September 13, 2023 • 41 mins
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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Erin Boogie (00:00):
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Lady D (00:09):
It's in the field, radio y'all.
we high right now, that's thesolar system right now.
Yo, before we even start.
Erin Boogie (00:20):
I have to ask is that mass part of the hoodies
and one of those like full like?
Grea8gawd (00:25):
Yeah, nah, this hoodies is by my guy Joe from
Connecticut, but now the mask isby uh, no face, no case.
Lady D (00:34):
No face.
Okay, now do they do all themasks?
Grea8gawd (00:37):
They do.
Well, he do a lot of my masks.
He don't do all of them, but hedo a majority yeah.
Erin Boogie (00:42):
I'm like, obsessed with your fashion sense.
Grea8gawd (00:45):
Yeah, you're obsessed with it.
I like that.
That's a that's a heavy word,obsession.
Erin Boogie (00:50):
I know, but it's so like I feel like a lot of
rappers nowadays get caught upin like the, like the name brand
, like the designer, fashionsand stuff like that, but you
have like your own eek like it.
It reminds me of when streetwear was a big thing, right.
So you have a lot of likeunique pieces and stuff like
(01:11):
that.
Grea8gawd (01:12):
Yeah, street wear car .
Yeah, you gave me.
You gave me the name.
That's what I'm here for now.
Erin Boogie (01:18):
Let him know it came from e-boogie.
Grea8gawd (01:20):
That's right, that's right.
Erin Boogie (01:22):
So who is grea8gawd ?
Grea8gawd (01:24):
great god Is the lyrical monster that you hear.
But you don't know what helooked like.
But you know he can spit hisass off, he can rap his ass off.
Um, under the mask he cover hisface.
That they would pay Magazineswould pay to put on the cover.
You know, that's the waygoddess man like.
Lady D (01:46):
So great god is actually fine.
Grea8gawd (01:48):
I mean, they've been saying, like listen, they've
been asking me, like yo, why youcover your face, like, is it
because you look like who knowsthis one, this one, that?
Nah, I don't look like none ofthem dudes.
I don't look like them, don'tsmell 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 ideaalready.
(02:11):
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 gonnaGoing to back up you.
(02:37):
Listen, do you wear the masklike 24 seven, or like you go to
the grocery store with no maskon and then no one knows who you
are?
Right, that's, that's.
That's the point is that you, Icould take it off.
You know, I'm saying I could goto the grocery store, I could
go to Walmart.
You know, I only leave it onwhen, when I'm wrapping it, help
his cousin with the grocerieson the plane and everything like
(02:58):
.
You know what I'm saying Justto you know?
Just to start some.
Lady D (03:01):
Wait, so nobody tells you to take it off on a plane or
nowhere like that.
Grea8gawd (03:05):
I mean, yeah, they asked me to take it off, but you
know, I think you only got tohave it off to go through TSA.
Lady D (03:12):
After that you probably After that, I can wear it
wherever I want to Like.
Grea8gawd (03:16):
they don't like it, but you know I don't want y'all
in my face sometimes.
Erin Boogie (03:20):
So after TSA do you go change in the bathroom, like
on some Spider-Man?
Grea8gawd (03:24):
Yeah, yeah
Erin Boogie (03:29):
Like you go through TSA as you, and then, like,
emerge from the bathroom asgreat God and fly home Whoa Yep.
Grea8gawd (03:35):
I go through TSA as me and then next thing you know
that guy appear.
They're like, oh, where he gothere.
They like, oh, I was on theplane with great God.
Yeah, yeah, absolutely.
Erin Boogie (03:47):
When did the masks start?
Grea8gawd (03:49):
The mask started my first robbery, so that would
have been like 97, eight, no.
Erin Boogie (03:58):
I was like, hey, yo Look at her face.
Grea8gawd (04:03):
So that's when the mask started.
Erin Boogie (04:05):
And I was like OK, well, we can just edit that out.
Lady D (04:08):
It's staying, though, like it's normal.
Grea8gawd (04:12):
When did it start, for great God?
The mask started like, probablylike a year before COVID, like
a year before.
Lady D (04:19):
COVID.
So you predicted COVID.
Grea8gawd (04:21):
No, I ain't going to.
No, I'm going to predict thatatrocity.
No, yeah, I predict that, but Iwas already in my mask groove
when it came out, so it was likeit's all good, I just really
like the whole mask thing islike just listen to what I'm
saying, man, what I'm saying,look, I don't want to distract
(04:42):
him by what I look like, becauseif I show y'all what I look
like, did it unfair that I don'tcare what he post to have her?
He post that when you look atsomebody right and you hit him
rap, right, I used to think thatman, he ain't did that.
He don't look like this, hedon't look like.
You know, we have, we haveparallel, certain looks to
(05:03):
certain things, like these uglydog skin dudes.
Oh, yeah, yeah, oh, we'llbelieve him if he, if he, spit
against a rap, because you know,we just, we just been color
coordinated that way withcertain things.
Oh, now I believe him.
Now I don't believe him becauseof this and that I don't.
You know, we even get them timeto judge and do none of that.
Just listen to these dots,that's it.
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Lady D (06:10):
I like that.
Grea8gawd (06:11):
I don't.
