Mr. Davis
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{{Infobox album
| name = Mr. Davis
| type = studio
| artist = Gucci Mane
| cover = Mr. Davis cover.jpg
| released = {{Start date|2017|10|13}}
| recorded =
| genre =
| length = {{Duration|m=61|s=06}}
| label =
| producer =
- A1
- Ben Billions
- Cardiak
- Chris Bosh
- Cubeatz
- Danja
- Detail
- FrostADX
- Hitmaka
- Honorable C.N.O.T.E.
- Key Wane
- Metro Boomin
- Mike Will Made It
- Murda Beatz
- Myles Harris
- Nav
- OG Parker
- Rico Love
- Southside
- TM88
- Zaytoven
| prev_title = Droptopwop
| prev_year = 2017
| next_title = El Gato: The Human Glacier
| next_year = 2017
| misc = {{Extra album cover
| header = Alternate cover
| type = studio
| cover = GucciManeMrDavisAlt.jpg
| border = yes
| caption =
}}
{{Singles
| name = Mr. Davis
| type = studio
| single1 = Make Love
| single1date = February 23, 2017
| single2 = Tone It Down
| single2date = June 20, 2017
| single3 = I Get the Bag
| single3date = September 5, 2017
}}
}}
Mr. Davis is the eleventh studio album by American rapper Gucci Mane. It was released on October 13, 2017, by GUWOP Enterprises, RBC Records and Atlantic Records. The album is Gucci Mane's second commercial project of the year of 2017, following the Droptopwop mixtape. It features guest appearances from Nicki Minaj, Monica, Chris Brown, Migos, The Weeknd, ASAP Rocky, Big Sean, Ty Dolla Sign, Schoolboy Q, Slim Jxmmi, Young Dolph and Rico Love.
Mr. Davis was supported by three singles: "Make Love", "Tone It Down" and "I Get the Bag". The album charted at number two on the US Billboard 200, and received generally positive reviews from critics.
Background
Gucci Mane announced the album's title, track listing and cover art on August 17, 2017, along with the pre-order.{{cite web|url=http://www.xxlmag.com/news/2017/08/gucci-mane-migos-get-the-bag-mr-davis-album/|title=Gucci Mane Drops Migos Collab "I Get the Bag" Ahead of 'Mr. Davis' Album|work=XXL|date=August 17, 2017|access-date=August 18, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170818080608/http://www.xxlmag.com/news/2017/08/gucci-mane-migos-get-the-bag-mr-davis-album/|archive-date=August 18, 2017|url-status=live}}
Promotion
Before the release of Droptopwop (2017), Gucci Mane released the first single to Mr. Davis, "Make Love" with Nicki Minaj, on February 23, 2017.{{cite web|last=Goddard|first=Kevin|url=https://www.hotnewhiphop.com/gucci-mane-make-love-feat-nicki-minaj-new-song.1973049.html|title=Gucci Mane – Make Love Feat. Nicki Minaj|work=HotNewHipHop|date=February 23, 2017|access-date=October 20, 2017}} The album's lead single, "Tone It Down" featuring Chris Brown, was released on June 20, 2017.{{cite web|last=Goddard|first=Kevin|url=https://www.hotnewhiphop.com/gucci-mane-tone-it-down-feat-chris-brown-prod-by-hitmaka-new-song.1974669.html|title=Gucci Mane – Tone It Down Feat. Chris Brown (Prod. By Hitmaka)|work=HotNewHipHop|date=June 20, 2017|access-date=October 20, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171031203043/http://www.hotnewhiphop.com/gucci-mane-tone-it-down-feat-chris-brown-prod-by-hitmaka-new-song.1974669.html|archive-date=October 31, 2017|url-status=live}}
"I Get the Bag" featuring Migos, was released as a promotional single on August 18, 2017,{{cite web|last=Goddard|first=Kevin|url=https://www.hotnewhiphop.com/gucci-mane-i-get-the-bag-feat-migos-new-song.1975418.html|title=Gucci Mane - I Get The Bag Feat. Migos|work=HotNewHipHop|date=August 18, 2017|access-date=October 19, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171020135213/https://www.hotnewhiphop.com/gucci-mane-i-get-the-bag-feat-migos-new-song.1975418.html|archive-date=October 20, 2017|url-status=live}} along with a music video.{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uo14xGYwWd4|title=Gucci Mane – I Get The Bag feat. Migos [Official Music Video]|publisher=YouTube|date=August 18, 2017|access-date=October 19, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171018234248/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uo14xGYwWd4|archive-date=October 18, 2017|url-status=live}} It was then sent to urban contemporary radio on September 5, 2017, as the album's third single.{{cite web|url=https://www.allaccess.com/urban/future-releases|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170906025140/https://www.allaccess.com/urban/future-releases|title=Urban/UAC Future Release|publisher=All Access|archive-date=September 6, 2017}} On September 13, 2017, Gucci Mane released the song, "Curve" featuring The Weeknd, as the album's promotional single.{{Cite web|url=https://pitchfork.com/news/listen-to-gucci-mane-and-the-weeknds-new-song-curve/|title=Listen to Gucci Mane and the Weeknd's New Song 'Curve' {{!}} Pitchfork|website=Pitchfork|access-date=September 14, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170914125126/https://pitchfork.com/news/listen-to-gucci-mane-and-the-weeknds-new-song-curve/|archive-date=September 14, 2017|url-status=live}}
Critical reception
{{Album ratings
| rev1 = AllMusic
| rev2 = Clash
| rev3 = The Guardian
| rev4 = HipHopDX
| rev5 = HotNewHipHop
| rev6 = Pitchfork
| rev7 = XXL
}}
Mr. Davis was met with generally positive reviews. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from professional publications, the album received an average score of 77, based on seven reviews.
