It's Guwop season.
The release of Gucci Mane from prison on May 26th was cause for celebration. No one celebrated more than Gucci himself. Largely confined to his Atlanta mansion, the big fella has spent his time marinating in the Southern sunshine by his backyard pool, chilling with his girlfriend, or cutting records in his home studio, the walls of which he has covered with raps he wrote while incarcerated.
Click through the gallery to revisit everything Gucci has done since he got out. Everybody Looking out July 22.
Songs
One of the first things Gucci did upon being released from prison was hit the studio. With the assistance of Zaytoven and Mike WiLL Made-It, he cut Everybody Looking in a week. And that's not all he's done. Observe:
May 27: “First Day Out Tha Feds”
June 3: Kanye West - “Champions"
June 4: “Back on Road” feat. Drake
June 10: Kodak Black - “Vibin in this Bih”
June 16: Dreezy - “We Gon Ride”
June 23: “All My Children”
June 24: Riff Raff - “I Drive By”
July 5: “On Me” feat. Tupac
July 6: Bricc Baby - “Touchdown”
July 12: “Multi Millionaire LaFlare”
July 13: “Guwop Home” feat. Young Thug
July 14: Peewee Longway - “Pocket Watchin”
July 15: “No Sleep”
July 16: French Montana - “Lockjaw” (Remix)
July 19: "Waybach"
Videos
He's made a few videos as well.
"First Day Out Tha Feds"
"Guwop Home" feat. Young Thug
"No Sleep"
Performances
The exact details of Gucci Mane's probation are unclear; he wears an ankle monitor and would seem to be under house arrest if it weren't for his glorious return to the stage on June 17th at Atlanta's Elan Mansion (watch footage below). He has a pair of concerts lined up -- Gucci Mane & Friends on July 22 in Atlanta and a Gucci Mane & Friends benefit concert September 24 in Atlanta -- and is supposedly plotting a Gucci Mane & Friends tour.
Gucci discovers Game of Thrones
When one is released from prison, they must first acclimate to current cultural trends. Boosie had to learn what a selfie is. Gucci Mane had to get caught up on Game of Thrones.
The first two seasons of Game of Thrones had been released when Gucci Mane entered prison in early 2013. But it was hardly the global phenomenon it has become. Gucci's girlfriend Keyshia Ka'oir introduced the show to him and he instantly became a huge fan.
"Damn. Babe, I fucking love this show," he said during his first viewing of GoT in early June.
"This little motherfucking midget is funny, man!," Gucci said of Peter Dinklage's diminutive character Tyrion Lannister. "This motherfucker hilarious!"
CloneGate
Gucci emerged from prison with a slimmer physique (no more trap gut) and a placid demeanor. This, plus the perceived absence of Gucci's famed ice cream cone cheek tattoo in a Snapchat video (which was in reality reversed) fueled a conspiracy theory that this man was not Gucci Mane, but a Gucci Mane clone.
Gucci gave a humorous, lawyerly response to the rumors: "I will neither support nor deny those accusations."
WE THINK GUCCI MANE IS HOME, BUT THE CIA SECRETLY RELEASED A CLONE THAT SPEAKS PROPER ENGLISH 😂😂😂😂 #blackplottwist pic.twitter.com/5C3rO996mc
— Ray macintosh (@houseofaura) June 20, 2016
I FUCKING KNEW GUCCI MANE WAS A CLONE! I KNEW IT!
my new favorite conspiracy theory is that gucci mane came back from jail as a government clone 👬 pic.twitter.com/sNJW7svxcB
Gucci Mane answers to CLONE ALLEGATIONS pic.twitter.com/90Ige1o6AW
Rumors of new projects emerge
We all know about Gucci's welcome back album Everybody Looking dropping later this week. That may not be the only thing Gucci's been cooking up.
The first potential Gucci project: an Oxygen reality TV show with his girlfriend Ka'oir. Oxygen star Judi Jackson set off rumors that a Guwop reality show was in production in a since-deleted IG picture. “Never will forget my first Gucci concert. #OnStage. He’s such a great artist!” she captioned the pic. “That man is not a clone! So happy he has got his life together and has A BEAUTIFUL woman by his side keeping him together. Excited about his new reality show on @Oxygen! I believe reality tv will not saturate his music. He’s a real rapper! Trapper! The plastic world ain’t gonna shake him! I love his music and real Gucci fans know he ain’t a clone. Stfu! Fake a***s! Turn up! For the better! #Salute I’m a fan! And hi twista! Chitown!”
The second potential Gucci project: a joint project with Drake. Drake paid Gucci a visit last month at his mansion, and there they engaged in good old-fashioned cloth talk, discussing the possibility of putting together an album together.
"We were in there talking and Drake just came by because he was in town and wanted to stop through," Zaytoven said. "We just got to talkin’ about doing a project together — Gucci and Drake together. We were sitting there talking about that until the picture happened. And it went viral from there."
