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Discussion with Rapper G'Sta on Life and how anyone can be one major event/catastrophe from losing it all, and road to recovery. His Journey through Life and across several States, though his Soul remains with NOLA. Dealing with Life and Loss following Hurricane Katrina. His desire to return "positivity" to Rap and all the various Genres he Records in. His Influences and Mentors, his breathing his now Trophy Girl and Fiance' into existence with his "Luv U 2 Life" tune.
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[ChristiTutionalist Politics podcast begin Show intro]
Welcome to ChristiTutionalist Politics podcast aka CTP in association with TheLibertyBeacon.com and I am your host Joseph M Lenard and that's L E N A R D CTP is your no muss no fuss just me you And occasional guest type podcast as Graham Norton would say let's get on with the show
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JOSEPH M LENARD (Host): Hello, I am joined by rapper Jista from New Orleans Hey, welcome to the show. How are you feeling today? I'm feeling great, man. Are you man? Besides you cold. Yeah, yeah, I got a hold on battling, but you know gotta labor through Hopefully not too much coughing and hacking But I wanted to have you on not because this show was about rap obviously not Your story in your bio about loss and recovery But first were you born and raised in New Orleans area or somewhere else and moved there? No, no I was born and raised in New Orleans, Louisiana. Okay, so that's one place I've never been to unfortunately I you know, oh wow You got this man. Yeah, it's been a place on the bucket list, but never made it
G'STA: Yeah, it's cool. You're really enjoyed down there. We got a lot of culture. Yeah, you know a Great experience, you know, Mardi Gras our food is phenomenal. Yeah Just this is a city full of culture That's what I could tell you if you if you like culture and you like just the sights in the field of just it looked like a whole Another country there sometimes man, you know, like a third world country, but good They've been walnuts. We got our own we got our own lingo. We got our own way We communicate, you know how we socialize with each other, you know, our hospitality is hospitality is through the roof, you know We really I love my city. I love my people from my city. I love everything about my city
JOSEPH M LENARD (Host): But I understand it's not very inexpensive It's like going to the Florida Keys Beautiful place, but not McDonald's budget
G'STA: I mean, hey, you know think about it, you know down there, you know, you could eat good for cheap You know what I'm saying the cut up just you know when when like I live in Vegas right now I'm in Las Vegas Nevada at this moment. So this So like Vegas is one of the cities like everything is really like I would say overpriced You know for the quality but in the wall is you get that quality of better Lock cheaper, you know, better eat that man. It's just like, you know In Vegas, I'm more of my health kick So I'm working out and watching when I eat but I know at home it'll probably be a different story because the food down there is so
JOSEPH M LENARD (Host): Resistible, you know, uh-huh and I was gonna mention Vegas the closest I've gotten to New Orleans was Going to the Rio in the Mardi Gras in the sky that they have
G'STA: Yeah, it's nothing like the experience down there in the wall Mardi Gras one heck of a experience that you definitely want to want to check out for sure
JOSEPH M LENARD (Host): Yeah, but Hurricane Katrina really upset your life
G'STA: Tell us about that. Well, I mean at the time, you know, I was living in Atlanta, Georgia But I was down there because my mom and my whole entire family was there So the way that affected me because it affected them I necessarily like my mom's house was eight feet underwater Okay, my sister house she stayed upstairs But a whole bottom downstairs was like I said seven eight feet of water water was very high because my mom She stayed at the time She stayed in the east of New Orleans at the time and that whole area is like the lower night What what the levees broke at and stuff like that so it all kind of shrinks with down And then she stayed by the lake punching train so it all just it was gone, you know, when I went back And like like the story goes for me in my and how it affected me I think personally I think on it was like a pair Basketball shot to some underclothes. I was in a hamster to get washed from a mom house because I had came down My mom called me like in the middle of the week, right? And she was like, you know at the time she was dealing with you know a guy friend at the time and he drove trucks So they was in Birmingham, Alabama and he caught a stroke on the road Okay, and I was in Atlanta, Georgia Which was like the hour or two hours away from where they were so she happened to come out It's like middle of the night, you know one two in the morning Traveling from Atlanta to meet them in Birmingham to get the stuff off the truck and bring it to New Orleans and And I did that I got down there. This was like a Tuesday. It was like a million a week I got down there in New Orleans My mom and my stay down there because it's their keys and stuff to my mom house So I stayed down there since she got home that Friday, right? Why's the timeline of this? This is very interesting So she get home that Friday night with mr. Jerry and you know, he got home now I'm preparing to leave to go back to Atlanta Sunday the following Sunday mind you this is a Friday So no story short. It was a beautiful weather, you know, it's August at the time You know the sun was out and they always tell you to calm before the storm One of them situations so on TV they were saying, you know They got this hurricane on the way if you could get out of here get out of here Up a block, you know those who came to the evacuate to the super dome and just that another so Thank mind you. I lived through so many hurricanes through my time. We never ran You see what I'm saying? We would just get our candles get our batteries Success a regional little fool and try to ride it out. We would ride it out
JOSEPH M LENARD (Host): Yeah, you had no idea No, I'm glad these are gonna go. Yeah, so this is the thing right?
