He apologised for his behaviour – “I’ve been drinking lean for 10 plus years & I must admit it has destroyed me,” he wrote on Twitter – but he remained in jail until his trial in August 2014, at which he was convicted and sentenced to 39 months in prison. After being caught with a handgun and a bag of weed, he had acted “erratically” and threatened the police officers who had stopped him. Before this year, the last major signpost in the rapper’s career was an extended Twitter diatribe from September 2013, in which he insulted both close friends and sworn enemies, threatened lawsuits, bragged about sexual conquests and told his former associates at Atlantic Records what to do with themselves.īy the end of that week, Gucci was in jail. Three or four years ago, an event with Gucci Mane’s name attached would have been considered a liability – a staging ground for an altercation, or just a no-show. Since the release of his 2005 debut album, Trap House, the 36-year-old Radric Davis has been one of hip-hop’s most influential and feared figures. “I really thank y’all for having dinner with me tonight, man,” he says, without raising his voice.
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His sunny demeanour contrasts with the poker-faced ice sculpture behind him: a bust imagining him as a blinged-out Julius Caesar, replicating the cover of his new album, Woptober.Īfter a toast from his former label head, long-time manager and friend Todd Moscowitz, Gucci addresses the crowd almost shyly – and for a full 15 seconds. The Atlanta rapper – after being confined for four months to his home city, his house arrest has been lifted – sports a crisp white button-down and jeans, looking as if he has just taken off his suit jacket and tie to hit the dance floor at a wedding. O nce the wreckage of the ribs has been cleared, Gucci Mane rises and patrols the perimeter of the packed private room at the Ludlow Hotel’s Dirty French restaurant in New York, greeting his public.
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