Gucci Mane and Yo Gotti are two of the biggest OGs in the game today.
They both put on for their cities,
and the music went even crazier when they worked together.
But one small misunderstanding destroyed their whole relationship
and sparked a wild beef that turned them against each other.
Here’s what went down.
Gucci Mane and Yo Gotti are certified legends.
Before Kanye came in and changed the whole game,
hip hop was all about dudes flexing and talking about their work in the trenches.
So, it only made sense
for two of the most authentic street artists to link up and work together.
They might have been raised in different cities, but their come ups are similar.
Both of them grew up hustling at a young age and doing whatever it took to survive the streets.
They both started to gain a buzz around the same time
and real recognized real, so there was a lot of mutual respect between the two.
They started collaborating together on tracks like Mo’ Money and Bricks.
Fans went crazy for the singles,
so Gucci and Gotti took it a step further and dropped a whole mixtape together
called Definition of a G.
Then they followed it up with the tape G S***.
Everyone was feeling the music,
and it seemed like Gucci and Gotti were about to take over the entire industry together.
But before they could become hip hop’s next hottest duo,
everything fell apart over some petty beef.
In October 2012, Gucci was doing a press run for his new project called Trap God.
The release date was set for the 17th of the month, which was an important day for him.
1017 is Gucci’s label, and he was determined to drop on that day
after hyping up the release for months.
For Gucci, this was his next big step as an artist and a label owner.
But, then news broke that Yo Gotti was dropping on the same day.
According to Gotti, he ain’t know Gucci was dropping his project on the 17th,
but he was hype when he found out.
He said in an interview “He’s supposed to be my homeboy. I hit his phone immediately
because I’m thinking, "Man, we're about to shut it down."
In Gotti’s mind, him and Gucci dropping on the same day was a win-win situation.
Everyone knew they were tight, and he thought the extra publicity
would just help them both.
But Gucci wasn’t feeling the same way.
Gotti said “So I hit him to chop it up like that. He ain’t hit me back, he ain’t answer.”
Gotti thought Gucci might have changed his number or something,
so he hit someone from his camp and told them to have Gucci reach out.
Gucci never got in touch with him,
but Gotti still wasn’t pressed about it because he thought they were still cool.
Then right before the release date, Gucci tweeted out
“Why would another artist put they mixtape out on 10/17 if they ain’t Bricksquad.
You ain’t me the #TRAPGOD.”
Gotti saw the tweet and tried to reach out immediately.
He said they chopped it up on the phone, but also told an interviewer
“From that point, I realized that: homie had an issue.
For whatever reason it was.”
Even though he ain’t get why Gucci was upset,
Gotti still considered him a friend.
So he decided to change his release date to the next day.
But apparently, that wasn’t the only problem.
Gotti told The Breakfast Club that when he called Gucci about the release date,
Wop just talked about how Gotti was working with his opps.
Gotti had just dropped a remix for his track Racks and featured T.I. and Jeezy.
Everyone knows about Gucci and Jeezy’s legendary beef,
so he wasn’t cool with Gotti working with a dude who allegedly sent shooters to his crib.
Check out our video on Gucci Mane and Jeezy for a deep dive into this wild story.
But Gotti wasn’t the only one crossing sides to work with people.
Gucci was tight with Young Dolph, who was one of Gotti’s biggest opps
before he was tragically killed in 2021.
They collab’d all the time and even dropped a project together in 2013.
Go watch our video on the crazy beef between Gotti and Dolph for more info.
Wop and Gotti hashed it out over the phone and Gotti thought everything was cool.
But what happened next would put an end to their partnership for good.
Gucci hopped on a radio interview and said “My main problem with him
is that he dropped his mixtape on 10/17 - and tried to like ride my wave…
Why would you drop it if you ain’t on 1017?
And when I call you as my partner to ask you why you did it, you say
‘oh I didn’t know you were dropping a mixtape."'
So Wop obviously wasn’t buying the story
that Gotti ain’t know about the release date beforehand.
He’d been promoting the tape for months and thought there was no way
Gotti ain’t know about it.
In his opinion, Gotti was just trying to get some shine off his music.
At this point Gotti still wasn’t trying to escalate the situation,
so he moved his release date to 10/18.
But their relationship was already damaged, and now it was about to get even worse.
Next, Gucci dropped the track Birds of a Feather, where he took shots at a bunch of his opps.
He dissed, Jezzy, T.I., and dropped the line “I used to fuck with Gotti
till he turned into a buster.”
Gotti was asked if he was going to drop a song in response, but he said
“I’m more disappointed in him than anything, because I looked at him different.
What I perceived in him is not what he’s playing out…
I thought you was a straight up, stand up guy - street type dude,
and street dudes don’t handle business like that.”
Gotti said even the dudes in Gucci’s camp
ain’t understand why he was dissing him on the record.
