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In The Field with Grea8gawd As He Discusses His Journey in Music and Fashion
Prepare for a thrilling journey into the hidden world of anonymity and fashion with the enigmatic Grea8gawd! This music maestro, known for his profound lyricism and striking fashion sense, takes us on a fascinating journey behind his mask, sharing his trials and tribulations, his roots, his beliefs, and his devotion to the art of storytelling through music. From traversing through airports unnoticed to transforming into his alter ego, discover how Grea8gawd defies convention and asserts the power of his words over his appearance.
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Prepare for a thrilling journey into the hidden world of anonymity and fashion with the enigmatic Grea8gawd! This music maestro, known for his profound lyricism and striking fashion sense, takes us on a fascinating journey behind his mask, sharing his trials and tribulations, his roots, his beliefs, and his devotion to the art of storytelling through music. From traversing through airports unnoticed to transforming into his alter ego, discover how Grea8gawd defies convention and asserts the power of his words over his appearance.
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Lady D:It's in the field, radio y'all.
Lady D:we high right now, that's the solar system right now.
Lady D:Yo, before we even start.
Erin Boogie:I have to ask is that mass part of the hoodies and one of those like full like?
Grea8gawd:Yeah, nah, this hoodies is by my guy Joe from Connecticut, but now the mask is by uh, no face, no case.
Lady D:No face. Okay, now do they do all the masks?
Grea8gawd:They do. Well, he do a lot of my masks. He don't do all of them, but he do a majority yeah.
Erin Boogie:I'm like, obsessed with your fashion sense.
Grea8gawd:Yeah, you're obsessed with it. I like that. That's a that's a heavy word, obsession.
Erin Boogie:I know, but it's so like I feel like a lot of rappers nowadays get caught up in like the, like the name brand, like the designer, fashions and stuff like that, but you have like your own eek like it. It reminds me of when street wear was a big thing, right. So you have a lot of like unique pieces and stuff like that.
Grea8gawd:Yeah, street wear car. Yeah, you gave me. You gave me the name. That's what I'm here for now.
Erin Boogie:Let him know it came from e-boogie.
Grea8gawd:That's right, that's right.
Erin Boogie:So who is grea8gawd?
Grea8gawd:great god Is the lyrical monster that you hear. But you don't know what he looked like. But you know he can spit his ass off, he can rap his ass off. Um, under the mask he cover his face. That they would pay Magazines would pay to put on the cover. You know, that's the way goddess man like.
Lady D:So great god is actually fine.
Grea8gawd:I mean, they've been saying, like listen, they've been asking me, like yo, why you cover your face, like, is it because you look like who knows this one, this one, that? Nah, I don't look like none of them dudes. I don't look like them, don't smell like them, don't rap like he's saying that. You look like. I Think you got a good idea. I think you got a good idea already. I, I, I hear it in your voice. I know what you're going. I don't look like him for sure. Straight up, this, this mask, this mask is for my anonymity and mine's only the same, because I was like I was like no, I'm not gonna, I'm just gonna Going to back up you.
Grea8gawd:Listen, do you wear the mask like 24 seven, or like you go to the grocery store with no mask on and then no one knows who you are? Right, that's, that's. That's the point is that you, I could take it off. You know, I'm saying I could go to the grocery store, I could go to Walmart. You know, I only leave it on when, when I'm wrapping it, help his cousin with the groceries on the plane and everything like. You know what I'm saying Just to you know? Just to start some.
Lady D:Wait, so nobody tells you to take it off on a plane or nowhere like that.
Grea8gawd:I mean, yeah, they asked me to take it off, but you know, I think you only got to have it off to go through TSA.
Lady D:After that you probably After that, I can wear it wherever I want to Like.
Grea8gawd:they don't like it, but you know I don't want y'all in my face sometimes.
Erin Boogie:So after TSA do you go change in the bathroom, like on some Spider-Man?
Grea8gawd:Yeah, yeah
Erin Boogie:Like you go through TSA as you, and then, like, emerge from the bathroom as great God and fly home Whoa Yep.
Grea8gawd:I go through TSA as me and then next thing you know that guy appear. They're like, oh, where he got here. They like, oh, I was on the plane with great God. Yeah, yeah, absolutely.
Erin Boogie:When did the masks start?
Grea8gawd:The mask started my first robbery, so that would have been like 97, eight, no.
Erin Boogie:I was like, hey, yo Look at her face.
Grea8gawd:So that's when the mask started.
Erin Boogie:And I was like OK, well, we can just edit that out.
Lady D:It's staying, though, like it's normal.
Grea8gawd:When did it start, for great God? The mask started like, probably like a year before COVID, like a year before.
