As Diplo would say, he “got the internet going ham and cheese right now”. If you don’t know who Diplo is, I don’t know if there is any saving you. This mixtape is centered around Gucci Mane’s recent re-release into prison following his Nov. 12th 2009 probation violation: I guess you can take the thug out the hood, not the hood out the thug. The album is even called ‘FREE GUCCI’, although I don’t how much help that’s going to be. Diplo’s doing big things with this one. To be honest, since I discovered he was one half of afrobeat-jungle-pop-electro act ‘Major Lazer’, there’s not much he can do wrong in my eyes. I love Diplo’s ability to take blazing hot jungle beats and afro-centric movements and couple it with today’s hottest pop and rap artists, just makes you feel like a gangsta while you dance; everyone knows gangsta’s don’t dance…
It’s got to come from his deep interest in Brazilian “Funk do Rio” and his time spent at University of Central Flordia. In a way he even put M.I.A.’s jungle-feeling Arular on the map when he first played ‘Galang’ at one of his first club appearances. But then again, most of the mixtape Diplo takes it back to a more traditional feeling progressive DJ sound like on his remix of Gucci’s “Break Yourself” feat Lil B. The history is there though, and if you really like that more jungle beat type sound I would recommend checking out Diplo and Santigold’s mixtape together “Top Ranking”, you can download it here from 2008. Either way you like it, jungle beat,gun-toting, dirty south,gangsta rap, or dreamy,trip-inducing, hip-hop you won’t be disappointed. Get the mixtape at maddecent.
Gucci Mane-Break Yourself feat. Lil B (Diplo remix)
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Gucci Mane-Excuse Me (Diplo remix)
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