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Post by Chelsea Press 2 on Sept 27, 2017 2:31:50 GMT -5
G-Eazy Explains How His Forthcoming Album 'The Beautiful and Damned' Represents 'The Next Chapter of Gerald' 6/28/2017 by Carl Lamarre
G-Eazy attends the 2017 NBA Awards at Basketball City - Pier 36 - South Street on June 26, 2017 in New York City. In 2015, G-Eazy blossomed into a mainstream darling when he unleashed his platinum album When It's Dark Out. Powered by his catchy single "Me, Myself, and I" featuring Bebe Rexha, the Bay Area product (born Gerald Earl Gillum), earned himself his first top 10 hit on the Billboard Hot 100.
Following the success of his platinum album, G-Eazy joined forces with Logic in July 2016 for their Endless Summer Tour. After selling out a slew of concerts -- including one at Brooklyn's 18,000-seat Barclays Center -- Gillum cemented his standing in hip-hop as a legitimate household name.
This year, the "Loaded" MC has been hard at work in the studio. First, he dropped his collaborative EP Step Brothers with Carnage. Then, for his birthday in May, he treated fans to four new songs including "Get Mine" featuring Snoop Dogg, "Special Love," "Maximum" and "Eyes Closed." Last month, the 28-year-old announced the title of his new album, The Beautiful and Damned, which will see a fall release later this year.
Billboard caught up with G-Eazy at the NBA Awards Monday night to speak about his forthcoming album, the pressure of surpassing his 2015 effort When It's Dark Out, his song of the summer and how he compares himself to Kobe Bryant.
What can fans expect from your next album The Beautiful and Damned?
This is the next chapter of Gerald. I think [the fans] know me well enough by now, so this is just the next chapter of my life. I'm further exploring my Gemini; you know, the duality and the split personality of who I am. That's The Beautiful and Damned. There's multiple layers to the title and the concept of the album, but that's one of the better messages. I'm exploring that yin and yang of my personality.
You're coming from a platinum album with When It's Dark Out and a top 10 single on the Billboard Hot 100 in "Me, Myself and I." Do you feel any pressure of trying to capitalize and top your last project?
Well, there's always pressure, you know? But that inspires me. It doesn't cripple me. I did 80 songs in six months for this album and we had a tough job slimming it down and coming up with the track list because I don't waste time. I don't go in the studio to make music that won't matter. I go in every night to try to make a point and make the best music that I can make. So I'm excited to share this with the world, man. You know, when you're making an album, it's like exciting every night you make something new, but you're the only one who gets to hear it. The world doesn't get to experience it yet. So, right now, I'm just excited to get it out there and start sharing.
G-Eazy performs during The Endless Summer tour on July 24, 2016. READ MORE G-Eazy Gets Trippy in the Strip Club for 'Shake It Up' Video Since we're at the NBA Awards, if you can give us your NBA comparison, who would you choose and why?
Kobe. That's my guy. I mean, his work ethic and that killer mentality -- it's something we share.
You've always been a real lover of hip-hop. What are your thoughts on Prodigy passing away last week?
You know, growing up in the Bay, I was still looking for a lot of East Coast hip-hop. I had an older homie put me on to a lot of stuff like Nas' Illmatic. My friends put me on to Mobb Deep when I was a little kid. I've always been a big fan. They have so much influence over the years in hip-hop as a whole, but especially with the East Coast sound. So it's sad anytime a legend passes like that.
A lot of stars on the carpet have been saying French Montana's 'Unforgettable' is the song of the summer. Would you agree?
Absolutely. It's incredible. That song, you can't put it in a box. For one, it's a great song, but it's innovative I think stylistically and ascetically. I think that's what great artists do. They push themselves, they evolve visibly and they find greatness.
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Post by Chelsea Press 2 on Nov 9, 2017 3:21:47 GMT -5
The album will be released on December 15th. Several bundles of the album with different merchandise items are available on his official website.
The Beautiful & Damned Official Trailer
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Post by think pink. on Nov 10, 2017 0:22:32 GMT -5
That trailer looks good. I like when he dabbles in acting.
Hopefully this album will be more in line with his earlier work and less "No Limit"...
