Radric Davis, better known by his stage name Gucci Mane, is a American rapper. Signed to Atlantic Records, taking his stage name from his hustler father`s nickname, "Gucci Man," his first single, "Icy," peaked at #23 on the Billboard Hot Rap Tracks charts, and his first album, Trap House, peaked at #101 on the Billboard 200. His second album, Hard 2 Kill, was released in 2006, followed by Trap-A-Thon and Back to the Trap House in 2007, all of which sold well as independently released albums.

While incarcerated, an Atlanta producer by the name of Big Cat was also in jail. Gucci Mane spit a freestyle in the cell and the rest was history. After his first single "Black Tee," was frequently played in Atlanta on urban radio. Then Gucci Mane released his album Trap House in May 2005; the album hit number one on the Top Heatseekers chart. His followup albums Hard 2 Kill, Trap-A-Thon and Back to the Trap House succeeded on the Top Heatseekers and Top Independent Albums charts. A dispute between Gucci Mane and the rapper, Young Jeezy, erupted over the rights to Gucci`s hit single "Icy."[3] In the summer of 2005, Jeezy released a freestyle song titled "Stay Strapped" used over the beat of "ASAP" by T.I. as a diss towards Gucci; consequently, Gucci released his own mixtape criticizing Jeezy, Round One. In 2008 Gucci Mane has also had feuds with Big Cat over the release from his contract, and with T.I. as well over a misinterpretation of some lyrics in a T.I. song. On May 10, 2005, Gucci Mane was visiting the home of Talia when five assailants came in the house with the intentions of taking Gucci`s signature So Icy chain and began attacking Gucci Mane and his friend. Gucci Mane was armed and fired several shots before the assault ended, later describing the shootings as self-defense. Three days later, during filming of BET`s Rap City, Gucci Mane was informed that there was a warrant out for his arrest. The warrant was related to a body found, that day, near a public school in Decatur, of Henry Lee Clark III aka Pookie Loc, a rapper from Macon, Georgia who was performing under Young Jeezy`s label, Corporate Thugz Entertainment; Gucci Mane was undergoing a feud with Young Jeezy at the time, which some police also attribute to Gucci Mane`s ties to the G-Shine Blood Street Gang and Jeezy`s ties to BMF and the Crips Street gang. Gucci Mane turned himself in to police on May 19, 2005. The charges were dropped on December 30, 2005, with police stating they did not have enough evidence to try him for the murder.

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