Radric Davis (born February 12, 1980 in Birmingham, Alabama), better known … Read Full Bio ↴Radric Davis (born February 12, 1980 in Birmingham, Alabama), better known by his stage name Gucci Mane, is an American rapper and CEO of 1017 Brick Squad Records. In 2005 he released his independent debut album, Trap House, which featured the successful single "Icy" that he recorded with Young Jeezy. He has since released a further three albums including 2006's Hard To Kill, 2007's Trap-A-Thon and 2007's Back To The Trap House. His sixth studio album, The State vs Radric Davis, was released in December 2009, just weeks after he was sent back to prison for 12 months for violating his probation. He was released in May 2010 and will now release his seventh studio album, The Appeal: Georgia's Most Wanted, sometime at the end of 2010.

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.”

I Don't Love Her
Gucci Mane Lyrics

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I love things about her
I love the way she treat me
I love the way she fuck me
I love the way she suck me

I love things about her
I love the way she treat me
I love the way she fuck me

I love the way she suck me

I'ma trapholic all I do is ball
Tear the mall down now trick
Don't flag me down see me down town 'rarri
I didn't mean to shit on you excuse me sorry
Verse so slick make my video marvelous
Polo to the floor Ralph down like Carlton
Try the CEO they gone put you on a carton
I didn't mean no harm but my diamonds are dumb plenty rocks on my arm
Me and Rocko the Don, East Atlanta the slum
Where I'm from got a gun in the club havin' fun
And after its done no more coaches to call it
After party bachelor party they shoulda' called it

I love things about her (but I don't love her)
I love the way she treat me (but I don't love her)
I love the way she fuck me (but I don't love her)
I love the way she suck me (still I don't love her)

I love things about her (but I don't love her)
I love the way she treat me (but I don't love her)
I love the way she fuck me (but I don't love her)
I love the way she suck me (still I don't love her)

Man I love the way she shake it
I like her cause she groovy
Love to see her naked I love to watch a movie
I like her she the coolest
Good head on her shoulders I love the way she use it
Ay I like the way she fuck me
Love the way she suck me
Love how every time we play she catch it like rugby
I love she know whats up with me she love me cause I'm gutta
I like a lot about her though but still I don't love her
Still super cool though yeah she my lil' buddy
She be sharper than a pencil
Yeah she my lil cutty
Shawty say I'm dirty but when I see ha she wanna hug me
Super swagga charismatic all my bitches love that

I love things about her (but I don't love her)
I love the way she treat me (but I don't love her)
I love the way she fuck me (but I don't love her)
I love the way she suck me (still I don't love her)

I love things about her (but I don't love her)
I love the way she treat me (but I don't love her)
I love the way she fuck me (but I don't love her)
I love the way she suck me (still I don't love her)

I love how she be swallowin' my nut
Then she be throwin' me up
Love how she fuck
But still I hate when she be blowin' me up
All the bustas sweat her only ballers can get her
She a flipper I love she do whatever I tell her
Yeah I like her a lot but still don't love her at all
I hate pussy ass niggas and I'm in love with the mall
I got a crush on white diamonds and I got a thang for kush
That sour diesel my favorite you betta watch how you look
Quick to take ya lil' diva and treat that hoe like a slut
See her suckin' on Gucci I had my dick in her butt
You know I'm bad bitch crazy 187's my favorite
Infatuated with money free Boosie Boo the streets crazy

I love things about her (but I don't love her)
I love the way she treat me (but I don't love her)
I love the way she fuck me (but I don't love her)
I love the way she suck me (still I don't love her)

I love things about her (but I don't love her)
I love the way she treat me (but I don't love her)

I love the way she fuck me (but I don't love her)
I love the way she suck me (still I don't love her)

Overall Meaning

The song "I Don't Love Her" by Gucci Mane featuring Rocko and Webbie is an explicit exploration of casual relationships and sexual attraction without romantic attachment. The repeated refrain of "I love the way she treat me, I love the way she fuck me, I love the way she suck me" highlights the physical and emotional pleasures that the singer enjoys with his sexual partner. However, he is quick to add that he doesn't love her, indicating that their connection is purely physical without any emotional depth or commitment.

The opening verse establishes the singer's confident and materialistic persona, boasting about his trapholic lifestyle and expensive possessions. He draws attention to the fact that he didn't mean to disrespect someone (implicitly, a rival or hater) who he might have slighted in the past. He then launches into a rapid-fire rap delivery, showcasing his clever wordplay and braggadocio.

