Gucci Mane says he’s not “super proud” of his earlier music inspiring people to think that recreational drug use “was cool.”
During an appearance on The Breakfast Club on Monday, Oct. 20, the Episodes artist was asked about a passage in his latest book focused on the “guilt” he’s felt over the subject matter of some of his earlier work, specifically the 2006 track “Pillz.” As Guwop explained in the interview, he’s since made peace with that guilt.
“I can live with it now because it is what it is,” he said. “But back then, I know that I made a lot of people use drugs. I talked about drugs, drugs, drugs, drugs all through my music because that’s what I was on back then. Now I’m just like, damn. I know I made a whole bunch of people think pills was cool. I know that for a fact. And that ain’t nothing I’m just super proud of, you know? But what can I do? It’s in the past now. At the same time, I was also a user too, so I was going through it with them.”
As for “Pillz,” specifically, Gucci looked back on his team’s initially lukewarm response to the track. This reaction, he explained, was due to their view at the time of pills and other recreational drugs as “junkie stuff.”
Still, the song quickly became a fan-favorite and is now considered an indisputable classic in Gucci's catalog.
Episodes, Gucci's latest, was fittingly released last Friday, Oct. 17. On the song “Back Cooking” with OJ da Juiceman, the prolific 45-year-old took fans back to one of the most widely quoted moments of his career by sampling this 2013 conversation on the power and pitfalls of sauce.
Ahead of the track’s release, Gucci’s sauce-centered remarks were already back in headlines thanks to Marty Supreme actor Timothée Chalamet, who paraphrased the beloved speech when celebrating his White Boy of the Year victory.
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