His voice is a strained, throaty drawl that comfortably sits in the pocket of beats, content to talk tough and issue general threats. When Gucci Mane was on his world-conquering 2008 mixtape run, Gotti appeared alongside him on many of his key tracks, playing tough-guy foil to Gucci’s pill-gobbling eccentric. And throughout Live From The Kitchen, Gotti stays very much in his own lane, favoring the same regionless synth-string churn throughout. It’s a sound that fits him perfectly well no matter what he’s talking about. Even “Second Chance,” the relationship song, and “Letter,” the emotive dedication to dead relatives, carry the same deep-head-nod pound as the ones where he brags about selling tons of drugs, and even the attempted radio hits have that same low-end thud. And even though Gotti may be a consummate Southerner, he sounds perfectly at home next to on-fire New York stalwart Jadakiss on “Red White And Blue” after all, both of them are survivors in a landscape that’s become inhospitable to tough-guy rappers. The only track where Gotti really leaves his comfort zone is “Go Girl,” a lightweight collab with internet-rap upstarts Wiz Khalifa, Big K.R.I.T., Big Sean, and Wale Gotti just sounds uncomfortable next to these guys. There used to be a whole lot more albums like this. Live From The Kitchen reminds me of largely unheard, unappreciated early-’00s Southern-rap B-list albums from guys like Petey Pablo or the Youngbloodz. #GUCCI MANE AND YO GOTTI ALBUMS AND SONGS DONE TOGETHER SERIES#īeyond their singles, these albums tended to be easy to ignore, since the artists behind them never displayed a whole ton of artistic ambition.
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