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.”
Iced Out Bart
Gucci Mane Lyrics
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A iced out bart where my heart used to be
A iced out bart where my heart used to be
I scratch off on a bitch it's nothing to me
A iced out bart where my heart used to be
A iced out bart where my heart used to be
A iced out bart where my heart used to be
I scratch off on a bitch it's nothing to me
Got multi colored diamond clothing
Shorty it's all that
New pinky ring
Zay, What do you call dat?
I call it Smurfette
Papa Smurf is the bracelet
VVS very very slight flawsless
$20,000 just to get every stone set
Call my ex girl and she ain't hung that phone yet
I hit her best friend now she screaming she upset
Better watch out cause your girlfriend Nicole next
See I got a iced out bart where my heart at
She started it
Bitch did'nt know how hard the kid did what he did just to feed this damn bitch (It's Gucci)
I got a iced out bart where my heart used to be
A iced out bart where my heart used to be
A iced out bart where my heart used to be
I scratch off on a bitch it's nothing to me
A iced out bart where my heart used to be
A iced out bart where my heart used to be
A iced out bart where my heart used to be
I scratch off on a bitch it's nothing to me
I put a diamond in the place of my heart, Zay
Even Jay-Z fell in love with Beyonce'
So, Niggas like me will fuck a hoe on the first date
Then scratch couple hundreds
It's nothing
I keep a bank roll ask your friend am I bluffin'
She den turn you on to the dick cause she cuffin'
She blushin'
'Cause she know It's Gucci LaFlare
And when you got something good you wanna keep it to yourself (It's Gucci)
I got a iced out bart where my heart used to be
A iced out bart where my heart used to be
A iced out bart where my heart used to be
I scratch off on a bitch it's nothing to me
A iced out bart where my heart used to be
A iced out bart where my heart used to be
A iced out bart where my heart used to be
I scratch off on a bitch it's nothing to me
The song "Iced Out Bart" by Gucci Mane is a song about him replacing his heart with a diamond-studded Bart Simpson chain. The first lines of the song state, "I got a iced out bart where my heart used to be," which is pretty self-explanatory. He then repeats this line throughout the song, emphasizing the point that he has replaced his heart with a chain.
Gucci Mane then goes on to talk about how he scratches off on women, meaning he disposes of them without any care or attachment, further emphasizing that he has no heart. He also mentions his expensive jewelry such as his multi-colored diamond clothing, pinky ring, and Papa Smurf bracelet. Gucci Mane then addresses his ex-girlfriend and her friend, indicating that he has moved on from her but may still be with her friend.
The chorus repeats, "I got a iced out bart where my heart used to be...I scratch off on a bitch it's nothing to me." Gucci Mane's lyrics convey that he is unattached and unaffected by his actions towards women because he no longer has a heart - it has been replaced with a diamond-studded chain.
Overall, the song portrays the image of someone who has replaced their emotions with material possessions, specifically a diamond-studded chain. It suggests a disregard for relationships and commitment, as seen through his nonchalant attitude towards scratching off on women.
Line by Line Meaning
I got a iced out bart where my heart used to be
I have replaced my heart with a diamond-studded Bart Simpson pendant
A iced out bart where my heart used to be
My heart has been fully replaced with a diamond-encrusted pendant of Bart Simpson
A iced out bart where my heart used to be
Instead of a heart, I now have a luxurious Bart Simpson pendant covered in diamonds
I scratch off on a bitch it's nothing to me
I show little regard for women and will easily move on from one to the next, without any emotional attachment
A iced out bart where my heart used to be
My heart has been fully replaced with a diamond-encrusted pendant of Bart Simpson
A iced out bart where my heart used to be
Instead of a heart, I now have a luxurious Bart Simpson pendant covered in diamonds
A iced out bart where my heart used to be
My heart has been fully replaced with a diamond-encrusted pendant of Bart Simpson
I scratch off on a bitch it's nothing to me
I show little regard for women and will easily move on from one to the next, without any emotional attachment
I got a iced out bart where my heart at
I have a diamond-encrusted Bart Simpson pendant in the location where my heart should be
Got multi colored diamond clothing
My clothes are adorned with many different colors of diamonds
Shorty it's all that
My clothing and accessories are impressive enough to catch someone's attention
New pinky ring
I have recently acquired a new diamond-studded ring for my pinky finger
Zay, What do you call dat?
