Khia Speaks on What She Feels Changed Gucci Mane

Gucci Mane has been going in and out of jail, and has been showing the symptoms of someone with a mental illness for some years now. People have said it's the drugs, some say it's effects of his dying career, but his old friend, Khia says she knows what is really wrong with Gucci Mane. For those that don't know her, Khia had a raunchy hit song titled 'My Neck, My Back' back in 2002, and her debut album, Thug Misses (released the same year) attained Gold status. In her recent interview with Billboard, she spoke on knowing Gucci Mane before he became a star, and also having an idea of what made everything go wrong for him.






"I knew Gucci before he was this huge artist. He'd come through a club I had all the time to perform. I got to know him before he changed. The industry has changed him. No one is going to get to know the beautiful side I did. He's too far gone. I think he was high when he was tweeting. He was speaking the truth. It may be the people he's around or drugs that he's on. Sometimes money or environment changes people. I think his team is not good and he doesn't have any positive reinforcement. I reached out to him a few times, but I haven't seen him since we did, 'What They Do,' [which] was 2008. When he did that he was on some type of drug. I don't know what he took to trip him out. When we did that song, I can tell something was off. Something's been off since then. If you were to ask me, as a close friend, I don't think he recovered well when he ended up having to shoot someone... and it wasn't intentional. I think he was scared for his life and someone ended up getting murdered. I don't think he's recovered from that and I don't think he ever will. It changed him."





Khia was referring to the shooting that occurred in 2005, when Young Jeezy sent some of his friends over to Gucci's house to shake-him-up while they were beefing. Being scared for his life, and having the 'kill or be killed' mentality, Gucci Mane fired his gun, and shot and killed one of Jeezy's associates- Pookie Loc. A warrant was put out for Gucci Mane's arrest afterwards, but he turned himself in. He ended up beating the case on claims of self-defense. Below were his words concerning the shooting at the time.





"I just want to let everyone know I'm not a murderer. I was upset. I was scared a little bit, but I had to do what I had to do. You gotta be a man about it. I'm not a bad person. I have remorse for everything that happened."