About G-Eazy
Thursday, November 16, 2017
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ORIGIN
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Oakland, CA
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GENRE
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Hip-Hop/Rap
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BORN
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24 May 1989
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Arriving on-stage with a pompadour and a leather jacket, G-Eazy became
known as "the James Dean of rap," but his music is much less troubled
than that name might imply, having crossed over to the mainstream with
his reinterpretation of the rock & roll classic "Runaround Sue."
Born Gerald Earl Gillum in Oakland, California, G-Eazy launched his
career while still in college at Loyola University in New Orleans,
heading up a hip-hop crew named the Bay Boyz while dropping his solo
debut, The Epidemic LP, in 2009. Two years later, his mixtape The
Endless Summer landed with that hit redo of Dion's "Runaround Sue." In
2012 he released his second LP, Must Be Nice, hitting the road with
Hoodie Allen and joining the Vans Warped Tour. In 2014 he returned with
his first major-label release, These Things Happen (RCA). As his
popularity grew in the following year, he embarked on an extensive
international tour and recorded his fourth album. When It's Dark Out was
released in late 2015 and included a hit duet with Bebe Rexha, "Me,
Myself & I." Dark would go on to peak at number five on the
Billboard 200 and top the R&B/Hip-Hop chart. In the summer of 2016,
while on tour with Logic, YG, and Yo Gotti, Eazy appeared on Britney
Spears' comeback single "Make Me," which entered the Top 20 of the Hot
100. "Some Kind of Drug," his single featuring Marc E. Bassy, arrived at
the end of the year and would enter the singles charts in early 2017.
At the beginning of the year, G-Eazy also teamed up with Carnage for the
EP Step Brothers. Months later, he released this single "No Limit,"
which featured A$AP Rocky and Cardi B.
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