In the fall of 2019, the Guapdad family lost 4000 West Oakland homes where it was built. The timing was awful. At the top of the year, it had emerged as one of the standing voices on Dreamville Revenge of the Dreamers III put together, and through spring and summer, it became a colorful rap scam face. When he got the news, he was only days away from releasing his first album Dior Investments. The lost home is shown as a threat in cover 1176: as Guapdad and a woman stare at the skies with smoke, fireballs drip down and an inferno loom behind the house. 1176, with the title after the home address, seems to be a fragment of lost innocence, but he rarely enters this backlash or pushes Guapdad in new directions .
Represented by Government! Filipino), the album clearly stems from the seedy hijinks of Guapdad’s previous music. Instead of sordid scams and subtle references to sex and anime over glossy production, the feel is meditative and dreamy.
A brief opening to the “10finity” table commenting on dark thoughts and inner temptations. “I speak to God at night, I pray / For the tidal waves of gold / Wash me ashore elsewhere,” Guapdad sings over a bed with soft keys and warm cries. “How Many,” stretching Alice DJ’s spring dance beats “Better Off Alone” into a grim, equally uninspiring, chorus of a series of questions. There are plenty of signatures and statements on it 1176, but overall, Guapdad produces fewer lies and bars, focusing on the roots.
The cost of this pensive leg is a loss of personality. Guapdad scam raps stood out because it balanced shit conversation with curiosity. Where Teejayx6 and Kasher Quon offered lung tutorial classes and City Girls put up mantras and capers, Guapdad emphasized play. His scam stories weren’t so much about sure scores and more about improvisation and danger, an approach that filtered into his music. From indie rock “Choppa Talk” to “Iced Out Cold Chain” pimp strut to its exit The A small engine that could do that transitioned on “Little Scammer That Could,” he was always campaigning out. 1176 that adventure does not exist.
The record is not inert despite feeling nerfed. Songs like “Muhammad” and “Uncle Ricky” have a taste of Guapdad’s moving spirit. The first to rush a fleet of wordplay and storytelling, Guapdad mixes with autobiography: “I just fuck niggas with him who is blue like the water-covered Watchmen / Whole group, but I’m not washing in, ”he said. Llmind ‘s RZA production of “Uncle Ricky” puts Guapdad in storytelling mode. He turns a day with an erratic uncle, who runs down the street, to travel on, pay homage to his relatives, and truthfully tell the story of his own origins. The trail, which follows Guapdad’s subsequent run with a crime to his strong build, is not so much one life-changing event that is more and more diving into the world. it is a concern to navigate an unpredictable environment.
“Chicken Adobo,” named after a famous Filipino meal, is the main event of the album. Over to an acoustic guitar tune and dollops of bouncy bass, Guapdad visits the summer of 2010, where a love affair was associated with personal experiments. His tunes are catchy, his writing is sharp and beautiful, and the story is heartfelt – qualities that only show in transverse flavors. 1176. The album rarely focuses on “Chicken Adobo” or builds his memories to events. But when it does, you get the smell of the peppers and bay leaves, you can see the world through the eyes of Guapdad 4000.
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