https://padlet.com/02artsau603671/llwn84nv07z1 By Arturo Sauceda en-us 2017-12-11 14:46:02 UTC 2025-11-06 15:44:56 UTC hello@padlet.com 02artsau603671 https://padlet.com/02artsau603671/llwn84nv07z1/wish/215043588 "You know, he had all kinds of games and scams, like three card molly, shaking the pea, pigeon drop," Gucci Mane tells NPR's Ailsa Chang. "All of these are little scams that he learned — tricks of the trade that he learned in the streets."

]]> 2017-12-11 15:01:31 UTC https://padlet.com/02artsau603671/llwn84nv07z1/wish/215043588 02artsau603671 https://padlet.com/02artsau603671/llwn84nv07z1/wish/215044116 Trap, by definition, is a hustle or a spot or the act of just grinding. When I came up, trap was crumbling. Trap meant that you was in a drug infested place, neighborhood, house. The music was about that lifestyle, anything pertaining to that lifestyle. But right now, it's broad; it's kind of like hard hitting beats, and just talking about the drug culture.

Gucci Mane song-Slippery
https://youtu.be/0Sw8ahIFXJs]]> 2017-12-11 15:02:31 UTC https://padlet.com/02artsau603671/llwn84nv07z1/wish/215044116 02artsau603671 https://padlet.com/02artsau603671/llwn84nv07z1/wish/215044893 I think I was obsessed with money, definitely, coming up because I seen so many people not having money. I seen so many people staying in shotgun houses, or not really having good shoes on their feet. And I went to sleep hungry — I knew what it was like to be poor; I knew what it was like to have your lights off, or to have to boil water to take a bath.]]> 2017-12-11 15:03:54 UTC https://padlet.com/02artsau603671/llwn84nv07z1/wish/215044893 02artsau603671 https://padlet.com/02artsau603671/llwn84nv07z1/wish/215045380 Gucci Mane became grist for Internet jokes. (The magazine XXL rounded up the “21 Funniest Gucci Mane Tweets from His Meltdown.”) Friends thought he had lost control of his account; Gucci chalked the episode up to his cough-syrup addiction. The chemicals were doing the talking, he said.

]]> 2017-12-11 15:04:48 UTC https://padlet.com/02artsau603671/llwn84nv07z1/wish/215045380 02artsau603671 https://padlet.com/02artsau603671/llwn84nv07z1/wish/215047762 I just had time to sit down and reflect. And I was reading books. I had read Johnny Cash's biography, I read Mike Tyson's biography, I read two biographies on Jimi Hendrix.

And then when I read the two biographies on Jimi Hendrix I was like: Let me tell my story myself. And that just came up with the idea, and I just started writing, and I wrote like 30, 40 pages my first time when I sat down to write the book.

Gucci Mane song-Slippery
https://youtu.be/0Sw8ahIFXJs]]> 2017-12-11 15:08:44 UTC https://padlet.com/02artsau603671/llwn84nv07z1/wish/215047762 02artsau603671 https://padlet.com/02artsau603671/llwn84nv07z1/wish/215059732 https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/the-autobiography-of-gucci-mane-and-the-struggle-to-be-seen

https://www.npr.org/2017/09/19/551787647/the-autobiography-of-gucci-mane-a-story-of-rap-and-rebirth]]> 2017-12-11 15:28:59 UTC https://padlet.com/02artsau603671/llwn84nv07z1/wish/215059732