Gucci Mane Autobiography Quotes

If you keep lookin' back, you gon' trip going forward.

I remembered that as low as my lows had gotten, I always had faith in myself. That I always knew if I could get past those temporary moments, eventually I’d be up again. Jail couldn’t beat me. Lean couldn’t beat me. No situation could beat me. I was the only one who could beat me.

A slave ship of the skies.

As far back as I can remember, I really just wanted to get me some money.

There are some things in life you can never completely walk away from, as badly as you might want to.

My father used to say that if you keep looking back you’re going to trip going forward. That in life, sometimes you reach a fork in the road and you have to make a decision. Which direction will it be? Left or right? To be firm in that decision you can’t keep looking back. You have to make peace with the past. It doesn’t happen overnight. It takes time for wounds to heal.

I learned a lot watching James Franco do his thing. The whole way he approached his character was superimpressive. He was all in, fully immersed as Alien. He played the hell out of that role. He knew his craft like I knew the rap game.

There’s a certain level of violence in any correctional facility but here it was intrinsic. It lived in the concrete walls. In the steel doors. It was always hanging in the air.

And as it always did, my stress manifested itself as intense dread and paranoia.

If you keep lookin’ back, you gon’ trip going forward.

My decision to pursue music was heavily influenced by my arrest at the Texaco.

Constantly worrying about money the way that I did messed me up. I would tell myself when I got grown I’d never live with those feelings. Twenty-five years and millions of dollars later I still remember that anxiety.

I followed the changes I’d made to my body by working to strengthen my mind. I was devouring books. A lot of self-help, inspirational stuff. Tony Robbins. Deepak Chopra. Malcolm Gladwell. James Allen. The biographies of Pimp C. and Jimi Hendrix. Mike Tyson’s autobiography.

If you keep lookin’ back you gon’ trip going forward. I’ve taken heed of that. To start a new chapter you’ve got to turn the page on the last one. Still, every now and then I do think it’s okay to stop and look back, just for a moment, before continuing on your way. Especially when it’s a hell of a story.

Then, two months after I’d first left Georgia, I arrived at my new home in Bumblefuck, Indiana.

From Maine to Spain, I can play that thang, because I’m the original Gucci Mane.

I handed him the money and he handed me two tightly wrapped fifty-dollar slabs of crack cocaine. “Now you owe me fifty dollars, get it?” he said. I sure did. That was all she wrote.

Bouldercrest we hear AK’s more than church music

If a man does not have the sauce, then he is lost. But the same man can be lost in the sauce

If you keep looking back you’re going to trip going forward.

back in the day, my father sold heroin and coke, but by the time he entered my life in Atlanta he was a full-fledged con artist. Every penny he made came by way of tricking somebody else out of theirs.

On Bouldercrest I’m sellin’ dope at Texaco And Mr. Kim keep sayin’ “Get ’way from sto!” No, I can’t get ’way from sto, I got so much blow, it gotta go —“I’m a Star” (2008)

See, James Sr. had always fancied himself a dresser. He loved him some nice clothes and expensive leather shoes. He’d spent time in Italy during his years in the service, which is where he fell in love with the Gucci brand.

calling my father the “Gucci Man.

a web of interstate highways connecting cities in every direction. A Spaghetti Junction. Long story short, Atlanta’s got a history of moving people and things. Drug trafficking is a natural part of that history.