Lady D:COVID. So you predicted COVID.
Grea8gawd:No, I ain't going to. No, I'm going to predict that atrocity. No, yeah, I predict that, but I was already in my mask groove when it came out, so it was like it's all good, I just really like the whole mask thing is like just listen to what I'm saying, man, what I'm saying, look, I don't want to distract him by what I look like, because if I show y'all what I look like, did it unfair that I don't care what he post to have her? He post that when you look at somebody right and you hit him rap, right, I used to think that man, he ain't did that.
Grea8gawd:He don't look like this, he don't look like. You know, we have, we have parallel, certain looks to certain things, like these ugly dog skin dudes. Oh, yeah, yeah, oh, we'll believe him if he, if he, spit against a rap, because you know, we just, we just been color coordinated that way with certain things. Oh, now I believe him. Now I don't believe him because of this and that I don't. You know, we even get them time to judge and do none of that. Just listen to these dots, that's it.
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Lady D:I like that.
Grea8gawd:I don't. I really don't want it to be unfair, though, like when I take this mask off and I start doing these certain type of records. It's going to be unfair for these guys that don't look like me.
Erin Boogie:Can we expect you to take the mask off anytime soon?
Lady D:Does that mean you're taking the mask off for the ladies Like is that?
Grea8gawd:I'm going to take the mask off when I feel as though I reached my pinnacle. So just pitching me being on stage in the stadium and this comes off one day.
Grea8gawd:And then I'm going to take it off and then the lights going to go down and I'm going to play my documentary in the back of it. Oh, that's. And we should have been new. I should have put it together like, oh that's great God, that's how I'm going to do that. So like maybe you know, like a year, year and a half, and then everybody will be smiling, like how she is at the bottom, when they were like, oh that's great God, like now it makes sense. But at that point they won't be able to hate, they won't be able to blackboard, they won't be able to do none of the stuff that they try to do for so many, for so many years. You know what I'm saying.
Grea8gawd:We were in 1990., Nah, that's just the name of the. This, this clothes is just 1990, something you know. Peace, connecticut you know my boy, joe Baggay, out in Connecticut, he got, he got a situation going. So you know, I like, I like, I like supporting man, you know.
Lady D:I see that we like that yeah.
Grea8gawd:Yeah, yeah, look at him so you from.
Lady D:I didn't know you were also from the Midwest Right Also, so it's like both. Yes, I guess ultimately, you choose New York. As an adult, do you rock with anybody from the Midwest?
Grea8gawd:Yeah, yeah, you know, like. So I got a bunch of family out there, all my cousins, but I like like I was just out there with Bode James, you know, shout out, bode, he in Detroit, that's Midwest. My godbrother Weasel Sims, a billionaire boy scout, you know, they from Chicago, murph Dilly, he from Chicago. I got a lot of a lot of family and extended rap family in the Midwest, my man Guap. So yeah, man, yeah.
Erin Boogie:What made you decide on New York?
Grea8gawd:Oh, my father state New York. So my oh, so upstate New York, my pops live, my pops live in upstate. So you know, I started going to see him and then when I got over there I met a nice young lady, beautiful young lady. I had my first child in Rochester and then, you know, I end up just leaving for Rochester and going like an hour over the Syracuse because my man had it popping over there and he was like man, you can add his towns on. I made all the money I would. He was rich, rich. He was taking Chris D'Albass, his name Sean, so he was like now you can add his son. So then I came to Syracuse and then I had two, you know two more children and you know it just been. I've been in Syracuse ever since, but I go back and forth to the between Syracuse and Brooklyn and Vegas all the time.
Lady D:So I think those are three great places to be.
Erin Boogie:Yeah, yeah, that's like the trifecta, yeah.
Lady D:Yeah.
Grea8gawd:Right yeah, the trifecta, yeah yeah, right now you're tuned into the guy, the voice. You already know what it is, man, it's great God, you know the voice, never saw the face. I'm in the place right now, in the field. I'm in the field right now with Lady D and E Boogie. So, hey, man, follow the God, follow them. They've got beautiful smiles. Go follow them, man, you can see. They can't see my smile, but I see this. It's beautiful, it's great God. In the field radio. You already know what it is.
Lady D:So you've had your name Great God for a very long time, right? Well, it says you were with the 5% nation and you were learning your lessons like faster than other kids.
Lady D:Right.
Lady D:And they said "you great God that's right and that was that.
Erin Boogie:Are you still?
Lady D:with the 5% nation. Yeah, I mean it's sounds past tense.