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Post by Chelsea Press 2 on Nov 10, 2017 21:42:45 GMT -5
New song "The Plan"
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Post by Active Aggressive on Nov 12, 2017 12:04:47 GMT -5
Damn he's sexy.
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Post by think pink. on Nov 30, 2017 19:32:36 GMT -5
Love it!
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Post by Active Aggressive on Nov 30, 2017 20:21:54 GMT -5
Wonky grammar aside, this is hot. Halsey sounds great. I love both of them. I really love the sound of his voice. Such a turn on. Ugh. Like...even his "yeah" in Make Me... did it for me.
Edit: Wait...is the bad grammar on purpose? Like...Gemini?? Would make sense.
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Post by Chelsea Press 2 on Dec 15, 2017 4:19:43 GMT -5
It's out now.
I like "Crash & Burn", "The Plan", "Pray For Me", and "Leviathan."
On first listen, I found this album to be very uneven.
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Post by Chelsea Press 2 on Dec 15, 2017 14:24:10 GMT -5
G-Eazy's movie is premiering tonight in Oakland.
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Post by Active Aggressive on Dec 15, 2017 15:08:50 GMT -5
Kinda annoyed he split this into two CDs on the physical. I don't think he actually needed to do that but whatever. Excited!
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Post by Chelsea Press 2 on Dec 15, 2017 15:33:30 GMT -5
Kinda annoyed he split this into two CDs on the physical. I don't think he actually needed to do that but whatever. Excited! I wonder if there is a re-release planned later on?
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Post by Active Aggressive on Dec 17, 2017 17:00:08 GMT -5
This CD is fire and No Limit still goes hard.
My favorites: Pray For Me Him & I Sober Legend No Limit The Plan Crash and Burn Charles Brown Mama Always Told Me Love Is Gone
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Post by Chelsea Press 2 on Dec 18, 2017 1:07:01 GMT -5
Playboy Magazine did an interview with him. You Know His Name—But What Drives G-Eazy?By Liz Suman December 15, 2017 It’s 9 p.m. on a Thursday in Hollywood and Halsey just hugged me. “Hi, I’m Ashley,” she says, though the woman needs no introduction. We’re in a cramped green room peppered with plates of fried chicken and macaroni and cheese at Voila!, a Los Angeles event space where Gerald “G-Eazy” Gillum, who Halsey is dating, is set to preview his third studio album, The Beautiful & Damned, for hundreds of fans who pre-ordered it. Halsey and G-Eazy’s entourage eventually leave the room and I’m left with the 28-year-old Bay Area rapper in private to discuss the impetus behind his new work, a double album that also boasts a short film. At the time our meeting was arranged, I, like many, had only a superficial knowledge of his music and rap skills, which has speckled top-40 radio over the past two years in the form of collaborations with Bebe Rexha, Britney Spears, Kehlani, French Montana and most recently, teen hearthrob Charlie Puth. But entering 2018, G-Eazy, who sports James Dean-esque looks with a Jay Gatsby-like mystery, is now an act of his own, eager for his confessional new work, out December 15, to hit the masses. “Who, really, is G-Eazy?” is the question I’m hear to answer, and it appears the man himself may be trying to answer that too. His ongoing efforts to navigate common coming-of-age dilemmas, such as achieving balance between professional responsibilities, personal relationships and partying—in other words, adulting—in the context of increasing celebrity and recognition is a central theme of his new music, as are the dualities of Gerald versus G-Eazy, his alter egos who, he acknowledges, are at war with each other. “On a day-to-day basis, it’s a back-and-forth between G-Eazy going out at night, drinking, partying, and then Gerald waking up the next day having to clean up G-Eazy’s mess,” he tells me. He is polite and thoughtful—almost shy. Mind you, this is the man who grinded with Spears on stage at 2016 MTV Video Music Awards while spitting, “All the way and I’m able / To give you something sensational / So let’s go, yeah.” No song on The Beautiful & Damned’s 20-long track list speaks more to the dichotomy of Gerald and G-Eazy than the haunting title track, which features throaty vocals from Zoe Nash: You don’t know ‘bout the fame, what it do to me I’m talking to myself like every night You could try to be a better guy But to understand a Gemini Angel, Devil, it’s both him and IIn the green room, the bass that’s vibrating from the stage beneath us booms louder and louder and the cheering begins to punctuate the final few minutes of our interview. The crowd is clearly ready for him, and tonight, he’s focused. By the time someone opens the door, the sound of the crowd has reached an anticipatory roar. Some 15 minutes later, I’m downstairs in a dark warehouse with high ceilings dripping with chandeliers made of white icicles and silverly hand sculptures. I watch from the VIP balcony as the rapper holds court over a sea of lit-up iPhones, working a mixed crowd of industry people and younger fans—many of them