Debra Antney, widely referred to as an ex-manager of Gucci Mane, has shared some speculation on her former business partner in connection with his recent Breakfast Club interview alongside wife Keyshia Ka'oir.
In a video conversation shared by V. Lenore on Nov. 5, Antney, mother to Waka Flocka Flame, was asked if she had seen the interview in question. Antney confirmed that she had, though she pointed out that she doesn’t personally follow the show too closely.
“She’s the handler,” Antney said of Ka'oir, before turning her attention to Gucci. “That’s not the [Gucci] that I know. It just did not seem like him. But there’s many rumors about that relationship, period. That’s not him. In a million years, you wouldn’t get to make me believe that either he wasn’t drugged up or something wasn’t going on with him there. That’s just not him.”
In Antney’s opinion, Keyshia shouldn't have “come out nationally saying the stuff that she said” about Gucci.
“I don’t think that that’s for the world, period,” she said. “That sounds like somebody that wants attention, that’s seeking attention, and that threw her husband out on the chopping block.”
Antney also disputed the mental health angle that many have taken with regards to several of the topics discussed in Gucci’s Breakfast Club interview, reiterating her belief that these issues were zeroed in on as part of an effort to to gain “notoriety.”
From there, she hinted at her own experiences with Gucci, saying that she “placed him in hospitals” and did “various things” for him but kept these incidents away from the public eye.
“To this day, I’ve never told that man’s business,” Antney said.
On her website, Antney is described as a “mogul, mentor, mother, and philanthropist” who “also discovered a local underground artist named Gucci Mane,” whom she pushed ”to live his potential.”
Charlamagne tha God and the Breakfast Club team have since responded to Antney’s remarks, disputing them. As they see it, a personal path toward self-evolution might lead to one being unrecognizable to those who were formerly in their life.
“All I see is a healed individual,” Charlamagne said, as seen below. “All I see is a healed human that’s still on a journey of healing. That’s all I see.”
As previously reported, Gucci’s Breakfast Club interview in October saw him expressing his belief that his earlier music inspired listeners to try drugs.
“I can live with it now because it is what it is,” the Episodes: The Diary of a Recovering Mad Man author said at the time. “But back then, I know that I made a lot of people use drugs. I talked about drugs, drugs, drugs, drugs all through my music because that’s what I was on back then. Now I’m just like, damn. I know I made a whole bunch of people think pills was cool. I know that for a fact. And that ain’t nothing I’m just super proud of, you know? But what can I do? It’s in the past now.”