Like a great watchmaker or sushi chef, the Atlanta rapper and trap trailblazer Gucci Mane built his legacy doing a single thing better than almost anyone else. Even after he went to prison, got sober, and lost 100 pounds (a transformation so radical that some of his fans thought he’d been replaced by a clone), there were no ballads or tear-stained confessionals. If anything, freedom and sobriety only made his punchlines harder. Blunt, funny, and tough as anything, these tracks represent some of the meanest rap of the trap era, whose influence can be heard all over the music of ATL’s newer generations, from Young Thug to Lil Uzi Vert. Where’s his equal? If he meet him, he’s gonna greet him, beat him, eat him up, and leave him.