Neil Z. Yeung of AllMusic gave a positive review, stating "The songs pop, the production is memorable, and the guests weave effortlessly into their respective tracks without detracting from Gucci's signature delivery". Evan Rytlewski of Pitchfork said, "Between this spring's cold, uncompromising Droptopwop and the personable crossover stab of Mr. Davis, Gucci Mane is making his most engaging music since his Trap Back/Trap God resurgence". Scott Glaysher of XXL stated, "Mr. Davis is stripped-down, honest and straight to the point". Ural Garrett of HipHopDX wrote: "The album doesn't move the needle for Guwop's creative progression forward and at times sounds as if it doesn't even aspire to. In a nutshell, Mr. Davis is simply a party celebrating Gucci's personal growth alongside his star-studded friends."
Matthew Cooper of Clash saying "There is plenty of time for Guwop to build upon the formula that already has him winning". In a mixed review, The Guardian{{'}}s Ben Beaumont-Thomas stated: "With little to no actual wordplay to his boasts, the materialism gets a little wearing."
Commercial performance
Mr. Davis debuted at number two on the US Billboard 200 with 70,000 album-equivalent units, of which 21,000 were pure album sales.{{cite magazine|url=http://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/chart-beat/8006949/pink-beautiful-trauma-billboard-200-album-chart|title=Pink's 'Beautiful Trauma' Bows at No. 1 on Billboard 200 With 2017's Biggest Debut for a Woman|magazine=Billboard|last=Caulfield|first=Keith|date=October 22, 2017|access-date=October 23, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171025040803/http://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/chart-beat/8006949/pink-beautiful-trauma-billboard-200-album-chart|archive-date=October 25, 2017|url-status=live}} It is Gucci Mane's fourth US top 10 album and the second largest debut sales week of his career.
Track listing
{{Track listing
| headline = Mr. Davis track listing
| extra_column = Producer(s)
| total_length = 61:06
| title1 = Work in Progress (Intro)
| writer1 = {{hlist|Radric Davis|Shane Lindstrom|Kevin Gomringer|Tim Gomringer}}
| extra1 = {{hlist|Murda Beatz|Cubeatz}}
| length1 = 2:25
| title2 = Back On
| writer2 = {{hlist|Davis|Xavier Dotson}}
| extra2 = Zaytoven
| length2 = 3:01
| title3 = I Get the Bag
| note3 = featuring Migos
| writer3 = {{hlist|Davis|Quavious Marshall|Kirshnik Ball|Leland Wayne|Joshua Luellen}}
| extra3 = {{hlist|Metro Boomin|Southside}}
| length3 = 3:53
| title4 = Stunting Ain't Nuthin
| note4 = featuring Slim Jxmmi and Young Dolph
| writer4 = {{hlist|Davis|Aaquil Brown|Adolph Thornton, Jr.|Michael Williams II|Myles Harris}}
| extra4 = {{hlist|Mike Will Made It|Harris}}
| length4 = 5:16
| title5 = Curve
| note5 = featuring The Weeknd
| writer5 = {{hlist|Davis|Abel Tesfaye|Navraj Goraya|Sugar-Ray Henry}}
| extra5 = {{hlist|Nav|FrostADX}}
| length5 = 2:41
| title6 = Enormous
| note6 = featuring Ty Dolla Sign
| writer6 = {{hlist|Davis|Tyrone Griffin, Jr.|Joshua Parker|Bryan Simmons|Christian Ward|Floyd Bentley III|Masamune Kudo|Christopher Dotson}}
| extra6 = {{hlist|OG Parker|TM88}}
| length6 = 4:04
| title7 = Members Only
| writer7 = {{hlist|Davis|Carlton Mays, Jr.}}
| extra7 = Honorable C.N.O.T.E.
