Table of Biography
Gucci Mane is one of the well-known rappers and recording artists, who laid the groundwork for ‘trap music’. In 2006, Gucci Mane released his first album titled ‘Trap House’ along with his Jeezy. His songs have been featured in many movies and he has collaborated with other famous artists such as Drake, Lil Wayne, Chris Brown, Selena Gomez, Mariah Carey, and Marilyn Manson.
Early Life and Childhood
Gucci’s family has a strong military background. To be precise, his paternal grandfather, James Dudley, Sr., served in the military for twelve years. He also served during World War II and he served as a chef during all those years.
Similarly, his maternal grandfather served in the Pacific during World War II and on the USS South Dakota and his name was Walter Lee Davis. Mane’s father also served in the military and he was stationed in Korea for two years.
Gucci grew up in a poor neighborhood, which was high in crime. Being raised in such an environment, Gucci was also involved in drug dealing from an early age along with his brother.
He even spent his Christmas money to acquire crack cocaine while he was in eighth grade. This was the start of his career as a drug dealer.
Gucci Mane – Education
Throughout his school, he maintained good grades. Gucci completed his high school at McNair High School in 1998 with a 3.0 GPA and a HOPE Scholarship to Georgia Perimeter College.
Gucci took a computer programming course, though he rarely attended, and was kicked out in 2001. It happened after Gucci was caught in possession of crack cocaine by an undercover police officer. He was sentenced to 90 days in county jail and then probation.
Awards
Nominated for Best R&B Performance at ‘The Grammy Awards 2020’, but unfortunately, he couldn’t take this award home.
Gucci Mane – Net Worth 2024
Before his career, he had complications in his career as he was imprisoned for several years. His net worth was $34M and $37M in the year 2018 and 2019 respectively. As of 2019, his net worth is $12M.
Career and Professional Life
Though, Gucci used to thrive in poetry at an early age, later he shifted his interest in rapping and started his rap career at the age of 14. At the age of 22, Gucci released an album ‘La Flare’ on ‘Str8 Drop Records’ in 2001.
Across East Atlanta, around 1000 CDs were distributed. After a year, he became an associate member of ‘Sign Yourself Click’. He signed a deal with SYS Records and established his recording label ‘LaFlare Entertainment’ by teaming up with a record producer and DJ, Zaytoven.
Later, he moved to New York with the hope of settling a distribution contract, unfortunately, nothing went as he thought. Gucci had to return empty hands.
Before releasing his debut album, ‘Trap House’ in 2006, he worked secretly with Tommy Boy Records for an album distribution contract.
Though ‘Trap House’ was one of the tops of the Billboard Heatseekers Chart, their disputes separated them. In 2006, he released his second album. ‘Hard to Kill’ included “Freaky Gurl” an independent album that secured the 12th spot on Hot Rap Tracks.
In 2007, the commercially released ‘Back to the Trap House’ had the remix of “Freaky Gurl”.
Caption: Gucci performing on BET Hip Hop Awards 2018, Source: Power106
From 2009 to 2013
On 6 August 2010, the opening track, “Gucci Time” of his third studio record, ‘The Appeal: Georgia’s Most Wanted’ debuted on his “MySpace profile.
‘The Return of Mr. Zone 6’, Gucci’s 10th extended play secured 2nd on Rap and 8th spots on R&B/Hip-Hop Albums charts. Until now, it is one of the top-charting albums on a billboard.
‘Ferrari Boyz’ and ‘BAYTL’ are the albums associated with ‘Waka Flocka Flame’ and ‘V-Nasty’ respectively in 2011. After a year, mixed tapes: ‘Trap Back’, ‘I’m Up’, and ‘Trap God’ followed.
Those albums featured other rappers like ‘ Birdman’, ‘Meek Mill’, ‘Future’, ‘Rick Ross’, and ‘Waka Flocka Flame’. In the year 2013, Gucci announced that he would be disclosing a new studio album titled ‘Trap House III”. He said that it would be in the ‘ Trap House’ series.
