before gucci mane would become a new york times best-selling author with his
autobiography and prepare to release the second book
a motivational work titled the gucci mane guide to greatness
offering an unprecedented look at his secrets to success
health wealth and self-improvement my my engineer suggested it
you know when i was away and then it was just something like i guess the kill
time yeah just a stressful you in prison you
don't got nothing but time you know what i'm saying i just reflect on my life and
like i just started writing and next thing i know 30 40 pages was down and i
was off and going before gucci mane would drop over six
figures in a bet with drake over the result of the nba eastern conference
finals in 2019. yeah i lost a bunch of money i lost
over six figures and i lost and i lost my damn shirt
cause we bet the jersey too so i lost a shirt too so a lot
i literally lost my shirt before gucci mane would finally start working with
the italian fashion house gucci announcing that he would be the face of
their gucci crews 2020 campaign i never been this relaxed i had this
much fun it's you know it's unreal that's actually
hilarious because back in the day gucci they were doing everything they could to
stop the association they didn't want him using their name now in terms of
success and longevity well few rappers have the type of
extensive resume that my man gucci mane is packing
now he's often referred to as one of the founding fathers of trap music
and he's been dropping bars since 2001 when he put out his first underground
release straight drop records presents gucci
mane leflare now since then he's amassed dozens of
mixtapes singles collaborations and studio albums
and with gucci recently taking to instagram to ask if we'd like to see the
old gucci back well i thought now would be a great time
to take a stroll down memory lane and look back at the beginnings of one of
the most successful and controversial rappers ever
and with all the arrests and crazy stunts i'm about to detail in this video
well i think we can all agree that the new gucci is a big improvement to the
old one if you agree with me let me know by
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gucci mane was born radrick delantic davis on february 12
1980 in bessemer alabama now a lot of you guys might be wondering how does he
go from that to gucci mane fair question well it's a nickname that
radrick he inherited from his grandfather
james dudley senior now this man first earned it himself after falling in love
with the gucci brand and serving in italy during world war ii
when he returned home will he bequeath the name to a nephew
who passed it further down the line until we ended up with a gucci mane that
we all know and love today crazy who would have thunked them what's
your name man my name is ralph ralph what davis and
who and who whose friend who your son man
rachel davis and what's his nickname huh what's your sign nickname he stole my
nickname and what is it huh gucci gucci man your
son yes what yeah it was boy the man from
that clip is gucci's father ralph everett dudley
now he was a power plant worker and a former u.s serviceman
now his mother vickie jean davis she was a school teacher and a social worker
now the two they met in 1978 and at the time while vicki she was already a
mother having his son victor davis from prior
relationship now by the time vicky became pregnant with gucci
well ralph he was on the run from the cops he was wanted for selling crack and
heroin so he fled alabama for the mean streets of detroit
after gucci was born will ralph he would visit his son sporadically throughout
his childhood now in most cases getting to spend time
with your father is a blessing even in short doses
but for these two things were a bit more complicated that's because whenever he
would visit gucci well his son would pick up tricks from
ralph's con artist trade now years later those same tricks they
would start getting gucci in a whole bunch of trouble
i think a lot of those things that i just i caused myself man you know i
would do a crime and then they would punish me for it and
i wouldn't i wouldn't respect the fact that i need you know like them i did
something i just get out and do the same thing because
if i felt like they was hating on me but things weren't all doom and gloom for a
young gucci now despite being busy attending college
to earn his degree and get her family in a better situation
well vicki she took the time to teach gucci about the bible and how to read
from an early age now these extra lessons they proved to
be invaluable in the years to come and they gave gucci a leg up in school
when it came to subjects like english now gucci he attended jonesboro
elementary and these emerging skills of reading
around this time gucci got introduced to hip-hop for the first time thanks to his
brother victor that was older bro would take him to
concerts like run dmc the beastie boys and
ll cool j then in 1989 their entire family they picked up shop and they
moved to atlanta now vikki she decided to move her family
there after falling in love but the guy he had a last second change
of heart and this left gucci and his family out on the streets
now this was a serious time of instability in gucci's life as his
family moved from place to place looking for somewhere to settle now
eventually ralph he came back into the picture
and he helped set up his former family in nights in where they stayed until
vicky could afford to relocate them to east end of atlanta
now once settled will gucci he attended cedar grove elementary school
where he continued to excel despite all the instability going on in his life
at school gucci stood out because of his alabama accent
now despite being an athletic child he never took part in school sports
because by the time he was a teenager well gucci was already busy hustling on
the streets with his brother this was following in ralph's footsteps
now together they sold drugs on the streets for pocket money
and he told npr i was obsessed with money definitely
coming up because i seen so many people not having money and i went to sleep
hungry i knew what it's like to be poor i knew
what it's like to have your lights off or to have to boil water to take a bath
and that never left me i seen the way everything was about a dollar so in my
mind it was always like try to make yourself not to be a burden
on nobody though at first it was only weed but by the time he was in the 8th
grade he was investing his christmas money into more lucrative product
we're talking crack yeah when i was in the 8th grade the only thing i was
dealing with pokemon cards oh you already have it
