The Bite Magazine - Spring/Summer 2021 - Issue 29

bitemusicceleb this thing right now,’” she explained. The lyrics paint a deeply personal picture of someone who offered a lover everything she had, only to be taken advantage of and left behind, with no recognition for all she had done. G-Eazy’s next high-profile relationship was with Pretty Little Liars actress and singer Ashley Benson who featured on his track ‘Creep’ and previously dated model Cara Delevingne. He and Ashley got together in 2020 and dated for less than a year before she called time on the relationship. Ashley reportedly didn’t like the way he was acting around her and said the vibe had been off. She ended it because she felt he hadn’t been fully committed to her. Ever since the Oakland, California native was young, music has always been about the girls. He told Seventeen, “Rapping was something I always wanted to do, so after school, my friends and I would catch the bus to my house and sit there writing songs every day. I had a computer, and I bummed a copy of a mixing programme off a friend and just started messing around with it. I would write about girls and parties. That’s how it started.” He was 15 years old when he began experimenting with mak- ing beats and rapping, then moved to New Orleans to study music and business on a scholarship at Loyola University. Al- though his dreams of stardom came true, G-Eazy said he has never sought to be rap’s number one. He has too much respect for those competing for that title and prefers to tip his hat to Drake or Kendrick Lamar. When he met Q-Tip at a Grammy Party, the A Tribe Called Quest rapper had to calm him down after he got over-excited. Eminem, the first white rapper to earn hip hop’s respect, in- fluenced G-Eazy to bleach his hair in 5th grade. After listen- ing to Eminem repeatedly in his mum’s Saturn, the would-be rapper decided to pursue a creative career. He likened fame to climbing a tree. “The higher you climb, the more visible you become, then the branches get thinner, and the more wobbly the tree gets, the more people there are standing under that tree waiting for you to fall.” In a 2018 interview with the Evening Standard , the artist gave a hint of the emotions he experienced in his childhood. “I’ve al- ways felt like an outsider my entire life. I bounced around a lot when I was a kid.” Referring to his photographer mum and art professor dad, who split when he was five, the rapper added. “I never felt like I really fit in, and once I learnt to embrace that instead of running from it, my whole life changed.” His third studio album, The Beautiful & Damned , named after F. Scott Fitzgerald’s famous novel, featured stellar guests Cardi B, A$AP Rocky and Charlie Puth. It embraced the spiral of partying that attended his initial success and shows the rap-