Gucci Mane, a stage name for Radric Delantic Davis (born February 12, 1980), is a rapper and record executive from the United States. Together with fellow Atlanta-based rappers T.I, he contributed to the development of the hip-hop subgenre known as trap music, particularly in the 2000s and 2010s, and Young Jeezy. Gucci Mane made his recording debut with Trap House in 2005. His second album, Hard to Kill, was released in 2006. Return to the Trap House, his third studio album, was released in 2007.
In 2009, Gucci Mane released a series of critically acclaimed and commercially successful mixtapes before releasing The State vs. Radric Davis, his fourth studio album and first gold-certified album. Between 2014 and 2016, he served time in prison. In 2016, he was freed with numerous new retail initiatives, including Everybody Looking, which received positive reviews from critics. Gucci Mane’s “Black Beatles,” a song he made with Rae Sremmurd in 2016, became his first number-one single on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart. Since then, he has published a number of albums; his most recent, Woptober II, was made available on October 18, 2019.