I really don't want it to beunfair, though, like when I take
this mask off and I start doingthese certain type of records.
It's going to be unfair forthese guys that don't look like
me.
Erin Boogie (06:21):
Can we expect you to take the mask off anytime
soon?
Lady D (06:26):
Does that mean you're taking the mask off for the
ladies Like is that?
Grea8gawd (06:30):
I'm going to take the mask off when I feel as though
I reached my pinnacle.
So just pitching me being onstage in the stadium and this
comes off one day.
And then I'm going to take itoff and then the lights going to
go down and I'm going to playmy documentary in the back of it
.
Oh, that's.
And we should have been new.
(06:52):
I should have put it togetherlike, oh that's great God,
that's how I'm going to do that.
So like maybe you know, like ayear, year and a half, and then
everybody will be smiling, likehow she is at the bottom, when
they were like, oh that's greatGod, like now it makes sense.
But at that point they won't beable to hate, they won't be
(07:13):
able to blackboard, they won'tbe 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.
We were in 1990.
, Nah, that's just the name ofthe.
This, this clothes is just 1990, something you know.
Peace, connecticut you know myboy, joe Baggay, out in
Connecticut, he got, he got asituation going.
(07:34):
So you know, I like, I like, Ilike supporting man, you know.
Lady D (07:38):
I see that we like that yeah.
Grea8gawd (07:41):
Yeah, yeah, look at him so you from.
Lady D (07:44):
I didn't know you were also from the Midwest Right Also
, so it's like both.
Yes, I guess ultimately, youchoose New York.
As an adult, do you rock withanybody from the Midwest?
Grea8gawd (08:01):
Yeah, yeah, you know, like.
So I got a bunch of family outthere, all my cousins, but I
like like I was just out therewith Bode James, you know, shout
out, bode, he in Detroit,that's Midwest.
My godbrother Weasel Sims, abillionaire boy scout, you know,
they from Chicago, murph Dilly,he from Chicago.
I got a lot of a lot of familyand extended rap family in the
(08:25):
Midwest, my man Guap.
So yeah, man, yeah.
Erin Boogie (08:29):
What made you decide on New York?
Grea8gawd (08:31):
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 tosee him and then when I got
over there I met a nice younglady, beautiful young lady.
I had my first child inRochester and then, you know, I
(08:51):
end up just leaving forRochester and going like an hour
over the Syracuse because myman had it popping over there
and he was like man, you can addhis 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 andthen I had two, you know two
(09:14):
more children and you know itjust been.
I've been in Syracuse eversince, but I go back and forth
to the between Syracuse andBrooklyn and Vegas all the time.
Lady D (09:24):
So I think those are three great places to be.
Erin Boogie (09:29):
Yeah, yeah, that's like the trifecta, yeah.
Lady D (09:31):
Yeah.
Grea8gawd (09:32):
Right yeah, the trifecta, yeah yeah, right now
you're tuned into the guy, thevoice.
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, inthe field.
I'm in the field right now withLady D and E Boogie.
So, hey, man, follow the God,follow them.
They've got beautiful smiles.
(09:53):
Go follow them, man, you cansee.
They can't see my smile, but Isee this.
It's beautiful, it's great God.
In the field radio.
You already know what it is.
Lady D (10:02):
So you've had your name Great God for a very long time,
right?
Well, it says you were with the5% nation and you were learning
your lessons like faster thanother kids.
Right.
And they said "you great Godthat's right and that was that.
Erin Boogie (10:20):
Are you still?
Lady D (10:20):
with the 5% nation.
Yeah, I mean it's sounds pasttense.
Grea8gawd (10:25):
So so I don't know if that maybe just was something
the way somebody wrote it, butso one thing about having
knowledge yourself and being inthe 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 getinitiated and you say, yo son,
(10:46):
I'm out, I don't want to be that, no more.
So that those teachers arealways in my mind.
You know those teachers are thereason that I talk, the way I
do, the way I handle people, theway I do.
You know my daily life is shownthrough those lessons.
So those lessons is alwaysgoing to be, you know, shown
through.
You know my daily life and whatI do every day.
(11:07):
So you know I may not like,like, obviously I might not go
to, to, to Parliament.
So Parliament is like going tochurch for 5%.
It's like where everybody meetup and you know the gods and the
earths and they go throughtheir lessons and you know they
go through their degrees andthey build.
It's a place to build withother gods.
(11:27):
So I don't do that as often,but the lessons is always going
to be a part of who I am.
Lady D (11:34):
I can understand that.
Erin Boogie (11:35):
Yeah, it's like writing 5%ers nowadays, or at
least not talking about it.
Grea8gawd (11:41):
Right, and that's why that's another reason why I
implemented in my record so muchbecause I feel like that when I
was coming up and I waslistening to music the brothers
that was that was putting thelessons in their music.
It intrigued me, you know.
So if I can spark that sameinterest in one of the young
gods, then I feel like that,because ultimately that's my
duty is to civilize, touncivilize and to teach the kids
(12:04):
.
So if we can teach, if I cangrab 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 SupremeAlphabet, now I gotta know my
Supreme Math to understand whathe's saying.
So that'll make them, becausethat's what made me dig into
having knowledge of self.
(12:24):
It was like when I hear peoplesaying this and that and it's
like the God Jew.