Grea8gawd:So so I don't know if that maybe just was something the way somebody wrote it, but so one thing about having knowledge yourself and being in the 5% nation is just like it's a natural progression for me to, to orthodox Islam Right, but it's not something that you ever. It's not a gang. So it's like like you get initiated and you say, yo son, I'm out, I don't want to be that, no more. So that those teachers are always in my mind. You know those teachers are the reason that I talk, the way I do, the way I handle people, the way I do.
Grea8gawd:You know my daily life is shown through those lessons. So those lessons is always going to be, you know, shown through. You know my daily life and what I do every day. So you know I may not like, like, obviously I might not go to, to, to Parliament. So Parliament is like going to church for 5%. It's like where everybody meet up and you know the gods and the earths and they go through their lessons and you know they go through their degrees and they build. It's a place to build with other gods. So I don't do that as often, but the lessons is always going to be a part of who I am.
Lady D:I can understand that.
Erin Boogie:Yeah, it's like writing 5%ers nowadays, or at least not talking about it.
Grea8gawd:Right, and that's why that's another reason why I implemented in my record so much because I feel like that when I was coming up and I was listening to music the brothers that was that was putting the lessons in their music. It intrigued me, you know. So if I can spark that same interest in one of the young gods, then I feel like that, because ultimately that's my duty is to civilize, to uncivilize and to teach the kids. So if we can teach, if I can grab one or two attentions of, you know, even just a few babies, and make them say, damn, what is he talking about, let me, oh, I gotta go do that. Now. I gotta learn my Supreme Alphabet, now I gotta know my Supreme Math to understand what he's saying. So that'll make them, because that's what made me dig into having knowledge of self.
Grea8gawd:It was like when I hear people saying this and that and it's like the God Jew. Or when Method man says you got the good power you. It's like power you, what is it? Okay, oh, okay. So now you gotta do the knowledge and you gotta do the homework and see what it is that he's talking about. So if I can spark that, that'll be beautiful, even if it's within a few people.
Lady D:I mean, I want to know, I didn't know All right.
Erin Boogie:So growing up on the early nineties music that did incorporate the 5% in it, you felt like you were learning. I feel like music is missing that nowadays, there's not as much storytelling or as much knowledge being passed.
Grea8gawd:Right Now it's definitely, it's definitely wanted down.
Grea8gawd:And that's why a great God is here and that's the blessing of great God is because I came up in an era where you had to be dead nice to get a record deal, like you had to really be talking about something and you had to have some subject matter.
Grea8gawd:And it had to it better make sense, your hook better match the lyrics and the lyrics better match the hook when right now it's just really about to beat. So you know, if I can restore any piece of that, you know, like I said then I'm that's what I'm here to do is to teach. And then, you know, give them the pros and the cons of the things that I've been through, because I've been through a lot. But you know, I can't just give them the ups. I got to show them the ups and the downs. You know I'll be like everybody else and just say, oh yeah, I was hustling, I had eight ball. Now I got 40 birds and a Ferrari and a mansion and all these lion-ass rappers that got these young boys thinking that they could go get a pound and next thing, you know, they're going to be scar faced when that ain't really how I go.
Lady D:Yo, there's a comedian Ali Sadiq. He was talking about that. Like you know, I guess he was successful at some point, but he's like, in order to get there, there's a lot of unsuccessful times you have. So, he was selling it since he was 14. So, yeah, by the time he was 25 or something like that. He better have been good at it.
Lady D:Right.
Lady D:Yeah, no doubt, but they don't show you that part.
Grea8gawd:No, they don't show you that and they don't even tell you that. And that's what's unfit Like. It's like if you know something and you don't tell somebody like you I'm not I can't just give you the glamour aside I got to let you know that your mother might get kidnapped, you might have to hurt somebody, people might try to hurt you. You understand, you're going to lose work, you're going to go up, you're going to go down. You never know what's going to happen in that game and it's built for destruction, to be honest with you. So if you don't tell a young man that, or even try to keep him away from that, then yeah, you can't call yourself a man.
Lady D:So what does success look like for you? Because it's not the, it's not the jewelry
Grea8gawd:Yeah, so for so successful me in terms of rap is just being heard, because that's all I ever really want to do is just let somebody hear these records and let them hear what I had to offer. So for me it's just being heard. That's why the music is different, because it's not financially driven. It's not. I'm financially good already, so now I could really give you my heart. I don't have to conform to what sells and what I think may sell and what may not sell. I'm just geek. I just plugged the auxiliary cord into my heart and go in the booth you know I'm saying or get in front of the microphone and give you all of my experiences.
Lady D:It's genuine, it's not desperate.
Grea8gawd:Right, yeah, not at all, not at all.
