To be honest, once I got my first charge at like 20, 21, music was like: This is what I'm going to do.

So I'm just curious, did you live the lifestyle for the music, or was the music a way to enhance your image as a drug dealer back then? When you started your rap career, you would brag about these exploits in your music - which, in a way, only strengthened your reputation on the street as a drug dealer. Try to keep yourself at least financially independent enough where you're not a burden on your family because they don't got it. So in my mind it was always like, try to make yourself not be a burden on nobody. I seen how it could just tear up a whole household. I seen the way everything was about a dollar.

And I went to sleep hungry - I knew what it was like to be poor I knew what it was like to have your lights off, or to have to boil water to take a bath. I seen so many people staying in shotgun houses, or not really having good shoes on their feet. I think I was obsessed with money, definitely, coming up because I seen so many people not having money. So back then, when you were barely 13, 14 years old and you started dealing drugs, it sounded like you were already really obsessed with money. He didn't really teach it to me, but I kind of adapted to it because I seen it. I just watched his nature and I watched his mannerisms. Gucci Mane: He just was kind of like, always on point, or trying to be as sharp as he can - or, you know, read when trouble was coming. Ailsa Chang: In your book, you call your dad a 'con artist.' How was he a con artist, and what did you learn from him?

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