Or when Method man says you gotthe good power you.
It's like power you, what is it?
Okay, oh, okay.
So now you gotta do theknowledge and you gotta do the
homework and see what it is thathe's talking about.
So if I can spark that, that'llbe beautiful, even if it's
within a few people.
Lady D (12:45):
I mean, I want to know, I didn't know All right.
Erin Boogie (12:49):
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 missingthat nowadays, there's not as
much storytelling or as muchknowledge being passed.
Grea8gawd (13:01):
Right Now it's definitely, it's definitely
wanted down.
And that's why a great God ishere and that's the blessing of
great God is because I came upin an era where you had to be
dead nice to get a record deal,like you had to really be
talking about something and youhad to have some subject matter.
And it had to it better makesense, your hook better match
(13:21):
the lyrics and the lyrics bettermatch the hook when right now
it's just really about to beat.
So you know, if I can restoreany piece of that, you know,
like I said then I'm that's whatI'm here to do is to teach.
And then, you know, give themthe 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 givethem the ups.
(13:44):
I got to show them the ups andthe downs.
You know I'll be like everybodyelse and just say, oh yeah, I
was hustling, I had eight ball.
Now I got 40 birds and aFerrari and a mansion and all
these lion-ass rappers that gotthese young boys thinking that
they could go get a pound andnext thing, you know, they're
going to be scar faced when thatain't really how I go.
Lady D (14:05):
Yo, there's a comedian Ali Sadiq.
He was talking about that.
Like you know, I guess he wassuccessful 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 hewas 14.
So, yeah, by the time he was 25or something like that.
He better have been good at it.
Right.
(14:26):
Yeah, no doubt, but they don'tshow you that part.
Grea8gawd (14:29):
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 somethingand you don't tell somebody
like you I'm not I can't justgive you the glamour aside I got
to let you know that yourmother might get kidnapped, you
might have to hurt somebody,people might try to hurt you.
You understand, you're going tolose work, you're going to go
up, you're going to go down.
You never know what's going tohappen in that game and it's
(14:54):
built for destruction, to behonest with you.
So if you don't tell a youngman that, or even try to keep
him away from that, then yeah,you can't call yourself a man.
Lady D (15:06):
So what does success look like for you?
Because it's not the, it's notthe jewelry
Grea8gawd (15:13):
Yeah, so for so successful me in terms of rap is
just being heard, becausethat's all I ever really want to
do is just let somebody hearthese records and let them hear
what I had to offer.
So for me it's just being heard.
That's why the music isdifferent, because it's not
financially driven.
It's not.
(15:34):
I'm financially good already,so now I could really give you
my heart.
I don't have to conform to whatsells and what I think may sell
and what may not sell.
I'm just geek.
I just plugged the auxiliarycord into my heart and go in the
booth you know I'm saying orget in front of the microphone
and give you all of myexperiences.
Lady D (15:56):
It's genuine, it's not desperate.
Grea8gawd (15:58):
Right, yeah, not at all, not at all.
Erin Boogie (16:02):
Discuss a little bit about your sound, because
your sound is very differentfrom what the mainstream is
pushing now, especially in NewYork.
There's such a focus on drillmusic.
But you're not bad at all.
Do you feel the pressure toconform to that.
Grea8gawd (16:18):
No, I don't know.
It's enough of that.
It's so many people giving themthat, what you just named it.
I don't need to give them that.
It's a lot of people's servicein those fans.
I'm here to service theaudience like you that want to
hear something different.
They're actually want to hearlyrics, they want to hear a
record that makes sense.
(16:39):
That's not just talking aboutthe same old thing, because a
lot of these records, all ofthem, is just it's really the
same record, it's just adifferent beat, but they're all
really saying the same exactthing.
You know what I'm saying.
Even if you listen to an artistand you listen to his album, it
really don't really be nosubject matter.
You don't really get to knowwho they are as an artist.
You get to just know how muchmoney they got, how many women
(17:01):
they slept with, what they.
You know how much they spent ontheir jewelry, how much they
house cost, they car cost, andthen you get an ego to the next
song.
It's the same thing.
My car cost this, my house costthat, and yeah, I ain't hear
that.
So I don't feel no pressure whenit comes to me giving them what
great God has been given,because I know that it's needed.
(17:21):
I know I'm feeling a void withthat and I can sleep better that
night knowing that I'm givingthem something different.
I gave them that before, thoughDon't get it wrong, and don't
and I'm not, and don't mistakeit.
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 anddowns of that game, so I just
(17:41):
explained a little bit of all ofit.
Erin Boogie (17:43):
I love the artwork on that project.
Yeah, that artwork, yeah, thankyou.
I like your artwork in general,but when I saw like with the,
with the shovel, is the, therazor blade, the blade, yeah, I
thought that was.
Lady D (17:55):
I was like what you said it was the ball.
I felt like man, I was slow, Iwas like I looked at it and we
were talking about the mask, andthen I came back and looked at
it again I said, is that a razorblade?
Erin Boogie (18:10):
I saw that and I started cracking up.
I was like this is lit.
Where do you come up with yourartwork?
Do you do your artwork or doessomeone do it for you?
Is it your ideas?
Grea8gawd (18:18):
Yeah, so a lot of it is always my idea.
That particular album cover wasTravis Chapman.