G'STA: So that Saturday I'm contemplating I'm saying, you know me I'm like, well, you know, I don't know if I want to leave right now or shut leave right now So I stayed out by my friend the night before right the storm is getting very intense And it had to rip through Mississippi at this point. He had done hit Mississippi It really washed Mississippi and hit Mississippi, Biloxi Mississippi in a way like how so this was a powerful storm So I stayed there and my mom called me like six of them on It's like hey, I think we need to go by uncle Carl my uncle my child to my uncle Carl March He's a musician. He's the musician of my family. He lived in Houston, Texas at the time And she was like we need to go west We need to go to Houston because the storm is coming from East and going to it. Yo spot in Atlanta We'll run right into it. So no problem by me being there with my vehicle and have my family and everybody We was able to get out of there, right? We left that Sunday and we left like six in the morning six seven in the morning The traffic was it was so just one of the most hectic times in my life And it took us a five hour ride turned into a 24 hour ride From New Orleans to Houston because you said that's five hours, you know Um, we got there. I was so exhausted. It was hot. It was very hot, you know down south is very human and it was very hot We get down to Houston. We get down there like about six in the morning the next day. It really and I was so exhausted. I passed out I passed out I just laid down on the floor. I just put everything made me look out of the floor laid down But when I woke up at three o'clock in the day It was the news was erupted about the storm how it flooded and it was saying, you know New Orleans is 80% underwater and it was showing how people were stuck on the roofs and now mind you I still have my phone number from that even that time my number is still a five-wheel phone every a cold number So we were trying to get on phone and reach out to people the phones was dead. We couldn't get no calls out Um, we get only texts at the time and mind you social media none of this was out at the time You know what I mean? We just badly had emails and two ways and stuff like that Everybody was just stranded. It was very very hard. We was trying to get in touch with people I lost a little cousin in the currency of the water the tag is Rest in peace to him. He was 15 years old He got caught up in the currency of the water was a lot of it was a very it was it would make you feel like it was like the end of the world because Everybody we had people stuck in attics you had and let me let me kind of give you some of the sad stories about this Um, I was told that some map some people that I knew that their family members was like diabetics So they didn't have any power They couldn't get to the medication and they died The only way that they could put they identify their bodies they would have to wrap their bodies up, right? Check this out. They were to wrap their bodies up and put them on the post and mark the post so they could come back and identify The body of the loved one. This is something that was really going on Um, I had family members after everything kind of everybody kind of caught it up with everybody and found everybody I had family members that I found out that was in the superdome You know that was stranded in the superdome. It was very like the stories that I heard That was in the superdome was very very crazy. You know, it was very much survival Mode people was getting killed people was getting raped Deficating on these cells It was very very very ugly man. It was very very ugly and Katrina was something that you know, we watch play out in the whole country, you know, where's the government assistance and where is You know, the people that can save us and stuff like that a lot of my people You know a lot of people got misplaced a lot went back to now from then and now it's been what 20 years or so 20 years about the 19 years this year Um, a lot of people is uh went back, you know But you know the spirit of New Orleans is that when you when you went back you could tell the spirit had been Shooking up with that that storm, you know, uh, just just how the day it was the dad leaves and the dead trees and From the storm. It was just very very spooky at the time. Yeah
JOSEPH M LENARD (Host): Some of the some of you know were able to get back in and recover property and not necessarily because my mom lost everything
G'STA: Um When I went to our house, I think I went from because I was once again I wasn't very very active in the music business at the time when all of this happened I was torn with bone thugs and harm when he shot out the bone thugs and harmony And I was on a road and stuff like that and you know When I finally went back down that way I stopped in the wall just because I always stopped in the wall is on the Atlanta nois is always like a midpoint between Atlanta and Houston You know what I'm saying? So I went there to the house. I'm door was open. It was nighttime. I door was open. The house was evacuated in And Vacated what I'm trying to say and they had the like the the rings of the water You could see it at the top of the ceiling. I had a water was in the house if my momma would have got stuck there She would have died. She would have died. No, she wouldn't have made it out of it at all. Yeah I was scary man. Scary Scary
