Gucci Mane: One embodiment of Black joy.
Last week, I went to bed thinking about my favorite story in hiphop (possibly ever): the apparently widespread internet rumor that the just-released Gucci Mane, having shed his iconic “Gucci belly” and now affecting a hilariously square manner of speech, was in fact a clone grown in a government lab.
Maybe it’s hard for some to believe that a guy could look so different after spending a couple of years in prison—though for the life of me, I couldn’t imagine why (especially among Gucci fans, who on the whole are more likely to have known someone “Fresh Out the Feds” than, say, your average Shark Face Gang member)—but I do not understand how an actual human being truly jumped to the conclusion that Gucci 2.0 is a clone…