Well, I gotta admit this wasn’t an artist I was expecting to hear on a remix. A man who I’ve never liked or listened to, but if he’s choosing the beat to rap over, I can guarantee two things.
- He’s going to out-rap Gunna on any given day or night. So this will be the first time he wins without ever guessing.
- If he chooses the beat, at very least the instrumental will be fire.
And on both accounts, I was right. Let’s talk about it!
This is the brand-new NARCOMIX track by Gustavo. The man who has spent the last few months investing in these alternate universe beat match-ups and doing underground re imagining and it’s been a hell of a ride with remixes of
-WSG
-Freddie Gibbs
-Earl Sweatshirt, and now we have Gunna.
This track is very smooth with a slight trap influence with those high hats and thudding drums. A beat that, given to the right artist, will be amazing, and definitely this time around, the better artist has collected it!
As usual, from the opening second, Gustavo goes in and wastes no time to dominate the beat with his brand of eccentric charisma, unpredictable movements, and uncanny flow that is solely his.
He lays down verbal barrages with clever puns, witty phrases, cultural references, sexual lines, and more!
He’s literally throwing everything on this track like a rapper possessed and trying to do right by this beat that has so obviously done wrong by the original owner!
This is a few minutes of concrete, devastating, and entertaining bars and verses that come off ever so naturally to a MC of his calibre! What I always love about his tracks is that you can hear his passion and enthusiasm in every single word and breath he takes on the track; he’s got the energy of a kid discovering his latest hobby but with the skill of a hip-hop veteran! It’s a fantastic combination!
Overall, another adaptation and flawless in execution, and there’s no doubt in my mind (nor should there be in anyone else’s) that this is the superior version as he could out-rap
Gunna in his sleep, while suffering from food poisoning while in a coma with COVID!
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