Erin Boogie:Discuss a little bit about your sound, because your sound is very different from what the mainstream is pushing now, especially in New York. There's such a focus on drill music. But you're not bad at all. Do you feel the pressure to conform to that.
Grea8gawd:No, I don't know. It's enough of that. It's so many people giving them that, what you just named it. I don't need to give them that. It's a lot of people's service in those fans. I'm here to service the audience like you that want to hear something different. They're actually want to hear lyrics, they want to hear a record that makes sense. That's not just talking about the same old thing, because a lot of these records, all of them, is just it's really the same record, it's just a different beat, but they're all really saying the same exact thing. You know what I'm saying.
Grea8gawd:Even if you listen to an artist and you listen to his album, it really don't really be no subject matter. You don't really get to know who they are as an artist. You get to just know how much money they got, how many women they slept with, what they. You know how much they spent on their jewelry, how much they house cost, they car cost, and then you get an ego to the next song. It's the same thing. My car cost this, my house cost that, and yeah, I ain't hear that.
Grea8gawd:So I don't feel no pressure when it comes to me giving them what great God has been given, because I know that it's needed. I know I'm feeling a void with that and I can sleep better that night knowing that I'm giving them something different. I gave them that before, though Don't get it wrong, and don't and I'm not, and don't mistake it. Like everything that I like, snow Day is a driven album, so it's, it's you know. But, like I said, it's ups and downs of that game, so I just explained a little bit of all of it.
Erin Boogie:I love the artwork on that project. Yeah, that artwork, yeah, thank you. I like your artwork in general, but when I saw like with the, with the shovel, is the, the razor blade, the blade, yeah, I thought that was.
Lady D:I was like what you said it was the ball. I felt like man, I was slow, I was like I looked at it and we were talking about the mask, and then I came back and looked at it again I said, is that a razor blade?
Erin Boogie:I saw that and I started cracking up. I was like this is lit. Where do you come up with your artwork? Do you do your artwork or does someone do it for you? Is it your ideas?
Grea8gawd:Yeah, so a lot of it is always my idea. That particular album cover was Travis Chapman. That was his idea and he let me borrow that idea because it went along with what I was doing. So I could take no credit for for that cover. But every other cover is, is, is, is my guy Stay Fresh, corpse out of? Uh, uh, uh, where in state? Where did my Godbrother from Czech, czech Republic, and he does all of my artwork in general? Him and then Craig Dyer do a lot of my artwork too. So you know if it's it's one of those three. But uh, that snow day joint was definitely Travis Chapman, that was his, that's his brainchild and I'm like, ooh, that's perfect, whoa.
Erin Boogie:How did you link with someone for art in the Czech Republic?
Grea8gawd:Uh yo, this internet, the world, the Instagram, instagram. He started off as a supporter and somebody who liked the music and then he told me that you know he did. He did artwork and he did covers and what's the beautiful thing about him is that after he did the very first cover, then he ended up doing the God Squad logos for my chains. He did every cover after that and he never let me pay him. He was always like nah man, when it, when it rained and we'll all get wet, when it's time to break bread, we'll break bread.
Grea8gawd:For now, I'm a pay it forward and I understand the concept of paying it forward. I did that for years, so I admired him for that. So I'm like you know, I give him the chance to do all the artwork after that and he go above and beyond too. So, like, if I asked him for an IG cover or I asked him for an EP cover, he gonna send me the EP cover. He gonna send me the YouTube banner, a Twitter banner, a Facebook banner. He gonna send me a moving joint Shout out to Stay Fresh, man. Like, stay Fresh, corp. Man.
Erin Boogie:Yeah, shout out to Stay Fresh for real.
Grea8gawd:Nah, for real, he like, he go. It's like you know, somebody might have took three weeks to do just a regular cover, but he a go, he always go above and beyond. So shout out to the God brother for that man. His grandmother is sick. I wanna send her a shout out right now and you know, some prayers up to her on her speedy recovery also. Yeah, that's my guy.
Erin Boogie:Did he do the Kill Bill remix cover too?
Grea8gawd:Who did? No, he didn't. To be honest with you, I forgot who Cause Kill Bill remix. I put that on my page and I got so many different remix, so many different people submitting it, so pardon me, but I forgot who did the one that I end up using. It might have been my man, william Bostic, though, but if it wasn't, yeah, you know, I forgot. I forgot who did that one.
Erin Boogie:It's SZA here the remix yeah.
Grea8gawd:You didn't see the thing on my story.
Erin Boogie:No, I missed it.
