Gucci Mane Says Drugs Could've Killed Him If He Hadn't Gone to Prison

Gucci Mane knows that there are better ways to get clean than an extended bid in prison. However, the rapper credits his time locked away for saving his life. Mane told Zane Lowe that he likely would have died from his various addictions had he not been forced to kick the habit behind bars.

In an interview with Lowe on Beats 1 Radio, the Evil Genius rapper was asked whether he thought things "would have ended badly" if he had not been knocked off the path he was traveling in the early 2010s. "I think I would have been dead, probably," Mane said. "It's a possibility."

"Do you think in some degree, going away saved you, in some respects?" Lowe asked.

"In hindsight, yeah," Mane said. "I wouldn't want to do it like that again, but you know... I don't know. Drugs could've killed me, so you don't know the future, but at the same time, jail was so hard, so I don't know."

Jail being hard definitely stuck with LaFlare. Like his fellow recently incarcerated artist Meek Mill, he wants to work on prison reform. The rapper told Lowe that fixing the American prison system is the non-musical thing he's most passionate about.

"Prison reform. To try to get all these people out of jail that are just locked up," he said, when asked to name something outside of music that he feels strongly about. "I was just locked up so many people that don't deserve to be there, but it's like, what do you do?"

Mane said that he's overwhelmed by all the wrongs in the prison system and doesn't know where to begin fixing it, but he'd be willing to lend help to any movement that came calling. "Yes, 100 percent. If somebody came to me with a plan like, 'this is what we can do,' because I don't know, and I can't act like I know," he said.