They have some glasses I really want. I love Gucci clothes as well. I recently bought a Gucci sweat suit, and some Gucci slides, and I also bought my girl some Gucci slides too. So many artists who you collaborated with on this album Kanye, Drake, Young Thug have such a pronounced sense of personal style and it feels like rappers are really more experimental with fashion these days.
What do you think of fashion in hip-hop right now? I love the way the young kids take chances with what they wear. You can learn so much about a person when you see how they present themselves to the world.
Speaking of which, congratulations on the weight loss! What inspired you to hit the gym? What is your workout routine? I work out six days a week, from a. I just started working with a trainer this past week because I wanted to take my training to the next level.
I feel like working out humbles me. I used to live a life of excess, greed, and gluttony. My workouts consist of boxing, working out with weights, and I do a lot of cardio.
The notion of a sober Gucci took some getting used to; it's somehow harder to wrap your brain around the fact that one of the most dauntingly prolific rappers ever to drop 46 new songs on a random August Tuesday is now a proponent of judicious self-editing. If I got 16 to 17 punches, I want those punches to count. Which is not to say he's been absent from the pop landscape in But his biggest impact may be intangible, aesthetic, spiritual.
He is present as a vibe. He's probably at least part of the reason your favorite SoundCloud rapper has an ill-advised face tattoo, and Post Malone's whole deal is essentially a teleportation accident involving Gucci's white-boy-slang-flipping "Wasted" and the pensive side of Justin Bieber. Gucci may still be indelibly associated with Atlanta, but he's been a part-time resident of Miami since He goes back to Atlanta whenever he can, to tap into its unique energy—"I love Atlanta," he says, "and it definitely still influences my sound"—but he finds it easier to think and create in Miami, far from old friends, the scene that birthed him, and the traces of his former life.
I like looking at the water. I just like the peace. Peace of mind. Peace and tranquility may not be the first association you have with the city of Scarface , Art Basel, and Uncle Luke, but today the Hit Factory does feel tranquil, its halls as cool and quiet as a spa. Gucci is rolling with zero entourage today, except for an Atlantic Records publicist who has been flown in from New York specifically to ensure that our one-hour interview happens as scheduled, and who will fly back on the next plane as soon as it does, which may be a Gucci-management protocol put in place years ago, during a decidedly less peaceful and focused chapter of the rapper's life.
The chaos peaked in the fall of , when Gucci—then in the grip of a hellacious addiction to the opiate-laced concoction known as "lean," which he drank daily by the pint—went on a bridge-torching Twitter bender, boasting crudely about his and others' sexual escapades with well-known female artists, insulting Atlantic executives Craig Kallman and Julie Greenwald, and referring to Drake as a "male groupie.
High and paranoid, Gucci emerged from the "brick prison" of his East Atlanta studio, armed and dangerous, and went on an IRL rampage whose particulars he does not remember.
Eventually a concerned friend called the police. Gucci woke up in a hospital bed; not long after that he returned, contritely, to Twitter. He endured withdrawal, lost 25 pounds in two and a half weeks as his body recovered from years of opiate-induced constipation, and began thinking clearly for the first time in a long time. He'd been facing "serious cases" with equally serious potential penalties; comparatively speaking, three years was a light sentence. His grandfather was a former U.
Army soldier who'd picked up a taste for fine Italian footwear in the service—the original Gucci Man—and his father was a charismatic hustler and an intermittent presence in his son's life. It was Gucci's mother, Vicky, who moved him and his half-brother to Georgia in Gucci began selling weed in seventh grade and slinging crack outside a Texaco station the following year, yet still managed to graduate from Ronald E. McNair High School in Atlanta with a 3.
He was arrested for possession in his freshman year; he'd always been into music, but after that first bust, it began to seem like a prudent career track to pursue. He wasn't looking to become a rapper himself—he figured his Alabama accent and slight speech impediment would hold him back, and anyway, all the rappers he knew were broke.
So much so, that his business ventures are named after his earliest Bessemer, Alabama stomping grounds. As for the street name First Avenue, well that was given the honor of Gucci's management company name, First Avenue Management. In 7th grade, Gucci found his way to drug dealing after seeing how flashy the drug dealers were. Knowing he couldn't buy the top-tier looks, he went to the dope man and bought some slabs.
The game clearly had other plans for him. Now a clean man, we know that Gucci Mane struggled with addiction for years. He started smoking weed at 15, though once Gucci returned to Alabama to hustle years later, he would be put onto Grit Alabama's slang term for Lean by his friend Bunny.
His first dose would be toxic, as it wasn't diluted with soda. Aftershocks lasted for days, until Gucci became recognizably off. He stayed in the hospital, "until I started to feel like myself again," but once he enjoyed the candy-taste of ingesting Lean through a soda can, it was game over and ecstasy even followed. The irony is that his doctor warned him that Lean was causing him a chemical imbalance.
Good thing he finally listened. Gucci Mane's lyrics are steeped in reality. That really happened. In "Lawnmower Man" when Gucci rapped, "Gucci bring the money back," it reflected his actual swindling ways.
Even his song with Marilyn Manson, "Fancy Bitch" came from the night he and Keyshia Ka'Oir were sitting next to Marilyn Manson and his date at the Spring Breakers premiere, when Marilyn turned to Gucci and said, "'Looks like we both got us some fancy bitches.
Gucci Mane's relationship with Jeezy is arguably a toxic one. In the book, Gucci refers to Jeezy's early sound as a "Poor Man's Trick Daddy," though soon after he would respect the Snowman's street sound.
Jeezy would jump on the star-studded "Black Tee Remix," but their relationship would continue on a fast decline. Rumors circulated that Jeezy didn't like Gucci, even when the two would unite for "So Icy. As previously mentioned, it was believed that Jeezy set up Gucci for those ducked murder charges. Though even when the two declared a truce once younger guys like Waka Flocka, the late Slim Dunkin, and Slick Pulla started beefing, hard feelings would surface again surrounding "Trap Or Die 2.
The first time he met Juvenile, in the midst of potentially collaborating, he told Juve, "'You're not Mannie Fresh. When he first met Migos , he gave the guys gold chains off his own neck. Then there was the time he used someone else's mansion in the midst of an LRG shoot to film his "Fuck Da World" video with Future who coincidentally almost signed to Gucci's label.
He became the first-ever signee to Gucci Mane and Brick Squad, and the two were inseparable — the Batman and Robin of the trap game. Credit: Getty. Young Thug performs live in Praised for his uniqueness by the big leagues, Gucci will forever have bragging rights as he did indeed sign the YSL crooner first.
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