Grea8gawd:Yeah, I'm gonna get a screenshot and repost it. But yeah, man, yeah, I was actually gonna shoot a video for it and all that. I still might shoot one, cause I just love that record. Sza's one of them, people like that. I got put on the SZA late and I used to just hear that record when I on Hot 97. I'm like the melody just intrigued me and the way she sounds and I'm like who is that? And then I looked up the instrumental one morning and I'm like yo man. Then somebody asked me about doing a remix before the official remix came out and I'm like I thought it was somebody from her camp but it ended up not being. But somebody just wanted me to do a remix and was perpetrating like there was some from her camp. So I did it thinking that it might be the real remix.
Erin Boogie:Yeah, that was a dope remix, especially like the juxtaposition between her singing and then like your raspy voice with the bars coming in.
Grea8gawd:Yeah, oh, you liked that one, I appreciate it yeah.
Grea8gawd:And that was really like the first time that the ladies got to hear great God talk about something other than a lot of people were saying like, oh, I wonder if he could. I wanna that's. Is that all he could do? I wonder if he could do this and that. So it was like I felt like that. That record was perfect timing for me to just show my range as an artist at the same time and then not compromise who, great God. But did you feel like it was a? Did you feel like, oh, he getting soft when you heard it?
Erin Boogie:No, cause I wasn't sure like the reason behind you hopping on it. You know what I mean, cause sometimes people just hop on like a industry B or a big song just to, kind of like, get the SEO clicks right. So when I put it on I was like, oh okay, like this is not what I expected at all, cause the way, especially the way you were, like you didn't just do like one verse at the end or anything like that, like you sounded like you belonged on the record.
Grea8gawd:Right, oh, that's dope, that's dope, that's dope, that's dope.
Lady D:So it mentions that. So in March, right? I think we got your bio in March. In March your goals were to drop an EP every quarter. Are you on track for that?
Grea8gawd:still. Oh nah, you know I ended up signing the deal and you know when you sign like when you, I ended up signing with rock Marcy, shout out to rock Marcy and Pimpire. I ended up signing the deal, so now, like dropping dropping music is is is not as easy as me just saying I'm about to drop my EP today and upload it. If I hadn't signed the deal, I would have did that, though, cause I definitely got four or five EPs ready right now.
Lady D:Like literally that's what it says.
Grea8gawd:Yeah, I got like four or five of them ready right now. I could do it. I could have did it, but you know well, for respect for my brother and respect for the label, I'm just waiting it out to see what, see what me and rock can do, and then then we're going to flood them.
Lady D:So how do you feel about? If you think about that, so in March, right, your goals were one thing, and it's August, right now, and the drastic change in that plan.
Grea8gawd:Nah, it's beautiful, I'm not going to lie it. Just you know, what it really showed me was that it's never too late for one. And then just you got to just just consistency and being persistent and just staying at it, and it can happen, because you know this, this is not my first rodeo. It's not like that. I started rapping last year, but I was always one foot in, one foot out of the streets and that really consumed most of my time, most of my energy. Well, that's what I was putting most of my time and energy in was a street. So it was like, nah, I mean, let me concentrate on this and let me see what happened. Like if I give him my all and I and I can't be more, you know happy about the outcome. I'm glad that I did that, cause now I don't have to do the things that I was doing before.
Erin Boogie:Talk about signing a deal Cause, literally when I was doing research for this interview and someone had asked you like are you looking for a deal or whatever? And you said no. So what made you flip on that?
Grea8gawd:Because of who it was. So rock more seems like the, the, the, the, the JZ to the underground. So imagine me telling rock like now I'm cool, son you know what I'm saying, like no, no, he's not saying Right.
Grea8gawd:Knowing his reach, knowing what could come out of it, knowing that I watched him propel people that I know personally to start them, you know, so it was a no-brainer for me. I said, nah, of course, like let's join forces. And then you know his effort at getting me to sign with the label was, it was all genuine, so it was a no-brainer for me. It was like, oh yeah, let's do it, let's do it. But initially, like you know, I always said I never really won the record deal because I never really wanted to conform to the way that they release music and the way that they things that you gotta jump through when you want to label. But over at them.
Lady D:So is that what you expected?
Grea8gawd:Well, having a deal, yeah, Nah. Yeah, because as soon as I got the deal with rock, I went on tour. You know it was overseas dates, it was US dates, you know what I'm saying. So that happened immediately, soon as I signed, I was on stage. He was putting me on stages before I even signed the deal. So you know who could ask for more than that?
Erin Boogie:And you guys have a project together too.
Grea8gawd:Yeah, so we're working on a project right now. It's called God Brothers, so that's me and Rap Marci going back and forth like Ray Quawain and Ghost Dead, you know, and that should be coming out. I'm thinking it's going to come out before the end of the year, for sure.
Erin Boogie:That's exciting Congratulations. I like it Yay.