At first it seemed like Gotti was gonna let everything slide and just move on.
But then he responded with a diss track called Have Mercy
and put an end to their friendship for good.
That would’ve been enough, but then the beef took a twist
that turnt the disrespect up to 100.
Gotti revealed in a Breakfast Club interview that he had slept with Gucci’s wife,
Keysha Ka’oir, back when Wop was in jail over a probation violation.
Gucci and Keysha weren’t married at the time, but they already had history.
According to Gotti, he ain’t know Gucci was serious about her and said
“ I ain’t know you in love and all that. You know how the game go.”
“ I ain’t know you in love and all that.
Comon man, you know how the game go.”
Around this same time, Gucci’s lean addiction was getting worse everyday
and he started acting out.
He went off on Twitter and sent shots at everyone.
Yo Gotti, Jeezy, and T.I. all got dissed,
even Drake and Nicki Minaj.
Gucci was starting to spiral out of control.
On September 13, 2013,
he was kicking it with a friend when he started to act “erratically,”
so his boy called the police.
When the cops showed up, Gucci started yelling and threatening them.
They booked him and also found weed and a gun on him.
Sources close to him reported that Gucci was hospitalized after the arrest
because he was having seizures from lean.
Then on December 3rd, 2013,
he was charged with two counts of possessing a firearm as a convicted felon.
He was facing up to 20 years in prison if convicted.
Gucci was at the top of the rap game,
but his substance abuse and other criminal behavior was about to destroy everything.
In 2014 he accepted a plea deal that would keep him behind bars until late 2016.
Getting locked up turned out to be the best possible outcome for Gucci.
He quit lean and dropped 40 pounds in his first two months inside.
Having his freedom taken away put everything into perspective.
He wasn’t locked up in a cushy white-collar kind of joint for celebrities.
He was placed in a medium security prison that Wop called
“a place that is full of death, full of violence, full of despair.
It motivated me to change my life, because I’m never going back there.”
He ain’t use his status as a celebrity to make things easier either.
He told author Malcolm Gladwell “I pride myself on just being a man.
I didn’t stand on the fact that I was a rapper.
I stood on the fact that I’m Radric Davis the man and I made everybody who dealt with me
deal with me as Radric Davis the man, from the corrections officers,
from the judge, from the lawyer, from federal prisoners.”
After he was released in May 2016, Gucci had a new shot at life.
He was off the drugs, a new father, and 1017 was doing better than ever.
But, Yo Gotti was taking himself to the next level as well.
His label Collective Music Group was signing all kinds of new talent,
and he got into the real estate game too.
But even though he was trying to live a more positive lifestyle,
Gucci couldn’t stay away from controversy completely.
Apparently he was still upset with Angela Yee from The Breakfast Club
for asking Gotti about hooking up with Keysha Ka’oir back in the day.
In 2019 he called her a “punk ass b*****” and threatened to slap DJ Envy on sight,
So Imma confront them about what he and Angela did
and if he come at me wrong Imma slap the **** outta him
but their beef goes back further than that.
In 2016, Wop went on the Breakfast Club and said Yee tried to hit him up.
Yee straight up denied it, but Gucci shot back and said
“You used to be texting me, ‘What hotel you was at?’ and stuff like that.”
Apparently more was going on behind the scenes,
because in 2019 Gucci claimed that he was banned from The Breakfast Club for what he said.
Yee addressed the rumors about her involvement with Gucci
and denied them again.
She said that Gucci was still mad about her interview:
“He’s upset, to this day, and I guess he felt some vendetta toward me.”
Later Gucci came out and said he wasn’t actually banned from the show,
but claimed that they denied interviewing him every time he reached out.
Then in an interview with Charlamagne he doubled down and said
DJ Envy was afraid of him:
“He ain’t have the nuts to come. I’mma confront him about what he and Angela did,
and if he come at me wrong, I’mma slap the **** out him.
It ain’t gonna be his first time getting slapped.”
DJ Envy responded on Instagram and made it clear he wasn’t letting the threats get to him.
The situation has cooled off over the last couple of years,
but it don’t look like Gucci will be back on the show anytime soon.
Since getting out of prison, Gucci hasn’t gone after Yo Gotti.
It ain’t clear exactly where they stand with each other,
but for right now it don’t seem like they’re actively beefing.
Gotti always acted like there was never a real issue anyway.
He only got really involved after Gucci wouldn’t let it go.
Even when Gotti talked about smashing Keysha Ka’oir
it wasn’t like he brought it up to disrespect Gucci.
He was just answering a question truthfully.
A lot of rappers would have flexed that in a diss track,
but Gotti just said his piece and kept it pushing.
Now that the situation has settled down,
maybe these two will link up and drop new music.
If Gucci can squash his beef with Jeezy, who allegedly tried to get him killed,
he should definitely be able to forgive Gotti for releasing a mixtape on the same day as him.