![]() ![]() And what I got going on right now is bigger than life or death. ![]() He explained the meaning of the project to Audiomack: "It's just telling you what's going on. It features guest appearances from Future, Young Thug, Pooh Shiesty, Lil Durk, and more. His fifth mixtape Bigger Than Life or Death was released on July 21, 2021. He featured on Lil Baby's single " Real as It Gets", which became his first Billboard Hot 100 song, peaking at number 34. In January 2021, EST Gee signed a deal with Yo Gotti's Collective Music Group (CMG), Interscope Records and Warlike. He released his first and second mixtapes El Toro and Die Bloody in June and August 2019, respectively.ĮST Gee gained mainstream attention with his third mixtape Ion Feel Nun on March 6, 2020, following it up with his fourth mixtape I Still Don't Feel Nun on December 18, 2020. He continued to release consistently through YouTube, gaining himself a local fanbase. He released his debut song "Stains" as "Big Gee" on YouTube on December 17, 2017. He initially adopted the name "Big Gee" before switching to "EST Gee", in which EST is an initialism for "Everybody Shines Together". Career ĭuring his house arrest, Stone became motivated to pursue a rap career after watching rapper and future collaborator Lil Baby perform on TV. ĭuring 2017, he was briefly on the CFL team the Winnipeg Blue Bombers. He was arrested for drug trafficking in the same year and was sentenced to four months of house arrest. After just a year he transferred again to Stephen F. He spent two years there before transferring to Sac City College. Xavier High School in 2012, Stone received a football scholarship to Indiana State University and majored in communications. He grew up in the now demolished Clarksdale Projects before moving to Tubman Court & Ellington Avenue in the southeastern region of the city. George Albert Stone III was born on May 11, 1994, in Louisville, Kentucky to George and Sheila Stone. A deluxe edition of the mixtape was released on December 3, 2021. It spawned the Billboard Hot 100-charting songs " Lick Back" and " 5500 Degrees". His fifth mixtape, Bigger Than Life or Death, released on July 21, 2021, and peaked at number 7 on the Billboard 200. He is signed to Yo Gotti's Collective Music Group (CMG), Interscope Records and Warlike. Even if 42 Dugg and EST Gee aren’t the most organic duo, it’s hard not to have fun with two scorching-hot rappers going toe-to-toe.George Albert Stone III (born May 11, 1994), known professionally as EST Gee, is an American rapper. Still, Last Ones Left holds together despite its inconsistencies. I get it, but it feels about as underwhelming as when you’re watching a TV show and they sneak in a backdoor pilot. It’s maybe two seconds, but it’s an amazing two seconds.Īs the tape goes on, it veers off course from a Dugg and Gee joint album into promotion for the new artists that Gee and Dugg are pushing. ![]() Over one of the best, pummeling Enrgy beats since AK Bandamont’s 2021 tape Soul Controller, Dugg and Gee are in full heat-check mode, culminating in the moment when they rap “They say it’s all for nothing, but I’m going for it, fuck it” in unison. It works on “Everybody Shooters Too,” though. On the piano-driven “Skcretch Sum,” Dugg’s skittering chirps feel inconsequential while Gee is rattling off cold-blooded nightmares: “We gon’ send him back holding his hat with decompressed lungs/God helped me relax, I throw two back, help my depression.” On “Thump Shit,” Dugg brags about being able to sell literally anything you typically need a prescription for (like the Wolf of Wall Street “sell me this pen” scene but for drugs), but it fits oddly next to Gee rapping about violence with a level of cruelty that is borderline horrorcore. Sometimes, the tonal shifts are off-putting: I tend not to always take Dugg that seriously, meanwhile Gee sounds like he has maybe laughed once in his life and it was at a kid falling off his bike. The chemistry wanes a bit when the two take on a more traditional verse one, verse two structure. I particularly like “Free the Shiners,” when Gee ends on a meditative note about love and Dugg follows with an unhinged and considerably less heartfelt mood change. On “Ice Talk,” Dugg and Gee are in complete sync, building off each other’s last lines every time they pass the mic. The highlights are the tracks where their verses weave together to the point that they feel like one. Specifically what works about them as a pair is the way their voices clash, as Dugg’s brash high-pitched delivery, which slightly brings to mind Webbie, ricochets off Gee sounding like a ghost whispering through the walls. Dugg and Gee complement each other well enough: They’re both hugely influenced by rap scenes in the South and Midwest, and they both tell hardened drug-dealing stories that blur the lines between reality and myth. ![]()
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