Gucci Mane still runs an active Twitter account and gives updates on music and his forthcoming movie and autobiography even though he is in prison on weapons charges.
Sean Paine is Gucci Mane‘s friend who the Atlanta rapper trusts to act as his representative, Pigeons and Planes reports. Paine releases Gucci Mane’s music, runs his social media accounts, and set up his LinkedIn.
“Everything’s me, man,” Paine says to the publication. “Everything. I’m the direct connect. I’m the keyholder. I’m his right-hand man. It’s just me and Gucci doing this stuff. Everybody’s helping, though, don’t get it twisted. The relationships that I have are definitely helping. But I’m pushing the buttons for him. I’m the man on the outside.”
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Gucci Mane has released dozens of musical projects since being incarcerated in 2013. Paine says that the rapper has gained more trust in allowing him to put the projects together.
“I talk to Gucci every day, all the time,” Paine says to the publication. “We communicate via email. At first, he could call me. So I would be playing the songs for him. He’d call me, and I’d be wired to my hard drive at my house, and I’d play his songs for him. And he’d be like, ‘Yeah pick that one. Keep going, keep going.’ He’ll pick what he wants for his CDs. And then he got to the point where he couldn’t call no more. So he just kinda trusted me to do it.”
Paine says he uses CorrLinks, an email system for family and friends to talk with prisoners, to communicate with Gucci because the rapper is now only allowed one phone call a week.
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Sean Paine Does More Than Music
Paine also details the process of creating Gucci’s LinkedIn account.
“He called me and said, ‘Hey, I need you to set up a LinkedIn for me, make it real professional, find the most professional photo of me with a suit on. I’m trying to set up this movie. And I wanna get some ideas,'” he says. “I kind of enjoy it. It’s a break from the music.”
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Paine relays to Gucci the fans’ reactions to his moves. He says that people have a specific image of the rapper.
“What I don’t like is how when he’s talking professional, and saying intellectual words, people are like, ‘That ain’t Gucci.'” he says. “It is Gucci. Y’all just don’t know Gucci in that capacity. That’s his wording.”
Paine says there is no release date for Gucci Mane’s prison sentence yet, but he says as soon as he gets out, Gucci will be back at the grind.
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“He’s gonna go back to work,” he says. “I know he’s gonna go harder than he ever did, because he’s got a point to prove now. Nobody ever thought this was gonna happen. When he got locked up and they was talking these big numbers, everybody thought it was over for him. God bless, he’s gonna get out early. I just kept it alive when he was locked up. That was my whole agenda.”
To read the entire interview, visit Pigeons and Planes.
