It’s said that art mirrors life. In hip-hop’s case, there’s always been a deliberate entanglement of perception and reality. Fans demand their MCs be real…but never too real. Successful hip-hop is about the hint of the danger, the tease of it, the mystique. Hip-hop is about balance.
Gucci Mane is an artist striving for that balance, volatility versus musicality. Controversy, including a feud with former collaborator Young Jeezy, has grabbed the headlines, with insufficient regard paid to his considerable mic skills, raw talent, and business acumen. Gucci is looking to wrest his name from public speculation and let his own words do the talking.
“I wish everybody well who’s making money in this rap game,” the Atlanta-raised rapper says, dismissing the controversy that followed him in the past. “My own rap game is going so good, I’ve got so many things on my plate at my label, that I don’t got time for other people’s business.” With a deal with Asylum Records as the boss of his own label, So Icey Entertainment, Gucci does indeed have a full schedule with no time to dwell on the past.
“I live my life with no regrets. I just wish that a lot of things never happened, but anybody can wish,” says Gucci. Sounds like a man with his eyes on the prize. And you’d expect nothing less from an artist who ground his way to the top via the hustle of independent records. Signing to Big Cat Records in the wake of his local single “Black Tee,” he dropped his debut record, Trap House, in May 2005. The independent album moved an impressive 140,000 units, largely on the strength of the “Icy” single, featuring Jeezy. Clamor over song rights sparked dispute, and the resulting rift grew.
Controversy notwithstanding, Mane’s independence was cemented: “I was on the independent scene for about two years,” he recalls. “It’s crazy! You gotta go into your own pocket to support your craft. You need other avenues to have money coming in, to support your stuff. You might win, you might lose, and it’s a gamble out there with the independent circuit. One thing you’d better have is good music because without that, you go downhill fast in the independent game.”
Good music firmly in hand, Gucci was fast approaching stardom when more tragedy befell him. But let’s backtrack; how did the man born Radric Davis in Bessemer, Alabama, become Gucci Mane, mouthpiece for Atlanta stuntin’? Mane remembers little from his time in Alabama, just that it was rural, and that it’s changed dramatically since he left at the age of nine. “I gotta shout out Alabama though, because they holdin’ it down,” he affirms. “Every time I go there to do a show, I’m impressed with how hip-hop culture has taken root.”
Mane’s identity coalesced when he moved with his mother to Atlanta. “I lived all of my adolescent and adult life in Atlanta,” he explains. “I’m from East Atlanta Zone Six; it was hard, man, it was real rough. I grew up in the Starter jacket era: they’d take your Starter jacket, your 8Ball jacket, they’d take your hat, your shoes. It was just no holds barred on the streets, dog eat dog. If you missed the bus, you had to be crewed up or you’d get jumped. It was wild when I came up.”
It’s a bleak portrait. When asked to describe his home life more vividly, Mane offers a look into his contemplative side, a side honed as a schoolyard poet. “I was just a young dude in a single parent house most of my life. I can’t complain that much. I would guess it’s like any black child growing up in a single parent household. There are a lot of people who know how that is. I didn’t have a lot coming up; but what I did have, I appreciated. I was blessed to have a caring mother to raise me right and to help me with my business ventures; she’s been there through the whole struggle. There’s a lot that goes along with that; it made me who I am today.”
A stepfather would enter the picture during Mane’s adolescence, introducing not only a male figure, but also inspiration for Mane’s unusual moniker. “My father came in, the original Gucci Mane; that’s what people in the neighborhood called him, and that’s where I get my name from. From then on, I grew up the son of a hustler and a schoolteacher; it was the best of both worlds because I was educated twice.” Drawing inspiration from a pantheon of rappers before him –Big Daddy Kane, LL Cool J, Ice Cube, the Beastie Boys, N.W.A—Mane went on to release Trap House, a lethal brew of his signature sound: “I call my music straight Gucci: going hard and whatever beats you make you for me, if I’m feeling it, if I’m rocking with it, I’m gonna crush it. When you hear me, you hear a lot of pain, a lot of hood; you hear what’s going on in the inner city in Atlanta.”
