 3,” he added.
“She was calling me on to say, ‘Dram, please don’t let the tape come out with out me on there,’ and I mentioned, ‘I obtained you.’ So Nicki Minaj is on Dedication 3 straight as a result of I made certain she was on there.”
Nicki appeared on the mixtape’s twelfth observe “Nonetheless I Rise,” which borrowed its beat from T.I.‘s “No Matter What.”
