After that, Gotti signed with TVT and recorded Life, which came out in 2003. His first album, From da Dope Game 2 da Rap Game, came out on the Inevitable label in 2000 his subsequent Inevitable releases included 2001's Self Explanatory and 2002's Block Burnin', Vol. Gotti, however, doesn't always rap about crime and inner-city thug life he also raps about sex quite a bit.Īfter performing around Memphis in the '90s, Gotti started building a catalog in the early 2000s. And Memphis' more dangerous neighborhoods have inspired many of Gotti's lyrics, which often describe the dangers of life in the hood. 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. 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.

Gotti's more sexually explicit lyrics also owe something to Oakland native Too $hort, who was never a gangsta rapper but did a lot to popularize X-rated rap lyrics. Master P and his New Orleans-based No Limit posse are an influence so are N.W.A, Dr.

Not all Dirty South recordings are gangsta rap, but Yo Gotti has favored this thugged-out gangsta style, and he gets his inspiration from both Southern and non-Southern rappers.

He is also one of the hip-hoppers who derive part of their stage names from the late New York Mafioso John Gotti.

Yo Gotti is among the many hardcore rappers who came out of hip-hop's Dirty South school in the late '90s.

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