Interview: Gucci Mane Talks Music, Drugs, Addiction and More
Gucci Mane sits down for his first in-depth interview since being released from prison. As he serves the remaining 3 months of his sentence on house arrest, he spoke in detail with The New York Times. His new album Everybody Looking is due out in stores and on iTunes this Friday. Take a look at some of what he had to say below and read the full story here.
On His Drug Addiction:
‘I felt like I couldn’t make music sober, I couldn’t enjoy my money sober. Why would I wanna go to a club and couldn’t smoke or drink? I felt like sex wouldn’t be good sober. I associated everything with being high. In hindsight I see it for what it was: I was a drug addict. 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.)
On His Incarceration:
‘I knew that these people was trying to give me 20 years, 30 years, I dodged a life-shattering moment, damn near a career-ending injury. What’s the sense of having all this money, all these millions of dollars and you sitting in prison and you can’t enjoy it? I made like a pact to myself: When I get out, no matter what happens, I must record these songs.’
On His Weight Loss:
‘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.’