Gucci Mane vs Young Jeezy. The war for Atlanta streets. Jeezy was backed by BMF the Black Mafia Family and Big Meech, but when Pookie Loc tried to rob Gucci for his chain, it was Gucci Man who won that battle.

The Month was May, the year was 2005. This was the peak of the BMF era, of Big Meech and his Black Mafia Family's power not only as one of the primary conduits of coke from foreign suppliers to the streets of Black America, but as tastemakers. While they had been unable to make Bleu DaVinci a music star, despite lavish spending on his projects, a rapper from rural Georgia named "Young Jeezy" had been clever enough to use them, and crafty enough to abandon ship as soon as it began to sink. Jeezy's first regional hit, "So Icy" was in heavy rotation and introducing the country to the heavily Detroit influenced Atlanta trap rap sound that would heventually take over ! rapper from a small town kk Alabama, calling himself "Gucci Mane", was also on the song and the two young rappers were in dispute about ownership and rights to the song, also one of current top producer Zaytoven's first hit songs. Salute to Zaytoven, business partner with my fellow hometown hero Al Nuke and a man who has never drank alcohol or smoked reefer, something more of us should be strong enough to do.

And that's why a young rapper from Macon, Georgia On a dead-end street called Springside Run, five men dressed in black were running up to the front door in broad daylight. Apparently, they were not experienced robbers or hitmen. All they had to do was wait for him to come out, stick a gun in his mouth, lift the chain off his neck, and be on their way. And why did it require 5 of them? Again, it definitely seemed like amateur night at club GetDown Or LayDown.