Gunna kicked off the yr on a pensive notice, trying inward together with his first single of 2024 titled “Bittersweet.”
After teasing the icy file, which many thought to initially be a freestyle on social media earlier this week, the YSL rapper dropped his first single of the yr to streaming providers on Friday (Feb. 16).
Gunna doesn’t mince phrases popping out of the gate, as he probably addresses his fallout with Lil Child as his Drip More durable companion has repeatedly criticized Gunna for taking a plea deal within the YSL RICO case in 2022.
“S–t been tough, however I ain’t too robust to say I like and I miss you/ You my dawg, I don’t care if we fall out, n—a, I by no means might diss you/ For the chains and the celebrity, solely we seen the imaginative and prescient/ Bout my identify, let it bang, goin’ out with my pistol/ Acquired me a style of this fame, it was candy, now it’s bitter,” he raps.
Even in any case they’ve been by and nonetheless with a few of the YSL members’ fates hanging within the steadiness, Gunna hopes to ultimately reunite the crew.
“My followers coming by for me, you suppose they entitled/ Considering bout the crew once more, might we reunite ’em/ As present they hate earlier than they do one thing optimistic/ N—-s simply need you to fade away and hope that you simply forgot ’em.”
Gunna unleashed a frosty accompanying visible for the Engaged on Dying-produced single. The Spike Jordan-directed clip finds the “Fukumean” rapper trudging by the blizzard circumstances surrounding his snow-lodge property.
After displaying off his flashy designer winter matches, Gunna adjustments into his fitness center gear for some boxing coaching in a testomony to his self-discipline and exhausting work resulting in his physique transformation.
Gunna is gearing as much as drop his A Reward & A Curse follow-up album later this yr, and he’s teasing extra “substance” on his information and is predicted to faucet into some Afrobeat sonics.
Watch the “Bittersweet” video above.
