Radric Davis. Mr. Zone 6. Trap God. GuWop. Inmate #65556019. Gucci Mane.
In 2013, after a run of increasingly erratic behavior and incidents—an epic, bridge-torching Twitter rant, fighting a fan in the mall, breaking a bottle over the head of a marine who wanted a picture—East Atlanta’s king found himself dropped from his label and headed to the Terre Haute high-security federal penitentiary.
Denied his freedom for three years—a career-ending hiatus for some—the Trap God gained some life-saving perspective on the things he’d been taking for granted. The sentence also gave him a much-needed reprieve from his daily intake of weed and codeine. He focused on surviving this new environment and on strengthening the connection he had with his girlfriend, Keyshia Ka’oir.
By the time of his release—in May of this year—he’d been clearheaded, clean, and getting lean for 30 months. His physical transformation—six-pack and all—was dramatic enough that there was god-honest speculation among fans that the man we were seeing was not Radric Davis, but a federal-government-engineered clone.