Gotti’s flow is as direct as ever and a terror on the chorus with his whispered braggadocio. “Get Out Ya Feelings,” produced by Kane Beatz is a thrilling menace. With collaborations ranging from Meek Meek and Pusha T to Rico Love and production from Jim Jonsin, Metro Boomin’, DJ Mustard and more, it’s not hard to see how Gotti responded to expectations. That’s always one of my biggest challenges.” The majority of your life is what you know and how you move and how you respond to different things. “Dealing with the fame and the change and to be 100 percent positive and all those things. “I feel like I’m fighting to be the person who I wanna be, but I’m naturally the person that I am,” he says. Now, with The Art of Hustle, he’s marrying both of his crafts, from his past and his future, in a vivid account that is soon to mark a classic album in his growing catalog for fan favorites, including his Cocaine Music mixtape series. It’s what created the work ethic that’s seen him release a wealth of independent projects, from the startling Youngsta’s On A Come Up to his most recent project, 2013’s I AM. There was more value in the re-up and the process.

These incidents inspired him: to become shrewder, to focus on his path and forgo the shine. He saw a first-hand account of the consequences: a cycle he viewed early, when his mother’s father was jailed and then his big brother after him.

What a young Gotti witnessed wasn’t just the glitz and glamour of hustling. “I’m fighting pain, fame, I never wanna change….”-”The Art of Hustle (Intro)” The emotional record is piercing with honestly and the vivid account Gotti delivers about his mother, aunts and the stakes they faces. He details these experiences in “Momma,” an illuminating story where he recounts his upbringing. “When I get out of the bed and go in the kitchen, there’s bags of money in the deep freezer when you going for a popsicle,” Gotti explains. His mother and aunts pushed weight when he was a toddler and he saw things that weren’t the result of youthful indiscretions-trouble was on his front porch. The Memphis rapper grew up in a home of hustlers, six to be exact. Gotti’s instincts as a hustler were honed right where he laid his hat: in the house. “I learned what I learned in the house….” -”Momma” The goal is to take care of your family forever and be stable.” You can make all the money in the world but if you don’t have the exit route you failed the art of hustle. “Your family is straight and being able to switch careers before you run out of time. “What’s the strategy of being a successful hustler,” Gotti asks. There’s rules to this shit and Yo Gotti wrote the manual with his eighth studio album, The Art of Hustle. The art of hustle, however, is anything but simple. Whether you’re flippin’ bricks, pencil pushing or hitting the books, do it like it counts when it matters.

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