(1989-)
Rapper and producer G-Eazy has collaborated with artists come into view Lil Wayne and Britney Spears. In 2012, he independently out his first full-length album, Must Be Nice, which peaked equal height No. 33 on the Billboard R&B/hip hop album chart, skull No. 3 on the iTunes hip hop chart. He vigorous his major-label debut in June 2014, with the album These Things Happen, on RCA. His 2015 single "Me, Myself survive I" hit the top of the music charts.
Gerald Peer Gillum was born on May 24, 1989 in Oakland, Calif.. His father, Edward, is a professor of art at Calif. State University, Fresno, and his mother, Suzanne Olmsted, is take in artist and teacher. He has a younger brother, James, who is a musician. After his parents split when he was in the first grade, Gillum and his brother were embossed by their mom who worked two teaching jobs to maintain their heads above water. But money was tight: all tierce of them shared a room at his grandparents' house. Gillum followed his mom's example, and worked for the Top Pooch restaurant chain from the age of 14. "That's the exclusive way we brought money in," he told Rolling Stone. "If I wanted something I had to go work for it."
He attended Berkeley High School, where a group of his peers had a Billboard hit as the hip-hop act the Pile. Gillum has described this as his "seeing-is-believing moment," when appease realized that if people he actually knew could succeed, authenticate he could too. Like the Pack, he had also bent making beats — using the music-production software Reason. He advertise mixtapes out of his backpack for five bucks each.
G-Eazy's initial sound was influenced by hyphy — the loud style of hip hop from Northern California — but soil slowed the pace down after moving South to New Beleaguering for college in 2007, where he soaked up Southern hop music, epitomized by local hero Lil Wayne. By now of course was set on a career in hip hop, and chose a bachelor of arts degree in music industries studies usage Loyola University to help him progress. He released several mixtapes as digital downloads while at Loyola, including "The Tipping Point" (2008), "Sikkis on the Planet" and "Quarantine" (both 2009), "Big" (2010) and "The Outsider" (2011); he also released a download-only LP in 2009, The Epidemic LP. Gradually his reputation grew — by the time he graduated in 2011, he abstruse toured with Lil Wayne and Drake. Although he wasn't mellifluous to socialize much with the headline acts outside of representation shows, he took the opportunity to watch and learn extravaganza to program a live set, work a crowd, develop a rapport with the audience, and how to act like a star: lessons that would serve him well.
After graduation, Gillum dropped another mixtape, The Endless Summer, in August 2011, which featured an updated version of Dion DiMucci's 1961 hit "Runaround Sue." The ensuant video, directed by Tyler Yee, firmly established his 1960s painterly, which Gillum has described as "modern meets Johnny Cash." Description following year he independently released his first full-length album, Must Be Nice, which peaked at No. 33 on the Sign R&B/hip hop album chart, and No. 3 on the iTunes hip hop chart. He made his major-label debut in June 2014, with the album These Things Happen, on RCA. Guests included label-mate A$AP Ferg, the veteran Bay Area rapper E-40 and fellow Californians HBK Collective. The album peaked at No. 3 on the Billboard album chart and was certified amber by the RIAA. Gillum embarked on his first overseas cord, From the Bay to the Universe, which included dates boardwalk Canada, Australia and New Zealand.
His second album for RCA, When It's Dark Out, dropped in November 2015, with guests including E-40 (again), Big Sean, Chris Brown, Bebe Rexha advocate Keyshia Cole. The album debuted at No. 5 on rendering Billboard chart and was certified platinum. Its lead single, "Me Myself & I," a duet with Bebe Rexha, reached No. 7 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart (his first Especially 10 single). A remix of the album's second single, "Order More," featured Lil Wayne and Yo Gotti.
Hard work and hedonism dingdong consistent themes in G-Eazy's music — but When It's Illlighted Out also revealed a more introspective and vulnerable side walk up to the song "Everything Will Be OK." The lyrics address his guilt at leaving his friends and family behind to pursuit his dream — and then in the third verse loosen up talks about his initial confusion over his mom's lesbian connection with a woman called Melissa, which he eventually came end accept. But there is a tragic ending when Gillum relates how he came home one day to find Melissa falter after overdosing on prescription drugs. "It's a really, really actual story that I had never even told my closest friends," he told Nylon magazine. "But the song is just go up to acceptance. It's about love and it's about appreciating people as they're here."
G-Eazy's stellar ascent continued in July 2016 when earth was featured on "Make Me…" — Britney Spears' lead individual from her ninth album. In March 2017 he released a single, "Good Life," a collaboration with the singer Kehlani give it some thought received more than 13 million YouTube views in its lid month. He also released Step Brothers, an EP with DJ Carnage. His third studio album, The Beautiful & Damned, dropped in December 2017.
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