Mixtape Review: Gucci Mane – Mr. Zone 6

Last month, DJ Drama and Gucci Mane released their Mr. Zone 6 project, in celebration of Atlanta’s annual Birthday Bash concert. The Gangsta Grillz mixtape featured all new material, despite Gucci having only been out of jail for a little over a month at the time of its release!

Amidst the new material, we find the title track for Gucci Mane’s upcoming album, The Appeal: Georgia’s Most Wanted. While the album doesn’t have a firm release date, Gucci did premiere this trailer before his performance at Birthday Bash.

Fans of DJ Drama’s mixtapes will be happy to hear more of Barack O’Drama’s humor mixed in between songs as well. This tape’s best DJ Drama interlude comes at the beginning of “Cowards and Soldiers,” where Professor Drama informs failing rappers that this will be yet another year where they get left behind, ha!

The following standout tracks give a good taste of the mixtape’s sound:

Gucci Mane – “Stove Music” (Featuring Waka Flocka and Yo Gotti)

Waka Flocka Flame starts “Stove Music” off hard, and Yo Gotti brings it to a close in proper fashion. After all, what would a rap song dedicated to the stove be without a feature from Mr. Cocaine Muzik himself?

Here’s Gucci Mane’s impressive verse, dedicated to the trap:

“Rap game in a suplex,
Trappin out a duplex,
Working with the work, I ain’t talkin bout bow-flex,
Fish scale flake, iced out my Rolex,
Call my landlord, cause this my complex,
Standing by the pot, right there where the dough at,
Three months still ain’t bought no clothes yet,
No sofa, no bed or hoe yet,
Everyday all day, staying where the coke at,
Talking to the plug like homie where the blow at,
Georgia where the sun, East Atlanta where the snow at?
A hundred to the lawyer, I ain’t even been to court yet,
Dope like enough, I ain’t hit it with the fork yet,
Stove work good but the AC bullshit,
Thrill head, young bloods waiting on the dope case,
Still stay in Zone 6 smoking on some good shit,
Gucci Mane out and he back on some hood shit,
Knockin at the door and they really don’t want shit,
Feds tapping lines, who you talking on the phone with?
Still cooking up early, five in the morning,
Brick buffet, feed a nigga like Shoney’s,
Price go up, blow up in the drought,
Green coming in, soft white goin out,
Trappin in style, it ain’t never goin out,
Work’s stocked up, we ain’t never runnin’ out,
It’s Gucci!”

That line about Shoney’s was hilarious!

Waka Flocka and Yo Gotti account for four of Mr. Zone 6′s five feature verses.

Gucci Mane – “Normal”

Gucci Mane linked up with Motion Family for the video to this Drumma Boy produced track, where La Flare describes how abnormal his life is. One of my favorite lines from the tape comes when Gucci speaks on his girl:

“My girl got on piranhas, that’s abnormal…
She’s a snake charmer, anaconda,
Real man eater, like Jeffrey Dahmer.”

Jeffrey Dahmer is disturbing as F#@K!

Gucci Mane – “Long Money”

DJ Scoob Doo has been releasing some entertaining visuals as of late, and this in-studio video is no exception. Here’s the hook to arguably the catchiest song on the project:

“Jacuzzi on the roof,
Ugly hoes don’t get the time of day,
Cheifin on some teeva, smell the reefa from a mile away,
Pistol in my coup,
Try my troops, you’ll get blown away,
Gucci Mane got long money,
Bitch that’s all I got to say,
Gucci Mane got long money,
That’s what them bitches say,
Gucci Mane got long money,
That’s what them bitches say,
Gucci Mane got long money,
That’s what them bitches say,
I ain’t even got to talk, my money conversates.”

Gucci Mane – “Making Love To The Money”

Gucci Mane personifies currency with this triumphant song about “making love to the money like a sex tape.”

Here’s Gucci’s second verse about his favorite lady:

“I gotta take her everywhere cause these niggas crazy,
Only leave her by herself on special occasions,
I love making love cause she so amazing,
When I bring her to the club, them hoes be going crazy,
Every nigga in the hood wanna fuck my lady,
Can’t wait for me to slip so they can take my baby
She get me out of jams and tight situations,
Love ain’t got no cut off point, it ain’t no limitation,
She got me in that thang sittin on them thangs,
It’s great cause now them hoes don’t look at me the same,
Well fuck it they aint gotta fuck with me at all
I pick my baby up and took her to the mall.”