Gucci Mane Covers The FADER

Gucci Mane’s new album Everybody Looking is in stores now and projected to move 69-74k copies in the first week, good enough for a #2 spot on Billboard 200.

Part of his press is gracing the cover of latest issue of The FADER magazine. Writer Andrew Nosnitsky interviewed the rapper in his home where he’’s serving his final months on house arrest. They discuss the new album, early influences, Atlanta’’s street culture, his philosophy on mentoring other artists like Young Thug, toxic relationships and drug addiction.

Here are some highlights. You can read the full story on this link.

Gucci on his work:
“I never really made music to make people try to feel sad. I don’t want people to feel sorry for me. I want them to feel powerful, I want them to feel aggressive, I want them to feel invincible. I want to hear the fuckery. I want to hear the shit that people probably think, ‘This ain’t good to be played around kids.’”

On his time in prison:
“It was a maximum security prison and it was a lot of violence. People were dying every week. [But] I think it helped me to get to the point I’m at now, to drive me out from the drugs. It gave me time to reflect, it made a lot of relationships that were toxic in my life just fall away.”

On his new lifestyle:
“When I was on drugs so bad, I talked different. When I was smoking weed, a damn near pound of weed every day, I was congested. When I was drinking lean like crazy every day, I was out my mind. I was always sophisticated, but it ain’t even sophisticated now — it’s just a sober, a more conscious Gucci. And people probably ain’t used to it. It took a minute for me to get used to it. But they’re gonna have to get used to it because it’s here to stay.”

Young Thug on Gucci Mane:
“He taught me everything,” Thug says. “Most definitely he taught me don’t never stop. He was rapping every day, all day and all night. He’ll be mad at me if I’d leave the ‘yo [the studio]. He’d be like, ‘Man, you dead broke and you goddamn running around and I’m up a whole lot of millions and I’m working every day. How the hell that look?’”