1. Gucci Mane guest appeared on Rae Sremmurd's single "Black Beatles" that same year, which became his first song to peak atop the Billboard Hot 100.
76 Facts About Gucci Mane
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Gucci Mane has released sixteen studio albums and seventy-one mixtapes since embarking on his career in 2001.
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Gucci Mane founded the Atlantic Records-distributed label imprint 1017 Records in 2007, which has signed artists including Young Thug, Waka Flocka Flame, Chief Keef, and Pooh Shiesty, among others.
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Gucci Mane was nominated for a Grammy Award in 2020.
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Gucci Mane was generally good in school and considered himself athletic although he did not participate in school sports.
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Gucci Mane did not take drugs for the first few years that he was dealing drugs, and his first experience smoking cannabis was with a high school crush.
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Gucci Mane took a computer programming course, though he rarely attended and was kicked out in 2001 after being caught in possession of crack cocaine by an undercover police officer.
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Gucci Mane appeared on OJ da Juiceman's "Make Tha Trap Say Aye" and began working on various mixtapes.
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On October 2,2009, Gucci Mane was listed at number 6 on MTV's annual Hottest MC in the Game list.
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The first single from this release was "Gucci Mane Time", produced by and featuring Swizz Beatz.
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On March 18,2011, Gucci Mane released his 10th EP, The Return of Mr Zone 6, mostly produced by Drumma Boy.
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On February 5,2012, Gucci Mane released his Trap Back mixtape.
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On May 25,2012, Gucci Mane released another mixtape, I'm Up.
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Gucci Mane released yet another mixtape, Trap God, on October 17,2012.
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On February 12,2013, Gucci Mane released his mixtape Trap God 2.
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Gucci Mane announced in February 2013 that he was releasing a new studio album entitled Trap House III, the third installment of his Trap House series.
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On May 31,2013, Gucci Mane announced he was releasing a new album entitled Mr GuWop later that year, featuring appearances by personal friend and industrial rock performer Marilyn Manson, who helped him to give shape to the album's sound and musical direction.
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On June 5,2013, Gucci Mane announced that 1017 Brick Squad would release their first group compilation album, Big Money Talk, in 2013.
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Frenchie accused Gucci Mane of paying for Young Vito's lawyer, the accused murderer of former 1017 Brick Squad artist Slim Dunkin, which Gucci Mane denied.
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Frenchie would release a diss record towards Gucci Mane the following day.
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On September 9,2013, Gucci Mane advertised on Twitter that he sold the recording contracts of what he considered his main artists: Waka Flocka Flame, Young Scooter, and Young Thug.
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On September 22,2013, Gucci Mane admitted to making the tweets, and claimed he was binging on codeine and promethazine during the time.
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Gucci Mane went on to apologize to the fans, his family, and the music industry members he offended.
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Gucci Mane said that he would be going to rehab while incarcerated on his gun charge.
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Plans to release his album Mr GuWop were scrapped indefinitely, and Gucci Mane would go on to release his tenth studio album, The State vs Radric Davis II: The Caged Bird Sings, on Christmas Day 2013.
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Gucci Mane released his first music of 2014 on April 20, a free collaborative mixtape with Young Thug called Young Thugga Mane La Flare.
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Gucci Mane later released another collaborative project with 1017 BrickSquad artists, Brick Factory Vol.
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On July 22,2014, Gucci Mane announced that he would release a new album, titled The Oddfather, on the day he would go back to court, July 28,2014.
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Gucci Mane released the follow-up digital album to the mixtape Brick Factory Vol.
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On Christmas Day, Gucci Mane released his 13th mixtape, East Atlanta Santa, featuring artists such as Raury, Shawty Lo and OJ da Juiceman.
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Gucci Mane capped off the year by teaming up with producer Honorable C Note for a Christmas mixtape release titled C-Note Vs Gucci, a compilation of old collaborations between the two and new records.
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Gucci Mane released his 14th mixtape on January 3,2015,1017 Mafia: Incarcerated.
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Gucci Mane released a triple digital album for the third time on March 20,2015: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner.
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Four days later, Gucci Mane released a follow-up EP entitled Dessert, containing production from Mike Will Made It and Honorable C-Note.
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On December 25,2015, Gucci Mane released a mixtape titled East Atlanta Santa 2.
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On May 26,2016, Gucci Mane was released from prison five months early: it was ruled that the five months he had spent in prison waiting for his trial had not yet been deducted from his sentence when they should have been.
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The next day, Gucci Mane released the first single under his new deal with Atlantic Records, "First Day Out tha Feds".
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On June 3,2016, Gucci Mane appeared on "Champions", the first single off of GOOD Music's Cruel Winter album.
