The BET reality show Gucci Mane & Keyshia Ka’Oir: The Mane Event, featuring his fiancée, is set to debut Oct. “I finally know what it’s like to be a professional, to feel what’s going on,” Gucci said just ahead of the release of the book and his 11th studio album, Mr. In the book, co-authored by Neil Martinez-Belkin, Gucci, who has four top-10 rap singles - including this year’s hit with Migos, “I Get the Bag” - digs deeper into his upbringing than ever before, offering insight into how a kid caught up in Atlanta’s drug game made it through violence, rap beefs, a crippling addiction to the drug lean and run-ins with the law, including a 2005 murder charge (which was eventually dropped), to become the undisputed king of trap music.
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Gucci’s family life, drug dealing and arrests - as well as the perfection of a musical style that would help elevate the careers of a slew of young Southern artists such as Migos, Young Thug and Zaytoven - are on full display in the new The Autobiography of Gucci Mane. “There’s a lot of pain and heartache associated with the drug game that kids need to know about.” That wasn’t one of the best decisions I ever made, but I was young.”
I felt like dope would be the best route … at that time. “I felt like fashion a way to express myself, and I knew the only way I could get it at the time was that route: selling crack. “I remember … trying to carve out my own individuality,” he said. It was the moment Gucci realized he was officially waist-deep in Zone 6’s drug game - even if he didn’t have a clue of what he was getting himself into. “Now you owe me $50,” Gucci recalls the drug dealer telling him.
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Davis, who was already selling marijuana for his older brother, Duke, handed a dope man his mother’s $50 in exchange for two tightly wrapped slabs of crack cocaine, roughly 1.5 grams each. The Best Drake ‘Album’ That Never Existedīut when his mom told him that bills were really tight and that she could only give him $50, Davis, today known as hip-hop star Gucci Mane, left the apartment with the money and walked to the other side of Mountain Park in East Atlanta’s Zone 6.Ten Years after Kanye West’s ‘Graduation’ - and Mine.The album cover of Nas’ 2012 ‘Life Is Good’.Going back to school, postholiday break meant his classmates would show off their gifts from Santa. Toward the end of 1993, Davis, then 13, had his eyes on a pair of jeans, some new Air Jordans and a Starter jacket.
Radric Delantic Davis wanted the Christmas his mother couldn’t afford to give him - and the eighth-grader was willing to sell slabs of dope to make it happen.
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