female—who G-Eazy bussed in for this special listening party. Save for a group of drunks knocking back shots of Stillhouse by the bar, the majority of the room is either dancing or filming it on Instagram. This includes Halsey, who is singing along from a bodyguard-lined corner to my left. After performing a handful of tracks from the new album, which is inspired by Fitzgerald’s similarly titled second novel and includes collaborations with A$AP, Cardi B and Son Lux, he turns the attention to his woman, yelling “Give a shout out to the most beautiful girl in the world!” before breaking into the pair’s steamy duet, “Him & I,” which they’ll drop a couple of days later via simultaneous Instagram posts. (Since then, the song has reached more than 60 million streams on Spotify and YouTube combined). The guy performing in the leather jacket on stage is bolder and darker than the man I end up interviewing twice—once at the show and again a few days later, after I discovered the crowd’s energy drowned out playback on my recorder. Like his music or not, this much is true: G-Eazy has something to say with his latest album. His stage presence is undeniable and Gerald/G-Eazy’s increasing proximity to fame with a capital F will continue to earn him fans, secure him radio airplay and help us all—even him—answer “What does this beautiful, damned rapper from Oakland stand for?” How do you feel right now knowing there are hundreds of people downstairs about to hear your new music?
Excited. Anxious. Nervous. All of that. When you tour, and you play songs that are already out, those are the songs fans have already built a relationship with. And you usually only play the popular songs. It’s a victory lap. You’ve already won them over. With new stuff, you don’t know. It’s testing out raw stuff and they’re hearing it for the first time. I get a little nervous, but at the same time I’m excited to share this. I worked hard on this project. The party downstairs is a kind of full-immersion experience. You get to keep them all in the room and show them a vision. I wanted them to come inside my world, you know? From the film to the entire album to every other part of the experience—from the layout of the venue and the painting, to the food, to the culture of the fan base—like, to come enjoy this whole experience. How did it come about that a 20-something-year-old from Oakland made a double album that’s inspired by—An F. Scott Fitzgerald book? –from 1922?[Laughs] If you think about the 1920s, it was a time period when people were living an out-of-control lifestyle of overindulgence, going out most nights, drinking into oblivion, partying–that whole culture. But what they didn’t know was that the Great Depression was about to hit. The party was over. I’m in my twenties living a similar kind of over-the-top lifestyle and on a day-to-day basis, it’s a back-and-forth between G-Eazy, going out at night, drinking, partying, and then Gerald waking up the next day having to clean up G-Eazy’s mess. And be a grown-up?
And be a grown-up. And try to be a good person. And that back-and-forth of just trying to find the balance. Is that something that you’re still wrestling with?Yeah. It’s like, this lifestyle’s really fun and its wild and it’s crazy, but you wonder if it can sustain, and if it can, then for how long? And when I was reading that book, that was the question and that was the subject of that couple in the story. They drink themselves into oblivion. If it wasn’t for the last couple pages changing the story, it seemed like they were very doomed. Consumption is a theme on different levels in that book, which is a literary account of F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald’s volatile relationship, including excesses of money and love, and you have a duet with Halsey. What was that collaboration like?Easy. Because it’s real. I think the best stuff comes from an honest place. And that’s when it’s the most effortless. It’s a “Bonnie & Clyde” song. It’s a “Crazy in Love” song. She and I are both crazy. Crazy in real life. Crazy about each other. And it’s also crazy to try to make love work in this business, in this lifestyle we both live. Halsey was on the cover of playboy’s music issue earlier this year.Yeah, I have like, five copies at home [laughs]. You had a big year last year, with two top-10 hits on the Billboard Hot 100. You’ve performed on the MTV Video Music Awards, at Lollapalooza, on The Tonight Show and at the Jingle Ball. How has your life been different?Success can be isolating in terms of how it changes your social life, how you relate to people, how people treat you. It’s easy to become closed off. But on the bright side, it’s brought me a lot of blessings. Getting to take care of my mom—she’s in New Orleans now. I got her a spot there and she lives very close to my little brother who is out there. And just to be able to make a living doing what you love is, I think, one of the most special feelings in life. I mean, we all have to make a living, but if you can do it working at what you truly love doing, that’s one of the best feelings in the world. Your world includes a lot of people who you’ve known all your life. How does that influence you?
