![]() ![]() I didn't even understand how big it was at first, but I'm sending a shout-out to my boy, Jack Harlow. My standout moments to date have been: "Being on Jimmy Kimmel. I think that bitch went to a million in like a month." That was my fastest video I got to a million. You can't look at us or look at me and not see shit you've been through yourself. If you're a OG or you're a person who's been out here. It felt good because it felt like people knew we for real. Everywhere there was street niggas was fucking with that song, "Get Money." It was like an anthem. My standout records to date have been: "'Get Money.' Everybody is on that. Sometimes they do it to the songs that don't got the most views." People walking up to me and reciting shit from a song or reciting certain shit from a song. That means more to me than how many views shit got. I know if I do a show, they want to hear this song. I don't really even pay attention to views a lot. I feel like, as far as views and shit on videos, that only goes as far as you promote something, like putting it on the vlog site or shit like that. That's why I get the same type of reaction to every song. What’s your most slept-on song, and why?: "I don't feel like I got no song that people slept on. I could be dead, you feel me? I'm in Miami right now, looking at the skyline. I got shot in my eye and my stomach four times. I’m going to blow up because: "Me talking to you. ![]() And especially not from no Louisville, Kentucky." You hear about this type of shit, but you don't get to see it. They don't think I sound like them neither, but as far as like just coming in with they own money, a group of niggas with they own money. There's only a couple of rappers that can say they came like us or they coming like us. how that shit used to feel like back then. My style’s been compared to: "Everybody say I make them feel like how the OGs did, and Gotti and. ![]() It was easy to listen to because I understood it." It just was what was most relatable to me, what was going on around me. My daddy used to listen to gangster shit. They were just talking about gangsta shit. I grew up listening to: " Boosie, Gotti, Gucci, Future. It's all coming together for EST Gee, this week's featured artist in XXL's The Break. Plus, he gained a supporter in Lil Baby, the same rapper Gee saw making a lane for him when he first began rapping. Gotti welcomed the rap newcomer to his team by giving him $750,000 in late January, the moment captured on Instagram. Now, EST Gee is signed to Yo Gotti's CMG imprint. Before those two efforts, he released the projects El Toro and Die Bloody in 2019. And despite the pandemic taking over last year, he dropped the mixtape Ion Feel Nun, in March of 2020, which features an image of himself with his eye bandaged on the cover, and then followed up with I Still Dont Feel Nun project in mid-December. His videos on YouTube are consistently getting views, especially the visual for the remix of "Get Money" featuring Yo Gotti, which sits at nearly 3 million views and shows off what the streets of Louisville are like. While Gee is still mourning their passings, his profile is rising. ![]() He survived and recovered, but then dealt with the deaths of both his brother and mother in 2020. One of those bullets hit him in the eye and the other four went into his stomach. While good moments like that have happened on Gee's rise to the top, unfortunately, he's experienced tragedy and tribulation prior. In September of 2019, he was shot five times in a vehicle in Louisville after finishing a video shoot with Sada Baby. The experience is one of Gee's standout moments to date. Gee's sound can be heard on Harlow's 2020 debut album, Thats What They All Say, on the song "Route 66," which the two performed on Jimmy Kimmel Live! in January of this year. His flow and lyrics include solid wisdom, unabashed truth and extremely vivid tales that pull it all together. EST Gee is a street rapper through and through, unique in his own right with a distinctive voice. Both artists are from the same city but make drastically different types of music. At the time, he was already making noise for himself with songs like "New Number" and creating his own buzz in his hometown.Īlong the way, he also found a friend in 2020 XXL Freshman Jack Harlow. Since he was off house arrest by May of that year, Gee was able to make more moves toward his fledgling career. By 2018, the aspiring rhymer was making songs in a bathroom recording studio. After Gee was arrested for a drug trafficking charge in 2016, which had him locked up and then eventually put on house arrest, Gee saw Lil Baby rhyming on TV and thought of him as a kindred spirit. According to him, he got the streets blessing. native EST Gee was hustling in his city, but considered that there may be a place for him within hip-hop around his way. ![]()
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