Radric Davis (born February 2, 1980 in Birmingham Alabama), better known by his stage name Gucci Mane is an American rapper and CEO of So Icey Entertainment In 2005 he released his independent debut album, Trap House, which contained the successful single "Icy" which he recorded with Young Jeezy He has since released three more albums with 2006's Hard To Kill 2007's Trap-A-Thon and 2007's Back To The Trap House his sixth studio album The State vs. Radric Davis, released in December 2009 just weeks after he was sent back to prison for 12 months for having violated his probation
It is said that art reflects life in the hip-hop's case, there is always a deliberate confusion between perception and reality Fans demand their MCs be real ...but never for real framgångful hip-hop is about hint of danger that excites the mystique Hip-hop is about balance
Gucci Mane is an artist striving to balance the volatility compared musicality Controversy, including a feud with former colleagues Young Jeezy has grabbed headlines with sufficient consideration given to his great mic skills, raw talent and business acumen Gucci is looking to tear his name from public speculation and let his words do the talking
"I wish everyone who gives money in this rap game" Atlanta - the rapper says dismissing the controversy that followed him before, "My own rap game is so good that I have so many things on my plate at my label that I do not have time with other people's business" with an agreementwith Asylum Records as chefav his own label So Icey Entertainment Gucci actually has an entire list with no time to dwell on the past
"I live my life without regret I just wish that a lot of things that never happened, but anyone could wish for" says Gucci Sounds like a man with eyes on the prize and you expect nothing less from an artist who crossed the road to the top via the hustle of Independent Records signed to Big Cat Records in the wake of his local single "Black Tee" he dropped his debut record Trap House in May 2005 The independent album moved an impressive 140,000 units in large part on the strength of "Icy" single featuring Jeezy ALARM over song rights, provoked the dispute and the resulting increased Rift
Controversy despite Mane's independencewas cemented: "I was on the independent scene for about two years," he recalls "It's crazy: you must go into your own pocket to support your boat, you need other ways to get money coming in to support your things, you can win you can lose and it's a gamble out there with the independent circuit, one thing you better have good music without having to go downhill fast in the independent game "
Good music firmly in hand, Gucci was fast approaching stardom when more tragedy befell him, but let us go back, how were you born Radric Davis in Bessemer Alabama to become spokesperson for Gucci Mane Stuntin Atlanta? Mane remembers little from his time in Alabama just that it was rural and it's changed dramatically since he left at the age of nine, "I must screamAlabama, but because they holdin 'it down ", he confirms" Every time I go there to do a show, I am impressed with how hip-hop culture has taken root "
Mane's identity coalesced when he moved with his mother to Atlanta," I lived all my youth and adulthood in Atlanta, "he explains" I'm from East Atlanta Zone six, it was hard man, it was really rough, I grew up in the Starter jacket era: they would take your Starter jacket, your 8Ball jacket, they would take your hat, your shoes, it was just a high ceiling on the streets dog eat dog, if you missed the bus, you had to be crewed up or you want to get jumped, it was wild when I came up "
It is a bleak portrait When asked to describe their home life more vivid Mane offers a look into his contemplative sida one side honed as a schoolyard poet, "I was just a young dude in a single parent house most of my life, I can not complain as much as I would guess that it is just like any black child growing up in single parent households There are many people who know what it is that I do not have much going on, but what I did, I estimated I was blessed to have a caring mother to raise me right and help me with my business ventures, she has been there through the entire battle There is much that goes along with it, it made me who I am today "
A stepfather enters the picture during Mane's adolescence include not only a male figure, but also inspiration for Mane unusual moniker" My father was in the original Gucci Mane, that's what folki neighborhood called him, and where can I get my name from from when I grew up the son of a hustler and a schoolteacher, it was the best of both worlds, because I was educated twice "inspired by a pantheon of rappers before him , Big Daddy Kane LL Cool J Ice Cube Beastie Boys NWA-Mane went on to release Trap House a lethal brew of his signature sound: "I call my music directly Gucci: going hard and what beats you up for me if I feel that If I swing with it I'll break it when you hear me you hear a lot of pain very hood, you hear what's happening in the inner city of Atlanta '