That was his idea and he let meborrow that idea because it
went along with what I was doing.
So I could take no credit forfor that cover.
But every other cover is, is,is, is my guy Stay Fresh, corpse
out of?
Uh, uh, uh, where in state?
(18:40):
Where did my Godbrother fromCzech, czech Republic, and he
does all of my artwork ingeneral?
Him and then Craig Dyer do alot of my artwork too.
So you know if it's it's one ofthose three.
But uh, that snow day joint wasdefinitely Travis Chapman, that
was his, that's his brainchildand I'm like, ooh, that's
perfect, whoa.
Erin Boogie (19:00):
How did you link with someone for art in the
Czech Republic?
Grea8gawd (19:03):
Uh yo, this internet, the world, the Instagram,
instagram.
He started off as a supporterand somebody who liked the music
and then he told me that youknow he did.
He did artwork and he didcovers and what's the beautiful
thing about him is that after hedid the very first cover, then
he ended up doing the God Squadlogos for my chains.
(19:23):
He did every cover after thatand 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'stime to break bread, we'll break
bread.
For now, I'm a pay it forwardand I understand the concept of
paying it forward.
I did that for years, so Iadmired him for that.
So I'm like you know, I givehim the chance to do all the
(19:44):
artwork after that and he goabove and beyond too.
So, like, if I asked him for anIG cover or I asked him for an
EP cover, he gonna send me theEP cover.
He gonna send me the YouTubebanner, a Twitter banner, a
Facebook banner.
He gonna send me a moving jointShout out to Stay Fresh, man.
Like, stay Fresh, corp.
Man.
Erin Boogie (20:02):
Yeah, shout out to Stay Fresh for real.
Grea8gawd (20:04):
Nah, for real, he like, he go.
It's like you know, somebodymight have took three weeks to
do just a regular cover, but hea go, he always go above and
beyond.
So shout out to the God brotherfor that man.
His grandmother is sick.
I wanna send her a shout outright now and you know, some
prayers up to her on her speedyrecovery also.
Yeah, that's my guy.
Erin Boogie (20:25):
Did he do the Kill Bill remix cover too?
Grea8gawd (20:28):
Who did?
No, he didn't.
To be honest with you, I forgotwho Cause Kill Bill remix.
I put that on my page and I gotso many different remix, so
many different people submittingit, so pardon me, but I forgot
who did the one that I end upusing.
It might have been my man,william Bostic, though, but if
it wasn't, yeah, you know, Iforgot.
(20:49):
I forgot who did that one.
Erin Boogie (20:50):
It's SZA here the remix yeah.
Grea8gawd (20:53):
You didn't see the thing on my story.
Erin Boogie (20:55):
No, I missed it.
Grea8gawd (20:56):
Yeah, I'm gonna get a screenshot and repost it.
But yeah, man, yeah, I wasactually gonna shoot a video for
it and all that.
I still might shoot one, causeI just love that record.
Sza's one of them, people likethat.
I got put on the SZA late and Iused to just hear that record
when I on Hot 97.
I'm like the melody justintrigued me and the way she
sounds and I'm like who is that?
And then I looked up theinstrumental one morning and I'm
(21:19):
like yo man.
Then somebody asked me aboutdoing a remix before the
official remix came out and I'mlike I thought it was somebody
from her camp but it ended upnot being.
But somebody just wanted me todo a remix and was perpetrating
like there was some from hercamp.
So I did it thinking that itmight be the real remix.
Erin Boogie (21:36):
Yeah, that was a dope remix, especially like the
juxtaposition between hersinging and then like your raspy
voice with the bars coming in.
Grea8gawd (21:43):
Yeah, oh, you liked that one, I appreciate it yeah.
And that was really like thefirst time that the ladies got
to hear great God talk aboutsomething other than a lot of
people were saying like, oh, Iwonder if he could.
I wanna that's.
Is that all he could do?
I wonder if he could do thisand that.
So it was like I felt like that.
That record was perfect timingfor me to just show my range as
an artist at the same time andthen not compromise who, great
(22:06):
God.
But did you feel like it was a?
Did you feel like, oh, hegetting soft when you heard it?
Erin Boogie (22:10):
No, cause I wasn't sure like the reason behind you
hopping on it.
You know what I mean, causesometimes people just hop on
like a industry B or a big songjust 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 oneverse at the end or anything
(22:31):
like that, like you sounded likeyou belonged on the record.
Grea8gawd (22:34):
Right, oh, that's dope, that's dope, that's dope,
that's dope.
Lady D (22:38):
So it mentions that.
So in March, right?
I think we got your bio inMarch.
In March your goals were todrop an EP every quarter.
Are you on track for that?
Grea8gawd (22:50):
still.
Oh nah, you know I ended upsigning the deal and you know
when you sign like when you, Iended up signing with rock Marcy
, shout out to rock Marcy andPimpire.
I ended up signing the deal, sonow, like dropping dropping
music is is is not as easy as mejust saying I'm about to drop
my EP today and upload it.
If I hadn't signed the deal, Iwould have did that, though,
(23:11):
cause I definitely got four orfive EPs ready right now.
Lady D (23:15):
Like literally that's what it says.
Grea8gawd (23:16):
Yeah, I got like four or five of them ready right now
.