As an artist, your friends are the people who you work with. That’s pretty much the extent of your social life. The people who you tour with, the people who you make music with, the photographers and sound guys who go on tour with you, the artists who open for you, and the artists who you make songs with. So keeping the friends around that I literally started with is essential for my stability and staying grounded. At the listening party, you performed “Eazy,” a song you say is your favorite, and you asked everyone in the crowd to turn off their phones. Why is that song your favorite?It’s the last song on the album. It kind of goes on the whole journey, from being a kid and trying to figure out my place in the world and what I wanted to do, to falling in love with making music, to following the dream all the way here…The people who have helped me get here, the friends and family who have played their parts. Now that you’ve reached a new level of mainstream, is being labeled part pop artist, part rapper, as Billboard did in its review of The Beautiful & Damned, something that bothers you?If anything, categories and labels and genres in music in today’s world are being knocked down more than ever. I think my music is genre-friendly. Is it the same with being a white a rapper? Is that a non-issue for an artist in 2017?Can I pass on that one? Sure. How did “Him & I”, your duet with Halsey come about?I had been a fan of hers for a while, and I had always wanted to work with her. And then we started seeing each other. But it was all about finding the right moment. Finding the right song. Finding the right vibe. When all of that comes together, I think you get a really great result where it’s not forced or rushed. The Beautiful & Damned short film explores the battles between what we might want to do and the what we think we should. Your character struggles to keep the relationship he has with his girlfriend afloat while resisting temptation on tour. Is acting a bigger goal for you?Yeah, one day. It’d need to be the right time and right role. Right now I’m just focusing on releasing this album and touring for most of 2018. What’s the most important thing that you took away from making this album?[Long pause] Finding a resolve between Gerald and G-Eazy. It’s still a constant process. I don’t think that struggle is over yet. Source
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G-Eazy is the cover story for the new issue of Flaunt Magazine. ACNE STUDIOS coat and GUESS t-shirt and jeans. G-EAZY | TELL ME SOMETHING, MY FRIEND. YOU EVER DANCE WITH THE DEVIL IN THE PALE MOONLIGHT?G-Eazy | all photos by Shane McCauley | Fashion credits: ISSEY MIYAKE shirt, GUESS pants, SAINT LAURENT BY ANTHONY VACCARELLO belt, and CHROME HEARTS necklace. The plan is to meet G-Eazy in the lobby of his hotel in Brooklyn. I feel like an undercover agent sent to extract information from a confidential witness. We have a highly choreographed series of maneuvers to complete before I can consider my mission a success—after the arrive I will meet him to chat at the hotel, and then we will be swept into a black SUV to rendezvous to the shoot location. I’m anxiously flipping through my notes on the subway when I hear his platinum single, “No Limit,” leaking from the gold Beats headphones of a guy next to me. A$AP Rocky and Cardi B float over the metallic screech of rails and a symphony of flu-season sniffles. The guy catches me staring too long and responds with an awkward half-smile, like, you need to chill. Little does he know, today I have no chill. Thankful that the increasingly unreliable infrastructure hasn’t let me down today, I make it to the hotel with time to spare. LOUIS VUITTON coat and pants and CHRISTIAN LOUBOUTIN shoes. Before I have the chance to stress any longer, G-Eazy comes around the corner in an all black get-up, shakes my hand, and drapes his well-loved leather jacket over the side of a chair (Yves Saint Laurent, while my own is thrifted pleather—I’m still on the come up). He puts two identical iPhones on the table beside him, both blowing up. “I hate having two phones. It was such a dumb idea,” he laughs. “I got one to be like a bat phone. One to only give to certain people, like a secret line. I have an obsession with Batman.” In theory, one for G-Eazy: extroverted and dominant, at home on the stage or in the club. and one for Gerald Gillum: protective of his privacy and a bit withdrawn, trying hard to make the right decisions, keeping a tight ring of confidants—though it’s clear the lines often blur. I expected someone who performs in stadiums to have a personality that takes up a lot of space; maybe too much space. But in person G-Eazy, AKA Gerald Gillum, isn’t like that. The cadence you hear in his music is still there, but softer. His tone is introspective. There’s a quiet charisma that’s hard to define. At the time of this interview he’s about a week out from the debut of his third major studio album, The Beautiful & Damned. He’d been doing pre-release performances all over