JOSEPH M LENARD (Host): because again, that's a once in a century kind of storm that you can't Really know it's gonna happen. Nobody expected them levies to give away They were supposed to reinforce them over years and years and years Right kept spending the money for other things and Hindsight being 20 20 it's not a surprise but You still don't expect it. You always hope for the best but yes, so After all this so how how did you all get it back together?
G'STA: So once again, I got my whole family by my uncle safe in Houston, right? I was residing at land of Georgia at the time I had just moved away from New Orleans in 2000 at the end of 2003 So if a tree and I kind of happened a year after I was gone um We got back with everybody was in one spot. You know everybody stayed by my uncle until they got these they assistance from FEMA Um, you know, that was getting fools down from Red Cross, you know, even in Atlanta I even was able to get some benefits from Katrina because I still had a Louisiana license and stuff like that So, you know, I started to all this address So I was able to kind of benefit and help my family out from afar because I lived so far away after a while I want to move it down to Houston in the thinking 2007 two years after Katrina Because I was still a heavier than record business at the time and I just couldn't come down there And but they got gradually together. I was back and forth a little bit, you know, uh from Atlanta the Texas I left my car down there, you know, with them at the time and we know with Katrina happening Just so they could have what I never had at the time they could have it because I'll be all right Well, I was going back to and I was um, I had a lot of people that reached out to me in Atlanta And you know had a good buddy of mine gave me a car He just gave me a car in Atlanta when I got back, you know, because you know, I had to look out for my family and give them what I had Um So I just kind of just you know, I just we picked up they they picked up with life my sister They Found you know life can shoot into Houston, Texas and Katie, Texas that is they still my family is still that right now to this day You know, they never went back to live or anything like that my nieces they grown They finished school in Texas, you know, Texas said I went out in there for 10 years before I moved to Vegas Just to get around them just to be around them and you know, I was there for a minute and life be life
JOSEPH M LENARD (Host): You know, they say life be life and so well if you just roll over and die uh, right, I mean it life goes on and you have to pick up and Make you as you can
G'STA: Yeah, man. Yeah, me. They mean they mean make you laugh. Let's fast forward to 2012 2011 2012 better yet 2016. I got into another career in shirts I wanna become an insurance adjuster I want to work in hurricanes and this that nutter you see so it's like I want to jump into the the profession the industry of insurance and I wind up being an Adjusting made a lot of money doing it, you know, and it's been it's been a good thing You know because I'm able to kind of translate the pain and the struggle from those families that lost something in a situation like that To help them, you know Be able to move forward with picking up the pieces and keep it going and being able to not you know For long they claims be effective on the claims because it's a heck of time, you know what I mean? So yeah, I got into it. It's crazy
JOSEPH M LENARD (Host): interesting Yeah, that's rather uh How life could sometimes come full circle, right? Yeah. Yeah, absolutely Have you gotten any music out of all that? Oh, yeah, absolutely
G'STA: I did several several albums after that um plenty, you know, um It was a little different at the time because I wasn't at home trading You know, it was just like, you know Being in New Orleans and being able to have access to the musicians in a facility that I had at the time It wasn't there anymore, but then again I already left anyway I had already moved to Atlanta at the time and went on to do some bigger things in the record business and stuff and get connected on that Kick but for as the memories and for as the stuff to reflect on and the pain that we all felt like, you know By losing everything, you know It was a lot of music came out of it a lot of a lot of pain a lot of joy a lot of You know a lot of survival You know what I'm saying? Yeah, yeah, the story is that that type of energy. So yeah, absolutely
JOSEPH M LENARD (Host): Try to help people understand through What you had to live through?
