NASCAR Hall of Famer Mark Martin revealed final week how huge of a Gucci Mane fan he was in a latest interview on Barstool Sports activities’ podcast “Rubbin Is Racing.”
Martin, 65, talked about various issues because the NASCAR season went full pace forward into Talladega Superspeedway. But it surely was Martin’s love for Gucci Mane that went viral throughout social media.
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Mark Martin poses on the purple carpet for the NASCAR Cup Collection Pala On line casino 400 at Auto Membership Speedway on Feb. 26, 2023, in Fontana, California. (Joe Scarnici/Getty Photos)
“I got on Dr. Dre in about 2002. I evolved from that to Eminem,” he mentioned on the Barstool Sports show. “And then, I had one of my son’s friends, you know they were kids, ask me if I listen to Gucci Mane. I didn’t know who it was. As soon as I found him, it was like crazy. You couldn’t get him hardly anything on iTunes. You had to go to Datpiff.com. It was free all the music was free, but you had to figure out how to download it on your computer and put it over to your phone.
“I’ma let you know proper now, in my view, there isn’t a one in the identical zip code with Gucci Mane. If I rapped, I might by no means do a duo with him. Each time he does one with anyone, he simply crushes them. I imply, this man is unbelievable. I do just like the outdated Gucci a lot better than the brand new Gucci. I preferred his outdated music. I like him when he was fats and scary.”
Rapper Gucci Mane performs through the Clark Atlanta College Homecoming Hip Hop live performance at Panther Stadium on Oct. 18, 2023, in Atlanta. (Paras Griffin/Getty Photos)
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Martin added that he adored Mane’s “vanity” and liked music that was “smug.”
Martin won 40 races during his NASCAR Cup Series career. He finished second in the drivers’ standings five times but was never able to win the championship.
Mark Martin in action during the Nascar MBNA 400 at the Dover Downs Speedway in Dover, Delaware. (David Taylor/Allsport)
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He was named as one of NASCAR’s 50 Greatest Drivers of All Time in 1998 and one of the sport’s 75 greatest drivers last year. He was inducted into the Motorsports Hall of Fame in 2015 and the NASCAR Hall of Fame in 2017.
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