![]() Mane first saw fiancée Keyshia Ka'Oir in a music video during his third prison stint in 2009. He was high on ecstasy throughout the production of the Chicken Talk mixtape, which, he writes, "captured my state of mind during the time I was making it."ĩ. A verbal exchange ensued and Mane was kicked off of the tour bus, and he didn't get his money back.Ĩ. Mane had originally paid Juvenile $7,500 to appear on a song, but when he met Juvenile on a tour bus in Florida, the New Orleans rapper suddenly changed his mind and decided he was only going to produce a beat and a hook for Mane. Just months before "So Icey" blew up the charts, he got tricked out of a verse by rapper Juvenile. But they weren't offering any money upfront, so he turned it down.ħ. T.I.'s record label, Grand Hustle, was the first to offer him a deal after the success of his single "So Icey." They offered him a 50-50 partnership and said they would pay for production and promotion of his music. But Zayoven, a producer Mane met shortly after serving a 90-day jail sentence for his 2001 arrest, convinced him he should be the one rapping.Ħ. He even managed an aspiring 14-year-old rapper from Atlanta named Lil Buddy. ![]() Inspired by music moguls Master P and Birdman, he initially wanted to make money behind the scenes. "It tasted like candy to me, and I loved the high," he wrote.ĥ. A year later, he was officially hooked on lean mixed with soda. The first time he tried lean-a codeine cocktail-he was rushed to the hospital. That's how serious I was about my studies."Ĥ. I took every dollar of that money and put it towards getting myself a bigger bomb. ![]() However, he wasn't very interested in higher education at the time, writing: "When I first enrolled I worked the school out of like eighteen hundred dollars for textbooks. By April 2001, his first arrest-for selling cocaine-ended his college days. He took some time off before enrolling in the school in 2000. He graduated from high school with a 3.0 grade point average in 1998 and was offered a scholarship to Georgia Perimeter College. GUCCI MANE FIRST ALBUM 2001 CRACKI handed him the money and he handed me two tightly wrapped $50 slabs of crack cocaine."ģ. "Frustrated, I took the money and left the apartment walking toward the other side of Mountain Park. His mother couldn't afford his wish-list items, and instead gave him $50 to buy himself something. GUCCI MANE FIRST ALBUM 2001 UPGRADEHe decided to upgrade his supply in an effort to buy a pair of Jordan sneakers and a Starter jacket before returning to school from Christmas break. By the time he entered the eighth grade, Mane was selling harder drugs like crack cocaine. His brother, Victor Davis, got him selling marijuana as a kid. With the release of his first mixtape, Gucci Mane La Flare, in 2001, he adopted his dad's nickname.Ģ. Ralph was the first Gucci Mane, and Radric was "Lil Gucci" or "Gucci's son" when he was growing up. His birth name, Radric, is a combination of his mother's name, Vicky Davis, and the first name of his father, Ralph Everett Dudley. Imma finish this by Friday ! #Wop /MF2Tc4gkuq- DJ ICEBERG™ September 19, 2017Ĭheck out the top 12 biggest revelations in The Autobiography of Gucci Mane below:ġ. By the time he released his debut single, "So Icey," in 2005, he'd already been arrested and jailed twice. Mane has gone to prison or jail on seven different occasions. Whereas so many rappers had become famous for rapping about the luxuries drug money commanded, Mane was actually using his music to discuss the perils of the street and the dangerous lifestyle that came with it.Īnd if his lyrics couldn't prove how acquainted he was with the streets, his rap sheet could. His nasally voice and excessive use of ad-libs made him an instant hit among hip-hop fans but it was his authenticity that really generated his cult-like following. Drug dealers have long referred to the house or apartment in which they operate out of as the "trap," but it was Mane who brought the idea of a trap house to the mainstream. Often referred to as Guwop by his fans, Mane is the originator of trap-music, a gritty subgenre of hip hop heavily influenced by drug culture in the south. ![]() Perfect and Gucci Sosa mixtapes had nearly blown out my car speakers. By the time I got to college in '06, Hard to Kill, his second album, was in heavy rotation in my dorm room by the summer of 2008, his Mr. I became a fan of the Atlanta-based rapper Gucci Mane my junior year of high school, after my kinda-sorta boyfriend introduced me to his 2005 Trap House album.
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