{"id":442070,"date":"2025-12-12T09:21:14","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T09:21:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/442070\/"},"modified":"2025-12-12T09:21:14","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T09:21:14","slug":"he-showed-me-how-its-done","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/442070\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cHe Showed Me How It\u2019s Done\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Pooh Shiesty is reflecting on the lessons that reshaped him during and after his time behind bars. Moreover, he\u2019s giving major credit to Gucci Mane<\/a> for showing him what growth looks like. In a new interview with XXL,<\/a> the Memphis rapper opened up about how his mentor\u2019s well-documented transformation<\/a> became a blueprint for his own comeback.<\/p>\n

Shiesty said watching the way Gucci handled prison, and the discipline he came home with, pushed him to rethink how he wanted to move in his career and personal life. \u201cThe way Gucci came home, that motivated me,\u201d he explained. \u201cHow he switched up, got toned up. That motivated me to move how I\u2019m moving. He showed me how it\u2019s done.\u201d<\/p>\n

Shiesty also said Gucci didn\u2019t waste a single moment during his time locked up. \u201cHe woke up when he was in there. He wasn\u2019t just in there playing,\u201d Shiesty recalled. That seriousness resonated with him, especially as someone who entered the system at a much younger age. \u201cYou 20 years old going to see what I saw at 35,\u201d Gucci reportedly told him. A perspective that stuck.<\/p>\n

Pooh Shiesty Gets Honest<\/p>\n

For Shiesty, the experience became a wake-up call. He says he sobered up, refocused, and started recognizing the similarities he shares with Gucci. Not just musically, but in temperament and drive. \u201cWe got a lot of similar traits,\u201d he said, adding that although the situation was difficult, he\u2019s choosing to view it as something he got \u201cout the way early.\u201d<\/p>\n

With Gucci Mane as both mentor and cautionary example, Shiesty says he\u2019s now approaching his second chapter with intention. Additionally, he has a much clearer vision of the artist he wants to be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pooh Shiesty is reflecting on the lessons that reshaped him during and after his time behind bars. Moreover,…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":442071,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[29],"tags":[171,95007,1815,975,50,203837,67,132,68,203838],"class_list":["post-442070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-gucci-mane","tag-interview","tag-music","tag-news","tag-pooh-shiesty","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us","tag-xxl"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115705864803102101","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=442070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442070\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/442071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=442070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=442070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=442070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}