The Appeal: Georgia's Most Wanted

Since hitting the scene in 2005, Gucci Mane has been a busy man, releasing new music at a feverish clip, beefing with various other MCs (most notably Young Jeezy), and getting entangled with assorted felony charges. If anything, his criminal status has only helped bolster his career, and he is now one of the most successful and imitated rappers in the game. *The Appeal — Georgia\'s Most Wanted* was released shortly after a six-month prison stint, and immediately hit the Top Ten. Like his previous albums and many mixtapes, it is a club-ready mix of rugged rhymes concerned mostly with stunting, pushing weight at the trap, taking out all haters, and putting in work with the ladies, all set to glossy production heavy on the low-end, bright synths, and skittering 808 snares. Featuring collabos with Nicki Minaj, Bun B, and Ray J, it also sports production from Pharrell, Wyclef, and Swizz Beatz, among others. Check out \"Haterade,\" \"Weirdo,\" and the single \"Gucci Time.\"

After re-energizing gangsta rap, Gucci Mane aims at the charts on his latest album.

Check out our album review of Artist's The Appeal: Georgia's Most Wanted on Rolling Stone.com.

The questionable consensus on mushed-mouth party rapper Gucci Mane is that his mixtapes beat his official albums by a mile, but The Appeal is another worthy, aboveground effort, holding more highlights than your everyday release while broadening the man’s horizons (something that certainly needed to happen).

The Appeal is a perfect study in what it is that separates a street rapper on the cusp of extreme mainstream acceptance with a street rapper that has no...