Nicki Minaj: Gucci Mane Needs an Intervention | News | BET
In an interview with Atlanta's Hot 107.9, Nicki Minaj shared her thoughts on one of the city's most prominently troubled rappers, Gucci Mane.
Gooch has been in the headlines lately for a falling out with Brick Squad signee Waka Flocka Flame and allegedly attacking two fans on two separate occasions. Nicki's advice? "Take a moment to really just get centered."
Nicki spent a couple of years as an Atlanta resident earlier in her career. She reflected on her time there and shouted out Gucci. "Everybody knows I had a really great relationship with Gucci when I first came out there just in terms of being on that mixtape circuit with Atlanta rappers," she said. "Gucci served a humongous role in my success."
Expounding, she said, "a lot of my classic mixtape moments were with him [Gucci]. Like he would call my phone 8, 9-o-clock in the morning like what you doin', shawty? You need to get up, you lazy shawty, let's go to the studio So he motivated me a lot, I loved being around him. No matter what, I will always respect Gucci."
When asked if she's spoken with him and if she believes he needs an intervention, Nicki said she stopped talking to him for a while because "he was lashing out at a lot of people."
"So, its like I separate Gucci the artist from Gucci the person," she explained. "Gucci the person is a sweet, loving, carefree, funny, hardworking dude. And so I never really paid attention to anything that he had ever said [when he was lashing out]. In terms of intervention, I think about how talented he is and I kind of wish there was somebody that could step in and say 'Gucci, if you only knew how special you were. You would take a moment to really just get centered.'"
Nicki offered the advice from her own experience. "Not to point fingers," she said, "because Ive had moments when I needed to center myself. Sometimes you just need to be alone in a meditating type of place and just kinda block out all the other noise and begin to focus on who you are and what you want out of life.
She said Gucci as an artist and a businessman has had an impact on not only her career, but the skreets scene in general.
"I think that if he can get to that place hell be great because nobody can ever deny the fact that he kind of revolutionized a lot of things in the underground mixtape world."
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In an interview with Atlanta's Hot 107.9, Nicki Minaj shared her thoughts on one of the city's most prominently troubled rappers, Gucci Mane.
Gooch has been in the headlines lately for a falling out with Brick Squad signee Waka Flocka Flame and allegedly attacking two fans on two separate occasions. Nicki's advice? "Take a moment to really just get centered."
Nicki spent a couple of years as an Atlanta resident earlier in her career. She reflected on her time there and shouted out Gucci. "Everybody knows I had a really great relationship with Gucci when I first came out there just in terms of being on that mixtape circuit with Atlanta rappers," she said. "Gucci served a humongous role in my success."
Expounding, she said, "a lot of my classic mixtape moments were with him [Gucci]. Like he would call my phone 8, 9-o-clock in the morning like what you doin', shawty? You need to get up, you lazy shawty, let's go to the studio So he motivated me a lot, I loved being around him. No matter what, I will always respect Gucci."
When asked if she's spoken with him and if she believes he needs an intervention, Nicki said she stopped talking to him for a while because "he was lashing out at a lot of people."
"So, its like I separate Gucci the artist from Gucci the person," she explained. "Gucci the person is a sweet, loving, carefree, funny, hardworking dude. And so I never really paid attention to anything that he had ever said [when he was lashing out]. In terms of intervention, I think about how talented he is and I kind of wish there was somebody that could step in and say 'Gucci, if you only knew how special you were. You would take a moment to really just get centered.'"
Nicki offered the advice from her own experience. "Not to point fingers," she said, "because Ive had moments when I needed to center myself. Sometimes you just need to be alone in a meditating type of place and just kinda block out all the other noise and begin to focus on who you are and what you want out of life.
She said Gucci as an artist and a businessman has had an impact on not only her career, but the skreets scene in general.
"I think that if he can get to that place hell be great because nobody can ever deny the fact that he kind of revolutionized a lot of things in the underground mixtape world."
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