About two weeks ago my homie mentioned the name G-Eazy and called that he would be next up. After tearing through his online catalog and debut album, I’m convinced.
It’s not an eazy (see what I did there?) task to come up, create a grassroots fan-base and turn that into a commercially profitable rap career these days. Especially without a deal. I mean, everyone may think it is. All it ever takes is one song right? Wrong. It takes a lot more than that. When everyone can easily dig through the url’s (rather than crates) and find all of your joints, they can easily make the call that you’re just a one-hit wonder likely to fade and never to be heard of again until Dr. Drew’s Celebrity Rehab 10 or some shit (too harsh?). It’s true though.
What I’m trying to say is that, G-Eazy is next up because of how he’s perfected his brand and even more importantly, the kid from the Bay Area makes some dope ass music. I mean, this is good hip hop shit. He’s got everything for you to play. G can be great lyrically and his approach and delivery on records really shines through. His widespread influence from music makes him incredibly versatile. This kid reminds me a lot of Drake and his So Far Gone days. G-Eazy is right at the cusp of cracking into the mainstream and taking it for hostage. I mean, obviously this is mostly opinion but it’s hard to tell me otherwise. G-Eazy has amassed more than 140,000 SoundCloud followers and an average of 1 million plays on each song. Plus with the recent release of These Things Happen that’s currently sitting pretty at #3 on the Hip-Hop/Rap iTunes charts, which happens to feature Bay Area God, E-40, and joining Wayne and Drake on tour, G-Eazy is making all the right moves to propel himself into mainstream success.
Below I’ve added a mini-mix that includes a few tracks off of the album which is now available for download on iTunes. See what I’m super hype about and listen for yourself. Calling it now, I Mean It, Been On and Lotta That; though they’ve been out for a while, are going to become summer staples. G-Eazy does it – and does it well.
“you rappers just talk a bunch/ stress me out, I chop a dutch/
weak rappers try to bite the sound, but my style is hard to munch…”
LISTEN: These Things Happen (Mini-Mix)