America, screening a short film that accompanies the album, giving back- to-back interviews, and was about to make a guest appearance in Halsey’s Jingle Ball set. Maybe his calm is just exhaustion, but I appreciate it nonetheless. LANVIN coat and HUGO BOSS shirt To understand Gillum you have to understand the places that raised him. The two most important are the Bay Area of California and New Orleans, Louisiana. Gillum, twenty-eight, grew up in Oakland during the hyphy movement pioneered by artists like Keak da Sneak, Mac Dre, and E-40, who Gillum considers one of his biggest inspirations. “I started making beats and rapping when I was fourteen,” Gillum tells me. He continued to work on music as a college student at Loyola University in New Orleans, where he was exposed to brass bands, second lines, and a high-octane subgenre of New Orleans hip-hop called Bounce music. “It was a different world and a different interpretation of music and culture, but the ironic thing is that the tempo of hyphy and the tempo of Bounce is not really that different. I feel like there’s always been kind of an underlying connection between New Orleans and the Bay for a number of reasons.” LOUIS VUITTON coat. Gillum has put out countless mixtapes, EPs, singles, and now three studio albums. Before headlining his own shows he opened for artists such as Snoop Dogg, Drake, and Lil Wayne. I ask him to talk about his career trajectory, which evokes a bland PowerPoint of brightly colored line graphs. Probably too corporate a phrase to describe the life of an indie rapper. “The trajectory wasn’t very ‘up’ for a long time,” he chuckles, “but I kept doing it and maybe eight years later something finally started to catch on.” LANVIN coat and HUGO BOSS shirt The Beautiful & Damned is a meditation on what canhappen after something catches on. Really catches on.The title is borrowed from an F. Scott Fitzgerald novel by the same name that Gillum read while making the album. The Jazz Age book follows a beautiful, elite couple as they navigate the light and darkness of a life of luxury. “There are themes and elements of the book that I drew inspiration from and draw parallels to,” Gillum says. “You can only be a celebrity for so long. You can only stay young for so long...Whether it’s addiction, whether it’s aging or falling off or, like, dying. None of this lasts forever.” MARNI suit and HUGO BOSS shirt. The album fluctuates between robust tracks like “Love is Gone” (a fuck Trump anthem I didn’t know I needed) and the more subdued “No Less.” But G-Eazy’s signature tone is present throughout. “I’m just kind of a dark and gloomy guy, especially when it comes to my taste in music. I’ve always loved really cinematic feeling songs.” Gillum’s influences, at least the ones he shared with me, include: hyphy, E-40, Bounce, brass, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Batman, Hans Zimmer, Johnny Cash, Danny Elfman, Big Fish, Inception, Requiem for a Dream—the list goes on, but you get the gist. His interests are wide reaching. And the same is true of his collaborations. The Beautiful & Damned features everyone from Charlie Pluth and E-40 to a lineup of powerful women including Kehlani, Cardi B, and Halsey. “I’ve wanted to work with Halsey for a long time, even before we were dating,” he says. “I know firsthand the amount of effort and work she puts into everything she does. It’s a lot. I’ve always had that respect for her.” MARNI coat, VIVIENNE WESTWOOD suit, AG shirt, and GIUSEPPE ZANOTTI shoes. The many collaborations add a unique vibe to each song, but the underlying themes of celebrity, duality, and identity unify the album. “I never know what I’m making until I make it. I didn’t set out with this concept in mind,” Gillum reflects. “It wasn’t until we’d made, like, forty songs that I kind of got a feel for the theme that was developing. Looking at what we had at that halfway mark in the making of the album, we decided to fully explore that idea and try to create that double project.” Gillum’s face lights up when he starts talking about actually making the music. “I wait until I’m in the studio and I find that it’ll start with the beat, the music. Once that’s established, I’ll wait to start writing and I’ll just put that on loop really loud. So loud that if I mumble I can’t fully hear myself, so I’m not too self-conscious to speak whatever words come out because nobody’s going to hear.” He smirks, “I literally just pace a room with the music really loud mumbling to myself until I have a song and then I go in and cut it right away. It’s not about it being extremely polished or perfect. Some of the imperfections add to the character of the song and it’s all a part of the energy you caught that one night in the studio.” ERMENEGILDO ZEGNA COUTURE suit and HERMÈS shirt. The album’s short film, directed by Bobby Bruderle, came after the album was finalized and helps express that theme of duality. Gillum cites Fight Club as one of the main inspirations for the visual narrative. In the film, G-Eazy and Gerald Gillum are