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Davis sold cannabis on his own and ended up using his Christmas money to acquire crack cocaine while in the eighth grade, starting his career as a drug dealer. Davis dealt drugs, mainly selling cannabis with his older brother. He was generally good in school and considered himself athletic although he did not participate in school sports.
ĭavis' mother moved Davis and Victor to East Atlanta and Davis attended Cedar Grove Elementary School. Davis grew up in an area which was high in crime. Davis' family was kicked out of the house and did not have a stable living environment until his father set them up in a Knights Inn. They later moved in with someone Davis' mother met in church. Davis' mother had a boyfriend in Atlanta and planned to move in with him, but she decided otherwise at the last minute. ĭavis moved with his single mother to Atlanta when he was nine years old due to family problems in Bessemer. Before moving to Atlanta with his mother, Davis had a distant relationship with his father, who would visit at irregular intervals the visits stopped when Davis' father had two children with another woman and began to prioritize his children in Atlanta over Davis. His older half-brother Victor introduced Davis to hip hop when Davis was six years old by bringing Davis to a Run-DMC, Beastie Boys and LL Cool J concert. Davis' first school was Jonesboro Elementary, where he attended kindergarten and the first several grades of elementary school. Davis' mother was a teacher who taught him to read at a young age, and spent most of her time teaching him scriptures from the Bible. Growing up, Davis was raised by his paternal grandmother while his mother attended college to get her degree. Davis' father was not present to sign the birth certificate, and Davis took his mother's last name. When Davis was born, his father was on the run from the police for dealing crack cocaine and heroin, and had fled to Detroit, Michigan. ĭavis' parents met in 1978 Davis' mother had a son from another relationship, Victor Davis. Davis' father also served in the military, being stationed in Korea for two years. His paternal grandfather, James Dudley, Sr., served in the military for twelve years, including during World War II, as a chef, and his maternal grandfather, Walter Lee Davis, served in the Pacific during World War II and on the USS South Dakota. Davis' family had a strong military background. 1ĭavis was born on February 12, 1980, in Bessemer, Alabama, to former U.S serviceman and power plant worker Ralph Everett Dudley (born August 23, 1955), and social worker and teacher Vicky Jean Davis (born 1955).
His mixtape releases and trap music has influenced Atlanta rappers like Young Thug, Migos, Rich Homie Quan, 21 Savage and Lil Yachty, and he has been called an "avatar of East Atlanta," and the most influential underground rapper of the 2000s. He has worked with artists such as Drake, Lil Wayne, Chris Brown, Selena Gomez, Mariah Carey, Usher, Bruno Mars and Marilyn Manson.
In 2007, he founded his own label, 1017 Records. Gucci Mane has released 14 studio albums and over 71 mixtapes throughout his career. He has since released numerous albums his latest one, Woptober II, was released on October 18, 2019.
His 2016 collaboration with Rae Sremmurd, titled " Black Beatles", provided Gucci Mane with his first number-one single on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart. Following time spent in prison between 20, he re-emerged with several new retail projects, including Everybody Looking (2016), which was released to critical praise. Radric Davis, his first gold-certified album. His third studio album Back to the Trap House was released in 2007.įollowing a string of critically and commercially successful mixtape releases in 2009, Gucci Mane released his fourth studio album, The State vs. In 2005, Gucci Mane debuted with Trap House, followed by his second album, Hard to Kill in 2006. and Young Jeezy, particularly in the 2000s and 2010s. He helped pioneer the hip hop subgenre of trap music alongside fellow Atlanta-based rappers T.I. Radric Delantic Davis (born February 12, 1980), known professionally as Gucci Mane, is an American rapper and record executive.
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