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Oct 21, 2016Woptober slogs towards the end, but it moves too quickly to feel like a chore to sit through. It has all the markings of what we’ve come to expect from Gucci’s music only this time—rather than drowning in his addictions—he’s found a way to integrate drugs and violence into his new outlook.
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The WireDec 21, 2016Woptober, his second album as a free man, returns to the knotty, impenetrable rabbit holes of his storied mixtape run. [Jan 2017, p.77]
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Oct 21, 2016An icy-cold affair. Proving that incarceration couldn't slow him down, the 13 tracks are packed with typical boasts, all come-at-me defiance and bravado.
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Oct 24, 2016Although he’s far from a punk, the caricature we’ve come to know as Gucci Mane has shed a chunk of his unrepentant hood mentality in favor of a wiser narrator of the trap. Once he fully discovers how to convincingly put that into the music, the world had better brace itself.
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Oct 21, 2016Woptober includes a few snags in the form of pedestrian offerings such as “Wop,” the repetitive “Right on Time” and the underwhelming Young Dolph collaboration, “Bling Blaww Burr,” but the album finishes strong with the revealing closeout cut, “Addiction.”
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Oct 21, 2016WOPTOBER lacks the instant classic like the Young Thug collab “Guwop Home” or the extraordinarily high-profile collaborations of Drake and Kanye West, but then again, the album plays more like one of his mixtapes than it does a traditional major label rap album. In that sense, it’s worth giving a listen just because more Gucci slip-sliding around syllables is oft a good thing.