I could do it.
I could have did it, but youknow well, for respect for my
brother and respect for thelabel, I'm just waiting it out
to see what, see what me androck can do, and then then we're
going to flood them.
Lady D (23:28):
So how do you feel about ?
If you think about that, so inMarch, right, your goals were
one thing, and it's August,right now, and the drastic
change in that plan.
Grea8gawd (23:39):
Nah, it's beautiful, I'm not going to lie it.
Just you know, what it reallyshowed me was that it's never
too late for one.
And then just you got to justjust consistency and being
persistent and just staying atit, and it can happen, because
you know this, this is not myfirst rodeo.
It's not like that.
I started rapping last year,but I was always one foot in,
(24:01):
one foot out of the streets andthat really consumed most of my
time, most of my energy.
Well, that's what I was puttingmost 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 Iand I can't be more, you know
happy about the outcome.
I'm glad that I did that, causenow I don't have to do the
(24:22):
things that I was doing before.
Erin Boogie (24:24):
Talk about signing a deal Cause, literally when I
was doing research for thisinterview and someone had asked
you like are you looking for adeal or whatever?
And you said no.
So what made you flip on that?
Grea8gawd (24:35):
Because of who it was .
So rock more seems like the,the, the, the, the JZ to the
underground.
So imagine me telling rock likenow I'm cool, son you know what
I'm saying, like no, no, he'snot saying Right.
Knowing his reach, knowing whatcould come out of it, knowing
that I watched him propel peoplethat I know personally to start
(24:58):
them, you know, so it was ano-brainer for me.
I said, nah, of course, likelet's join forces.
And then you know his effort atgetting 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 doit, let's do it.
But initially, like you know, Ialways said I never really won
the record deal because I neverreally wanted to conform to the
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way that they release music andthe way that they things that
you gotta jump through when youwant to label.
But over at them.
Lady D (25:28):
So is that what you expected?
Grea8gawd (25:30):
Well, having a deal, yeah, Nah.
Yeah, because as soon as I gotthe 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 stagesbefore I even signed the deal.
So you know who could ask formore than that?
Erin Boogie (25:51):
And you guys have a project together too.
Grea8gawd (25:53):
Yeah, so we're working on a project right now.
It's called God Brothers, sothat's me and Rap Marci going
back and forth like Ray Quawainand Ghost Dead, you know, and
that should be coming out.
I'm thinking it's going to comeout before the end of the year,
for sure.
Erin Boogie (26:06):
That's exciting Congratulations.
I like it Yay.
Grea8gawd (26:08):
Thank you, I appreciate it.
Erin Boogie (26:09):
So talk about the God Squad.
Grea8gawd (26:11):
The God Squad.
So the God Squad consists ofrappers, it consists of
producers.
God Squad is a whole, is afamily.
That's why, like you hear merefer to somebody as my God
brother Like we not friends, webrothers in this, you know.
So the God Squad is just dope,dope MCs.
(26:32):
Like we can really put out acompilation.
I'm putting out the compilation, the God Squad compilation,
with my next project.
So you know, simultaneously I'mputting them both out at the
same time and I'm going tointroduce you to everybody
that's in the God Squad and yougo, it's like.
It's like a 2025 version ofWu-Tang.
You know what I'm saying?
All walks of life, differentraces, people from different
(26:55):
places, there's all here for onecommon cause, which is to show
the world that we can get busyon this mic.
So that's what the God Squad is.
I'm on there, you know, everyweek we all jumping on each
other records and it's dope.
It's coming out real dope.
The walking movie in the fieldradio, you know, the vibes turn
(27:15):
up in the building Ice to God.
Lady D (27:17):
That's the hip hop 50.
Erin Boogie (27:21):
question 50 years of hip hop.
Lady D (27:24):
All right.
Erin Boogie (27:25):
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 ofthe last 50 years?
Can you rap it and then let usknow why it's your favorite?
Grea8gawd (27:38):
One like single bar.
Erin Boogie (27:40):
One single bar.
That like blew your mind oh.
Grea8gawd (27:43):
God, one single bar.
I think of one bar that justalways stuck out.
I got some.
All of my favorite MCs are sodope but it's hard, right.
Okay, rock him, rock him.
I tell you who you are, whyyou're here.
Take it in stride, because itmight take a year.
That's my favorite single onebar.
(28:04):
I tell you who you are and whyyou're here.
Take it in stride because itmight take a year.
So that line was hit.
That was him letting the peopleknow like I'm the God, like he
had knowledge yourself and I cantell you who you are and why
you're here.
But take it in stride, bepatient, because it might take a
year.
You understand that's my thing.
(28:26):
That probably was one of mysingle most favorite bar.
Erin Boogie (28:28):
Rock him.
It's like the nicest person onthe planet.
Grea8gawd (28:31):
You know what's so crazy?
Ask me how I've ever met rockhim.
Erin Boogie (28:34):
Have you ever met rock him?
Grea8gawd (28:36):
Never, never, nope.
I want to meet rock him.
Erin Boogie (28:38):
So the college radio station that we broadcast
on did a show probably six orseven years ago now, and rock
him was the headliner.
They used to do a free, like itwas called hip hop 101, and it
was supposed to be like a, youknow.
