Gucci Mane and DJ Drama have teamed up once again for a new Gangsta Grillz tape – announcing it just days ahead of its release.
Taking to Instagram with the cover art and a song snippet, La Flare revealed that Greatest Of All Trappers will be out this Friday (August 16).
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“Greatest Of All Trappers the GangsterGrillz mixtape dropping Friday hosted by @djdrama all real Gucci fans drop a [goat emoji] if y’all ready!! Hardest project of the year!!! #GreatestOfAllTrappers,” he wrote.
Gucci originally teased a project of the same name late last month, but it was scheduled to come out in October and there was no mention of DJ Drama’s involvement. That Greatest Of All Trappers, with different cover art than the Drama tape and a 10/17 release date, is listed on Amazon Music as of this writing.
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It is unclear whether this is a change of plan or if the Drama tape is a precursor to the October album.
Gucci Mane and DJ Drama have collaborated many times in the past, including on the 2008 Gangsta Grillz project The Movie.
When the 1017 rapper originally brought the tape to him, it included a verse from a then-up-and-coming Nicki Minaj. Ultimately, Drama decided that it was best to remove the verse because at the time, Nicki was still a largely unknown quantity.
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But years later, it’s a move that the Philly native now regrets.
“When he brought it to me, the first song on the tape, the first voice you heard on the tape was Nicki Minaj,” Drama said in an interview with Bootleg Kev last year.
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“Obviously, this is an early Nicki Minaj. And disrespectfully I felt like we can’t have a Gangsta Grillz with me and Gucci and the first voice you heard not be Gucci, so I removed her verse from that song. I feel terrible to this day.”
Later that year, DJ Drama made it up to Nicki Minaj — whose burgeoning career continued to bubble — by making sure she appeared on her future Young Money boss Lil Wayne’s eagerly anticipated Dedication 3.
“But in defense, I will say that I made sure out of everyone that Nicki Minaj was on [Lil Wayne’s] Dedication 3 because Nicki Minaj was about to get left off of Dedication 3,” he added.
“She was calling me directly to say, ‘Dram, please don’t let the tape come out without me on there,’ and I said, ‘I got you.’ So Nicki Minaj is on Dedication 3 directly because I made sure she was on there.”
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Nicki appeared on the mixtape’s 12th track “Still I Rise,” which borrowed its beat from T.I.‘s “No Matter What.”
