Photos: Free from Fulton County Jail, Gucci Mane issues challenge to all rappers

A rejuvenated Gucci is ready to bring his A game, and substance, back to rap. Might that mean no more lemon pepper wings?!

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Radric “Gucci Mane” Davis walked out of the Fulton County Jail on Rice Street at about 12: 20 a.m. Wednesday morning with rap competition on his mind.


Released after serving six months of a 12-month sentence for violating parole for the second time (after failing drug tests and community service requirements while on probation for attacking a club promoter in 2005), Gucci Mane addressed a curbside press conference, surrounded by boom mics, media cameras and hand-held camcorders.


“I set out five years ago to be the No. 1 rapper in hip-hop,” he read from a printed statement, never looking up. “Today that journey continues with an even sharper focus. I challenge all artists to put out the best music they ever made this summer. I won’t accept nothing less than victory but I still want worthy opponents.” Read the full statement below the jump.


Of course, opposition has always had a way of finding Gucci Mane. Need we remind you that this is the same rapper who seemingly squashed his long-standing, deadly beef with Young Jeezy (via a December ‘09? jailhouse phone call Gucci made to DJ Drama and on-air guest Jeezy during Drama’s weekly Hot 107.9 radio show), only to have the tentative truce cut short when members of their extended crews engaged in a shoot-out at Walter’s Clothing in downtown Atlanta last March.


Conspicuously missing from the printed statement distributed to the media, however, was Gucci’s final point in which he seemed to indirectly address the controversy that reignited between his and Jeezy’s respective camps during his time spent on lock down.