So Icy Christmas, Gucci Mane (Global Music/Atlantic)

Gucci Mane is a mainstay of hip-hop Christmas music, and he's back for 2021 with another collection of jams. A lot of the tunes on this album don't remind me at all of Christmas or even seem to allude to the holiday, making this a tough sell at a Christmas-oriented site such as this one. Opening song "Street Ni66a Christmas" at least doesn't have that problem, nor does "All I Want For Christmas," though this one is about getting firearms for the holiday, and "Like the Grinch" at least alludes to a popular holiday entertainment. The rest is fine for the non-holiday period if you're a hip-hop fan or at least a Gucci Mane fan, although he only claims credit for six of 17 songs here; the rest are credited to Enchanting, BigWalkDog, Big Scarr, BiC Fizzle and Hotboy Wes.