‘Zadddy’: Gucci Mane Drives Fans Wild with Enticing Beach Thirst Trap

Gucci Mane sent fans into a tizzy with this week after flaunting his fit physique in an Instagram thread.

The “Money Machine” rapper has been feeling himself quite a bit since his massive weight-loss transformation this year. Over the past few months he’s posted a plethora of shirtless pics, showing off his body, and it seems his reign of sexy pictures has yet to end.

Tuesday afternoon, Gucci took to Instagram and shared a photo of himself shirtless and in black and yellow print basketball shorts while strolling the beach in Dubai. Amid flashing his six-pack abs, he looked off to the side of the camera with a smile. His caption: “They hate it when u happy 😃”

Over 335,000 fans hearted the rapper’s post and flooded him with endless comments.

Gucci Mane
Gucci Mane. @laflare1017/Instagram

“Gottttt dammm Zadddyy🤤 Gucci out here looking like a whole snack. Yall not an original Gucci fan if you don’t remember him in those so icy, slumber party days 🔥”

“Damn Guwopp 🤤😍 is fine as hell still the coldest rapper in da game just betta than eva b4 😈”

“Good grief 😍 you’re gorgeous🙌 damn Kesha you got that man shining 👑. He glowed up forreal”

“Man stop playing out chea big Gucci 😍 daddy, u gotta stop.”

The “Bricks” artist appears to be in the best shape of his life and urged fans in April to use his substantial weight loss as inspiration for themselves.

“For people who ain’t in shape, people who ain’t healthy, people need some inspiration. I was 290 pounds, now I’m 190 pounds. I lost 100 pounds,” he said in a video recorded at the time by his wife, model Keyshia Ka’Oir.

Keyshia Ka'Oir
Gucci Mane and Keyshia Ka’Oir in Puerto Rico. (Photo: @keyshiakaoir/Instagram)

He added, “You can do it if I can do it. Use me for inspiration, ’cause I’m seeing a lot of y’all and y’all look terrible.”

On top of his weight loss, Gucci also changed his way of living. After his released from prison in 2016, he decided to eliminate drugs and alcohol from his life.

“I think I would have been dead, probably,” Mane told New Zealand radio host Zane Lowe on Beats 1 Radio in December. “It’s a possibility. … Drugs could’ve killed me, so you don’t know the future…”

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