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Big Homiie G is among the artists with the way forward for Memphis driving on his again. Thankfully, his shoulders are broad, and he’s able to go the space. “I want to go far,” G says when talking with HollywoodLife at Sei Less in New York City. The “G Next” rapper met with HL after making his technique to Manhattan from Queen, and from the sounds of it, G was prepared to move to the Bronx, Staten Island – and past. “I want to go as far as it’s going to take me. I want to crossover. If I’ve got to crossover – wherever this music takes me, I want to go with it,” he says with that simple charisma.
G chatted with HL days after releasing his video for “Don’t Wanna Be Famous” and proper earlier than dropping the deluxe version of Speak Up G, the 2022 undertaking that helped set up him as one of many brilliant stars rising within the hip-hop galaxy. The undertaking provides 9 spectacular new tracks, giving followers who might have slept on the discharge an opportunity to catch up and die-hard supporters one more reason to stream the undertaking.
When they hearken to Speak Up G, they’ll discover the sincere voice on the coronary heart of all of it. “I didn’t want to have on no fancy clothes,” he says of the video for “Don’t Wanna Be Famous,” arguably one of many realest songs on the undertaking. “I didn’t want to have on a lot of jewelry. I wanted to show my kids, to show the real me because I put this on for it’s like a costume,” he says, indicating the costly chains and drip he’s carrying for the assembly.
Putting out a music referred to as “Don’t Wanna Be Famous” as his fame continues to rise is a daring alternative. But, if Big Homiie G is something, he’s sincere. With lyrics in regards to the world altering round him after discovering some success and the way he’s making an attempt to not “let that sh-t go to your head / what if I ain’t had a brain,” it’s a weak assertion that reveals there are layers to Big Homiie G’s artwork.
“It was natural. It was honest truth,” he says in regards to the music. “I’m working to get the money or whatever, but I don’t like a lot of attention. You can’t go nowhere. You can’t do nothing. Rap people say, ‘Hey’ and stop you and –whatever, whatever, whatever. I like minding my own business, basically.”
How does he plan to navigate this as his fame continues to develop? “You’ve got to know your moves,” he says. “You’ve got to know what you’re going to do, what you’re about to do. Okay, I know if I’m going to go into a crowd. I know this is what they’re going to be asking for, so I got to prepare myself for it, basically.”
While G may maintain his guard up when he’s out making an attempt to reside his life away from the stage, don’t anticipate him to go away these partitions up when he will get within the sales space. “If you’re going to rap, you’ve got to tell the truth,” he tells HL. “So, you know I’m going to give you me. I’m going to give you all of me. I’m going to give you everything. I’m going to give you the good, the bad, the ugly. I’m going to give you all of it.”
What he’s giving followers on Speak Up G (Deluxe) is “energy songs,” he says. “I got a lot of energy on there. I’ve got one song, something like ‘Don’t Want to Be Famous.’ It’s called ‘Hear Me Now.’ Actually, that’s my favorite track on my tape.”
“I got BIG30 and KCarbon. Those are some of the features I have on there, and it’s lit. It’s lit. You’re going to like it,” he says with a smile. “You know me. You know G. You’re going to like it.”
Big Homiie G has been getting the world to know him since signing with Nless Entertainment. It was the most recent chapter in his story, which started when he was in a rap group together with his cousin, Moneybagg Yo, and Blac Youngsta. But, the group break up up, with every specializing in their particular person careers. Like Moneybagg and Youngsta, G focused on his music and constructed a buzz round his native Memphis. That buzz reached a fever pitch when he teamed with Yo Gotti, Moneybagg Yo, and 42 Dugg for a remix of “Tick.” The music turned heads, and all of the sudden, eyes have been on G.
Before releasing Speak Up G, Big Homiie G mentioned his intent with the undertaking was to get folks to take him extra critically as an artist. ” What I meant about that was folks all the time noticed me with Moneybagg,” he tells HL. “They never knew I rap or anything. They always see me with him as a Hype man and with him on the stage. They knew I never did my own thing. So that’s what I mean by them taking me seriously. Look, this is G the artist. This has become G the artist. Not the one you all used to see on the microphone, hype man, and this stuff.”
While Speak Up G is supposed to introduce him as a severe artist, he nonetheless manages to have enjoyable with it. “You have your serious moments. You have your moments when you write you’ve got to crack a joke in there, sometimes,” he explains. “You can’t just be always mad or serious, or you’ve got to play with it. You’ve got to have fun. This is what you do. You’ve got to love it.”
If there may be anybody who will ensure he doesn’t get too severe – or take himself too critically – it’s his child. G is a proud father of a daughter and son, who he reveals within the “Don’t Wanna Be Famous” video. “Fatherhood pushed me to go hard,” he says. My children, I cherish them loads, and I need to be the cool dad. I don’t need to be the dad who can’t do it or ain’t obtained to do it or subsequent time. No, no matter we obtained to do, we’re going to do it. We’re going to purchase it, and we’re going to have enjoyable.’”
“My daughter, she just had a birthday,” he shares. “She was just telling me she has her sleepover this weekend. But obviously, I’m not going to be there because I’m out of town working. And she was telling me, she’s like, ‘Dad, just don’t be a dad at my sleepover.’ And ‘I’m like, I’m going to be cool.’”
When requested if his daughter has a favourite music of his, G says, “She most definitely does. But, my son? Every song. He even listens to my features. If I’m featured on a song, he’ll go crazy. The love is real, so I appreciate that more than anything.”
G’s son goes loopy as a result of his father informed HL that Speak Up G (Deluxe) shouldn’t be the one music he’s releasing this 12 months. “I’m just ready to go and drop [Speak Up G (Deluxe)], move to this project because I’m already working,” he says. “I already started on my next project. I just don’t know the name of it’s going to be. Like, I’ll get this out of the way and go to the next project.”
At this level, Big Homiie G is concentrated on the long run. “I’m definitely [thinking] legacy,” he says. “I want a platform, lead my platform. Let them know this is me. This is who G is and the people that come behind. I’ve got a team too. It ain’t all about me. I’ve got people behind me, and I’ve got artists, myself. You know what I’m saying? I want all types of acts and all artists – I’ll help with artist development and, with my legacy, I’ve got to do it all.”
While some lesser artists may crack below stress, Big Homiie G isn’t buckling. “I know what I’m doing, and I know where we’re trying to go with this,” he explains. “As far as when I say we, ‘we’ is my label and me, and I know what we’re trying to do. It’s like with other artists — we’re trying to build a platform and take it all the way to the top. So I know we started from the ground, and I know we’re right here. I know we can go to the next level with a little bit of my help from other people around, we’ll take it to the top.”
In an trade that’s cutthroat and pushes the way it’s “every rapper for themselves,” the place does this nature come from? “I always played the back row. You know what I’m saying?” G explains. “I never was in front or whatever. I was always trying to stay back. Make sure he was straight. Make sure everybody was straight. And now, it’s like I’m still doing it as I’m making sure myself straight too. But now, I’m putting me first and then everybody. I’m trying to pull everybody up with me.”
In a time when it feels just like the world is extra divided than ever, Big Homiie G’s message of unity is a lesson everybody might study. One other thing that the remainder of the world can study from G and from his native Memphis? Be sincere.
“Memphis artists, we’re authentic – authentic, authentic. We’re like real for real,” says Big Homiie G. “Some of them be cappin’, but a lot of them are really living what they’re talking about.”