Rapper Gucci Mane is back and better than ever. With a hell of a lot less gold in his mouth, the new and improved artist is flexing some rock-hard abs and actually wearing T-shirts after his early release from an Indiana penitentiary in May. His “Welcome Home” party at Atlanta’s Elan Mansion was lit enough to monument his official return, and it is safe to say the Trap God is finally back in the game.
https://twitter.com/Lilgeeeeee/status/744951278451625984
Gucci Mane’s drastic glow up, however, has left many perplexed. The internet has become a hub for conspiracy theorists to debate on whether the man we now see is, in fact, the real Radric Davis. So inevitably, we, too, have to ask:
Gucci Mane … is that really you?
Though many theories are circulating on social media, it seems that fans are most convinced that the rebirth of Gucci Mane is actually a clone created by the government.
Yes, a clone.
Much of the traction began after the satirical news site ThingsUThink.com published an article claiming that Lil Boosie does not buy the Gucci Mane comeback:
I rock with Gucci the long way but that ain’t the real Gucci, we both sitting in the studio and he seemed lost and after his show at Mansion he called me Herman” -Lil Boosie
(For the record, Lil Boosie’s real name is Torrence Hatch and not Herman, but who cares, right?)
Twitter users are taking the possibility of a Gucci Mane replica very seriously, creating a lack of consensus and friction in the Twittersphere. Some are certain that the transformed Gucci is not Gucci at all.
WE THINK GUCCI MANE IS HOME, BUT THE CIA SECRETLY RELEASED A CLONE THAT SPEAKS PROPER ENGLISH 😂😂😂😂 #blackplottwist pic.twitter.com/5C3rO996mc
— houseofaura (@houseofaura) June 20, 2016
Lmao #Gucci #worldstar #memes #donkeyoftheday #guccimane clone pic.twitter.com/w02WogZqSp
— JiimDaRapper (@JiimDaRapper) June 22, 2016
https://twitter.com/jfurta_/status/745270222400163840
Gucci Mane is currently at Area 51 and they made this clone Gucci to distract us from the fact that J Cole went platinum with no features
— Henry (@DeionGottaSTFU) June 21, 2016
That ain't even real Gucci… That's a knock off 😂😂😂 #guccimane
— ❤️🔥 sad but rad ❤️🔥 (@XOKATANA) June 22, 2016
https://twitter.com/DJYagga/status/745624321943560192
Others are not convinced that the government would spend time or money on such an elaborate operation, lashing out at the theory’s legitimacy:
https://twitter.com/__JUICELXRD/status/745592086435598336
https://twitter.com/FaZeCoan/status/745639424227147776
Y'all act like Gucci mane was abducted by aliens in jail & we looking at a clone he grew tf up lol shut up you should do the same.
— PINK 🛼 (@astrog1rll) June 21, 2016
lmfao bro gucci being a clone is easily the most headass thing of the year.
— hbíc (@walkwithfaithh) June 21, 2016
https://twitter.com/Sheloveskyy/status/745315758939398145
So bc Gucci stuck with his girl, started eating healthy and wears a shirt, he's a clone? 😂😂 society really messed y'all heads up 😂😂😂😂😂😂
— tiki momma 👑 (@taryssss) June 21, 2016
https://twitter.com/TEVO_SPRITE/status/745005102239363074
Give me 1 good reason why they would clone Gucci mane out of all people
— MK 🫶🏾 (@mikiahkeener_) June 21, 2016
https://twitter.com/RealLifeKaz/status/745391641788309504
In a much anticipated video message to fans, Mane cheekily addressed the clone claims by simply stating he will “neither support or deny those accusations:”
https://twitter.com/IamAkademiks/status/745341152031875072
This isn’t the first time fans have convinced themselves that a celebrity has a clone. Not too long ago, people speculated that Beyoncé had a clone after her Lemonade album release.
Even though we cannot refute that Barack Obama and his squad ran a top-secret mission to clone the rapper, we can ask ourselves about its likelihood. So, has prison made Gucci Mane a genuinely changed man…or a genuinely changed man? Drake says that it is none other than Guwop himself.