There are also a handful of songs borrowed from ''I Told U So.'' One of them, ''Back in the Hood,'' sounds even better The first single from that forthcoming album, a greasy slow jam called ''Let's Vibe,'' appears here, alongside a sneak preview of another potential album track, ''Walkin' in Memphis,'' based on an obviousīut hugely effective sample from the Marc Cohn hit. Teaser, meant to prepare listeners for Yo Gotti's new album, which is, he promises, ''coming soon.'' In the months before ''Back 2 da Basics'' arrived, Yo Gotti released ''I Told U So,'' a mixtape collaboration with DJ Drama that sounds as good, and as rich, as any CD he has made. In the tone and texture of his voice, it's not hard to hear evidence of hip-hop's debt to the blues. He claims to keep ''old hundreds in a sour-cream Ruffles bag''), he moans it. Make just about any two words rhyme.) And in ''Pure Cocaine,'' which borrows the tune from Prince's ''Purple Rain,'' Yo Gotti doesn't just rap his verse (in which In ''Aww Man,'' a collaboration with Juelz Santana, Yo Gotti is almost whispering as he delivers the chorus: ''Hood faaame/Got my swag' so hot - yeah, I'm the maaan.'' (With a voice like his, you can He's a Memphis rapper with an unusually musical voice, a warm drawl - enriched by a rasp and a slight lisp - that turns just about every Instead he has returned with a brash new mixtape, ''Cocaine Muzik,'' compiled byĭJ Smallz, which gives listeners another chance to appreciate two of his greatest assets: his slurpy voice and his stubbornness.Īs the title suggests, Yo Gotti still specializes in rhymes about the risks and rewards of the drug trade. But he's not asking for sympathy, not least because he knows he won't get any.

He doesn't deny that his strong 2006 album, ''Back 2 da Basics'' (TVT), found fewer buyers than ''My last album dropped/And you may think I flopped,'' raps Yo Gotti.

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