Rapper Gucci Mane was the victim of a kidnapping and robbery plot by a rapper signed to Mane's label earlier this year, the Department of Justice alleged in a criminal complaint unsealed Thursday.

The American rapper Pooh Shiesty and seven others have been arrested on charges of robbery and armed kidnapping of music industry ⁠figures, the US Justice Department has said.

The rapper, Pooh Shiesty, 26, whose real name is Lontrell Williams Jr., angrily confronted the label head on Jan. 10 over Mr. Williams’s record contract terms, pointing what appeared to be an AK-style...