1. (00:02:55) Yo Gotti - Walking N Memphis Feat. 8 Ball
2. (00:04:20) Yo Gotti - Whip & Grind
3. (00:03:32) Yo Gotti - With Scrap Feat. Platinum & All Star
4. (00:04:27) Yo Gotti - Fuck U Pay Me
5. (00:04:23) Yo Gotti - Diamond In My Chain
6. (00:01:41) Yo Gotti - Yo Takin Ova
7. (00:02:53) Yo Gotti - So Fresh So Clean
8. (00:03:13) All Star - Hood Nigga Streetmix Feat. Yo Gotti
9. (00:04:22) Lutinent G - All I Know
Biography:
Yo Gotti is among the many hardcore rappers who came out of hip-hop`s Dirty South school in the late `90s. He is also one of the hip-hoppers who derives part of his stage name from the late New York mafioso John Gotti; others have included Big Gotti, Don Gotti, Juan Gotti, Bazooka Joe Gotti, and Irv Gotti. Not all Dirty South recordings are gangsta rap, but Yo Gotti has favored the thugged-out gangsta side of the Dirty South; and he gets his inspiration from both Southern and non-Southern rappers. Master P and his New Orleans-based No Limit posse are an influence; so are N.W.A., Dr. Dre, and the late Tupac Shakur. Gotti`s more sexually explicit lyrics also owe something to Oakland native Too Short, who was never a gangsta rapper but did a lot to popularize X-rated rap lyrics. Yo Gotti, however, isn`t from the West Coast any more than he is from New Orleans; his stomping ground is Memphis, the city that gave us the Three 6 Mafia, Gangsta Blac, Eightball & MJG, Kingpin Skinny Pimp, and quite a few other Dirty South artists. When Gotti boasts that he is "straight from the North," he doesn`t mean the northern part of the United States; he means the northern part of Memphis, where he lived in the infamous, crime-ridden Ridge Crest housing projects. And Memphis` more dangerous neighborhoods have inspired many of Gotti`s lyrics, which often describe the dangers of life in the `hood. Gotti, however, doesn`t always rap about crime and inner-city thug life; he also raps about sex quite a bit. After performing around Memphis in the `90s, Gotti started building a catalog in the early 2000s. His first album, From da Dope Game 2 da Rap Game, came out on the Inevitable label in 2000; Gotti`s subsequent Inevitable releases included 2001`s Self Explanatory and 2002`s Block Burnin`, Vol. 1. After that, Gotti signed with TVT and recorded Life, which came out in 2003. TVT released "Dirty South Soldiers" (a duet with Atlanta crunk star Lil` Jon) as Life`s first single. After having his track "Full Time" featured in the film Hustle & Flow, he released Back 2 da Basics in 2006.
