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Gucci Mane's New Album 'Droptopwop' Is The Climax To One Redemptive Year

After years of being dogged by his own demons, the trap god is living his best life yet.
Gucci Mane on stage during the Gucci and Friends Homecoming Concert at Atlanta's Fox Theatre on July 22, 2016. / Paras Griffin / Getty Images

A year ago today, Gucci Mane emerged from an Indiana federal penitentiary a slimmer, sober, reformed version of his old self. Though still confined to house arrest, the Atlanta rapper quickly began picking up the pieces of a career

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