Review: Gucci Gang by Lil Pump

This'll be quick.

Okay, you're all probably wondering what the heck this song is. Here's as brief a summary as I can give.

Gazzy Garcia. He's born in August of 2000. He begins rapping in 2016 at the suggestion of his friend Omar Pineiro, better known as Smokepurpp, known as one of the biggest names in the Soundcloud-based rap scene of south Florida. Garcia begins to go by Lil Pump. Garcia starts putting up music, each song individually gaining well over a million streams. He goes on his first tour performances. He puts out two new singles, D. Rose and Boss. There are over 70 million combined streams between the two on Soundcloud alone. He begins working on his debut mixtape before he even turns 17. He then puts out a new single two weeks after his 17th birthday. It's Gucci Gang. It begins to chart. Then the mixtape drops, it's self-titled. It charts at #3 on the Billboard 200 albums chart, and reviews aren't totally terrible. Gucci Gang suddenly grows in popularity. A music video is released. The song reaches the top 10 in Canada and the United States. Here we are today.

Yep, this is a bit of a mess. This is a song that would get big in no other time in history but 2017 thanks to the absolute boom in popularity trap music has experienced. Then again, this guy is younger than me and he's in the top 10. Many of his contemporaries don't even make the top 20, there has to be something to this. I need to get to the bottom of this. Brace yourselves, this ride is gonna get bumpy.

Yes, he is selling lean and walking a tiger at a high school. What's stopping him?

First of all, you need to know something before you try to understand Lil Pump's music. You aren't supposed to understand it, there is no deeper meaning. Bling and b****es is the name of the game here, toss in some copious drug use and expensive clothes and you have yourself a typical Lil Pump song. The formula does not change whatsoever here; I mean, why would it? It's got him this far. Now that you understand what this song is about, let's actually talk about it. 

Wordplay isn't too horribly clever here. First of all, the title refers to Lil Pump's circle of friends, including the aforementioned Smokepurpp. They probably call themselves Gucci Gang because of their affinity for the Gucci brand of clothing. Other things Lil Pump says he likes include chains, Balmain jeans, Louboutin's, and doing prescription drugs, and dislikes WestJet and people who smoke cigarettes. It's something of a character study if you really want to think of it like that. It's really too short to even do that, though; the song is literally just an intro, then a chorus, then a verse, then the chorus again, and it's over.

Is there a saving grace here? Well, I like the production, I guess? It's not totally interesting, but I enjoy the percussion, and the piano's still stuck in my head as of writing. It... it exists, alright. Okay, what do you want me to say? It's Gucci Gang. I just like listening to it. It's hot garbage, sure, but I like listening to it.

Overall... yeah. the above few sentences pretty much summarizes my feelings on this song. It exists, it's terrible, but I like it anyway. Does that mean I'm going to give it a good score? No, but it means you won't be seeing it on 2018's year end lists, more than likely. Not sure when my 2000 project is coming out, but it's getting worked on.

SCORE: 5.5/10