Grea8gawd:Thank you, I appreciate it.
Erin Boogie:So talk about the God Squad.
Grea8gawd:The God Squad. So the God Squad consists of rappers, it consists of producers. God Squad is a whole, is a family. That's why, like you hear me refer to somebody as my God brother Like we not friends, we brothers in this, you know. So the God Squad is just dope, dope MCs. Like we can really put out a compilation. I'm putting out the compilation, the God Squad compilation, with my next project. So you know, simultaneously I'm putting them both out at the same time and I'm going to introduce you to everybody that's in the God Squad and you go, it's like. It's like a 2025 version of Wu-Tang. You know what I'm saying? All walks of life, different races, people from different places, there's all here for one common cause, which is to show the world that we can get busy on this mic. So that's what the God Squad is. I'm on there, you know, every week we all jumping on each other records and it's dope. It's coming out real dope. The walking movie in the field radio, you know, the vibes turn up in the building Ice to God.
Lady D:That's the hip hop 50.
Erin Boogie:question 50 years of hip hop.
Lady D:All right.
Erin Boogie:So hip hop is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year. We've all grown up on the genre, which is pretty cool. What are your favorite? What is your favorite bar of the last 50 years? Can you rap it and then let us know why it's your favorite?
Grea8gawd:One like single bar.
Erin Boogie:One single bar. That like blew your mind oh.
Grea8gawd:God, one single bar. I think of one bar that just always stuck out. I got some. All of my favorite MCs are so dope but it's hard, right. Okay, rock him, rock him. I tell you who you are, why you're here. Take it in stride, because it might take a year. That's my favorite single one bar. I tell you who you are and why you're here. Take it in stride because it might take a year. So that line was hit. That was him letting the people know like I'm the God, like he had knowledge yourself and I can tell you who you are and why you're here. But take it in stride, be patient, because it might take a year. You understand that's my thing. That probably was one of my single most favorite bar.
Erin Boogie:Rock him. It's like the nicest person on the planet.
Grea8gawd:You know what's so crazy? Ask me how I've ever met rock him.
Erin Boogie:Have you ever met rock him?
Grea8gawd:Never, never, nope. I want to meet rock him.
Erin Boogie:So the college radio station that we broadcast on did a show probably six or seven years ago now, and rock him was the headliner. They used to do a free, like it was called hip hop 101, and it was supposed to be like a, you know. They had all the elements, so they would have DJs, they would have break dancers come, they would have art and they would have rappers come and rock him came out and he was like one of the only that hung around after his set and made sure that he talked to everybody and took pictures with everybody and it was just. It was just like such a dope moment for from such an iconic person.
Grea8gawd:Yeah, no doubt, no doubt. And for him you would so many people that got egos that you like. Why do you got like all people you got to, but him, him, rock him is one of the people that has earned the right to maybe have a little bit of ego and don't have it. So that's the beautiful part about that. You know what I'm saying.
Erin Boogie:They tell you don't meet your idols. You know what I mean, cause sometimes it could be it could go left. So when you beat someone like rock him, who is down to earth and it, you know is that really appreciates the fans and you think of how far he's come. It's just like an extra special treat.
Grea8gawd:Nah, absolutely, because he definitely earned the ability to the right to have an attitude if he felt like it. You know what I'm saying. But that's dope. That he don't, that's super dope.
Lady D:All right, yo. So you know, I was going through music and I've seen a lot of Joey Majors and I was like yo, have we interviewed him? And I was like no, we haven't. But then I went in our email and it was just so much music for this guy. Right, I'm talking about working with him because we don't know him yet.
Grea8gawd:So Joey Majors is one of my God brothers. He, he, he. He's from he, from upstate New York. I met him in upstate New York long long time ago and dope MC, dope MC, always ready to work. He probably got seven, eight EPs done right now. But when I first, when I first jumped back here and started doing putting my music out on a consistent basis, he was one of those ones that was always be like hell. You know, put the music out, keep putting the music out. You know what I'm saying.
Grea8gawd:And yeah, yeah, that's all he. Yeah, that's what he does, all he do. Yeah, he, he dropped. If he could drop an EP every other week, he would yeah, but yeah, now that's that's. That's that's like my brother man, you know, we got, we got business ventures together. Um, actually, like like the bars documentary Buffalo and bars stand for Buffalo, albany, rochester, syracuse and I went to each. I went to each spot and I tried to get the dopest people you know what I'm saying so that the A&Rs go see who to come and get next from upstate New York. Who do I need to interview from Albany, though?
Erin Boogie:Yari Toro, yari Toro.
Grea8gawd:Okay. Well, can you? I need you to put that together for me and DM me. Put us together in my DM, okay.