G'STA: Absolutely. I um Like I said, I was able to get in transitioning to the side of doing Working claims working hurricane claims, you know catastrophic claims, you know, that's where translated at it translated more into Working in shares more than the music, you know I could only tell you what I've been doing in the music and you want to you want to hear me But it ain't going to resonate like if you were in that situation and you need somebody to walk you through the process Of getting the self putting putting everything back together And that's that's something, you know that I think that more translated into with my life with my my journey
JOSEPH M LENARD (Host): Uh-huh and speaking of music. Do you usually stick with one genre or do you sometimes cross genres?
G'STA: I cross genres. That's my specialty. I'm very versatile. I worked on so many different Type of such honors of music. I come up under booms. I come up in New Orleans We had one of the cornerstone studios down there for years, you know what I'm saying? Um, so everybody came through that my uncle was Big big blessing to a lot of musicians because he come from the record like the record business back in the 60s and the 70s And stuff with Bobby womack and all of these guys he toyed with the funk that the the the era with George clinton and You know, could function and all of these different guys like in walnuts chocolate chocolate milk And you know all of these different bands and stuff so he come from that era and It just so happened my uncle was one of those my uncle's he was alive every time he came around He lit the whole room up his energy was just a spark and I wanted to always be around him and I took a like it He took a special he saw that I had a liking as a kid That's a little kid because I could tell you he brought a beat machine used to brain his beat machine around all the time I was a little kid man. I guess I was just intrigued by the gadgets and you know technology at the time And I used to always be messing with this beat machine. He ain't never enough once was like, hey, no to touch that Nah, he would embrace it. You know, you were like you like that. You know, I'm a He gave me the beat machine one day as a kid and then that one Years a few years later. He wound up opening up the biggest studio in the waters at the time and he gave me a he gave me And something a job, you know as a kid. I was trying to hustle to get a video game the Nintendo a super Nintendo I was a kid but I mean put me around all of the studio equipment and stuff Always love hip-hop records. You know, I always I love all type of music But hip-hop was my thing, you know what I mean? I love love rap music, you know And I was intrigued by it I started messing around with it and started getting familiar with the equipment and they started showing me Really sitting me down showing me how to use it and the summer never let go to this day Right now I'm in my big studio Because I never let that passion go. I love to create. Yeah, so I was gonna ask you who
JOSEPH M LENARD (Host): Are your influences, but you kind of already said you had a mentor right there in the family But who are other influencers? Oh, man so many of them man
G'STA: Shoot, I mean You can pick a lot of them. I mean I So many of them. I don't want to leave nobody else. It's scared to even say I understand all of them just put it that everybody who's made an impact in music I have felt your energy and I have took and took and something from it. Yeah, I
JOSEPH M LENARD (Host): I don't mean to get personal So you could tell me None of my business, but I do know the one song Love you to life. I like that as opposed to love you to death So is There a trophy girl in your life right now Is once that about her or was it just Just you know what?