They had all the elements, sothey would have DJs, they would
have break dancers come, theywould have art and they would
have rappers come and rock himcame out and he was like one of
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the only that hung around afterhis set and made sure that he
talked to everybody and tookpictures with everybody and it
was just.
It was just like such a dopemoment for from such an iconic
person.
Grea8gawd (29:14):
Yeah, no doubt, no doubt.
And for him you would so manypeople that got egos that you
like.
Why do you got like all peopleyou got to, but him, him, rock
him is one of the people thathas earned the right to maybe
have a little bit of ego anddon't have it.
So that's the beautiful partabout that.
You know what I'm saying.
Erin Boogie (29:35):
They tell you don't meet your idols.
You know what I mean, causesometimes it could be it could
go left.
So when you beat someone likerock him, who is down to earth
and it, you know is that reallyappreciates the fans and you
think of how far he's come.
It's just like an extra specialtreat.
Grea8gawd (29:51):
Nah, absolutely, because he definitely earned the
ability to the right to have anattitude if he felt like it.
You know what I'm saying.
But that's dope.
That he don't, that's superdope.
Lady D (30:02):
All right, yo.
So you know, I was goingthrough music and I've seen a
lot of Joey Majors and I waslike yo, have we interviewed him
?
And I was like no, we haven't.
But then I went in our emailand it was just so much music
for this guy.
Right, I'm talking aboutworking with him because we
don't know him yet.
Grea8gawd (30:19):
So Joey Majors is one of my God brothers.
He, he, he.
He's from he, from upstate NewYork.
I met him in upstate New Yorklong long time ago and dope MC,
dope MC, always ready to work.
He probably got seven, eightEPs done right now.
But when I first, when I firstjumped back here and started
doing putting my music out on aconsistent basis, he was one of
(30:41):
those ones that was always belike hell.
You know, put the music out,keep putting the music out.
You know what I'm saying.
And yeah, yeah, that's all he.
Yeah, that's what he does, allhe do.
Yeah, he, he dropped.
If he could drop an EP everyother week, he would yeah, but
yeah, now that's that's.
That's that's like my brotherman, you know, we got, we got
(31:02):
business ventures together.
Um, actually, like like thebars documentary Buffalo and
bars stand for Buffalo, albany,rochester, syracuse and I went
to each.
I went to each spot and I triedto get the dopest people you
know what I'm saying so that theA&Rs go see who to come and get
next from upstate New York.
Who do I need to interview fromAlbany, though?
Erin Boogie (31:22):
Yari Toro, yari Toro.
Grea8gawd (31:25):
Okay.
Well, can you?
I need you to put that togetherfor me and DM me.
Put us together in my DM, okay.
Lady D (31:30):
I will.
Grea8gawd (31:30):
And I'm a coming interview him for that Cause.
Erin Boogie (31:32):
I really didn't get to interview her.
Grea8gawd (31:35):
Oh, it's a girl.
Erin Boogie (31:37):
Is she up next?
Let me tell you.
Grea8gawd (31:39):
Okay, all right, that's even better.
That's dope I got.
I got Shane War on there, I gotArmani Caesar, so it's dope to
have a female from Albany.
Erin Boogie (31:47):
Thanks.
Who's just talking about ArmaniCaesar?
We want her on the show too.
Grea8gawd (31:50):
Oh yeah, I put a word in for you, no doubt.
Yeah, oh yeah.
Erin Boogie (31:53):
Yeah Well, talk about, talk about that, talk
about an upstate documentary.
I feel like upstate is kind ofbeen cracked wide open thanks to
Griselda.
Grea8gawd (32:02):
Right, absolutely.
Erin Boogie (32:03):
Like all of a sudden, people are paying
attention and it's like, oh myGod, not only are there a ton of
dope MCs up there, but y'allhave your own sound.
It's not sounding like New Yorkcity.
Grea8gawd (32:11):
Right.
So you know so the bossdocumentary is something that,
uh, I think it's something that,uh, me and actually me and
Conway was working on it yearsago and then I ended up losing
the footage and losing the harddrive and, um, when I was in
Vegas, me and Benny was outthere shooting a video and he
was like, nah, you should putthe bars back.
Now is the time to put the barsout, because now the light is
on upstate, like you said,thanks to them.
(32:32):
So, you know, I just startedgoing back around, you know,
getting everybody that was dope,young, old, new, veterans,
that's from upstate, so we canshow 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 (32:49):
That's the perception, buffalo.
Lady D (32:52):
Buffalo what they're pulling them buff they're
pulling on over there.
Grea8gawd (32:55):
They, they husking corn Like nah boy.
It's the same thing going on inBuffalo as everywhere else, and
it might even be on the largerscale.
Yeah, that's it.
It's so fun.
Lady D (33:12):
I mean the crazy part that, because there'd be trains
and all type of stuff, and ifyou're on route on one of those
major you know Amtrak lines andstuff oh yeah, you're subject to
that.
Yeah, no doubt.
Grea8gawd (33:26):
Of course, yeah.
So yeah, the documentary isjust highlighting, man, that the
producers, like I said, theradio DJs, whoever's the who's
who's from that particular city.
I went and interviewed them andwe put it on a documentary and
we turned it into a series.
Erin Boogie (33:43):
When is that coming out?
Because now I'm intrigued and Iwant to watch it.