| length7 = 3:14
| title8 = Money Make Ya Handsome
| writer8 = {{hlist|Davis|Benjamin Diehl}}
| extra8 = Ben Billions
| length8 = 3:25
| title9 = Changed
| note9 = featuring Big Sean
| writer9 = {{hlist|Davis|Sean Anderson|Dwane Weir II}}
| extra9 = Key Wane
| length9 = 3:52
| title10 = We Ride
| note10 = featuring Monica
| writer10 = {{hlist|Davis|Richard Butler, Jr.|Nathaniel Hills|Marcella Araica|Leonardo Underwood}}
| extra10 = {{hlist|Danja|Rico Love}}
| length10 = 3:44
| title11 = Lil Story
| note11 = featuring Schoolboy Q
| writer11 = {{hlist|Davis|Quincy Hanley|Dwan Avery|Luellen}}
| extra11 = Southside
| length11 = 2:50
| title12 = Tone It Down
| note12 = featuring Chris Brown
| writer12 = {{hlist|Davis|Christopher Brown|Ward|Carl McCormick|Bentley III|Dotson}}
| extra12 = {{hlist|Cardiak|Hitmaka|A1}}
| length12 = 3:38
| title13 = Make Love
| note13 = with Nicki Minaj
| writer13 = {{hlist|Davis|Onika Maraj|Luellen}}
| extra13 = Southside
| length13 = 5:00
| title14 = Money Piling
| writer14 = {{hlist|Davis|Simmons|Luellen}}
| extra14 = TM88
| length14 = 2:56
| title15 = Jumped Out the Whip
| note15 = featuring ASAP Rocky
| writer15 = {{hlist|Davis|Rakim Mayers|Wayne|T. Gomringer|K. Gomringer}}
| extra15 = {{hlist|Metro Boomin|Cubeatz}}
| length15 = 3:36
| title16 = Miss My Woe
| note16 = featuring Rico Love
| writer16 = {{hlist|Davis|Butler|Christopher Bosh|Hills|Araica|Underwood}}
| extra16 = {{hlist|Rico Love|Chris Bosh|Danja{{ref|b|[b]}}}}
| length16 = 4:18
| title17 = Made It (Outro)
| writer17 = {{hlist|Davis|Dotson}}
| extra17 = Zaytoven
| length17 = 3:13
}}
Notes
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Personnel
Credits adapted from the album's liner notes and Tidal.{{cite AV media notes|title=Mr. Davis|others=Gucci Mane|publisher=Atlantic Records|type=CD liner}}{{cite web|url=https://listen.tidal.com/album/79694758/credits|title=Credits / Mr. Davis / Gucci Mane|publisher=Tidal|access-date=May 17, 2020}}
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Performers
- Gucci Mane – primary artist
- Migos – featured artist (track 3)
- Slim Jxmmi – featured artist track 4)
- Young Dolph – featured artist (track 4)
- The Weeknd – featured artist (track 5)
- Ty Dolla Sign – featured artist (track 6)
- Big Sean – featured artist (track 9)
- Monica – featured artist (track 10)
- Schoolboy Q – featured artist (track 11)
- Chris Brown – featured artist (track 12)
- Nicki Minaj – featured artist (track 13)
- ASAP Rocky – featured artist (track 15)
- Rico Love – featured artist (track 16)
Technical
- Colin Sing – mastering engineer (all tracks)
- Kori Anders – mixing engineer (tracks 1, 2, 5, 9, 11, 12, 14, 17)
- Eddie "eMIX" Hernàndez – recording engineer (tracks 2, 3, 5, 17)
- Jaycen Joshua – mixing engineer (tracks 12, 13)
- Chad Roper – recording engineer (tracks 10, 16)
- Marcella "Ms Lago" Araica – mixing engineer (track 10)
- Chad Jolley – additional recording engineer (tracks 10, 16)
- Dana Richard – recording engineer (track 16)
- Nathan Burgess – recording engineer (track 16)
- Niko Marzouca – mixing engineer (track 16)
- Robert Marks – mixing engineer (tracks 16)
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Production
- Murda Beatz – producer (track 1)
- Cubeatz – producer (track 1)
- Zaytoven – producer (tracks 2, 17)
- Metro Boomin – producer (tracks 3, 15)
- Southside – producer (tracks 3, 11, 13, 15)
- Mike Will Made It – producer (track 4)
- Myles Harris – producer (track 4)
- Nav – producer (track 5)
- Ben Billions – producer (track 8)
- OG Parker – producer (track 6)
- TM88 – producer (tracks 6, 14)
- Key Wane – producer (track 9)
- Danja – producer (track 10), additional producer (track 16)
- Rico Love – producer (track 10)
- Cardiak – producer (track 12)
- Hitmaka – producer (track 12)
- Chris Bosh – producer (track 16)
Additional personnel
- Gucci Mane – executive producer
