Despite hellish conditions, Gucci Mane says his time spent in a maximum security prison helped improve his life.
During an interview with The FADER, the newly-freed Gucci Mane touched on his time spent in prison, being sober for years, and rumors that he’s a clone.
According to the rapper, who just released his Everybody Looking album, he was able to quit drugs and reflect on life while serving time in prison. He says he got rid of the toxic people in his life and now demands that he be treated as a man.
“Life in prison was hell,” Gucci Mane said. “If I can do it all over again, I think that it helped me a lot. To get to the point I am now. To drive me off of the drugs. It gave me time to reflect. I made a lot of relationships that was just toxic in my life…It was a maximum security prison. And people were dying every week. It was a lot of death. A lot of violence.
“I’m a celebrity, but at the same time I feel like I’m a hell of a man. And besides being a celebrity, I’m just always gonna handle myself like a man,” he added. “It don’t take people long to see that. And that’s how people gon’ have to approach me, period…I never been fond of just letting people take advantage of me or handle me any kind of way…I think I been sophisticated. I been super smart. When I was on drugs so bad, I talked different. When I was smoking weed, damn near a pound of weed every other day, I was congested. When I was drinking lean like crazy everyday, I was out my mind. So, it ain’t even a sophisticated. It’s just a sober, more conscious Gucci. People probably ain’t used to it. It took a minute for me to get used to it.”
Following Gucci’s release from prison weeks ago, rumors about the rapper being replaced with a clone ran rampant. In regards to the far-fetched rumors, the rapper says he found them funny and somewhat complimentary.
“It’s funny to me. I guess that people ain’t used to me being healthy and taking care of myself and being happy. So, I can understand why they shocked…A clone is like perfection,” the rapper said.
Video of Gucci Mane speaking on his time in prison and sober life, can be found below.
Props to the brotha it seems like he making the right moves in his life and on a positive road. So many people looked up to him and what he was doing, he will lose some of the fans that were drawn to him because of the negativity but for him this is the best thing to do.
Congrats for getting clean.
Welcome Gucc!
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It seems like he’s finally got it together. I ain’t the biggest fan, but it’s always nice to see people do better for themselves.
Just keep making music and finding good rapper s need that in our lives. Hold it down Black Man. Welcome back
Gucci is the definition of a real nigga.
Honestly, I always thought of Gucci as typical gang/druggie trash, but watching him turn around his life is damn near inspiring, good luck to him.
Now that he’s not all fucked up on drugs and doing stupid shit constantly, he actually seems like a pretty decent guy.
It’s alright if he cleaned up. There are plenty of other ghetto uneducated trap niggas to listen to.