The hardest thing of making the album was just releasing it and finding the best time and making sure all my lines were together to release. What was the most difficult part of making the album? I wanted to release that look also so he could get a look too, so people can get familiar with his sound and our sound together. I felt it was a special moment for both of us. He’s just making beats for me now, been locking in. My DJ so happened to make that beat and now he’s a super producer of mine. What inspired you to lead off with “Skybox” first? Drip or Drown 3, I didn’t know if I wanted to release those, be focused on them, or do something different. I didn’t really know how I wanted to deliver them, because I got so many titles. I’m always in the studio, whether I’m in town or out of town. It wasn’t locked in to where I knew what I wanted to do. I was doing more shows than anything, though. How hectic was your life before you went to Jamaica, before the pandemic? I’m assuming you were constantly touring and recording. Legendary Producer Keith Shocklee on Being Part of Hip-Hop's Pre-History The second person’s name just so happened to be Wunna. You know how they say a Gemini is two people, I felt like I was my second person. The whole title of Wunna came because I’m a Gemini. Me being so relaxed and enjoying myself and having fun, I felt like I was the other side of me. What about the Jamaica trip inspired the title for the album? It was that time I took out for myself and my family. That’s basically where I came up with the whole WUNNA title the majority of the songs that’s on the album out there. I flew to Jamaica and I recorded out there for like three weeks. It had to have been the end of last year. When did you start working on the new album? In other words, I can live off features for now. By the time this probably over, I’ll still have a few features they still got to pay me. So at the end of the day I got features that they still owe me. I done did so many features, they still clearing them. Have you been trying to offset that with handing in more features? I think that’s why I just wake up and just do it every day anyway. When you see me you know I’m going to have it on. But it’s something I used to do all the time. Even when I was a kid I used to get dressed, two, three times a day. Why is that so important when the whole world is wearing the same stuff every day, wearing pajamas in the house? I’ve noticed on Instagram, you’re still getting fits off every day. So this time from all the shopping I done did, I got new clothes that I never even got the chance to wear. If there’s nothing coming up I’m not going to do too much shopping. The only time I really go to the mall is when I know I got an event coming up. Half of the time I can just go in the closet and grab something new, but it’s nowhere to go. Honestly, there’s nowhere to go so I don’t shop. Now that places like Neiman Marcus are going bankrupt, stores are closed. One of your favorite past times seems to be shopping. In 2020 alone, Gunna’s assisted Lil Uzi Vert, Megan Thee Stallion, Nav, and Camila Cabello with his woozy, lackadaisical delivery.
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When a rap album needs a feature, Gunna is usually your guy (if not, the man he taught how to rap will also do). Your festival lineup or club night needs an infusion of drip? You know who to call. After years spent climbing out of his stylistic forebear Young Thug’s shadow, he’s become a tireless touring artist and a one-man streaming machine in his own right. Somewhere in Atlanta, Gunna has been self-distancing like the rest of the world. Over the phone, what seems to distinguish Wunna from Gunna is that the latter has had time to relax. One could start a Wu-Tang-sized group with the amount of personalities Future’s created. As Wunna stares at the viewer, he’s both unsettling and funny, a stoned cartoon that knows something that we don’t.Ī second moniker isn’t exactly new in rap. On the album cover, Gunna’s new half is a Pixar-ready spaceman, suspended in an astrological chart with blonde dreadlocks and dazed eyes.
The new name is simultaneously an acronym that doesn’t exactly roll off the tongue (“Wealthy Unapologetic Nigga Naturally Authentic”) and an alter-ego based on his astrological sign. On Wunna, Gunna’s next album, he would like to introduce listeners to Wunna.
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