From the mixtape, "YSL", featuring Playboi Carti, was on a " Grand Theft Auto" radio station. It featured many popular Atlanta and YSL artists such as Young Thug, Playboi Carti, and Offset. He released the mixtape Drip Season 2 on May 11, 2017. It featured members from YSL, such as Young Thug, Lil Duke, and Nechie. On October 14, 2016, Gunna released his debut mixtape Drip Season through YSL Records. He was later featured alongside rappers Travis Scott and Gucci Mane on Thug's song, "Floyd Mayweather", from his commercial mixtape Jeffery. Gunna was introduced to fellow rapper Young Thug through Keith "King" Troup, a mutual friend and community figure who died in December 2015. Career 2016–2018: Career beginnings and Drip Season series In 2013, Gunna released the mixtape Hard Body under the name Yung Serg. Gunna attended North Springs Charter School of Arts and Sciences and Langston Hughes High School. He grew up listening to Cam'ron, Chingy and Outkast, among others. He was raised by his mother and has four older brothers. His third album DS4Ever was released in 2022, becoming his second consecutive number-one album. He released his debut studio album, Drip or Drown 2, in 2019 and followed it up with his second studio album Wunna in 2020, which debuted atop the Billboard 200. He is signed to Young Thug's record label YSL Records, as well as 300 Entertainment and Atlantic Records. 8 issue of Billboard.Sergio Giavanni Kitchens (born June 14, 1993), known professionally as Gunna, is an American rapper, singer, and songwriter. This article originally appeared in the Dec. “That comes with staying humble, staying in the studio, making more music and not feeling like I’m done, like I already did it,” he says. But still, he recognizes that being hot at the moment doesn’t guarantee a long career. “I got a studio on the bus,” he says, explaining that he records on off-days or right after shows. He’s been touring with Travis Scott but still recording nearly every day. He has a feature on the new Mariah Carey album (“Stay Long Love You”) and his next release, Drip or Drown 2, is already finished. Gunna has plans to one day design his own fashion line, but for right now, his future is musical. You’ve got to have an image for the words.” A lot of artists can really rap but don’t have the image. “Swag was not our word - my era is drip, that’s our swag.” Fashion is an important part of Gunna’s creative mojo and he often slips brand names into his lyrics. “Drip is just another word for swag,” he explains. Gunna doesn’t claim to have invented the word “drip” but beginning with his first full-length mixtape, 2016’s Drip Season, he has clearly made it his brand. “We’re both young, from Atlanta, we like the same things, so when we get in the studio we just feed off each other.” “We just started hanging with each other because we had mutual friends.” After Quality Control honchos Coach K and Pee convinced Baby to try his hand at music in 2017, he and Gunna just clicked. “At first, Baby wasn’t even a rapper,” says Gunna. Their 2018 joint mixtape Drip Harder has brought comparisons to Rich Gang and Outkast, and has spawned the biggest hits of Gunna’s career: “Never Recover,” a moody creeper that features a verse from Drake, reached No. 9 on the rap charts, and the intoxicating “Drip Too Hard,” which hit No. Hanging out in the studio with Thug, Gunna met another key collaborator, Lil Baby. Ranking Every Track From Lil Baby and Gunna's 'Drip Harder' Album When Iverson was playing basketball, he used to come to Old National with Troup.” He used to always be with people who were already doing good, like Allen Iverson. Stay out of trouble.’ He always tried to let us know there’s more to this. “Troup would always try to tell us, ‘Get some money. It was a studio in my friend’s garage.” The first song he ever wrote was called “Swag So Cool,” but for a long time, he was just another kid with dreams of hip-hop stardom.Īn older head in the neighborhood named Keith “King” Troup became a mentor. “When I was 13, I went to the studio with some neighborhood friends. He was barely a teenager when he first started recording. My family taught me about saving and how to stretch to make ends meet.”ĭespite growing up in Atlanta, the music he cites as his first love actually came from New Orleans: Lil Wayne, the Hot Boys and Master P‘s No Limit Records. We weren’t dirt poor but we weren’t rich. “I didn’t have life that good coming up,” the 25-year old rapper says. Gunna was born Sergio Kitchens and grew up in College Park, on the southside of Atlanta, where his mom worked in the cafeteria at his elementary school. Get to Know 'Drip Too Hard' Rapper Gunna: Watch
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