

“When I got out I said, ‘I’m going to show everybody.’”ĭuring Gucci’s time behind bars, Moscowitz remembers the two communicating through the prison email server, Corrlinks. I knew I was unique, and I knew I had something to offer that a lot of people didn’t,” says Gucci today. “When I went to prison, I knew that I was special. While in prison he wrote The Autobiography of Gucci Mane, which was published in 2017, and came up with a five-year plan that would cement his status as one of the music industry’s most prolific rapper-executives from the moment of his release. He had undergone a deep mental transformation, too - the “Lemonade” rapper embodying the idea of turning lemons into just that.

“He was so skinny,” says Ka’oir, “his pants were falling off of him when he came out.”

Thanks to his twice-a-day workouts - and the fact that he had kicked an addiction to lean while in prison - the rapper had lost 90 pounds, and washboard abs had replaced the East Atlanta Santa’s once protruding belly. If the couple’s efforts to fly under the radar that day were thorough - Ka’oir temporarily changed her signature mohawk hairstyle and the two flew commercial - Gucci’s physical transformation ensured an incognito return.