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On June 17,2016, Gucci Mane made his first performance since being released from prison at the Elan Mansion, an Atlanta club.
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In September 2016, Gucci Mane collaborated with Rae Sremmurd on the single "Black Beatles", which in November 2016 reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100, Gucci Mane's first number-one single as a featured artist.
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Gucci Mane released Woptober on October 14,2016, and released a side project called Free Bricks 2 with Future.
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On May 26,2017, Gucci Mane released Droptopwop, a collaborative mixtape with Metro Boomin.
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Two months later, Gucci Mane released his twelfth studio album El Gato: The Human Glacier, produced entirely by Southside.
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On July 3,2020, Gucci Mane released the 24-track So Icy Summer compilation album, marking his first project of 2020, following East Atlanta Santa 3 in 2019.
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On October 16,2020, a day before October 17, Gucci Mane released another compilation album with his label 1017 Records, titled So Icy Gang Vol.
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Gucci Mane made his acting debut in the 2012 film Birds of a Feather, co-starring with Producer Zaytoven.
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In May 2016, Gucci Mane began teasing images of his upcoming clothing line called Delantic, which will feature a range of apparel, from T-shirts and hoodies to underwear.
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The Autobiography of Gucci Mane went on to become a New York Times bestseller.
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Gucci Mane denied that he was a clone and poked fun at the theory in an Instagram post.
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The wedding was paid for by BET which produced an accompanying 10-segment TV series, The Gucci Mane Event, depicting wedding preparations and the ceremony.
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Gucci Mane was sentenced to a year in the county jail but was released after six months.
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Gucci Mane was incarcerated in the Fulton County jail for probation violation and released on May 12,2010.
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On November 2,2010, Gucci Mane was arrested for driving on the wrong side of the road, running a red light or stop sign, damage to government property, obstruction, driving without a license, no proof of insurance, and other traffic charges.
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Gucci Mane was treated at Grady Memorial Hospital and received 10 stitches.
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Gucci Mane was denied bond and was incarcerated at Fulton County Jail.
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Gucci Mane's lawyer said that witnesses claim Gucci Mane had nothing to do with the assault.
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Gucci Mane appeared in court on April 9,2013, and was indicted on one count of aggravated assault.
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Gucci Mane was released three weeks later, on May 2,2013.
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Gucci Mane was booked on charges of carrying a concealed weapon, possession of marijuana, and disorderly conduct.
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On September 30,2013, it was revealed that Gucci Mane would serve 183 days in jail on charges of firearm possession by a convicted felon, disorderly conduct, carrying a concealed weapon, and marijuana possession, among others.
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On December 3,2013, Gucci Mane was charged in federal court with two counts of possessing a firearm as a felon.
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On May 13,2014, Gucci Mane pleaded guilty to possession of a firearm by a convicted felon.
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Gucci Mane agreed to a plea deal that would result in him being in prison until late 2016.
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Gucci Mane served his sentence in the United States Penitentiary in Terre Haute, Indiana.
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On May 26,2016, Gucci Mane was released from prison ahead of his scheduled September date; this was due to Gucci Mane not initially being credited for the time he served while waiting for his court date.
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In May 2005, Gucci Mane released his first single "Icy", which featured rapper Young Jeezy, at the time an upcoming artist as well.
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Gucci Mane grabbed his pistol and shot one of the assailants.
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On December 2,2011, Jeezy explained how the beef originated, stating that Gucci Mane got mad at him because he would not perform "Icy" together; Jeezy said he could not perform the song because he was going through major throat surgery.
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On October 10,2012, during a radio interview, Gucci Mane announced he had no more love for Jeezy due to his controversial fight with rapper Rick Ross.
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Gucci Mane has an ice cream cone on his face, let's be for real.
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Over 15 years after their feud had begun, Jeezy and Gucci Mane both appeared in a Verzuz Battle on November 19,2020.
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On March 15,2013, Gucci Mane announced that frequent collaborator and close friend Waka Flocka Flame was "dropped" from 1017 Brick Squad Records.
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On November 19,2013, it was revealed that Gucci Mane had filed a lawsuit against Waka Flocka Flame, Waka Flocka Flame's mother Debra Antney, OJ da Juiceman, rapper Khia Stone and producer Zaytoven.
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Gucci Mane alleged that Antney's actions led to his having money and tax problems.
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In September 2013, Gucci Mane sent a series of derogatory tweets to various figures in the hip-hop industry.
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Four years later, in October 2019, Gucci Mane claimed that he was banned from The Breakfast Club over these comments, which the hosts discussed and denied on-air.