Unfortunately, Trap House was ill timed; the month of its release, Gucci was accused of murder and jailed for two days. Eventually deemed to be acting in self-defense, and without sufficient evidence to hold him, Mane was exonerated. But the ordeal left an indelible imprint on the man. “I learned to keep better company, watch where I go, and be mindful of my surroundings at all times,” he reveals. “Watch what I say, watch what I do and how I do it, just keep myself out of the wrong crowd.”
“I always stand up man,” he continues. “I’m one of the toughest guys I know. It’ll take a lot more than that to break me down.” Undeterred, Mane was back in the studio, preparing 2006’s eerily apropos Hard To Kill. The buzz from Hard To Kill vaulted Gucci Mane from regional commodity to national treasure, and major labels responded accordingly: “There was a bidding war going on, and I liked Atlantic’s approach. They made it known that they wanted me, they felt where I was going and that I could grow with them.”
Asylum/Atlantic Records welcomed Gucci Mane in early ’07, granting him his own imprint, So Icey Entertainment. With it comes an entire stable of artists, the So Icey Boyz. As the Boyz ready for their own exposure –“I got them in training; they be in the weight room, pumping iron, doing pushups, shopping at the mall, buying ice”—Gucci is focused on his magnum opus, Back to the Trap House. “I started working on the album, and by the third song, I was like ‘This is going back to the Trap House.’ I started feeling the same way I did when I made my first album. It had the same feel to it, the same freshness. And I had the same hunger and desire I had when I first started rapping.”
“Since I went major, I want everybody to know I’m still keeping it street, keeping it hood,” Gucci maintains. “I’m trying to take it back to all my fans that I had when I first started my career. And at the same time, I’m trying to open up my new album to a new fan base. So it’s a mix for everybody coming together, like my first album was.” Gucci has always prided himself on his innate ability, and his refusal to let guest appearances dictate the tone of his records. “I just want people to know I’m a great songwriter, man,” he asserts. “I’m passionate about what I do, and it’s choreographed strategically when I do it. I bring a lot of experience, creative wordplay, and a crazy style. And my albums, I record most of the songs without writing them down; it’s a God-given gift and I just get paid for it. It come from God, it’s like wondering what makes a bird fly. He made me a poet like the great poets of the past.”
But don’t mistake Gucci’s confidence for self-absorption. The vicissitudes of his career have dictated a longer view. Lyrics aside, he’s less preoccupied with visible means and more so with acting as an emissary from his under-repped block. “I’m not the one to glorify what goes on in the hood,” he insists. “We have everything there, the whole range from violence to people getting on the bus and going to work. There’s a lot more to the hood than just drugs. It’s a bigger story, there’s a big picture. I went to school in that neighborhood, I worked there, I trapped there, I hustled there, and I got my name there. I’m proud to be from East Atlanta Zone Six, and I claim there. I hold that on my back and carry that, to be the first one from there to really rock.”
And Gucci’s professional aims have matured as well. While other rappers stress platinum plaques, Gucci hasn’t forgotten the route he took to stardom. “I made a lot of CDs on my own. People fucked with me and supported me, and just made me the man I am today. That’s my blueprint right there, and I stay mindful of it. So now, my only concern is that people feel my music; at the end of the day, I do it for people to feel it. If one person feel it, two people feel it, I feel like my job’s been done.”
Fortunately for Gucci, he should be prepared to welcome an army of new fans with Back to the Trap House. But longstanding fans shouldn’t fear; they’ll recognize “Freaky Gurl,” reprised from its previous appearance from Hard To Kill. Luda, upon hearing the joint, asked for a guest spot on the remix. Said remix now appears as the lead single on Back to the Trap House, following in Gucci’s theme of mating old and new. Over a bouncing, meandering beat from Cyber Sapp, the two cook up the requisite concoction of whips, chips, and chicks. Also look out for “Bird Flu,” the album’s number two single, laced by New-York based Supa Sonics. Elsewhere, firm guest verses from Rich Boy and Pimp C of UGK round out Gucci’s regional flavor, while Bay-area producer Zaytoven (of “Icy” renown) locks down Gucci’s West Coast appeal.