Grea8gawd (33:46):
So it's going to be out real soon.
I'm just going back and forthnegotiating a deal with a couple
, a couple different networks,seeing who going to give me
those M&M's.
You know, whoever going to giveme, 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 (34:01):
Hell, netflix.
To cut the check, I'm ready.
Grea8gawd (34:03):
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 (34:09):
You don't get no money in streaming at all.
Grea8gawd (34:10):
Yeah, one check one time, and they don't want to.
Erin Boogie (34:13):
Over residuals.
Yeah, that's why they're allstriking.
Grea8gawd (34:16):
Yeah, I need some mailbox money.
Erin Boogie (34:17):
I hear that, oh my goodness.
Yeah, I need some money whileI'm resting to be but shout out
to you for knowing the businessand being smart enough to
understand that, because noteveryone does.
Grea8gawd (34:26):
Yeah, no doubt, yeah, yeah, Great God, thank God,
this guy under this mask, man hegot intelligent, so it seems
like you've worked with so manypeople already.
Erin Boogie (34:40):
Yeah.
Lady D (34:41):
Who are you looking forward to working with in the
future, like artists andproducers or whoever?
Grea8gawd (34:46):
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 aproducer I would definitely fill
in Alchemist.
I got a project that I'mworking on right now with Havoc
from MobbD, so that's coming outcrazy.
(35:06):
We got like five songs done,yeah.
Erin Boogie (35:10):
When's that coming?
Grea8gawd (35:11):
out.
I don't know Havoc want to goto Japan and finish the project
over there and kind of documentit.
I'm about to take the mask off.
I'm getting hot.
Lady D (35:23):
I was like yo, I was mad scared.
I'm like I cannot deal withthis Lady.
Erin Boogie (35:30):
D was about to pass out.
Grea8gawd (35:35):
Hey, you know what?
I take it off for a Yacht Show.
After I do it on stage, theyhit me again.
I would take it off for a YachtShow.
Erin Boogie (35:43):
But I'm immediately .
Grea8gawd (35:46):
Now when you see me on stage D they say yo remember
what you said, great God Allright.
Erin Boogie (35:50):
So what's next for great God?
Grea8gawd (35:52):
Two weeks we put out another EP entitled
self-entitled EP, Great God.
And then after that I'm puttingout the EP called Still Snowing
, you know, as a prelude to, Imean, the extension of Snow Day,
and then the Rock Marcy project.
So you know, like four EPscoming up real soon, very soon.
Visuals Snow Day the movieStar-Mob Godbrother Uncasso,
(36:14):
legendary unconscious fromdiplomats.
He's starting in the movie.
So yeah, and the Snow Day movieis like a half hour movie that
all of the videos kind ofintertwine into a storyline.
So that's, you know, somethingdifferent than just going in
front of the liquor store orgoing in front of my bins and
shooting a video or you knowwhat I'm saying.
Lady D (36:34):
Like hanging out with this high end hooding.
Erin Boogie (36:37):
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 likewhen we had you know, hype
Williams videos and lyrics andlike that.
So it's like it's happening now.
Grea8gawd (36:50):
Yeah, the high end hooding.
I like that.
This is like upper echelon,yeah, upscale.
Yeah, you gotta come up with aname 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 (37:04):
Oh listen, yeah, you gotta get with him on the
name, and then you could do thewhole merch line.
Lady D (37:10):
That's right.
Erin Boogie (37:11):
Yeah, yeah, you got like the merch, that kind of
rivals Griselda.
So I feel like if you had likea high end hood merch line out
of here, Out of here.
Grea8gawd (37:22):
I believe so too.
Like the merch, that I'm doingright now is very, very it's
very dope.
It's simple, but you know, likeyou said, it's like upper
echelon, like my hoodies, islike 500 GSM, like.
So that's like the equivalentof a Balenciaga blank, not a
champion blank, you know whatI'm saying.
Or a blank, or now I mean I'mreally taking time and picking
(37:47):
the right cloth, picking theright.
You know everything for the,for the merch.
So, yeah, it's different, it'sdefault entity all the way
around, all the way around.
Erin Boogie (37:55):
I love it.
Yeah, exciting, that's reallyexciting.
Well, is there anything elsethat you want our listeners to
know?
Grea8gawd (38:00):
I want them to know that they can go to greatgodcom
right now and you can get abrick.
You know my album came in abrick, Did y'all?
Erin Boogie (38:07):
know that.
Yes, I thought that was salt.
Lady D (38:09):
I heard I'm not going to make it through the interview.
Grea8gawd (38:12):
I'm not like the power is that B-Man would
disappear.
When I said brick, the wholescreen was just the solar system
.
Erin Boogie (38:19):
Yo, the merch is like art pieces, like I was on
there and I'm about to ordervinyl and all that.
Grea8gawd (38:24):
Please, yes, yep, so order the vinyl to just DM me
and we figure out the vinyl, thebrick, the shirts, everything
is a go right now, but the brickyeah, you had to buy the brick.
You cut it open, you open thebrick and you get the hard drive
from inside of the brick.
Erin Boogie (38:41):
Yeah, I saw that.
I want to do that Instagrampage right.
Grea8gawd (38:43):
Say it again it was on your Instagram page.
Erin Boogie (38:45):
There was a video.
