Just two days earlier, he had taken to Instagram to cut off his GPS-monitored ankle bracelet, which had kept him in his pearly walled, palm-tree-studded mansion in suburban Atlanta, or at “work-related” events in the metropolitan area, since May. It’s a good moment to do it – the beginning of a new, wholly open-ended period in Gucci’s life. I done forgave myself for a lot of things I did. “Anybody that I ever hurt, if I had the opportunity to apologise to them for doing something out the way to them, I’ve already done that. Onstage with Shawty Lo in Atlanta, Georgia, 2009. The future is looking bright, with new faces in his corner and a new top-five album under his belt, July’s Everybody Looking, and a follow-up, Woptober, released on 17 October. In Gucci’s mind, then, the hard work of repairing old bonds – the ones that matter – is done. The prison kind of made that relationship die down – that was kind of a benefit. “When I got out, there was kind of no need to rekindle – we hadn’t talked in three years. “Prison kind of cut a line in the sand – made a bounty with a lot of people I haven’t really kept in contact with,” he says. “It motivated me to change my life, because I’m never going back there.”īut talking to Gucci resurrects some mannerisms recalled from his pre-prison appearances: a slight flaring of the eyebrows and a tight drawing-together of the lips at the end of a statement to signal: “I’m done talking about this.” In our conversation, this is reserved for any discussion of estranged associates, notably his former business partner Debra Antney and her son Waka Flocka Flame, Gucci’s former best friend and a trap music icon in his own right.
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“It’s a life-changing experience, being in a place that is full of death, full of violence, full of rage, full of despair,” he says solemnly. But a maximum-security facility – in this case, the US penitentiary in Terre Haute, Indiana – was a different universe.
Gucci had been in and out of county jail since he was a teenager (even facing murder charges at one point, although they were eventually dropped). “ was one of the best things that ever happened to me, looking back on it,” he tells me, the day before the private party, on an Astroturf-covered balcony at another New York hotel. He was released on 26 May this year, and entered into the period of house arrest that ended on 20 September. The following month, another conviction, for a lingering aggravated assault charge – hitting an army sergeant over the head with a bottle at a party – resulted in an additional three-year sentence.
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He apologised for his behaviour – “I’ve been drinking lean for 10 plus years & I must admit it has destroyed me,” he wrote on Twitter – but he remained in jail until his trial in August 2014, at which he was convicted and sentenced to 39 months in prison. After being caught with a handgun and a bag of weed, he had acted “erratically” and threatened the police officers who had stopped him. By the end of that week, Gucci was in jail.
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