G'STA: Check this out. It's a great question. Thanks a lot Awesome, uh because you're the first person never asked me about that particular record Um, you know on the record that I did that's me and my DJ black niffer since shout out the DJ black niffer Um, and he loved he always in my ear about that song too And he trip out if you find out you asked me about this song But my significant other I met her after I made that record. Uh, so the shoe fit She loved it too right off the back, you know, uh, yeah I got a special woman we my fiancee. I just boast to and Jamaica And 22 I think yeah a year ago two years ago now. So we working on trying to tie the knot soon But yeah It's awesome. I love that record. It was just a feel-good record, you know, I want to be a little ladies and you know, uh, you know Because in rap you got so many stereotypical Bad and bad images for women, you know what I mean? Yeah, you know, especially black women, you know what I mean? And let's just be real and you know, I want to talk about the queen in them You know, I want to bring out always bring out the queen and our sisters, you know, because that's who they are and we We as the men and being the temperature in the house, you know We have to change the narrative and change the energy when it comes down to our women and start, you know Pumping inspiration in them and you know motivation in them to be who they really are
JOSEPH M LENARD (Host): You know, that's why I wanted to ask about it because you're right so many negative Aspects especially in rap it seems
G'STA: You know, it's good We touched in this one because my whole mission is to bring back the feel-good image to what real hip-hop is not not Not no trend not, you know If you listen to a lot of my records and you listen to a lot of my stuff even the one night the video We just put out called classic stands the video million point five views and 12 days and almost pin the million on YouTube I don't even know the month or two and the love that that I got from because it got the whole school Hip-hop feel the wrong elements of hip-hop went back to the microphone and the DJ Elevate, you know what I'm saying? That's when it was good Everybody was you know, it was new, but it was good. It was pure and that's what I'm bringing back right now Yeah
JOSEPH M LENARD (Host): I had it on my notes to bring that song up Automatically went there so yeah, do you have what have you got in the works?
G'STA: I got this new I got classic statuses out working on the album working on the album I posted put this album out Over 10 years ago, man I just saw on Facebook I had an interview that I did with another on publicist a public public figure guy And we talked about the album back in 20 at day 2014 and I'm like wow and it came up on my Facebook memories I just get it so people who now is like fast forward to 2024 is up. So I'm working on this album now um I get the single we get ready to shoot another video for this new single called I went hashtag I went And it's a very very very positive record to me That's so positive. I didn't much get edgy in person or anything You know and I'm mindful of the records that I make these days But you know some records you have to say certain things It gets a point across you know and because it's hip-hop. Let's not ever Hip-hop is edgy, you know, it can be wrong cheat, but it can be solid It can't be a learning it could be a learning curve for many that don't know I find myself talking to a lot of people from different walks of life about hip-hop and they hear my stuff And they have questions, you know what I mean? And I have to be able to break down my rhyme and reason why I'm saying what I'm saying and it totally get it It's like great conversation, you know It's about being smart and not being ignorant about to the fact that you know We have a code to communicate with people through a musical or a form that's very Strong music strong man, you know your musician you probably walk through life with like a butterfly Because everybody gravitates to that side of you, you know, especially me, you know But me being in different industries and in like the tech world the IT world and the insurance world It balances me off very much so. I'm not nothing. I used to be 15 years ago, man Not the yeah Not the not the conversation even though my conversations was good then but now I can socialize with people who want a more intellectual It's point of view, you know what I mean? And not so much hip-hop. That was more hip-hop more hip-hop New Orleans
JOSEPH M LENARD (Host): So what is your youtube channel?
G'STA: Devin gston g that's on youtube Um And my instagram is gston underscore g as well as my twitter Gista underscore g g sta underscore g Yeah, everybody could go to my website so stimulus ENT calm. I was just gonna ask you for that. Yeah Thank you, man. Look, I'm on it I got one of the other websites out there man. Yeah, give the website out again And w w w dot so stimulus s o s t i m u l u s e n t dot com risk to put it in mind So stimulus check
JOSEPH M LENARD (Host): All right. Well, thanks for joining the show. I appreciate you coming on Uh, good luck to you going forward. Say hello to the family for us. Thank you. I appreciate it
G'STA: I appreciate it man. And thanks to you for having me and and much blessing. So on your journey with your with your podcast You need me again. I'm here for another combo if you ever need me again
JOSEPH M LENARD (Host): Okay, take care
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