On the heels of attaining his highest-charting unaccompanied Billboard Scorching 100 hit with “F—kumean” (No. 4), Gunna has launched a brand new music video for “Rodeo Dr.” Taken from his chart-topping A Present & A Curse album, “Rodeo Dr” debuted and peaked at No. 42 on the Scorching 100 final month on the chart dated July 1, 2023.
The Spike Jordan-helmed music video finds Gunna mixing the autobiographical and the theatrical. The clip finds the rapper navigating a dramatized police automobile chase as he returns to Beverly Hills for the primary time since his months-long jail stint. In Could 2022, Gunna (alongside Younger Thug and 28 different YSL associates) was charged in a 56-count RICO indictment and subsequently turned himself in. After pleading responsible to single racketeering conspiracy cost final December and receiving a four-year suspended sentence, Gunna was launched from jail. All through the music video, Gunna flaunts luxurious purchasing baggage and devoted groupies alike, leaning into to triumphant tone of the video.
To start with of the music video, Gunna references the “snitching” controversy that has characterised a lot of the discourse round him for the previous 12 months. As “F—kumean” performs within the background, one character asks, “Man, y’all nonetheless f—okay with that n—a?” “F—kumean, n—a?” one other character responds. “You ain’t f—g with him?” The audio then cuts to a fictionalized information report alluding to the YSL scenario earlier than launching into Gunna’s gaudy return to Rodeo Drive. The music video ends with a scene between two inmates, certainly one of whom can also be from Gunna’s hometown, fondly watching the rapper’s raucous return to the streets.
Gunna has earned 4 high 10 hits on the Scorching 100, reaching as excessive as No. 4 with each “F—kumean” and the Grammy-nominated “Drip Too Laborious” (with Lil Child). On the Billboard 200, the “Too Straightforward” rapper has despatched 5 titles to the chart’s high 10, together with the No. 1 albums Wunna and DS4EVER.
