New York, NY – Prescription drug abuse is persistently glorified in music. What appears comparatively innocent turns into a harsh get up name when rappers like Lil Peep and Mac Miller begin shedding their lives to dependancy. Gucci Mane understands this all too properly.
Throughout a latest interview with Beats 1 Radio, the East Atlanta Santa opened up about his struggles with substance abuse and divulges he would’ve died had he not sobered up.
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“It’s drug use] by no means gonna go nowhere,” he informed Zane Lowe. “It’s going to at all times be like that. Medication gonna at all times be a component society. It’s going at all times be individuals combating. It’s going to at all times be dying. It’s simply, , simply what it’s. It’s at all times going to be a component music. Take into consideration all these rock ‘n’ roll stars earlier than these Hip Hop stars.”
Gucci, who had been utilizing alcohol, weed, ecstasy, prescription tablets and lean for years, believes that way of life would’ve ended him.
“I feel I’d have been lifeless, most likely,” he stated.
In 2013, Gucci started serving a three-year jail sentence for possession a firearm by a felon. He was lastly capable of kick the medication contained in the jail partitions.
“I wouldn’t wish to do it like that once more, however … I don’t know,” he stated. “Medication might’ve killed me, so that you don’t know the longer term, however on the similar time, jail was so onerous, so I don’t know. That’s fascinating.”
Since his Could 2016 launch from jail, the 1017 boss has turn into obsessed with jail reform and needs to get entangled someway.
“I would like] to attempt to get all these individuals out jail which might be simply locked up,” he stated. “I used to be simply locked up so many individuals that don’t should be there, nevertheless it’s like, what do you do? Essentially the most I do is attempt to maintain down the individuals with lawyer charges or give cash to the those that I acquired incarcerated, and simply being there for them once they name.
“If someone got here to me with a plan like, ‘that is what we will do,’ as a result of I don’t know, and I can’t act like I do know.”
Elsewhere within the dialog, Gucci acknowledged his slower tempo this yr. In 2017, it appeared like he was placing out a challenge each week. Now, he’s simply centered on getting Evil Genius out, which he defined is way more private than previous endeavors.
“That is my first album the yr,” he stated. “It’s my very own album the yr and I did it on function. I used to be eager to take my time and chill. I didn’t wish to be in studio with a deadline, like I acquired to make an album and it acquired to come back out presently.
“This album was like the primary time I sort had extra enjoyable making the information. With the intentions simply going within the studio and simply had enjoyable and that is what got here out. However earlier than, I used to be sort going and expressing myself, speaking via the mic, like I had rather a lot my chest. This album was like, let’s discover the perfect beat, make the perfect tune and put it out.”
Evil Genius is predicted to reach on Friday (December 7.) Till then, try the total interview right here.