Gucci Mane’s private post-prison party
In a photo posted on Twitter, V103's Frank Ski and Gucci Mane catch up Wednesday night at Mane's party at the Georgian Terrace
Freshly released from jail, Gucci Mane partied with close friends last night, hosting a select group at a private dinner in the Grand Ballroom of the Georgian Terrace Hotel.
Among the folks dining on miniature beef Wellington, peekytoe crab salad, pecan crusted chicken, bananas foster and ever-flowing champagne were R&B singers/reality show stars Monica and Kandi Burruss; rappers Big Boi, Shawty Lo and Wacka Flocka Flame; producers Jazze Pha, Sean Garrett and Drumma Boy; DJs Drama and Sense; radio personalities Frank Ski and Nina Brown of V-103 and Hot-107.9’s Durtty Boyz; Atlanta City Councilman Kwanza Hall and former DeKalb CEO turned congressional candidate Vernon Jones.
Record execs from across the country, including Atlanta’s James Rhodes and Nicole Sellers and Asylum Records’ CEO Todd Moscowitz, attended as well.
“The only time you see this many Atlanta music people in one place is on the [Billboard] charts, or BET somewhere,” remarked Vawn of the Peachtree TV/BET reality show “Welcome to Dreamland.”
Mane showed up in three diamond-studded necklaces. “I feel like this is the first day of the rest of my life,” he said. “The first day of the best of my life.”
Known around the courthouse as Radric Davis, he was released shortly after midnight on Wednesday, having served six months for violating probation on an assault charge.
After his 12:30 a.m. press conference outside the Fulton County lockup on Rice Street, he said, “I just called people, thanked them for their support and just got accustomed to having my feet back on the ground. Don’t tell anybody, but I also went in the studio for a few hours, to get some things off my chest.”
And after the Georgian Terrace dinner he was headed back in the recording booth with Pha.
“Gucci said he was ready,” the producer said. “And I think we can capture some of the magic and love going on here tonight. Ooooo-weeee!”
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116 comments Add your comment
DrunkBush
May 13th, 2010
3:11 pm
See there goes another keyboard thug, Name required, guess your mother is an idiot cause she didn’t give you a name
Gov Purdue
May 13th, 2010
3:30 pm
WELCOME HOME GUCCI!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! BURRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!! you keyboard THUGS!!!!!
Moderate
May 13th, 2010
3:44 pm
The comments above like “if I got out of prison and I were rich and famous, I’d have a party too” miss the bigger point. The vast majority of young black kids and some white ones are influenced to follow the rapper/thug lifestyle but with no upside opportunity. The spend their money on jewelry, junk cars with multi-thousand dollar wheels, overpriced clothing, and then get gang tats to show how cool they are. Yes, those are personal choices, but to see a young black woman with tats up her neck and down her arms and a big gold tooth out front (probably unneeded) and two or three love “cheeren” at home working in a low end fast food restaurant and realizing that’s the best she can hope for is a damn tragedy! Where does her situation come from? Straight from the bile that spews from the Gucci Mane’s and the Heavy D’s and TI’s. When will the community wake up? I’m fortunate to have a couple of friends who are Spelman graduates. They are intelligent, successful, articulate and a delight to be around. Let’s have Frank Ski celebrate graduations, not releases from prison. Come on, Frank.
Oma
May 13th, 2010
4:42 pm
Is acting hard on the computer any worse then rappers acting hard on records? Everyone knows they all hook up with other guys and are a bunch of punks.
dawgwife
May 14th, 2010
12:14 pm
Rufflingfeathers: you are 100% right. This just goes to show that many black people glorify and romantisize the wrong thing. Since when did it become an accomplishment to GET out of jail; how about NOT go to jail! Lets celebrate that. You have a party b/c after you decided to break the law, you went to jail? What a fine example for young black people….NOT! It’s cool to go to jail, b/c afterwards you get praised for going and coming out. Get real. And why is Vernon Jones there? Who’s on who’s payroll?
Fools
May 14th, 2010
12:25 pm
Perspective-boy are you naive. And how would you know that it’s customary to throw dinners for people getting out of jail? Who know this? Apparently you do! And by the way, volunteering is just that, volunteering. Community service on the other hand has a completely different meaning. If you don’t beleive me, ask a non-profit organization and find out the difference between volunteering and community service. You stay in your little naive box and continue to throw you “release” parties. Hope your kids know better.
wesleywhatwhat
May 14th, 2010
3:54 pm
slow news day???
Lynn
May 14th, 2010
4:02 pm
Ignorant Ignorant Ignorant- When was the last time any of the people in attendance threw a Graduation Party for Sisters of Spelman or Men or Morehouse- who dont get locked up but go to school and get an education. Where is there welcome home party. This is exactly what Dr.K out of NYU is talking about – we give going away and coming home parties for Ignorant people but never celebrate the Brother or Sister going to an IVY league school
NativeAtlantan
May 20th, 2010
11:15 am
What is a Gucci Mane?
Big Boi? Shawty Lo? Wacka Flocka Flame? Jazze Pha? Drumma Boy? Durtty Boyz?
Sounds like a bunch of middle school boys and their tree house club nicknames.
And this is news?
satch
May 20th, 2010
10:58 pm
i don’t miss the capital of black BS the atl!
satch
May 20th, 2010
10:59 pm
folks remember sonya murray gave all kinds of rapping bamas big ink in the ajc
John Doe
May 22nd, 2010
3:55 am
‘Alert Alert Alert Gucci Mane just went back to Jail!!!!
William Berg
May 23rd, 2010
1:27 pm
Only in Atlanta do they have parties for some stupid rapper. I mean really, He was in JAIL, Not winning the Boston Marathon.
who gives a F%C
Raggedy As Hell
May 24th, 2010
3:38 pm
This is the type of SH!+ that keeps black people down. Celebrating prison release. And then some idiot writes that it is customary to throw a party when people get out of jail. Who the hell put that in the etiquette book? I can see Martha Stewart right now “ok, now for the cheesecake designed to look like prison bars for the prison release party”. Wow, I have a cousin in prison for stupid sh!+ he did and my family won’t even be there to pick him up when he is released next month! I will give him a pound when I see him and tell him he needs to get back in school and get his head right. But a party, hell naw! We celebrate education and positive accomplishments. Every quasi-celeb in the article should be ashamed.
Black people down the drain!
Antonio
May 26th, 2010
2:44 pm
Gucci just doin what he does best. Havin fun i would 2 if i would have gotten out of jail.(not in jail just sayin)
superflatiron
July 23rd, 2010
5:26 am
Gucci just doin what he does best.