Ace Hood featuring Trick Daddy “Gutta”
When you think “gutta”, sparkly disco anthems about one’s love for the rhythm aren’t the first thing to enter the mind, but for the title track to DJ Khaled find Ace Hood’s debut album, the meshing of Studio 54 excess and street bravado make for an ideal banger recipe.
A triumphal sample of Vicki Sue Robinson’s ‘76 classic “Turn The Beat Around” is tricked out with rumbling Southern rap beat tricks here, conjuring up this irresistible sense of epic urgency as Hood and track-mate Trick Daddy both pummel the eardrums with their breathless claims of street-aligned superiority. Between rapid-fire verses dripping with been-there-heard-that thug-chismo, the track’s winning, don’t-give-a-(what!!) hook proudly rings: “I’m gutta than a mothafucka”, and for those not all that convinced, they’re encouraged to set up an appointment and see it proven out via a clique-backed beatdown.
Now Ace Hood might still be a hopelessly generic rapper who most likely won’t at all be remembered in a couple years time (no matter how many over-crowded posse cuts Khaled pushes him on in the interim), but with “Gutta”, he’s definitely stumbled onto something that deserves more than a couple repeated spins, if only for it’s enticing ghetto-style adopting of an old-school dance favorite.
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