Gucci Mane is preparing to release his first full-length project since being freed from prison last month. The album is called Everybody Looking and is set to drop July 22 with features from Young Thug and Kanye West.
Mike WiLL Made-It handled the production on Everybody Looking with Zaytoven. The Eardrummers boss spoke with The FADER about how they made the album with Guwop in six days.
“When he got out, he was hearing the beats, just like, ‘Oh yeah I got a song for that,’ Mike WiLL says. “Zaytoven send over a beat, ‘Oh yeah I got a song for that.’ Zaytoven pull up and we make a beat together, boom, wrote a song to it.”
The producer says that Gucci Mane’s work ethic is what has established him as a legend comparable to Tupac and The Notorious B.I.G. Gucci continued working while incarcerated and released numerous projects including the Meal Ticket album, a 36-track project.
“Gucci’s a machine man,” Mike WiLL continues. “That man’s a machine. He’s a great. I don’t know how Tupac worked, I don’t know how Biggie worked. I wasn’t able to be there to witness it. But I’m here to witness Gucci Mane and he’s making history. People have an idea but they don’t really know. He’s super smart, he’s super ill, he want to see the next person win.”
Mike WiLL adds that the Trap King was inspired by other iconic albums from Tupac and Dr. Dre as he crafted his latest LP. Gucci Mane was hoping to create something that people can remember the times by when they look back on Everybody Looking.
“This is a classic Hip Hop album,” he says. “I haven’t really [heard] an album that felt this good since Get Rich Or Die Trying. That’s what everybody searching for. Me and Gucci had certain references that we were talking about with this album: All Eyez On Me, The Chronic. He mentioned Layin Da Smack Down by Project Pat. We were just talking about different, solid albums. And we was like, ‘We gotta bring that solid album of today.’ It has to be somebody that’s gon elevate this trap sound, this down South rap shit right now. Everybody’s doing their thing, but elevate it in a different way.”
HipHopDX spoke with Zaytoven about getting back to work with Gucci after his release from prison. He explained how Guwop has already impacted the music scene with his presence.
“Gucci is a guy that I think that has a sound that has created a way, even if you listen to the music today, it’s all, like 90 percent of it stems from the rap music that Gucci really created maybe 10 years ago,” he said, “so he just got out and got back to business, got back to doing what he do. Just like me, the sound I’ve created and the sound I have I’ve been doing since we’ve started, so there’s nothing that we really had to go and change. Of course we kinda sparked it up a little bit, added a few new things, we started working. But for the most part, he got back to doing what he been doing before he left. He knew how to do that so good, as you can see, he dropped so much music while he was gone, people hardly know he was gone.”
Listen to Gucci’s “No Sleep (Intro)” here.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZEpGBd4JhQ
Damn right. guwop is a god.
A God of shit. He’s a shit god then. A god of the toilets.
Hater alert. Sounds like you know a lot about toilets peasant. Probably where you were birthed
Boss you have full grown men poo pooing on your tonsils.
lets see…Gucci has a buzz right now, but his music is usually meh…
These young producers be so cocky
BAHAHAHAHAHAHA
HAHAHAHAHA COMEDY RIGHT?? This is a joke article right??
Still not quite on Mac Dre’s level but Gucci a great. Mike shoulda mentioned My Krazy Life tho. Shit was a classic
Get Rich or Die Tryin? Lol this muthafucka must live in a cave that album came out like 15 years ago theres been many way better albums since then these dudes need to step away from the molly and put that lean cup in the recycle bin nigga
Name one?
Yeah there’s been albums but I can’t think of many if any better than get rich
Cmon people Gucci has been dropping fire lately. Can’t deny the southern gangsta flow that shits flames
Never and I mean NEVER fucking say Gucci name with pac and Big. The nigga is garbage
Man I know Jeezy is somewhere sick. Who would have thought 4 years ago no one would be checking for Jeezy, but Gucci would be on fire?!?! Normally you don’t see comebacks in hiphop but Gucci has defied the odds.