Lady D:I will.
Grea8gawd:And I'm a coming interview him for that Cause.
Erin Boogie:I really didn't get to interview her.
Grea8gawd:Oh, it's a girl.
Erin Boogie:Is she up next? Let me tell you.
Grea8gawd:Okay, all right, that's even better. That's dope I got. I got Shane War on there, I got Armani Caesar, so it's dope to have a female from Albany.
Erin Boogie:Thanks. Who's just talking about Armani Caesar? We want her on the show too.
Grea8gawd:Oh yeah, I put a word in for you, no doubt. Yeah, oh yeah.
Erin Boogie:Yeah Well, talk about, talk about that, talk about an upstate documentary. I feel like upstate is kind of been cracked wide open thanks to Griselda.
Grea8gawd:Right, absolutely.
Erin Boogie:Like all of a sudden, people are paying attention and it's like, oh my God, not only are there a ton of dope MCs up there, but y'all have your own sound. It's not sounding like New York city.
Grea8gawd:Right.
Grea8gawd:So you know so the boss documentary is something that, uh, I think it's something that, uh, me and actually me and Conway was working on it years ago and then I ended up losing the footage and losing the hard drive and, um, when I was in Vegas, me and Benny was out there shooting a video and he was like, nah, you should put the bars back. Now is the time to put the bars out, because now the light is on upstate, like you said, thanks to them. So, you know, I just started going back around, you know, getting everybody that was dope, young, old, new, veterans, that's from upstate, so we can show them what really upstate New York is about. And they just catch up here. Ain't up here milking cows, like I used to think that brown.
Erin Boogie:That's the perception, buffalo.
Lady D:Buffalo what they're pulling them buff they're pulling on over there.
Grea8gawd:They, they husking corn Like nah boy. It's the same thing going on in Buffalo as everywhere else, and it might even be on the larger scale. Yeah, that's it. It's so fun.
Lady D:I mean the crazy part that, because there'd be trains and all type of stuff, and if you're on route on one of those major you know Amtrak lines and stuff oh yeah, you're subject to that. Yeah, no doubt.
Grea8gawd:Of course, yeah. So yeah, the documentary is just highlighting, man, that the producers, like I said, the radio DJs, whoever's the who's who's from that particular city. I went and interviewed them and we put it on a documentary and we turned it into a series.
Erin Boogie:When is that coming out? Because now I'm intrigued and I want to watch it.
Grea8gawd:So it's going to be out real soon. I'm just going back and forth negotiating a deal with a couple, a couple different networks, seeing who going to give me those M&M's. You know, whoever going to give me, whoever going to give me a bag of M&M's some two M's, three, four M's that's who going to get it.
Erin Boogie:Hell, netflix. To cut the check, I'm ready.
Grea8gawd:Netflix only pay one time, so you don't get nervous. There's no money with Netflix, you're going to get one.
Erin Boogie:You don't get no money in streaming at all.
Grea8gawd:Yeah, one check one time, and they don't want to.
Erin Boogie:Over residuals. Yeah, that's why they're all striking.
Grea8gawd:Yeah, I need some mailbox money.
Erin Boogie:I hear that, oh my goodness. Yeah, I need some money while I'm resting to be but shout out to you for knowing the business and being smart enough to understand that, because not everyone does.
Grea8gawd:Yeah, no doubt, yeah, yeah, Great God, thank God, this guy under this mask, man he got intelligent, so it seems like you've worked with so many people already.
Erin Boogie:Yeah.
Lady D:Who are you looking forward to working with in the future, like artists and producers or whoever?
Grea8gawd:I would say Nas, dj, premier, je, electronica I wouldn't mind the Jay Z verse, of course, but that's about it. Those three Alchemist as a producer I would definitely fill in Alchemist. I got a project that I'm working on right now with Havoc from MobbD, so that's coming out crazy. We got like five songs done, yeah.
Erin Boogie:When's that coming?
Grea8gawd:out. I don't know Havoc want to go to Japan and finish the project over there and kind of document it. I'm about to take the mask off. I'm getting hot.
Lady D:I was like yo, I was mad scared. I'm like I cannot deal with this Lady.
Erin Boogie:D was about to pass out.
Grea8gawd:Hey, you know what? I take it off for a Yacht Show. After I do it on stage, they hit me again. I would take it off for a Yacht Show.
Erin Boogie:But I'm immediately.
Grea8gawd:Now when you see me on stage D they say yo remember what you said, great God All right.
Erin Boogie:So what's next for great God?
