Gucci Mane
By All Music Guide
By All Music Guide
ap was a fairly easy step, Gucci Mane already had spent time in a recording studio by the age of 14. The glamour and sense of fashion of rappers like Big Daddy Kane motivated him to put words to music. His locally played debut single, Black Tee, earned him a contract with Big Cat Records, and in May 2005 the label released his debut album, Trap House, which stood at the number one spot on Billboards Heatseekers chart.
The beef with Young Jeezy originated from a fight over the rights to the albums Icy hit single, which spawned a number of dis tracks traded between the two. Within the same month of his LPs release, Gucci Mane was arrested for murder on account of an altercation where he shot at a group of five men who burst into his friends house, threatening to kill the rapper. As it turned out, the murdered attacker was an associate of Young Jeezy, but he has denied any involvement with the incident. Gucci Mane declared in court that it was self-defense, and by January 2006, Georgia prosecutors dropped all charges, citing lack of evidence. After being released from jail (on charges unrelated to the murder) that same month, he quickly went back into the studio to make his second album, Hard to Kill, which was released in October. He took the song Go Head from his first album and made it the lead single for the second in order to make up for the time taken away from promoting Trap House.