no doubt gucci’s a big southern icon, but to compare him to tupac and biggie. man, i dunno. i’ll just say he’s a southern icon lol and leave it at that
Good Kid Maad City> Get Rich
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Biggie should never be mentioned in the same sentence as Pac . He dropped 2 albums THATZ ALL . 2 albums is nothing NY hypes his music no where else does . Besides he slept on PAC couch . NY lames hype FOH
He dropped 2 classic albums first of all. But what’s more is that he featured in loads of songs with almost every major artist during his time. And guess what? He killed basically almost every feature he was on. From Victory, to all about the Benjamins to Young G’s to B Side to The What to Flava in your ear to Brooklyn’s Finest to Notorious thugz etc. They weren’t just features, those songs all have MAD quotables from Biggie and bump hard even today. Pac had lots of features too but I can hardly count any of them as being remembered because of the fire he spit on them or how he destroyed any other A list rapper on a song. Go ahead and prove me wrong
You listen to Pac now and hear what heard when it first dropped, BIG on the other hand you listen to him now you pick up new shit that you might have missed before…. true MC
Classic albums are judged by the people. They span for decades and are true testaments of time. I guarantee you Just like every other trap album Everybody Looking will have one or two bangers and the remainder of it will be garbage. You’ll bump it in your ride for two months and then move on to the next trap rapper and repeat this process all over again because the average rap fan has little to no attention span. Those are throwaway singles. Gucci Mane never had one classic album in his entire catalogue. Pac and Biggie made classic albums and singles that lasted 2 decades. Why should I listen to the words of a couple of garbage ass “producers” whose go-to instrument is the fruity loops program?
GUCCI GOT MORE BREAD THAN BIGGIE EVER HAD . BIGGIE NEVER MOVED OUT HIS MOMS HOUSE A GROWN MAN . FULTON ST . NI**A THAT’S YOUR MOMS HOUSE .
U dumb as #uck big was living out in Jersey when he died. He rep Fulton like Jay did Marcy.
gucci and classic should never go together
The State vs Radric Davis = Classic…..
I hated Gucci wack ass when he first came out, then I lislistened to this album over and over thinking how much this nigga had stepped his game up.
Here we go trying to build gucci up as a legend while hes still working and only 33 years old… guys got a ways to go but hes on his way for sure i hope the new albums as fire as they are making it sound
Mike Will is setting the bar low there.
SMH GRODT 50 cent never made a classic. He had a couple of classics songs thats it. Biggie, Rakim, Nas, Kool G Rap, Scarface they made classics. 50 is just hype and pointless beef and lies.
Get Rich was a classic…weather u like Fif or not u gotta admit that…If not u just a hater
Gucci never has to drop another album, he’s already proven himself to you bums…no other artist in the history has done it like him and im not only speaking of his music. He’s been killing it.since so Icy, I might Be, Photoshoot, Obsessed, Ass On Her, Trap House, I’m My Best Friend. and millions more…He started a new.sound that basically everybody jockin…I even hear white pop artist using his slang,…he’s truly one of a kind and the game wouldn’t be the same without him…Oh yea where yaw favorite rapper Jeezy at ? Nigga fell off he some where shutting up trying not to get murked…All the real artist rock w Wop..even the rock n roll cats recognize his greatness.,If they make a Gucci greatest hits it would be five albums long..Gucci one of the Greatest of all times right there w Pac…Bigs not on Wop…Salute to the Trap God
Cool story, bro!
By any chance were you sucking gucci mane’s penis while you were typing that ass kissing paragraph?
Gucci is a machine,but comparing him to tupac is thedumbest thing ever. Whenever hear classic album,is going to be garbage.
GRoDT? Lmfao! Thanks for the laugh. I have yet to hear a Mike Will Made It or Zaytoven record even come close to a Dr. Dre production. And Gucci is about as lyrical as Lil B.
article aside this new intro is fire damn it does seem like this will be guccis best work and i would rather see a movie about gucci then pac gucci is really active. pac a legend but so is gucci all these kids grew up to him and emulate him pac fans are all in there late 20s 30s and 40s
I can’t lie, this sis fire. You can’t charge him on old gucci. He got a new sound and its heat. Im not saying that it is thee best but it beats most in the rap game like this uzi and young thug stuff. He got that old rap back. Lil wayne need to get back to this too.