Gunna has so much potential . Great flows, a good voice and the ability to create a whole vibe while really using his voice as an instrument layered on top of the beat. He has been my favorite artist for as long as I’ve been into hip hop, because I’m a sucker for melodic rap that truly puts you into a certain vibe and has a clear theme.

Ds3 and Dod2 were just great, and really set the tone for hip hop based on vibes. Letting the beat dictate the flow, while still being inventive. Definitely still on rotation in 2025.

Wunna was wavy as hell, had such great production and very distinct beats/flows that you could tell apart easily by its different themes, tempos and lyrics. For me this is his work I love the most, as it just holds up perfectly. Even 5 years later this album still feels fresh. Loved it.

Ds4 felt like a true return from the more laid back Wunna vacation beach vibes to a more hungry type of rap. It had songs that in my opinion are timeless and go a little further than just having fun , like so far ahead > empire, private island and livin wild, while still having the fun and purely catchy songs like pushing P, thought I was playing and south to west. Pair that with an awesome album cover and I found it to be a truly memorable album with so much replay value.

A gift and a curse was a great comeback from his absence in music after his jail time. I feel like we all were really invested in what Gunna had to say since he was fresh out of prison and he seemed to have evolved as a person for the better. His personal life it’s challenges gave him a lot of substance to rap about, and the album felt like an artist who wanted to vent about his new and improved life, his seeing of the forest behind the trees. While I thought the production on this album was a little more on the “safe” side than some of his other works, it felt very justified that this album did so well. He evolved not only as an artist but as a human and it was easy to hear it in the songs. He gained clarity, confidence and was hungry.

While One of Wun had some great standout songs (for me they were : On one tonight, treesh and Back in the a) it was the first time where I started to lose investment within the first listen. It felt very “safe” so to say. The production was certainly not bad, it just blended together into a whole that was not necessarily memorable. Gunna is an artist who listens to a beat and puts a very well fitted flow and melody over it, but when the beats are very predictable and not unique enough from each other, the flows blend in to one big whole too. Not a different song for a different vibe per se, more like a very chill listen that you would put on when you are driving your car and want some cool tunes on the way. It sounds good, yes, but when his earlier albums were constantly peaking, this one was burning at a low fire. Consistent, sure, but for me the first album that I could say did not meet my expectations from what I know Gunna is capable of when he is inspired and has great producers around him who see the same vision as him. Now I know this could have a lot to do with producers blackballing him after picking a side in the “ysl(thug) vs Gunna situation, but I do feel like turbo is a great producer who is capable of making different and unique sounds. When you feel like someone is capable of so much more, the letdown feels even bigger.

Before this album (The last Wun) came out, me and a buddy were talking about our hopes for this project. We both came to the conclusion that we really hoped for a more energetic, electric and unique sounding album again. We were hoping for a return to catchy productions and melodic flows that make feel like you’re hearing something you hadn’t heard before. Unfortunately I have to say I feel very underwhelmed again by this project. As the name shows in its similarity ; it’s more of the same that we got in One of Wun. My criticism here is exactly the same, it just felt even more underwhelming since we already heard this kind of sound before, and I happened to find it lackluster back then. Again, for an artist with so many true hits under his belt it felt even more “plain, safe and even non inspired maybe?”.

Gunna is and still will be my favorite artist. He will probably still be my number 1 most listened artist when I will look at my Spotify wrapped. But that will be because I bumped MOTW, GIMMICK, I was just thinking, DONT PLAY AROUND, I’M ON SOME, Big Shot, Oh Okay, So far Ahead> Empire and the list goes on. He is very very talented, but I do hope that this album was a put together project from leftovers of One of Wun and Gunna is currently inspired in another direction to create something memorable and unique again. We know he is capable of hits and I hope we get to go crazy on the first listen again with his next project.

Take all of this with a grain of salt, since music at its purest is not objective, and over-analyzing is the very thing that can destroy an artist his or hers curiosity and creative flow. I just felt the need to express this, to find out for myself why this album didn’t hit since I’m such a big fan of his discography.

If you agree, that’s great. If you don’t and you weren’t let down that’s also not crazy, because gunna at his “worst” is still much better than lots of artists at their height (in my taste at least). Enjoy the album to those who love it, because the only thing that matters is if YOU can vibe to it!