portrayed as two separate characters that share one existence. “They definitely wrestle with each other inside of me on a regular basis. Oftentimes G-Eazy is the character who comes out at night and lives this out of control, lawless lifestyle. Gerald is left to clean up the mess that G-Eazy made the night before.” There’s a part in the film where Gerald Gillum is sitting shotgun in G-Eazy’s black Mustang. “None of this shit around you is real,” the Gerald Gillum character says, “None of this is real. Hang on, you’ll find out.” It’s an ominous declaration about the tension between fragile reality and tempting artifice. “Honestly, point blank, it’s hard,” the Gillum in front of me says. “When you live in a constant cyclone it’s hard to keep your head on straight and get a grip sometimes. For me it’s about the people I surround myself with and remembering to listen to them. I’ve seen it happen where people get so lost that they just don’t listen, and it doesn’t matter who it is. I know I can be that way sometimes too. My friends will literally come to me and try to talk to me, and it doesn’t matter. I won’t listen to anybody. I become defiant when I’m in that cyclone of intoxication and hectic fucking schedules. It becomes this nonstop whirlwind that I just get lost in sometimes. So it’s about remembering to step away from that and listen to the people that you love and that you’ve known forever.” I ask him if he has any advice for his younger self. “Run while you still can,” he laughs. “No, I’m kidding. I mean, the only thing would be just keep your head down and don’t get too distracted. Don’t take drugs because you’re really going to like them, and you’ll end up really far down the road where I am now. Don’t drink too much and don’t make a habit of it because you’re going to end up like me. Keep the friends around you that you have, because they truly are what have helped me the most, I think, in the most insane times.” This “cyclone” analogy makes complete sense after spending only a couple hours with Gillum. After the interview we are whisked away from the Pinterest-y hotel where he was staying to the Flaunt photoshoot in an Airbnb that looks like a bunker for Trump’s apocalypse. Gillum and a few members of his team eat take-out on the way. It’s a disorienting life Gillum leads, but it quickly becomes apparent that many on his team are not just work associates, but also close friends. JIL SANDER coat, HUGO BOSS turtleneck, GUESS pants, SAINT LAURENT BY ANTHONY VACCARELLO shoes, and LOUIS VUITTON suitcase. “All big existential questions and heaviness aside, in all honesty I’m extremely blessed and honored to think about where I’m standing right now,” he tells me. “I have an album coming out with a lot of really incredible people on it. It’s hopefully going to actually sell. I remember being a kid selling mixtapes out of a backpack, and now I have an album that will reach the world. And that’s a really, really, really amazing thing that I don’t take lightly and I don’t take for granted. I appreciate the journey for what it’s been.” At the end of the interview I ask Gillum if there was anything I didn’t ask him that he wanted to be asked. “I never know how to answer that,” he says, smiling, and then he turns the question back on me. “What’s a question you’ve always wanted to ask? Not just of me. Anyone.” Chastened, my mind goes blank, and I reply that I came to this interview as a consumer of pop culture curious to know what it’s like on the other side. “All I ever wanted was a platform. Ever since I started making music, I wanted to be heard, I wanted to be felt. But I’ve also been on the other side, I’ve always been a fan,” Gillum tells me. “I always kind of feel like I’m on both sides of that. And it can be intimidating now that I do have a platform because you waited your whole life for this and you worked really hard to get in this position, but I still get really nervous about my shit. I hope it reacts, because none of that is promised. The world just keeps moving faster and faster and faster. Kids move on faster now than ever before. So I guess you just hope that it connects. And I hope that the same kid that I was back then listens to this record like I would have listened to who my heroes were.” As the interview comes to an end, Gillum’s two cellphones are still buzzing with activity. It’s a particularly overt metaphor for the duality we all struggle with—the battling angels and devils of our natures; constantly seeking to balance multiple identities. Is it possible to both protect yourself and open yourself up to the world? Can Gillum keep G-Eazy on the right path, and can G-Eazy keep Gillum’s dreams alive? With The Beautiful & Damned, Gillum is telling us he’s giving it a try. Written by Shea Sweeney Photographed by Shane McCauley Styled by Jimi Urquiaga Groomer: Eloise Cheung using Lab Series at Kate Ryan Inc. Source
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Post by Active Aggressive on Mar 5, 2018 21:27:18 GMT -5
He looks so fucking fine in that shoot.