From 2014 to 2016
In 2016, ‘Woptober’, his 10th indie released. His 10th studio record ‘The Return of East Atlanta Santa’ ended in 2016 remarkably. He made an appearance in several movies, ‘Birds of a Feather Spring Breakers’, and ‘Gucci Mane-The Lost Footage’ are some of them.
Caption: Gucci’s photo snapped while launching his autobiography, Source: True Urban Caller
2016-present
On May 26, 2016, he was released from prison five months early. The next day, he released the first single under his new deal with Atlantic Records, “First Day Out Tha Feds”.
On June 3, 2016, he made an appearance on “Champions”, the first single off of GOOD Music’s Cruel Winter album. Gucci made his first performance since being released from prison at the Elan Mansion, an Atlanta club on June 17, 2016.
On June 25, 2016, he announced his ninth studio album, and the first since his release from prison, Everybody Looking. It was released on July 22, 2016.
In September 2016, he collaborated with Rae Sremmurd on the single “Black Beatles”, which in November 2016. It reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100, and his first number-one single as a featured artist.
Likewise, he released Woptober on October 14, 2016, and released a side project called Free Bricks 2 with Future. On December 16, 2016, his tenth studio album, “The Return of East Atlanta Santa” was released.
On May 26, 2017, he released Droptopwop, a collaborative mixtape with Metro Boomin. He released his eleventh studio album, Mr. Davis on October 13, 2017.
The album includes “I Get the Bag” featuring Migos, which topped at #11 on the Billboard Hot 100, his most successful single as a solo artist to date.
Two months later, he released his twelfth studio album El Gato: The Human Glacier, and his thirteenth album, Evil Genius, on December 7, 2018. Gucci Mane also owns a Youtube channel with the name ‘OfficialGucciMane’.
He has more than 3.6 M subscribers on his YouTube channel.
Other ventures
Apart from singing, Gucci Mane also acted in the film. He made his acting debut in the 2012 film Birds of a Feather, co-starring with Producer Zaytoven.
In the same year, he appeared in Spring Breakers which also featured Vanessa Hudgens, James Franco, Selena Gomez, Ashley Benson, and Rachel Korine.
In May 2016, he started teasing images of his upcoming clothing line called Delantic. It features a range of apparel, from T-shirts and hoodies to underwear.
Similarly, in September 2017, he published his autobiography, The Autobiography of Gucci Mane. He wrote the book during Davis’s time in prison and authored it with Neil Martinez-Belkin, a former XXL Magazine editor.
Davis released a trailer for the book consisting of a short montage directed by videographer Cam Kirk in the weeks before the publication. His Autobiography went on to become a New York Times bestseller.
Furthermore, in 2019 he began working with the Italian fashion house Gucci. previously brand had not associated itself with the rapper due to his criminal record and image.
After a few years of individual growth that included Davis getting married and improving his fitness, Gucci announced he would be the face of their Gucci Cruise 2020 Campaign.
Gucci Mane – Relationship Status
Caption: Gucci with his second wife, Keyshia Ka’oir, Source: Hello Beautiful
Controversies
Gucci Mane has been in numerous controversies. One such is his charge against the murder of Pookie Loc, a CTE affiliate of Young Jeezy. However, the charge was later dropped as Gucci maintained that he did it out of self-defense.
Later on 16 March 2012, R&B singer Keyshia Cole came to Gucci for the controversial song “Truth” in which Gucci indicated that Cole was cheating on Jeezy with P.Diddy.
He also caught up in controversy with the song “Fuck The World” which had a controversial line supposedly directed to fellow Atlanta rapper Yung Joc.
Body Measurements
Social Media
Gucci is active on most social media platforms. He is a verified user of Instagram with more than 13.9 M followers. His Twitter account with his stage name, Gucci Mane has 8.1 million followers.
With the username @guccimane, Gucci has been getting the love of more than 8 million followers on his Facebook account.