I am asking my friend Zay for suggestions on what to call my new pinky ring
I call it Smurfette
I have decided to name my new pinky ring Smurfette
Papa Smurf is the bracelet
My bracelet is also adorned with diamonds and has been named Papa Smurf
VVS very very slight flawsless
The diamonds in my jewelry are of a very high quality, with very few imperfections
$20,000 just to get every stone set
I have spent a lot of money to ensure that every diamond in my jewelry is perfectly set
Call my ex girl and she ain't hung that phone yet
My ex-girlfriend is still interested in me and has not yet ended our communication
I hit her best friend now she screaming she upset
I have slept with my ex-girlfriend's best friend and caused her to become angry and upset
Better watch out cause your girlfriend Nicole next
I am warning someone that their girlfriend, Nicole, could be the next person I pursue romantically
See I got a iced out bart where my heart at
I have a diamond-covered Bart Simpson pendant where my heart should be
She started it
I am justifying my hurtful actions towards women by saying they instigated it
Bitch didn't know how hard the kid did what he did just to feed this damn bitch (It's Gucci)
I am saying that the woman I am referring to did not appreciate the sacrifices I made to provide for her
I put a diamond in the place of my heart, Zay
I have replaced my heart with a diamond-studded pendant and I am addressing my friend Zay
Even Jay-Z fell in love with Beyonce'
I am comparing myself to Jay-Z, who fell in love with and married Beyonce
So, Niggas like me will fuck a hoe on the first date
I am referring to myself and others like me, who will have sexual relations with a woman on the first date
Then scratch couple hundreds
After having sex with the woman, I will casually give her some money
I keep a bank roll ask your friend am I bluffin'
I always have a lot of cash on hand and I dare someone to challenge that
She den turn you on to the dick cause she cuffin'
I am boasting that a woman will become sexually interested in me because of my money and status
She blushin'
The woman I am referring to is blushing, likely due to my advances
'Cause she know It's Gucci LaFlare
The woman is likely reacting positively because she knows and likes me, Gucci LaFlare
And when you got something good you wanna keep it to yourself (It's Gucci)
I am saying that when you have something of value, like a desirable woman, you want to keep it for yourself and not share it with others
Lyrics © Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
Written by: RADRIC DAVIS
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I got a iced out bart where my heart used to be
A iced out bart where my heart used to be
A iced out bart where my heart used to be
I scratch off on a bitch it's nothing to me
A iced out bart where my heart used to be
A iced out bart where my heart used to be
A iced out bart where my heart used to be
I scratch off on a bitch it's nothing to me
I got a iced out bart where my heart at
Got multi colored diamond clothing
Shorty it's all that
New pinky ring
Zay, What do you call dat?
I call it Smurfette
Papa Smurf is the bracelet
VVS very very slight flawsless
$20, 000 just to get every stone set
Call my ex girl and she ain't hung that phone yet
I hit her best friend now she screaming she upset
Better watch out cause your girlfriend Nicole next
See I got a iced out bart where my heart at
She started it
Bitch did'nt know how hard the kid did what he did just to feed this damn bitch (It's Gucci)
I got a iced out bart where my heart used to be
A iced out bart where my heart used to be
A iced out bart where my heart used to be
I scratch off on a bitch it's nothing to me
A iced out bart where my heart used to be
A iced out bart where my heart used to be
A iced out bart where my heart used to be
I scratch off on a bitch it's nothing to me
I put a diamond in the place of my heart, Zay
Even Jay-Z fell in love with Beyonce'
So, Niggas like me will fuck a hoe on the first date
Then scratch couple hundreds
It's nothing
I keep a bank roll ask your friend am I bluffin'
She den turn you on to the dick cause she cuffin'
She blushin'
'Cause she know It's Gucci LaFlare
And when you got something good you wanna keep it to yourself (It's Gucci)
I got a iced out bart where my heart used to be
A iced out bart where my heart used to be
A iced out bart where my heart used to be
I scratch off on a bitch it's nothing to me
A iced out bart where my heart used to be
A iced out bart where my heart used to be
A iced out bart where my heart used to be
I scratch off on a bitch it's nothing to me
letsshoottheshit
This song is only for the true fans man ill never forget the impact this song had on music
Ab Getloose
ALL FACTS HERE!
Lbrezzy brooks
This shit still go hard
Cashbuckz
only real Gucci fans still know all the lyrics! I always exposed these bandwagons with this One here😂😂😂😂
Nicholas Bollinger
$JayBravo$ this came out after lemonade
MAJIN MOO
What y’all know about the first iced out Bart tho ?
OtwEricc
😄😄😄😄😄
Willie Grant
We all old fans here check out I rock vvs that get the bandwagon exposed too
Aj Walker
Shit still put me in my mode in 2017
bob bob
How bout 2019