![]() Then you think different: Do I wanna get this again? Once you sit and do work, that’s developing the discipline. See when I say shit be over? That’ll teach you discipline, once something over. Were you always disciplined like that or did you have to learn that? I can only control how I react to it and how they see me react to it. ’Cause I can’t control the outside variables. I just know that I can control my reaction and that’s where the power is at, in controlling it. If I can build a business off the back of lifestyle, that can just sustain as many people, I feel like that’s a good thing, and that’s what we tryna do.ĭo you feel more at peace about life since becoming more successful in rap? I feel like that’s a big thing, but we sell lifestyle anyway, so, the music gon’ sell itself. If your people rap, that’s what they wanna do. I’m tryna legitimize it, not just having artists signed. They go to schools and say, “Go to JobCorp!” But what if we went to school and told them how to work in this business, not even just as an artist. Like how they got JobCorp in Kentucky, and that’s like a thing. I’m just tryna provide a large-scale outlet in my city for all the artists to come out and be seen as an asset to the community. We got the female that I’m thinking about doing something with in Chicago and then I got another joint venture with APG, with an artist named Leaf Ward from Philly. EST Marti, he’s gon be on the compilation, too, along with two other artists, EST Donnie and EST Zo, but they both locked up. It’s gon’ be like his grand introduction. Lil Mike, he’s gon’ be on the compilation. I got a joint venture with Alamo, wit’ them two, EST Lil Mike and EST Skimike. He was on “Never Scared” on me and Dugg’s tape. In addition to your own music, you have EST the label. Once something’s in history, you gotta respect it. The people just grab what they relate to or what they would like to relate to. Do you feel like fans get where you’re coming from or just put their own meaning on it? You dropped your well-received debut album, I Never Felt Nun, last September. I failed before, so, I know as long as it’s not over, it’s not over. So, it just be like continuous cycle of that. I don’t know, ’cause I be feeling like sometimes I be getting close to some shit, then something happens or you just look at it for real and you just like, Yo, I ain’t really close. How far away do you think you are from accomplishing them? You’ve played your future goals close to the chest. Whatever I tell ’em to do, they gon’ get it done like I’m right there. I could text ’em and tell ’em to do something, they gon’ do it. ![]() ![]() It’s just, I’m passing through.Īs your career has gone on and the spotlight on you has gotten bigger, have you noticed people treating you differently? I’m still tryna get to where I’m supposed to be. Maybe as more and more stuff is going on, my ’nother thing might be my thing to do, but for right now, it’s just rapping. That’s my little thing for right now that I do. I don’t think about stopping or nothing like that. As long as I keep living, I’ll keep being able to make music. It’s something else that I’m tryna get and I think the music, I’m just narrating my life. All the stuff around it might be good, but it ain’t that. Regardless of what happens around them things, I don’t know what feeling that is, like accomplishment? I guess that’s gon’ come when them things happen. There’s things that I wanna do specifically that I ain’t done. How does that make you feel?ĮST Gee: I ain’t said, “Damn, this crazy” yet, for real. XXL: Your career has been on a consistent rise over the last few years. Gee may not have been feeling anything, but his fans certainly were.ĭuring dinner at Sei Less in midtown Manhattan on a December evening, EST Gee discusses his rap trajectory so far, plans for his EST (Everybody Shine Together) label and new sports agency, music and more. He kept the bars flowing with Bigger Than Life or Death and its 2021 deluxe, the joint project Last Ones Left with 42 Dugg and the debut album I Never Felt Nun, both arriving in 2022. A Lil Baby collab on “Real As It Gets” a few months later only made Gee’s stock soar. In 2020, EST Gee, born George Stone III, signed to his manager Nigel Talley’s Warlike Records and partnered with Yo Gotti’s CMG/Interscope Records the next year. His steely approach to rapping, paired with a solidified street image, on songs like “Special Remix” with Moneybagg Yo and “Ball Forever” moved him onto the national scene. By the following year, three more projects came- Die Bloody, Ion Feel Nun and I Still Don’t Feel Nun-he was shot five times (once in his eye) and dealt with his mother’s and brother’s deaths. native, who dropped his first project, El Toro, in 2019. ![]() Music and misfortune followed the Louisville, Ky. ![]()
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