“It’s Been TOUGH To Be A Gucci Fan”: Gucci Mane Talks 17 Year Drug Addiction, His New Lifestyle, & Keyshia Ka’Oir

July 21, 2016 TheTea Maker celebrity gossip, music 0

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Gucci Mane On His New Fashion Style:

“I used to go in the mall and just look at this stuff and couldn’t fit it,” Gucci said, reaching for a pair of outlandish Prada sunglasses. “I wanted to lose weight, but if it took for me to stop drinking lean to lose weight, it wasn’t even a choice.”

On Being Imitated By Other Artists:

When he was in jail, he heard “a lot of people imitating stuff that I did, and I was flattered by it.” Last month, he released a song called “All My Children,” in which he exults, “I love my kids!” On “Waybach,” a song from the new album, he raps, “All these folks impersonate me like Elvis.”

Contemporary Southern hip-hop, particularly from Atlanta, feels cut from his mold of “quasi-comedic, abstract, nonsensical wordplay,” as [Harmony Korine, film director and friend of Gucci] puts it, from the electric eccentric Young Thug to the pugnacious rapscallions Migos to the schoolboy croon-rapper Lil Yachty.

Harmony Korrine: “Anybody can do the stuff Gucci used to do,” he said. But he hopes his new choices will be just as influential as his old ones.

Gucci: “Can y’all copy living how I’m living?” he asked. “Can y’all copy getting y’all life together?”

Gucci Mane is credited with launching the careers of rapper Waka Flocka and  producers Zaytoven, Drumma Boy, and Mike Will Made-It. Genius started the hashtag #IfItWasntForGucci (If It Wasn’t For Gucci) and asked fans, journalists and today’s artists to tweet how Gucci influenced hip-hop: