The
self-proclaimed "Trap God," a title that's hard to dispute, is basking
in the afterglow of getting released from jail after serving nearly
three years of what could have been a 35-year sentence.
Just before he
went in to do his bid in September 2013 for illegal possession of a
firearm, the Atlanta rapper was allegedly (according to a police report)
bipolar and off his medication, erratically making his way through his
hometown of East Atlanta with a gun bulging out of his pants, menacing
everyone he knew along the way. His stomach was bulbous from drinking
too much lean, something he describes in his upcoming The Autobiography of Gucci Mane
-- he'd become dependent on drugs, a habit that smeared the
responsibilities in his life -- and when he was sent behind bars, his
body collapsed from opiate withdrawal. 
"I had a very hard time
readjusting -- detoxing off of lean is just a tough physical process on
your body, with feeling bad and stomach messed up and body just going
crazy because it's something you had every day," explains the
37-year-old, born Radric Davis. "It took a minute. But the thing is,
with prison, you ain't going nowhere. So it forces you. You gotta
change. You gotta take it. It dried me out because I wasn't going
nowhere. I ain't have no bond. What can you do? It makes you deal with
it. It deals with you."
The situation was do or die. If he even
were lucky enough to get just 10 years in prison, his career would have
been over by the time he got out. With that looming over his head, Gucci
didn't so much make a pact with himself to improve his life as prison
naturally corrected his course. His weight plummeted from 265 to 240
pounds in the first two and a half weeks. He read books every day --
Tony Robbins, Malcolm Gladwell, Deepak Chopra -- and names the Bible as
his favorite, though he struggles with explaining his own definition of
being "religious." 
He even wrote his autobiography while in prison, out
September 19th through Simon & Schuster, that details everything
from his early days of dealing drugs to his long-standing beef with
Jeezy and his various run-ins with the law throughout the years. The
most notable change was the one most apparent: When Gucci left jail in
May 2016, he looked like he'd shrunk in size. When he wasn't reading, he
was running flights of stairs -- first one, then two, then five, then
20.
Styling by Jason Rembert
Grooming by Daronn Carr
Stylist Assistant: Kristen McGovern
Location: Chateau Marmont
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