by the time he was 14 will gucci he had started practicing his rap skills
but it wasn't something he took very seriously now after years of working the
streets his involvement with drugs they would come to a head when he was 18
years old now that was when he was arrested for
music was like this is what i'm going to do i don't
want to sell drugs no more with his background in reading and
writing and poetry while gucci he took to rapping like a natural
now match that with an incredible efficiency in the studio and an
unparalleled work ethic and gucci while he was quickly off and
running happy she's all wise
after dropping leflare in 2001 he met producer zetoven in 2002
and then he launched his own label le flair entertainment now he secured a
distribution deal through tommyboy records and he released his debut studio
album trap house in 2005. now on the album was
the hit single i see featuring young jeezy now
there was some miscommunication between the two in terms of the release of the
song and jeezy claimed that he never received
the do royalties from the track now days after gucci dropped it well
jeezy he released the song of his own cult stay strapped
in which she placed the ten thousand dollar bounty on gucci mane's tattooed
face her head there you know well i'm saying
like i say ain't too many people got the motive to
do something like that i just like detect learning don't say look at the
motor who has motive to do it and this is on the motor jeez yeah
okay straight up a group of four men decided to take jeezy up on his offer on
may 10 2005. now that day gucci he was attacked
at his house in decatur georgia now he fought back and he and his crew
they shot and killed one of the attackers
now for some reason they decided to bury the guy's body near columbia middle
school eventually gucci he did the right thing
and he turned himself into the police to explain exactly what had happened and
while being interviewed from prison about the event
well gucci stated i just want to let everyone know that i'm not a murderer i
was upset i was scared a little bit but i had to
do what i had to do you got to be a man about it i'm not a
bad person i have remorse for everything that happened while being prosecuted by
the d.a well gucci he got into further trouble with the law in june of that
year after assaulting a nightclub promoter
now in october he pleaded no contest to the assault charges
which landed him six months in county jail now while he was locked up the da's
office they dropped the murder charge after realizing there was insufficient
evidence to prosecute once out of prison mulguchi's career it
was keeping him busy releasing new music left and right
now in fact he was so busy he completely forgot to make time for the community
service hours he was supposed to serve which was following the assault charge
in september of 2008 he was arrested for violation of probation
having completed just 25 hours of his requested 600
and we would also spend the next six months in jail as a result in 2009 he
started a new label called 1017 brick squad records
and he dropped the state versus rick davis in december of that year
now went certified gold and it reached number one on the us rap billboard
charts now while gucci was continuing to find
success as a musician well as legal problems they kept
cropping up in 2010 he was arrested for driving on the wrong side of the road
running a red light damaging government property obstruction
and a whole bunch of other traffic charges by 2011 he was being sent by the
courts to a psychiatric hospital after his lawyer filed a special plea of
mental incompetency now later that year he would be arrested
on further charges of battery and assault
with a deadly weapon twice damn fulton county superior court judge john goger
decided to revoke one year of radrick davis's three and a half years of
probation on an assault charge that means the
rapper known as gucci mane will have to serve that one year in jail
more charges involving assaults on fans they took place in 2013
but it was what happened in september of that year that would put gucci behind
bars for the longest period of his life now that's when he was arrested for
possession of marijuana disorderly conduct
and carrying a concealed weapon now he is apparently found in possession of two
different loaded guns and on may 13 2014 while he pled guilty to the crime that
would see him serve a two-year prison sentence
now he served his time in terre haute indiana and he was released on may 26
2016. the wiz zob you are free man baby talk
to your fans honey happy mother's day weekend thank you to
my fans
appreciate my lady love you yeah yeah first day out
first day at the feds appreciate y'all support on that
we heard it on the radio everywhere that's dope yeah let's do it shout out
to the breakfast club for the marinade everybody once he was a free man well
fans they were shocked to discover that gucci he had undergone a dramatic
physical overhaul now he lost around 75 pounds he
got off drugs and he finally found time to clear his
mind now of course with the internet being the internet
well they had some fun at gucci's expense pushing me
on yeah i heard that same room it's funny to me i guess that you know
people ain't used to me being healthy and taking care of myself
and being happy so it's i can understand why they why they shock
you know what i'm saying so it's funny i embrace it
it just let me know a clone is like perfection
so if i look like a machine or a robot then everything i'm doing something well
now his music was more successful than ever with his single black beatles
reaching number one on the billboard hot 100
a first for his entire career now it's been seven weeks topping the list then
in october of 2017 he married keshia kr and their wedding
while it was on bet and they produced the ten park tv series
it was huge
what is going on is this a proposal
do you say yes
wait for it wait for it
yeah since then the only thing gucci has been hustling is his music
now he stayed problem free over the past four years now
which makes some of his fans nervous after seeing his recent post
asking if anyone wants to see the old gucci back
now i might just speak for everyone when i say i think uh
he's doing a-okay we should just keep it as it is stay off the lean for sure
all jokes aside huge congrats to gucci mane he is one of the ogs and he did it
his own way in his own lane so kudos to him he's also living his
best life as for the rest of the story well i think i'm gonna wrap this one up
here because this is before they are famous
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