New York, NY (Top40 Charts) Bread Winners Association recording artist
Kevin Gates has unveiled a powerful new companion visual for "Great Man," featured on the multi platinum rap superstar's just-released new mixtape LUCA BRASI 3. The video features cameos by Gates' own immediate family as well as his close friend, New York Giants wide receiver Odell Beckham Jr.
"Great Man" is one of the many highlights from LUCA BRASI 3, which is available now at all DSPs and streaming services HERE. Gates' first mixtape since his release from prison earlier this year made an explosive chart debut last month, entering the SoundScan/Billboard 200 at #4 with sales equivalents exceeding 78,000. LUCA BRASI 3 also includes the recent hits, "Me Too," "Money Long," and "Adding Up," the latter two of which are joined by new companion visuals streaming via Gates' official YouTube channel. "
Money Long" is fast approaching 5 million YouTube views HERE, while "Adding Up" has earned close to 3 million views. In addition, "Kevin Gates x Sway: The Definitive Interview"premiered last month exclusively via YouTube.
LUCA BRASI 3 has drawn critical acclaim equal to its popular success, with HotNewHipHop declaring that "Kevin Gates remains one of the most fascinating personalities and talents." "Gates doesn't let his time away knock him off his stride," wrote Pitchfork. "On 'LUCA BRASI 3,' Gates serves as a corrective to a rap landscape that favors absolutes. In his world, everything is always a little less clear-cut." SPIN hailed the mixtape's "
Money Long" and "Great Man" as "quintessential Gates: melancholic trap songs punctuated by his partially crooned, highly emotive raps." "(Gates') everyman hustler persona, charm, and vulnerability are his most valuable assets," declared Consequence of Sound. "He is clear by the close of 'LUCA BRASI 3' that nothing can stop him."
As if that weren't enough, Gates has expanded his role as a business man, teaming up with the Hollywood Escape House to launch an exclusive escape room based on his own life and built in a replica of a house he and his wife, manager and business partner Dreka used to trap out of in their early twenties. Read VICE Noisey's recap with writer Paul Thompson who experienced the escape room with
Kevin and Deka. The "House On Carolina Escape Room" is open to the public indefinitely at 5010 Vineland Ave., North Hollywood, CA, 91606; for bookings, please visit www.houseoncarolina.com.
Widely regarded among hip-hop's greatest new stars, second only to
Drake as the best-selling hip-hop artist of 2016, Gates is currently wrapping up his epic sold-out "Luca Brasi 3 Tour," supported throughout by Yung Bleu. Additional North American live dates will be announced soon - for updates, please visit www.kvngates.com.