Sorry Trap House was ill timed, the month when it released Gucci was accused of murder and imprisoned for two days finally deemed to be acting in selfälvförsvar and without sufficient evidence to hold him, Mane was released, but the trial gave an independent libel mark on man "I learned to keep better company watch where I go and think about my surroundings at all times," he reveals "Watch what I say watch what I doing and how I do it just to keep me out the wrong crowd "
" I am always up to, "he continues," I am one of the toughest guys I know that it takes much more than that to break me down "relentlessly Mane was Back in the studio preparing for 2006's eerily apropos Hard To Kill The buzz from Hard To Kill vaulted Gucci Mane from regional commodity to National Treasure and major labels responded thus: "It was a bidding war and I liked Atlantic förhållningss?? tt They made it known that they wanted me they knew where I was coming and that I could grow with them "
Asylum / Atlantic Records welcomed GucciMane early '07 give him his own imprint So Icey fun with it, a completely stable of artists on the So Icey Boyz The Boyz ready for their own exposure - I got them in training, they are in the weight room Pumping Iron to do push-ups in the shopping mall to buy ice "-Gucci is focused on his magnum opus Back to the Trap House" I started working on the album and the third song I was like, "This goes back to the Trap House," I began to feel the same way as I did when I made my first album had the same feeling at the same freshness and I had the same hunger and I had been longing nahr I first began rapping "
" Since I went major, I want everyone to know I 'm still keeping it street keep it hood "Gucci maintains" I try to take it back to all my fans that I had when I started my career and while I try to open my new album for a new fan base so it is a mix of all coming together as my first album "Gucci has always praised himself on his innate ability and his refusal to let guest appearances dictate the tone of his records" I want people to know I'm a great songwriter, man "he claims" I am passionate about what I do and it's choreographed strategically when I do I bring much experience, creative wordplay, and a crazy style and my album I play most songswithout writing them down, there is a God-given gift and I only get paid for it comes from God, it's like wondering what makes a bird fly, he made me a poet as the great poets of the past "
But not dimmaake Gucci confidence in self-absorption failure in his career has evoked a longer see Lyrics aside, he is less preoccupied with visible means and more so as an emissary from his under-repped block "I'm not the one to glorify what's going on in the ghetto, "he insists," We have everything in the whole range from violence to get people on the bus and go to work, it is much more to the hood than just drugs, it is a bigger story is a great picture, I went to school in the neighborhood I workedwhere I get stuck where I hustled there, and I got my name which I am proud to be from East Atlanta Zone six and I argue that I do it on my back and carry on being the first from the real rock '
and Gucci professional purposes have matured as well While other rappers stress platinum plaques Gucci has not forgotten the path he took to stardom "I made a lot of CDs on my own people fuck with me and supported me and just made me the man I am today That's my plan right there and I stay aware of it So now my only concern is that people feel my music, at the end of the day I do it for people to feel that if a person think that two people think it feels like my work has done "
Fortunately for Gucci, he should be ready to welcome an army of new fans with Back to the Trap House, but longstanding fans should not fear, they'll recognize "Freaky Gurl" reprised from its previous appearance from Hard to Kill Luda when he heard jointly requested A guest spot on the remix Said remix now appears as the lead single on Back to the Trap House by Gucci theme of mating old and new over a bouncing meandering beat from Cyber Sapp two cook up the requisite concoction of whips chips and chicken also look out for "Bird Flu" album's number two single laced by the New York-based Supa Sonics hold on guest verses from Rich Boy and Pimp C UGK round out Gucci regional flavor, while Bay-area producer Zaytoven (of "Icy" renown) locks down Gucci's West Co.ast appeal
Gucci Mane has something for everyone and the struggles of the past in his rear view mirror Gucci settled into his ride to the top "I'm best known for controversy but I am trying to gain respect as a songwriter and entertainer, I plan to hit them so hard with this album, who knows what the future will attJag will be banging them out until I can not bang any more " |
