Billboard caught up with EST Gee to discuss his breakout year, why the rap game is like the WWE and how he made his six-year-old self proud.
It's a day after the 2021 BET Awards, and EST Gee is at Paramount Recording Studio in Los Angles, putting the finishing touches on his project . Before he presses play, he takes a seat and opens up a mysterious black box.
"You can tell a kid is going to be exceptionally smart at two years old," Gee says with a grin while trying on his watch."I feel like people know it their whole life, if they got that 'it factor.' It could be good or bad. It don't matter what you doing. Some people were chosen. I never been bad at nothing."Gee is right.
I know Quality Control was trying to bring you in, but that loyalty to Yo Gotti made you want to stay with him. We got pure heart and soul. I ain’t never hated on no n---a. Jack don’t hate. If it’s good, it’s good. I feel like I know music. Any genre of music I know. If I heard music, I can tell if it’s a good song even outside rapping. I actually be listening to other s--t.The mystery and if the interpretation is open, then I can apply it to myself. He could be talking like The Weeknd.
It’s like a sinkhole. Even if you hate me, you gotta acknowledge it. I know they used to walk the back trail and going to the chicken spots and shooting through it. I seen them gambling and shooting jumpers every day. If you a young n---a in Louisville, you tried to play sports at some point in your life. We got two private schools and they might pull up to pay for your school and this is big money s--t for low-level sports. It be the only way out. If you miss that, then it’s the streets.
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