Grea8gawd:Two weeks we put out another EP entitled self-entitled EP, Great God. And then after that I'm putting out the EP called Still Snowing, you know, as a prelude to, I mean, the extension of Snow Day, and then the Rock Marcy project. So you know, like four EPs coming up real soon, very soon. Visuals Snow Day the movie Star-Mob Godbrother Uncasso, legendary unconscious from diplomats. He's starting in the movie. So yeah, and the Snow Day movie is like a half hour movie that all of the videos kind of intertwine into a storyline. So that's, you know, something different than just going in front of the liquor store or going in front of my bins and shooting a video or you know what I'm saying.
Lady D:Like hanging out with this high end hooding.
Erin Boogie:Yeah, this is like the best. It's like such a throwback. It gives me throwback vibes, but like modern throwback vibes. Right, it's like now, but like when we had you know, hype Williams videos and lyrics and like that. So it's like it's happening now.
Grea8gawd:Yeah, the high end hooding. I like that. This is like upper echelon, yeah, upscale. Yeah, you gotta come up with a name for me and then we go. You know, we press the button, so put your name in cap one. Give us DM me the name.
Erin Boogie:Oh listen, yeah, you gotta get with him on the name, and then you could do the whole merch line.
Lady D:That's right.
Erin Boogie:Yeah, yeah, you got like the merch, that kind of rivals Griselda. So I feel like if you had like a high end hood merch line out of here, Out of here.
Grea8gawd:I believe so too. Like the merch, that I'm doing right now is very, very it's very dope. It's simple, but you know, like you said, it's like upper echelon, like my hoodies, is like 500 GSM, like. So that's like the equivalent of a Balenciaga blank, not a champion blank, you know what I'm saying. Or a blank, or now I mean I'm really taking time and picking the right cloth, picking the right. You know everything for the, for the merch. So, yeah, it's different, it's default entity all the way around, all the way around.
Erin Boogie:I love it. Yeah, exciting, that's really exciting. Well, is there anything else that you want our listeners to know?
Grea8gawd:I want them to know that they can go to greatgodcom right now and you can get a brick. You know my album came in a brick, Did y'all?
Erin Boogie:know that. Yes, I thought that was salt.
Lady D:I heard I'm not going to make it through the interview.
Grea8gawd:I'm not like the power is that B-Man would disappear. When I said brick, the whole screen was just the solar system.
Erin Boogie:Yo, the merch is like art pieces, like I was on there and I'm about to order vinyl and all that.
Grea8gawd:Please, yes, yep, so order the vinyl to just DM me and we figure out the vinyl, the brick, the shirts, everything is a go right now, but the brick yeah, you had to buy the brick. You cut it open, you open the brick and you get the hard drive from inside of the brick.
Erin Boogie:Yeah, I saw that. I want to do that Instagram page right.
Grea8gawd:Say it again it was on your Instagram page.
Erin Boogie:There was a video.
Grea8gawd:Yeah, yep, everybody. So like a lot of people, a lot of, I just sit down like Tim Bricks, just like last week, everybody getting a bricks right now Can you say that it sounds so like yeah that's like you can get a brick.
Lady D:I was like, oh.
Grea8gawd:Wait, but I want to know why do y'all even know what bricks is? Though this is what we that. Let's talk about that.
Erin Boogie:Listen, could we be a hip hop focused show without understanding the culture and the game that goes behind it? Ok, listen.
Lady D:I'm in the military. We move bricks.
Erin Boogie:But gangsters become rappers.
Grea8gawd:That's right. That's right. Well, yeah, man, yeah, dm me both. Yeah, like, if y'all want to get a brick or any any merch, it's, it's easier for me to just to DM me and then I send it, because I'm sending out some stuff tomorrow. So sometimes my site gets so built up that it's been taking people two, three, four weeks to get to get a, to get a merchant.
Lady D:Now yeah, I mean tonight with my break.
Grea8gawd:Now the bricks and the vinyls. Is is dope, I ain't going to lie.
Lady D:Give the people your social media and everything and where to find you.
Grea8gawd:G R E A the number eight G A W D. As great God G R E A eight G A W D. Twitter, instagram, facebook only fans, all the above man.
Erin Boogie:Only fans. That link to.
Grea8gawd:Yeah, yeah. So now listen to the mask on the only fans link is dangerous. You might not want to get caught up on there. That is a rabbit hole. If you you got a blog on my only fans, we got some real time on your hands Like that, that right there, and make sure you got a few hundred on your card, because it just gets better and better and it's intriguing. It's different.
Erin Boogie:That's where you should do the unmasking. Then you could charge people for it.
Grea8gawd:Oh right, I actually only fans, so you want to run the account, because I can't even run all these accounts I got to get. I need a team.
Erin Boogie:No, we do that on the side.
Lady D:No.
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