Gucci Mane Interview From Behind The Jail Walls

Gucci Mane - 'The State vs. Radric Davis' on So Icey/Asylum in-stores now!

Gucci Mane Music Producers Sound Off To The New York Times

photo courtesy of Erik S. Lesser / New York Times

On Tuesday, the day Gucci Mane released his second studio album, “The State vs. Radric Davis,” he woke up and went to sleep in the Fulton County Jail, in the northwest part of Atlanta, where he’s resided since last month.

It was a not altogether unusual predicament for this rapper, born Radric Davis, one of the most vigorous and exciting in recent memory. This is the second time he’s had his probation from a 2005 aggravated assault conviction revoked, and the second time it’s happened at the moment where his career appeared to be on the verge of exploding.

Still, in spite of these impediments, Gucci Mane, 29, has been the most prolific rapper in Atlanta over the last two years, the most hotly discussed, and also the most improved. In the last few months he’s had the swiftest ascent to hip-hop ubiquity since Lil Wayne.

He didn’t do it alone. Gucci Mane’s rise has occurred in large part thanks to a handful of producers — Zaytoven, Drumma Boy, Shawty Redd and Fatboi, most prominently — whose work over the past four years has come to exemplify the modern Atlanta sound: triumphant but moody, synth-heavy with sharp snares, all sprinkled with almost gothic overtones. Collectively these four been responsible for much of Gucci Mane’s great recent material as well as most of the best songs on “The State vs. Radric Davis” (So Icey/Asylum/Warner Brothers). Their work on this album, Gucci Mane said in a phone interview from jail, “made me feel like, damn, I was smart for working with them for all these years.”

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New York Times - Gucci Mane, No Holds Barred

Gucci Mane 'The State Vs. Radric Davis' Tracklist Revealed

01 Classical (Intro)
02 Interlude: Toilet Bowl Shawty/Mike Epps
03 Heavy
04 Stupid Wild ft. Lil Wayne & Cam’Ron
05 All About The Money ft. Rick Ross
06 Lemonade
07 Bingo ft. Soulja Boy Tell’Em & Waka Flocka Flame
08 Spotlight ft. Usher
09 I Think I’m In Love ft. Jason Caesar
10 Bad Bad Bad ft. Keyshia Cole
11 Interlude: Toilet Bowl Shawty/Mike Epps
12 Sex In Crazy Places ft. Bobby V, Nicki Minaj & Trina
13 The Movie
14 Volume ft. Wooh Da Kid
15 Gingerbread Man ft. OJ Da Juiceman
16 Wasted ft. Plies
17 Kush Is My Cologne ft. Bun B, Devin the Dude & E-40
18 Worst Enemy
19 Interlude: Toilet Bowl Shawty/Mike Epps
20 Wasted (Remix)

Gucci Mane - 'The State Vs. Radric Davis' on So Icey/Warner Bros./Asylum in stores December 8.