- Jimmy Fontaine – photography
- Virgilio Tzaj – art direction and design
- Carolyn Tracey – packaging project director
- Shun Melson – styling direction
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Charts
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=Weekly charts=
| class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:center"
|+Chart performance for Mr. Davis |
| scope="col"| Chart (2017)
! scope="col"| Peak |
|---|
| {{album chart|Australia|49|artist=Gucci Mane|album=Mr. Davis|rowheader=true|accessdate=May 30, 2021}} |
| {{album chart|Flanders|93|artist=Gucci Mane|album=Mr. Davis|rowheader=true|accessdate=October 20, 2017}} |
| {{album chart|Wallonia|148|artist=Gucci Mane|album=Mr. Davis|rowheader=true|accessdate=October 20, 2017}} |
| {{album chart|BillboardCanada|5|artist=Gucci Mane|rowheader=true|accessdate=October 24, 2017}} |
| {{album chart|Czech|67|date=201742|rowheader=true|accessdate=October 27, 2017}} |
| {{album chart|Netherlands|41|artist=Gucci Mane|album=Mr. Davis|rowheader=true|accessdate=October 20, 2017}} |
| {{album chart|Finland|41|artist=Gucci Mane|album=Mr. Davis|rowheader=true|accessdate=October 22, 2017}} |
| {{album chart|France|72|artist=Gucci Mane|album=Mr. Davis|rowheader=true|accessdate=October 24, 2017}} |
| scope="row"| Latvian Albums (LaIPA){{cite web |date=December 11, 2017 |title=Combined albums chart for the Week 48, 2017 {{ndash}} Ending November 30, 2017 |url=https://tv3cdn.lv/2017/12/kad-atskaidrosies-piekap-par-kadu-muziku-maksa-latvijas-iedzivotaji-5a325aac9a16f.xlsx |access-date=April 8, 2025 |publisher={{Ill|TV3.lv|lv|tv3.lv|lt=Skaties.lv}} |language=en}}
| 78 |
| {{album chart|Norway|39|artist=Gucci Mane|album=Mr. Davis|rowheader=true|accessdate=October 21, 2017}} |
| {{album chart|UK2|77|date=20171020|rowheader=true|accessdate=October 21, 2017}} |
| {{album chart|Billboard200|2|artist=Gucci Mane|rowheader=true|accessdate=May 30, 2021}} |
| {{album chart|BillboardRandBHipHop|1|artist=Gucci Mane|rowheader=true|accessdate=October 24, 2017}} |
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=Year-end charts=
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|+2017 year-end chart performance for Mr. Davis |
| scope="col"| Chart (2017)
! scope="col"| Position |
|---|
| scope="row"| US Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums (Billboard){{cite magazine|url=https://www.billboard.com/charts/year-end/2017/top-r-and-b-hip-hop-albums|title=Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums – Year-End 2017|magazine=Billboard|access-date=June 29, 2020}}
| 65 |
| class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:center"
|+2018 year-end chart performance for Mr. Davis |
| scope="col"| Chart (2018)
! scope="col"| Position |
|---|
| scope="row"| US Billboard 200{{cite magazine|url=http://www.billboard.com/charts/year-end/2018/top-billboard-200-albums|title=Top Billboard 200 Albums – Year-End 2018|magazine=Billboard|access-date=May 6, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200321134659/https://www.billboard.com/charts/year-end/2018/top-billboard-200-albums|archive-date=March 21, 2020|url-status=live}}
| 145 |
| scope="row"| US Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums (Billboard){{cite magazine|url=https://www.billboard.com/charts/year-end/2018/top-r-and-b-hip-hop-albums|title=Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums – Year-End 2018|magazine=Billboard|access-date=June 6, 2020}}
| 69 |
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Certifications
{{Certification Table Top|caption=Certifications and sales for Mr. Davis}}
{{Certification Table Entry|region=United States|artist=Gucci Mane|title=Mr. Davis|award=Platinum|type=album|relyear=2017|certyear=2022|accessdate=July 21, 2022}}
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References
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