Gucci Mane is really a reformed man. The Bricksquad 1017 boss took to Twitter to reveal the true meaning of his name “Guwop.”
According to Wop, it means, “God Unity Wisdom Opportunity Power.”
#GUWOP -God Unity Wisdom Opportunity Power
— Gucci Mane (@gucci1017) October 23, 2016
This is far different from its original 2014 meaning.
Gucci told fans the name had special significance for his haters.
He wrote on Twitter, “To all my haters #GUWOP means Get, Ur, Weight, Up, P***y.”
To all my haters #GUWOP means Get, Ur, Weight, Up, P—- ..
— Gucci Mane (@gucci1017) October 22, 2014
Wop’s owes his transformation to his recent stint in prison. Wop exited prison 100 pounds lighter and drug-free.
The 36-year-old trap god sat down for an interview with Funk Flex and was asked his stance on drugs and alcohol.
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“I don’t do anything,” Gucci said. Absolutely nothing. It’s like I don’t even want it no more. I associate it with jail. I don’t wanna go back to jail. I ain’t gonna front. I don’t wanna go to prison. I’ve been to jail so many times, but prison was a whole different experience. At one point I felt like I shouldn’t have been in no maximum security prison like that. I felt like I hadn’t done nothing to get me where I was at. But I needed to see it. It’s a big deterrent. It made me say, ‘Hey listen, I don’t wanna come back here.’ I’ll change my whole life not to come back here.”
Wop elaborated more on his anti-drug stance during an interview with The New York Times.
Wop professed he was very much addicted to drugs, and that every facet of his life in the past was fueled by drugs an alcohol.
“It’s been tough to be a Gucci fan,” Gucci said in his first interview since being released to home confinement. “It’s been tough to be a Gucci friend, a Gucci sibling, a Gucci girlfriend or a Gucci partner. I done took people through a lot, man.”
Wop revealed he first dabbled in drugs at 17 years old and was hooked since then. He felt he couldn’t function without drugs.
“I felt like I couldn’t make music sober, I couldn’t enjoy my money sober. Why would I wanna go to a club and couldn’t smoke or drink? I felt like sex wouldn’t be good sober. I associated everything with being high.
“In hindsight I see it for what it was: I was a drug addict,” he said. “I was naïve to the fact that I was numb.”
Gucci’s drugs of choice were marijuana, promethazine-codeine, ecstasy and prescription pills.
“I can’t say I felt happy my last six, seven years in the music business,” he said. “I was just numb. You told me that I was doing good or told me I was doing bad, you hated me or loved me, either which way I greeted with nonchalance. It was sincere nonchalance — like, I really didn’t care.”
Gucci failed at rehab prior to his prison sentence, made a committed effort during his stint behind bars.
Wop described feeling like death during the withdrawal process.
“Your body just craving lean bad. Stomach tore up, can’t think straight. Just mad at the world. Temper so short, so violent, so aggressive. So just rude and toxic.”
