On the week of Friday, February 14, 2020, Gunna was featured on three songs.
Gunna on the red carpet of the 62nd Grammy's. Gunna is also featured on "Surf" from the album, as well as "Diamonds" from the deluxe version, released in December 2019. The song eventually peaked at number 11 on the Billboard Hot 100. "Hot" was given a remix in October 2019 with an extra verse from Travis Scott. It served as the lead single for Thug's debut studio album, So Much Fun, which released in August 2019. He peaked at the number one spot on Apple Music for his feature on Young Thug's single "Hot". It charted at #3 on the Billboard 200 and its lead single, certified platinum, "One Call", was released exactly three weeks before the album and charted at number 56 on the Billboard Hot 100.
In February 2019, he released his debut studio album Drip or Drown 2 featuring artists Lil Baby, Young Thug and Playboi Carti. The album peaked at number 4 on the Billboard 200. In October 2018, he and Lil Baby released their collaborative album, Drip Harder, which includes the lead single, "Drip Too Hard," which peaked at #4 on the Billboard Hot 100. Scott's verse in "Yosemite" mimics Gunna's verse in "Sold Out Dates". Scott and the song's producer, Mike Dean, turned up his vocals a week after the song's release. The comments on Nav's vocals got to the point where he even acknowledged them, poking fun at his own vocals on his Instagram.
The song is from Scott's third studio album, Astroworld, and also features vocals from Nav, whose voice was mixed unusually quietly in the song and was the subject of the memes and jokes. Gunna was also featured on Travis Scott's single "Yosemite", which was considered the most popular song in which he used the word "drip". The duo showed their chemistry since early 2018 through various songs, such as Gunna's single "Sold Out Dates", which received millions of streams on platforms like YouTube and SoundCloud. The mixtape was executive produced by Metro Boomin and featured vocals from Lil Yachty, Lil Durk, Nav, Metro Boomin, and Lil Uzi Vert, among others.Ģ018–2019: Collaborations, Drip Harder and Drip or Drown 2Īnother close friend of Gunna is American rapper Lil Baby. He released the Drip Season 3 in February 2018. The album's title track "Drip or Drown" was remixed featuring vocals from American rapper Lil Yachty and was included on his mixtape, Drip Season 3, in February 2018. His song "YSL" featuring American rapper Playboi Carti was on a "Grand Theft Auto" radio station. He released the EP Drip or Drown, with YSL producer and close friend Wheezy, who entirely produced the EP. He released the mixtape Drip Season 2 in May 2017. Also, in October 2016, Gunna released his debut mixtape Drip Season through YSL Records. The song is from Young Thug's mixtape, Jeffery, and also features vocals from American rappers Travis Scott and Gucci Mane. Gunna was later featured on Young Thug's song "Floyd Mayweather" in August 2016. Gunna was introduced to American rapper Young Thug through Keith "King" Troup, a mutual friend and community figure who died in December 2015.
In 2013, Gunna released the mixtape Hard Body under the name Yung Gunna.Ĭareer 2016–2018: Career beginnings and Drip Season series Kitchens also attended Langston Hughes High School. He grew up listening to Cam'ron, Chingy and Outkast, among others. He was raised by his mother and has four older brothers. Kitchens was born in College Park, Georgia. 2.2 2018–2019: Collaborations, Drip Harder and Drip or Drown 2.2.1 2016–2018: Career beginnings and Drip Season series.