Westside Gunn hasn’t let criticism of his new album phase him.
The Griselda head honcho took to Instagram on Sunday (October 15) to share his feelings at the response to And Then You Pray For Me, his brand-new project released just days prior.
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He shared a video of Officially Ice, one of the co-hosts of The Joe Budden Podcast, praising the record during the show.
“On first listen, this is top 3 rap album this year for me,” Ice said. “This album is crazy. It sounds like he made an album for me… I’m like, wait, this is an Ice album!”
“That’s fire,” Budden chimed in after hearing a snippet of the Ty Dolla $ign-assisted track “Chloe.”
But according to Gunn, the reaction to the album hasn’t been all positive.
“[T]he same ppl that I THOUGHT knew me and what I stood for is the main ones leaving hate comments,” he wrote on IG. “I’ve experienced for the first time in my career where it’s literally bots that was sent to put negative attn on my album in the comments.”
And yet, he continued, “I still smile with every VVS Diamond tooth in my mouth showing bc whether u get it or not I’m still the [Greatest Of All Time] AND I FORGIVE YOU.”
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Gunn has claimed that And Then You Pray For Me, a sequel to his 2020 release Pray For Paris, will be his last studio album.
“[This is] going to be the last album where I take the time to say ‘this is an album,’” Gunn told Rolling Stone. “When I was doing the Hitler Wears Hermes series, I was doing all them projects like mixtapes. I was recording the whole shit in two, three days. I’m not saying I won’t come with a five-song EP with Madlib or I won’t do a seven-song EP with Alchemist or I won’t rap. I’ll do all of that, but making a studio album, I’m done with all that.”
