He told GQ that he started reading вЂњautobiographies and books about philosophyвЂќ and told Vulture that he tries to read a book a week. ThatвЂ™s not the only transformation he underwent behind bars, though. According to The Guardian, he dropped at least 70 pounds. вЂњThe day that I got arrested and stopped doing drugs, eventually it started to dawn on me that had to start taking better care of myself before I up back in the same situation,вЂќ he shared. In an interview with Revolt, the rapper explained that he decided to make a change after noticing the effects drugs - particularly marijuana and lean - were having on his body. But while serving a sentence for gun charges, which ended in 2016, Mane molded his rounded belly into a six-pack. If you canвЂ™t identify Gucci Mane by one of his songs, we bet you can at least identify him by his look - or, at least, you probably could have in the past, as one of the rapperвЂ™s most famous assets was his signature potbelly. вЂњIt was going to be either a robbery, an aggravated assault or a murder.вЂќ вЂњBased on and some other information, it came out that it was a self-defense situation,вЂќ explained his lawyer. The rapper went on to claim that he fired in self-defense (via MTV News), and the charges were later dropped due to insufficient evidence. Clark later succumbed to his injuries, and Mane was arrested for the shooting just a day before his debut album, Trap House, hit shelves. After Mane reportedly hit one man, 27-year-old Henry Lee Clark III, the group reportedly left. Some time during the exchange, Mane allegedly got ahold of a gun and started firing. While with the woman, five men reportedly stormed into her apartment and threatened to shoot the rapper, according to MTV News. The shooting reportedly went down that May while Mane was visiting a female friend. Shortly after bursting onto the music scene with the 2005 Young Jeezy collaboration, вЂњIcy,вЂќ Gucci Mane was arrested on murder charges.

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