Within the same month of the LP's release, Mane was arrested for murder following an altercation in which he shot at a group of five men who burst into his friend's house, threatening to kill the rapper. The beef with Young Jeezy originated with a fight over the rights to the song, which spawned a number of diss tracks traded between the two.
The skirmish would kick off a storied narrative that defined his career. The single "Icy" became a national hit, but he became involved in a quarrel with that song's collaborator, Young Jeezy, and found himself facing murder charges in the Georgia courts. In May 2005, the label released his debut album, Trap House, which peaked at the number one spot on Billboard's Heatseekers chart. His debut single, "Black Tee," was a hit on the local scene and earned him a contract with Big Cat Records. The glamour and fashion sense of rappers like Big Daddy Kane motivated him to put words to music. By the time high school started, Gucci Mane had already spent time in a recording studio. During the fourth grade, he moved to Atlanta with his single mother. Davis (2017), which both landed at number two on the Billboard 200.īorn Radric Davis, the artist grew up composing rhymes, writing poetry as a child in elementary school in his native Birmingham, Alabama. Continuing his busy recording schedule, he issued almost a dozen efforts in a matter of years, including Everybody Looking (2016) and Mr. By the time he was released, he emerged a respected genre icon and steered his life in a more positive direction. While incarcerated, he continued to feed fans, issuing over two dozen mixtapes. This celebratory Top 25 comes alongside GuWop's own celebrations - the rapper is due to wed his fiancee Keyshia Ka'oir in the coming month, following the reveal of of their lavish invitations, he just got released from probation two years ahead of schedule, and finally, his friends, Offset included, threw him a surprise bachelor party. If these aren't all causes for celebration, we don't know what it is.Atlanta-based rapper Gucci Mane is a trap pioneer who kicked off his storied career with a prolific run of albums and mixtapes before a prison sentence became a crucial turning point in his narrative. This work ethic is nothing new, of course, making it difficult to chalk up the highlights of his exhaustive catalog of over 80 albums and mixtapes to just 25 songs, but we sure did try. 2016 marked Gucci’s return after a two year-long stint for his unlawful possession of a firearm, proving just how far his work ethic goes, managing to still gift us with a mixtape and two studio albums towards the end of the year.
It’s no secret that, through out his long career, Gucci Mane has dealt with the fame in tandem with a slew of legal issues that have, in hindsight, only further boosted the rapper’s pertinence in this era. help carry that torch onwards (speaking of which, where K.R.I.T. There is no shade intended at OutKast with that statement - they were also definitive pioneers of a Southern sound as well, which, although may not be considered trendy (sigh) at the moment, Southerners such as Big K.R.I.T. and Jeezy ousting the likes of OutKast as the reigning sound of the Southern capital only continues to fasten itself, growing stronger with every new project and guest feature. Since his initiation into the rap game, you’d be pressed to find a rapper from Atlanta and the surrounding area who doesn’t cite Radric Davis has an influence one way or another, and this influence certainly doesn’t fail to permeate beyond his city limits, as Gucci has rightfully reserved his spot among pioneers of Hip-Hop’s trap subgenre.Ī decade and some change later, the throne he began to assemble during a point in time that saw Davis and other contemporaries like T.I.
We narrow down Gucci Mane's top 25 best songs.of all time?Īrriving with a movement that saw many of Hip-Hop’s die-hards questioning the genre’s direction, Gucci Mane’s significance both musically and culturally has been both heavily documented and proven since his debut Chicken Talk and Trap House projects.