Gunna’s Drip Is Here to Stay

On working with Mariah Carey:

“Honestly, I was so shocked that she even knew me. Still to this day I haven’t met her personally, but I just love the fact that she reached out, you know what I’m saying? A real legend. Shoutout to Mariah, man, that album did good, too.”

His friendship with Lil Baby:

“Lil Baby, that’s my brother. Our relationship grew together ’cause we were somewhat the same. Not the same age, but just young and knew how to dress. Before doing music we were known for being some cool, fresh, young n*****, you know what I’m saying? So when the music came about—I’ve

been

doing music, Baby wasn’t. Baby did it just ’cause, people kind of forced him to do it like, ‘Man, you need to rap, you’re a star, you need to rap,’ but when he let me hear it, I was like, ‘Oh yeah, you can go,’ and he went. He told me the same thing. He believed in me just like I believed in him.”

Touching on his personal style:

“Right now I feel like I’m getting more into the fashion world—and not just name brands, because it’s deeper than that. Even when I was coming up and didn’t have any money, I would still look good. You’ve got to have style first before you can have anything else. You’ve got to know the style, you’ve got to be in it. Some people just really can’t figure out style.”

If he’d ever be interested in collaborating with a fashion brand:

“Of course. I’m definitely going to launch my own brand soon. I wouldn’t mind doing something with Maison Margiela, I wouldn’t mind doing something with Dsquared2. Mike Amiri, Alexander Wang, Stella McCartney—I’m into a lot of different brands. Of course, Virgil, we could collab. There are too many to name.”

The design process behind his jewelry:

“

Eliantte

does all my jewelry. We come up with the styles together. The style for my chain right now, with the snakes coming through it, he came up with it because I told him that I didn’t want to do no regular cuban chain, I wanted something different. He was like, ‘what if we try two snakes on each side?’ And it came out crazy.”

His advice to those looking to get into the industry:

“Do music because you want to do it; don’t do it because somebody else is doing it. Then, once you do it, stay with it, and don’t let nobody stop you from going hard. Even if you feel like ain’t nobody paying attention, there is always somebody paying attention. You need to always know that. Out of all the projects I’ve put in, I still gain fans every time.”

And the best advice he’s ever received:

“Always remain humble, that’s one thing that’s stuck with me. You start to look funny when you put yourself on a higher pedestal than everybody else. You can’t do that. We’re all made the same.”

His year will focus on storytelling:

“This year I want to be more, I don’t want to say

‘

open to people,

’

but I want people to know me more than just being like, ‘Oh, he be fly.’ I want people to know where I come from, how I was raised, how I feel about certain people and certain situations in life—just how I think.”

What he wants to be remembered as:

“I want to be remembered as a young legend who was fly and rich and took care of everybody and stayed humble.”

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