Flockaveli
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| Studio album by Waka Flocka Flame | ||||
| Released | October 5, 2010 | |||
| Recorded | Next Level Studios, Houston; Nightbird Studios, Los Angeles; S-Line Ent., Atlanta | |||
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| Length | 72:00 | |||
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   |
| Cokemachineglow | 82% |
| NME | 9/10 |
| Pitchfork | 8.0/10 |
| PopMatters | 6/10 |
| RapReviews | 7.5/10 |
| Rolling Stone |  |
| Spin | 7/10 |
Flockaveli is the debut studio album by American rapper Waka Flocka Flame. Its title of the album was taken after the Italian political theorist Machiavelli, and inspired by an fellow American rapper Tupac Shakur, whose final stage name and pseudonym before his death was Makaveli. The album was recorded at Next Level Studios in Houston, Nightbird Studios in Los Angeles, and S-Line Ent. in Atlanta.
Released by Asylum Records on October 5, 2010, Flockaveli received generally positive reviews from critics, who complimented its musical intensity, brazen lyrics, and gangsta rap ethos. The album debuted at number 6 on the Billboard 200, with first-week sales of 37,000 copies in the United States. As of August 15, 2011, the album sold 285,000 copies in the United States.
Flockaveli is a crunk album. It was primarily produced by Lex Luger, whose bombastic, grimly-programmed production incorporates drill 'n' bass 808 trills, bass kicks, hand claps, confrontational beats, dense synthesizers, and shifting sub-bass layers. Waka Flocka Flame's unrefined street raps feature constant ad libs. According to Pitchfork Media's David Drake, the songs reduce gangsta rap to its archetypical themes: "hypermasculine children of the drug trade, reckless fatalism, intensity, and physicality ... Waka's aggression is the survivalist reaction of the powerless, directed toward the threats of the immediate environment."
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