Furthermore, in he began working with Italian fashion house Gucci. After a few years of individual growth that included Davis getting married and improving his fitness, Gucci announced he would be the face of their Gucci Cruise Campaign. Before his career has complications in his career as he was imprisoned for several years. Gucci Mane has been in numerous controversies. However, the charge was later dropped as Gucci maintained that he did it out of self-defense.
Gucci Mane is active in most of the social media platforms. He is a verified user of Instagram with more than His twitter account with his stage name, Gucci Mane has 8. With the username of guccimane, Gucci has been getting the love of more than 8 million followers in his Facebook account. Gucci Mane was born in Bessemer, Alabama on 12 February His nationality is African-American and has a zodiac sign, Aquarius.
His father, Ralph Everett Dudley was a U. S serviceman and power plant worker, while his mother, Vicky Jean Davis was a social worker and teacher. Furthermore, his real name is Radric Delantic Davis. He is 41 years old. Later, his parents separated and he settled with his mother in Atlanta.
Ultimately deciding to form an alliance with the label that brought Khia to prominence, Davis released the song "Black Tee", a response to Dem Franchize Boyz hit record, "White Tee", as well as a collaboration with fellow rising local rapper Young Jeezy with "So Icy".
Securing a distribution deal with Tommy Boy Records, Davis continued to work the underground while preparing for the release of his debut album.
In , Davis released his independent debut album entitled Trap House , which featured the single "Icy" with Young Jeezy. Disputes over the rights to this single caused a rift between the two artists. Trap House was considered a success for an independent artist. Hard to Kill followed in He also shot videos for the tracks "Street Nigazzz" and "Pillz". Records in May He made a total of 17 guest appearances in Gucci Mane's second studio album, The State vs.
Radric Davis , was released by Warner Bros. Records on December 8, Its first single, "Wasted" featuring Plies, was originally from Gucci Mane's mixtape Guccimania. The second single was "Spotlight" featuring Usher. The third single was "Lemonade". The first single from this release was "Gucci Time", produced by and featuring Swizz Beatz. Zone 6 , mostly produced by Drumma Boy. It debuted at 18 on the Billboard , and is his highest charting EP.
Ferrari Boyz debuted at 21 on the Billboard Gucci Mane performing on August 29, Three days after BAYTL 's release, while traveling to the video shoot of "Push Ups", Slim Dunkin, who was featured on the song, was shot and killed after an argument at an Atlanta recording studio. The first single was the mixtape's title track. Trap Back was met with positive reviews, scoring a 7. Gucci Mane released yet another mixtape, Trap God , on October 17, It was released on May 21, On May 31, , Gucci Mane also announced he was releasing a new album entitled Mr.
GuWop later that year, featuring appearances by personal friend and industrial rock performer Marilyn Manson, who also helped him to give shape to the album's sound and musical direction. Frenchie would release a diss record towards Gucci Mane the following day.
It was also revealed that Brick Squad had lost their distribution deal with Atlantic Records, and the label might be disbanded. The following day he released a new single, "Stealing", featuring OJ da Juiceman, produced by Zaytoven. On the song he disses T. That night he also released a new mixtape Diary of a Trap God. Subsequently, he deleted all the controversial tweets and hours later deleted his Twitter account.
On September 22, , Gucci Mane admitted to making the tweets, and claimed he was binging on codeine and promethazine during the time. He went on to apologize to the fans, his family, and the music industry members he offended. Gucci Mane also said that he would be going to rehab while incarcerated on his gun charge. Plans to release his album Mr.
GuWop were scrapped indefinitely, and Gucci Mane would go on to release his tenth studio album, The State vs. His eighth digital album, Trap House 4 , was released on July 4, On July 22, , Gucci Mane announced that he would release a new album, titled The Oddfather , on the day he would go back to court, July 28, Gucci Mane released the follow-up digital album to the mixtape Brick Factory Vol.
Perfect , the follow-up to his mixtape Mr. Following his September releases he started promoting Trap God 3 , which was released on October 17, , and became the highest charting release during his prison sentence. Gucci , a compilation of old collaborations between the two and new records.
Gucci Mane released his 14th mixtape on January 3, , Mafia: Incarcerated. On his birthday, February 12, , he released the third installment of his Brick Factory series, Brick Factory 3. The title is a play on words on the upcoming album from Drake Views From The 6. Gucci Mane released a triple digital album for the third time on March 20, Breakfast , Lunch and Dinner.
On May 26, , Gucci Mane was released from prison five months early: it was ruled that the five months he had spent in prison waiting for his trial had not yet been deducted from his sentence when they should have been. On June 17, , Gucci Mane made his first performance since being released from prison at the Elan Mansion, an Atlanta club.
On June 25, , he announced his ninth studio album and first since his release from prison, Everybody Looking , which was released on July 22, Following his release from prison, Gucci Mane became the subject of an internet conspiracy theory that stated he was a clone of the "real" Gucci Mane, citing the rapper's new slim physique, a slight change in his voice and his shift towards a healthier lifestyle as supposed proof.
Gucci Mane denied that he was a clone and poked fun at the theory in an Instagram post. After issuing the Shawty Redd collaborative EP 3 for Free, he joined forces with another producer, Metro Boomin , for Drop Top Wop , which was issued on the one-year anniversary of his release from prison. Later that year, Gucci released Mr. Davis , his 11th official studio album. Davis debuted at number two on the Billboard His 18th effort to debut in the Top Ten of the rap chart, the Southside -produced El Gato also landed within the Top 30 of the overall albums chart.
His second release of the year arrived that October with the sequel to his mixtape Woptober. Not content with a mere two albums for the year, he closed with the third installment of his fan-favorite, holiday-themed series East Atlanta Santa 3.
Gucci kicked off by signing fellow Atlanta rapper Ola Runt , joining him for the mixtape Beggin for a Body. Months later, Gucci dropped the big-name guests and shined the spotlight on his crew the New for another compilation, So Icy Gang, Vol. Both Icy efforts charted in the Top However, it wasn't long before Gucci was back to promoting the New AllMusic relies heavily on JavaScript. Please enable JavaScript in your browser to use the site fully. Blues Classical Country. Electronic Folk International.
Jazz Latin New Age. The views expressed in this article are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of any other agency, organization, employer or company. Since then, Gucci has solidified himself as a Trap King of the South. Aside from his countless run-ins with the law , he's provided music that help define the trap music genre. Though Gucci Mane is an Atlanta-based artist , he is not an original native to the city.
In , he actually moved to the city at the tender age of nine with his mother. Since then, Gucci has called Atlanta, Georgia home. After a failed attempt at securing a distribution deal in New York, Gucci used his failure as motivation to keep striving for his goal. Gucci Mane made the most of his time while incarcerated. There was no way he was going to be released and not deliver some heat.
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