In part, that’s because he escaped a far more serious sentence.
Gucci was released into home confinement on May 26, a situation he described as “a blessing. One of the best songs on his new album is “Out Do Ya,” in which he asks his peers how they let someone “in the Feds” get the better of them. I’d go ahead and mix them.” Gucci made, by his estimation, more than a million dollars during his most recent prison stint - more, he said, than he spent on lawyers. “He’d tell me, ‘S.P., I want to drop a couple of tapes this month,’” Mr. (Gucci has played along, poking fun at this both on his Snapchat and in the video for “1st Day Out tha Feds,” the first song he released post-prison.)Įven while he was in prison, Gucci managed to remain prolific, releasing about two dozen mixtapes of unheard material, compiled at his direction by his longtime engineer Sean Paine. So drastic has been his physical transformation that the running online debate since his release has centered not on his music but on whether he’s a clone. So just rude and toxic.”Īnd for the first time, he focused on health, shedding dozens of pounds, and turning a paunch into a six-pack. Temper so short, so violent, so aggressive. Near the beginning of his most recent stint behind bars, at the high-security federal penitentiary in Terre Haute, Ind., he decided it was finally time for a change.įirst came withdrawal. He attempted rehab once, but it didn’t take. It was sincere nonchalance - like, I really didn’t care.”
You told me that I was doing good or told me I was doing bad, you hated me or loved me, either which way I greeted with nonchalance. “I can’t say I felt happy my last six, seven years in the music business,” he said. “I was naïve to the fact that I was numb.” He had been smoking weed and drinking alcohol since he was a teenager, and drinking lean (or syrup, the prescription-strength cough syrup concoction) since he was 21 sometimes he added ecstasy or prescription pills. “In hindsight I see it for what it was: I was a drug addict,” he said. Why would I wanna go to a club and couldn’t smoke or drink? I felt like sex wouldn’t be good sober. Before his latest sentence, Gucci, 36, estimated, he hadn’t been fully sober since he was a teenager - around 17 years: “I felt like I couldn’t make music sober, I couldn’t enjoy my money sober. That means incarceration, and also drugs. He’s wearing a red V-neck T-shirt, distressed gray denim shorts, a diamond chain with a diamond cross pendant, and a chunky black ankle monitor over a red sock sticking out of a spotless Air Jordan 4. Gucci is the picture of a man relaxed, sparkling even - warm, cheerful, peaceful. “It’s like you living in a forest,” Gucci said, still grinning. Inside, though, the décor is Miami Modern: white marble, white leather, white piano, white Maybach in the garage, exercise equipment in the living room, palm trees on either side of the living room - inside the living room. Situated at the end of a nondescript cul-de-sac, it’s barely distinguishable from its modest upper-middle-class neighbors. He smiles as she brings the plate to the table, smiles as he jabs a fork into it, smiles as she lovingly hovers over him.īut for the clink of the fork hitting the plate, the three-story house is quiet. Up in this airy house’s recording studio, Gucci - everyone calls him Gucci - smiles widely and makes his way downstairs, following the smell of a chicken-and-egg scramble. It’s an early Thursday afternoon in June in this Atlanta suburb, and Keyshia Ka’oir calls out to her boyfriend, Gucci Mane, that breakfast is served.
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