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Post by areyoureadytojump on Apr 5, 2018 13:42:19 GMT -5
RIAA.com:
G-EAZY Title: THE BEAUTIFUL & THE DAMNED Certification Date: April 4, 2018 Label: RCA Format: ALBUM Gold G-EAZY Title: THESE THINGS HAPPEN Certification Date: April 4, 2018 Label: RCA Format: ALBUM 1xP
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Post by Wavey✨️ on May 3, 2018 22:54:38 GMT -5
He out here sniffing and swinging on guards. Ok Gerald!
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Post by Chelsea Press 2 on May 25, 2018 3:11:28 GMT -5
G-Eazy Releases Surprise 3-Song EP "The Vault" By Kevin Goddard
G-Eazy was making headlines earlier this month after being arrested for assault & possession of cocaine while on tour in Stocklholm, Sweden. Even though he was quickly released from jail, it’s safe to assume the Bay Area artist is looking to move on from the incident, and he does so today by dropping off some new music.
In celebration of his 29th birthday, Gerald decides to come through and surprise fans with a new EP called The Vault. Laced with 3 songs, the follow up to The Beautiful & Damned features guest appearances from RJ, Jay Ant, P-Lo, Nef The Pharaoh & Global Dan.
Following up his video to "1942," take a listen to the surprise EP and let us know what you think.
Tracklist:
1. Over Me (Feat. RJ & Jay Ant) 2. Wasabi (Feat. Global Dan) 3. Power (Feat. Nef The Pharaoh & P-Lo)
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Post by Chelsea Press 2 on Jul 4, 2018 0:50:45 GMT -5
G-Eazy and Halsey have broken up. Haley was reportedly seen with Machine Gun Kelly in the days before this announcement.
Mess. So I guess they will never perform "Him and I" again. As I was stuck in traffic the other day and "No Limit" came on, I was just thinking that it seems like they will break really soon and sure enough they did.
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Post by think pink. on Jul 4, 2018 1:40:34 GMT -5
Not surprised. They haven't been seen together in a while.
This relationship also seemed fueled more so by PR as well.
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Post by Chelsea Press 2 on Jul 4, 2018 2:05:13 GMT -5
This relationship also seemed fueled more so by PR as well. While I was rooting for them to last, I felt deep down that it seemed like a really odd pairing and they seemed really desperate to prove to the world that their love and relationship was real. In the end, it doesn't really matter what the public thinks as long as they are happy. I don't know if them being together was really good for either of their careers outside of the one hit they had together. Perhaps their respective audiences got introduced to the other artist. G-Eazy was already doing reasonably well with his music on his home format but did have a couple of crossovers ("No Limit" and "Him and I"). Halsey was already doing well with her string of hits.
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Post by Wavey✨️ on Jul 5, 2018 9:39:24 GMT -5
Damn she was seen with MGK, who she briefly dated before GEazy🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔
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Post by Active Aggressive on Jul 5, 2018 9:47:26 GMT -5
They seemed like a toxic, co-dependent couple who thought of themselves as the hip-hop/pop Sid & Nancy or Kurt & Courtney, so I am glad they broke up, honestly, as much as I love them both.
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Post by Dammn Baby on Jul 5, 2018 19:14:22 GMT -5
Who gets custody of their drug dealer?
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Post by Chelsea Press 2 on Jul 19, 2018 2:12:04 GMT -5
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Post by Active Aggressive on Jul 19, 2018 5:11:22 GMT -5
Beautiful.
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