Gucci Mane has something for everyone, and with the struggles of the past in his rearview, Gucci is settled in for his ride to the top. “I’m best known for controversy but I’m trying to gain respect as a songwriter and entertainer. I plan to hit them so hard with this album; who knows what the future will bring. I’ll be banging them out till I can’t bang no more.”
Freaky Gurl Rmx
Gucci Mane Lyrics
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Yeah yeah
Yeah yeah
Yeah yeah
She's a very freaky gurl, gurl, very freaky gurl, gurl
Gucci, I want a very freaky gurl, gurl, what it do
First you get her name, then you get her number
Then you get some brain in the front seat of the Hummer
Then you get some brain in the front seat of the Hummer
She's a very freaky gurl, she get it from her mama
First you get her name, then you get her number
Then you get some brain in the front seat of the Hummer
Then you get some brain in the front seat of the Hummer
Gucci, let me set the record straight, hater you participate
Three gurls wit me like I'm goin' on Elimidate
Say you got a man but ya man ain't herre
The ice in my ear shine like a chandelier
Jumpin' out the Phantom, don't you think I'm handsome?
Watch on my wrist cost more than a mansion
Bet your baby daddy ain't icin' like the kid be
Got your baby mama front seat of my Ferarri
She's a very freaky gurl, don't bring her to mama
First you get her name, then you get her number
Then you get some brain in the front seat of the Hummer
Then you get some brain in the front seat of the Hummer
She's a very freaky gurl, she get it from her mama
First you get her name, then you get her number
Then you get some brain in the front seat of the Hummer
Then you get some brain in the front seat of the Hummer
Gucci, Gucci Mane the fly baby I'm that guy
Gurls' eyeballs pop when my lamb pass by
Huh? My money long as a limo
Just to show off I put my wrist out the window
Ride through the six, lil' kids scream bingo
I fell off in the spotlight, aye let's mingle
Then the DJ play my new single
The club got crazy, all the gurls went psycho
She's a very freaky gurl, don't bring her to mama
First you get her name, then you get her number
Then you get some brain in the front seat of the Hummer
Then you get some brain in the front seat of the Hummer
She's a very freaky gurl, she get it from her mama
First you get her name, then you get her number
Then you get some brain in the front seat of the Hummer
Then you get some brain in the front seat of the Hummer
Gucci, don't be conceited gurl, I know you'll eat a gurl
I know ya secret gurl, but I'm gon' keep it gurl
Oh you's a college gurl? Go be a Gucci gurl
Oh you's a Gucci fan? Let's go to Gucci Land
You dig a Gucci Mane, 'cause only Gucci can
Drop a rack, pop ya back with a rubberband
You dig a Gucci Gucci, let's do the oochi-coochi
Oh that's you gurlfriend? Why don't you introduce me?
She's a very freaky gurl, don't bring her to mama
First you get her name, then you get her number
Then you get some brain in the front seat of the Hummer
Then you get some brain in the front seat of the Hummer
She's a very freaky gurl, she get it from her mama
First you get her name, then you get her number
Then you get some brain in the front seat of the Hummer
Then you get some brain in the front seat of the Hummer, Gucci
The lyrics to Gucci Mane's song "Freaky Gurl" are about a woman who is sexually adventurous. The chorus repeats the phrase "She a very freaky girl, don't bring her to mamma" which emphasizes that the woman is not the "girlfriend material" you bring home to meet your family. The verse goes on to describe the process of getting with this woman, starting with getting her name and number and then getting "some brain," a slang term for oral sex, in the front seat of a Hummer. The lyrics also talk about Gucci Mane's success and wealth, which attract women to him, and how he enjoys the attention.
Overall, the song is a celebration of sexuality and wealth, with an emphasis on the thrill of pursuing and enjoying women who are sexually adventurous. While the song may be controversial and objectifying to some listeners, it has become a popular party anthem and remains a significant contribution to the trap rap genre.
