works closely with each artist as the head of CMG, where he oversees the strategy and execution around their respective music releases and spearheads decision-making across everything from radio promotion to marketing initiatives.”Ĭertainly, CMG’s hot streak has put Gotti in a position to further build the company. The release noted, “Gotti has established the hottest, artist-run record label in hip-hop with CMG Records, having developed the careers of the label’s most successful roster of artists including Moneybagg Yo, 42 Dugg, EST Gee and more. Rapper Yo Gotti will release a new double album, "Free Game" in February.Ī press release from Gotti’s publicists confirming the release date for "Free Game" - which characterized it as his “final” album - further seemed to indicate Gotti plans to shift his focus to label and business interests. Since his mainstream breakthrough eight years ago, Gotti has enjoyed four consecutive Top 10 debuts on the Billboard album charts, including 2013’s “I Am” and 2016’s “The Art of Hustle” - which are both gold certified - as well as 2017’s “I Still Am” and 2020’s “Untrapped.”
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The February release of “CM10: Free Game” comes two years after Gotti’s last full length, “Untrapped,” which included high-profile collaborations with Megan Thee Stallion, Lil Uzi Vert, Rick Ross, Ty Dolla $ign and Moneybagg Yo, among others. However Gotti, who’s been rapping professionally since the mid-'90s - when he was a teenage MC known as Lil’ Yo - has overseen the historic success of his CMG label over the last few years, and appears ready to seriously transition to a full-time role as a businessman and hip-hop mogul. They are typically followed by the inevitable comeback. Rapper retirements, or threatened retirements, have long been part of the genre and are usually designed to hype a new release. MEMPHIS RAP: These 5 pioneers of Memphis rap helped pave the way for city's current hip-hop renaissance MEMPHIS MUSIC IN 2021: Tragedy and triumph: A look back at the year in Memphis music Gotti ended the post to his 5.7 million followers by adding, “THIS DA LAST 1.” Motivating All Hustlers, knowing we took da Highest Risk for a Better Outcome. “I’m gone Finish This S*** just how I started!!! Wit No Regrets, Standing on Business & Principles.
4 release date for “Free Game” - which had originally been scheduled for late November but was postponed - Gotti clearly hinted at his retirement, at least as a full-time rapper. In an Instagram post on Monday announcing a Feb. Some redundant filler towards the end keeps this from being a classic, but Back 2 Da Basics is well rounded and has enough heat to turn this hood-respected rapper into a more high-profile hustler.Memphis rapper Yo Gotti has confirmed a new release date for his forthcoming double disc collection, “CM10: Free Game” - and the CMG label head is also suggesting the record will be his last. anthem with help from Pooh Bear and hot producer Scott Storch ( Gotti fesses "I paid like ten bricks for this one!"). "Gangsta Party" utilizes Bun B, 8 Ball, and a Marvin Gaye sample without squandering any of them, while "That's What They Made It Foe" finds Yo Gotti delivering a T.G.I.F. The bolder, Cash Money-flavored tracks are best represented by "I Got Them," which modernizes Baby and Mannie Fresh's "Big Tymers" track into a 2006 crunk attack with help from Lil Wayne.
Suggesting the next Robin Hood might be in the crackhouse pushing bricks of drugs, the "It's Hard Out Here for a Pimp"-styled side of the album is satisfying and acknowledges hard Southern hip-hop's success with respect and a little "it shoulda been me." Tough love abounds on "Cold Game" while "A Part of Thugs" is a gripping tale of heartbreak in the hood, implying that the drug war and intercontinental military wars cut equally deep into relationships. These two events must have given the rapper the framework for Back 2 Da Basics, a solid effort that's cold, hungry, and ambitious without ignoring the weekend and the party time that comes with it.
First there was his hooking-up with the Cash Money label by way of Gotti's group the Block Burnaz, and then there was his brush with the big time when his fantastic track "Full Time" made an appearance in the film Hustle & Flow. Two big things came into Yo Gotti's life since his last effort, 2003's overlooked Life, was released.