The second verse continues the theme of attraction without attachment, listing the specific qualities of the singer's sexual partner that he enjoys. However, he still maintains that he only "like[s] a lot about her though but still I don't love her." He reveals that their relationship is mostly casual, with her being his "lil' buddy" and him enjoying the pleasures she provides. He also mentions that while he hates certain things (presumably other men who try to pursue her), he loves money and drugs.

Overall, "I Don't Love Her" is a frank and explicit portrayal of casual sexual relationships without emotional attachment or commitment. While the singer enjoys the physical pleasures of his partner, he is clear that he doesn't have any romantic feelings towards her. The song highlights the hedonistic, materialistic, and misogynistic culture prevalent in certain music genres.

Line by Line Meaning

I love things about her
There are certain things that I like about her

I love the way she treat me
I like the way she treats me

I love the way she fuck me
I enjoy having sex with her

I love the way she suck me
I enjoy receiving oral sex from her

I'ma trapholic all I do is ball
I am addicted to selling drugs and making money

Tear the mall down now trick
I like to shop and spend money

Don't flag me down see me down town 'rarri
Don't try to get my attention when I'm driving my Ferrari downtown

I didn't mean to shit on you excuse me sorry
I apologize for any disrespect towards you

Verse so slick make my video marvelous
My rap lyrics are clever and make my music videos great

Polo to the floor Ralph down like Carlton
I wear Polo clothes and my pants are sagging like Carlton from Fresh Prince

Try the CEO they gone put you on a carton
If you mess with the CEO, you might end up dead and on a milk carton

Me and Rocko the Don, East Atlanta the slum
Me and Rocko run East Atlanta, which is a tough neighborhood

Where I'm from got a gun in the club havin' fun
In my neighborhood, it's normal to bring a gun to the club for protection

And after its done no more coaches to call it
After the drugs are gone, there's no one left to sell them to

After party bachelor party they shoulda' called it
Our after party was so wild, it should have been called a bachelor party

Man I love the way she shake it
I like the way she dances

I like her cause she groovy
I like her because she has a good vibe

Love to see her naked I love to watch a movie
I enjoy having sex with her and watching movies together

I like her she the coolest
I think she's really cool

Good head on her shoulders I love the way she use it
She's smart and I like the way she uses her intelligence

Ay I like the way she fuck me
I enjoy having sex with her

Love how every time we play she catch it like rugby
I like how she is good at catching during sex, like the sport rugby

I love she know whats up with me she love me cause I'm gutta
She understands my lifestyle and loves me for it

I like a lot about her though but still I don't love her
There are things I like about her, but I don't truly love her

Still super cool though yeah she my lil' buddy
She's still cool and we're friends

She be sharper than a pencil
She's quick-witted and smart

Yeah she my lil cutty
She's my friend and someone I can rely on

Shawty say I'm dirty but when I see ha she wanna hug me
She calls me dirty, but still wants to be close to me

Super swagga charismatic all my bitches love that
I have a great personality and all my women love that

I love how she be swallowin' my nut
I enjoy her giving me oral sex and swallowing my semen

Then she be throwin' me up
After sex, she makes me feel good and boosts my confidence

Love how she fuck
I enjoy having sex with her

But still I hate when she be blowin' me up
I don't like when she constantly contacts me

All the bustas sweat her only ballers can get her
Only wealthy men can be with her, not regular guys

She a flipper I love she do whatever I tell her
She's obedient and does what I ask of her

Yeah I like her a lot but still don't love her at all
I really like her, but I don't truly love her

I hate pussy ass niggas and I'm in love with the mall
I dislike weak-minded men, but enjoy spending money at the mall

I got a crush on white diamonds and I got a thang for kush
I love diamonds and smoking marijuana

That sour diesel my favorite you betta watch how you look
Sour Diesel is my favorite type of marijuana, be careful not to disrespect me

Quick to take ya lil' diva and treat that hoe like a slut
I don't respect women and will treat them badly

See her suckin' on Gucci I had my dick in her butt
I had sex with her and she was later seen with Gucci Mane

You know I'm bad bitch crazy 187's my favorite
I am insane and my favorite thing is murder, aka 187

Infatuated with money free Boosie Boo the streets crazy
I am obsessed with money and the streets are chaotic and dangerous without Boosie, who is in jail

Lyrics © Ultra Tunes, Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
Written by: XAVIER DOTSON, RADRIC DAVIS, WEBSTER GRADNEY, RODNEY HILL

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