Line by Line Meaning
She a very freaky girl, don't bring her to mamma
This woman is extremely sexually adventurous, and not someone you want to bring home to meet your family.
First you get her name, then you get her number
Before you can pursue anything with her, you need to at least know her name and have her contact information.
Then you get some brain, in the front seat of the Hummer
You engage in oral sex with her in the front seat of a Hummer vehicle.
She a very freaky girl, she get it from her mamma
Her mother may also be sexually adventurous, and this behavior may have been passed down to her daughter.
Let me set the record straight hater you
The artist is addressing a hater or detractor and proclaiming that they are wrong in some previous statement or belief.
Participate three girls wit me like I'm goin'
The singer is engaging in a sexual encounter with three women at once, comparing it to the experience of being on the reality show 'Elimidate'.
On Elimidate say you got a man but ya man ain't
On the show 'Elimidate', contestants often state that they are in a relationship, but this is not necessarily true.
Here the ice in ma ear shine like a chandelier
The artist is wearing expensive jewelry in his ear that reflects light like a chandelier.
Jumpin' out the phantom don't you think I'm handsome
The artist is getting out of his expensive car (a Rolls Royce Phantom) and further showing off his wealth and good looks.
Watch on my wrist cost more than a mansion
The artist is wearing a watch that is more expensive than many people's homes.
Bet ya baby-daddy ain't icy like the kid be got
The singer is comparing himself to the listener's child's father, suggesting that he has more wealth and better fashion sense than the other man.
Cha baby momma front seat of my Ferrari
The artist has engaged in sexual activity with the listener's child's mother in the front seat of his expensive car (a Ferrari).
Gucci Mane Laflare baby I'm that guy
The singer is Gucci Mane (a rapper also known as 'Laflare'), and he is boasting about being a very desirable man.
Girls eyeballs pop when my Lamb pass by
Women are very attracted to the singer when he drives by in his luxury car (a Lamborghini).
My money long as a limo just to show off I put my wrist
The singer has a lot of wealth, and he is showing it off by displaying his expensive watch.
Out the window ride through the six lil kids
As the artist drives around, children are excited to see his car and wave at him.
Scream bingo fell off in the spot light
In this context, it's unclear what 'bingo' means. However, the artist may be referencing a win or achievement of some sort, perhaps in the music industry spotlight.
Aye let's mingle then the DJ play my new single
The singer is encouraging people to mingle (socialize) with him, and then a DJ plays a song by him that has just been released.
The club got crazy all the girls went psycho
The party or club atmosphere becomes wild, and the women present are behaving in a very frenzied or crazy way.
Don't be conceded girl I know you're eater girl I
The artist is reassuring a woman that she doesn't need to be conceited (overly confident or self-centered), but he knows that she also has a sexual appetite.
Know ya secret girl but I'm gon' keep it girl
The artist has knowledge of the woman's secret, but he promises to keep it to himself.
Oh you's a college girl, come be a Gucci girl oh
The artist knows that the woman is a college student, but he is encouraging her to instead become one of his sexual partners or 'Gucci girls'.
You a Gucci fan let's go to Gucci land you
The singer is suggesting that the woman is a fan of the Gucci brand, and they should go somewhere (metaphorical) together that celebrates this brand.
Diggin' Gucci man 'cause only Gucci can drop
The artist is saying that the woman is attracted to him because only he (as a wealthy and stylish man) is capable of meeting her high standards.
A rack, pop you back wit a rubber band you
The singer will give the woman $1,000 (a stack of money) and she will bounce back or return to him like a rubber band.
Diggin' Gucci Gucci let's do the oochi coochi
The singer is making a sexual suggestion or innuendo, saying that they should engage in sexual activity together.
Oh that's you girlfriend why didnt't you introduce me
The singer has just realized that the woman he's been talking to actually has a girlfriend. He is surprised by this and questions why the woman didn't introduce her as her partner earlier.
Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd., Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
Written by: Radric Delantic Davis, Rick James, Alonzo Miller, Keldrick Sapp
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