Gold Franko is an artist to keep on your playlist rotation this year. He recently dropped his mixtape ‘F BABY’ and has been receiving an overwhelming response to the 10-track effort.
The Los Angeles-based rapper unloads a project filled with bangers. Preceded by the single “Demon Time”, fast rising emcee Gold Franko returns with his latest body of work – F Baby. Branding bouncy beats, new age West-Coast infused sonics, and East side Watts lingo, the record is a compilation of ten snarling tracks that lighthouse Gold Franko’s return to music exquisitely.
“Being able to finally finish my project after 2 years of working on it, I’m glad I can give that body of work to my fans after all the waiting they did,” he said in a recent interview.
Mused by Lil Wayne’s heightened era around 2008/9 when the New Orleans and Young Money CEO would go by the moniker Weezy F Baby, Gold’s decision to coin his project F Babyis a homage to that era, and a play of what he shares is his nickname to the ladies.
His word delivery and intelligible but gracefully rendered tough-talk keeps his new project F Baby on repeat for listeners. Gold Franko’s variety is astounding; he raps with calm confidence while delivering lively and raw compositions that are curiously comforting at the same time. Listeners will enjoy the attention to detail in F Baby’s lyrics and production, which took two years to complete.
On the project, he delivers music that everyone can relate to and discusses a variety of topics. For example, on the track “Fake Pages,” he calls out fake-account culture, while on the track “Scandemic,” ft. Freddrick Caine, he airs out lazy folks. Later on, he shows his dark side on “Demon Time,” and proceeds to lets his guard down in the slower-paced, “Whole Demon.” A standout track also includes “Weirdos,” where Gold Franko celebrates fallen rapper Drakeo The Ruler who fatally passed away at a festival in December, 2021.
“The project is about me elevating to the next level in life,” Gold Franko says. “I speak on a lot of the fly s–t I’m doing and bragging about the designer clothes I wear, but I also speak on how I got there or what I’m doing to get here, so I’m just speaking my life on these beats.”
Gold Franko is helping to usher in a new era of west coast music. He mentions how the late Drakeo the Ruler, whose characteristic laid-back flow and shameless charm helped define current West Coast rap, was one of his biggest influences in the game.
“I would say the track that speaks to me the most is ‘Weirdos,'” he says. “I sampled Drakeo the Ruler, where he’s talking about loyalty on an Instagram live and how people switched up on him, and I felt that exact way, especially with him passing away. I wanted to do a tribute and keep his words alive.”
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