Grea8gawd (38:46):
Yeah, yep, everybody.
So like a lot of people, a lotof, I just sit down like Tim
Bricks, just like last week,everybody getting a bricks right
now Can you say that it soundsso like yeah that's like you can
get a brick.
Lady D (38:58):
I was like, oh.
Grea8gawd (39:04):
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 (39:09):
Listen, could we be a hip hop focused show without
understanding the culture andthe game that goes behind it?
Ok, listen.
Lady D (39:16):
I'm in the military.
We move bricks.
Erin Boogie (39:18):
But gangsters become rappers.
Grea8gawd (39:21):
That's right.
That's right.
Well, yeah, man, yeah, dm meboth.
Yeah, like, if y'all want toget a brick or any any merch,
it's, it's easier for me to justto DM me and then I send it,
because I'm sending out somestuff tomorrow.
So sometimes my site gets sobuilt up that it's been taking
people two, three, four weeks toget to get a, to get a merchant
.
Lady D (39:39):
Now yeah, I mean tonight with my break.
Grea8gawd (39:43):
Now the bricks and the vinyls.
Is is dope, I ain't going tolie.
Lady D (39:46):
Give the people your social media and everything and
where to find you.
Grea8gawd (39:50):
G R E A the number eight G A W D.
As great God G R E A eight G AW D.
Twitter, instagram, facebookonly fans, all the above man.
Erin Boogie (40:03):
Only fans.
That link to.
Grea8gawd (40:08):
Yeah, yeah.
So now listen to the mask onthe only fans link is dangerous.
You might not want to getcaught up on there.
That is a rabbit hole.
If you you got a blog on myonly fans, we got some real time
on your hands Like that, thatright there, and make sure you
got a few hundred on your card,because it just gets better and
(40:28):
better and it's intriguing.
It's different.
Erin Boogie (40:31):
That's where you should do the unmasking.
Then you could charge peoplefor it.
Grea8gawd (40:34):
Oh right, I actually only fans, so you want to run
the account, because I can'teven run all these accounts I
got to get.
I need a team.
Erin Boogie (40:43):
No, we do that on the side.
Lady D (40:45):
No.
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(41:09):
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Lady D (00:09):
It's in the field, radio y'all.
we high right now, that's thesolar system right now.
Yo, before we even start.
Erin Boogie (00:20):
I have to ask is that mass part of the hoodies
and one of those like full like?
Grea8gawd (00:25):
Yeah, nah, this hoodies is by my guy Joe from
Connecticut, but now the mask isby uh, no face, no case.
Lady D (00:34):
No face.
Okay, now do they do all themasks?
Grea8gawd (00:37):
They do.
Well, he do a lot of my masks.
He don't do all of them, but hedo a majority yeah.
Erin Boogie (00:42):
I'm like, obsessed with your fashion sense.
Grea8gawd (00:45):
Yeah, you're obsessed with it.
I like that.
That's a that's a heavy word,obsession.
Erin Boogie (00:50):
I know, but it's so like I feel like a lot of
rappers nowadays get caught upin like the, like the name brand
, like the designer, fashionsand stuff like that, but you
have like your own eek like it.
It reminds me of when streetwear was a big thing, right.
So you have a lot of likeunique pieces and stuff like
(01:11):
that.
Grea8gawd (01:12):
Yeah, street wear car .
Yeah, you gave me.
You gave me the name.
That's what I'm here for now.
Erin Boogie (01:18):
Let him know it came from e-boogie.
Grea8gawd (01:20):
That's right, that's right.
Erin Boogie (01:22):
So who is grea8gawd ?
Grea8gawd (01:24):
great god Is the lyrical monster that you hear.
But you don't know what helooked like.
But you know he can spit hisass off, he can rap his ass off.
Um, under the mask he cover hisface.
That they would pay Magazineswould pay to put on the cover.
You know, that's the waygoddess man like.
Lady D (01:46):
So great god is actually fine.
Grea8gawd (01:48):
I mean, they've been saying, like listen, they've
been asking me, like yo, why youcover your face, like, is it
because you look like who knowsthis one, this one, that?
Nah, I don't look like none ofthem dudes.
I don't look like them, don'tsmell 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 ideaalready.
(02:11):
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 gonnaGoing to back up you.
(02:37):
Listen, do you wear the masklike 24 seven, or like you go to
the grocery store with no maskon and then no one knows who you
are?
Right, that's, that's.
That's the point is that you, Icould take it off.
You know, I'm saying I could goto the grocery store, I could
go to Walmart.
You know, I only leave it onwhen, when I'm wrapping it, help
his cousin with the grocerieson the plane and everything like
(02:58):
.
You know what I'm saying Justto you know?
Just to start some.
Lady D (03:01):
Wait, so nobody tells you to take it off on a plane or
nowhere like that.
Grea8gawd (03:05):
I mean, yeah, they asked me to take it off, but you
know, I think you only got tohave it off to go through TSA.
Lady D (03:12):
After that you probably After that, I can wear it
wherever I want to Like.
Grea8gawd (03:16):
they don't like it, but you know I don't want y'all
in my face sometimes.
Erin Boogie (03:20):
So after TSA do you go change in the bathroom, like
on some Spider-Man?
Grea8gawd (03:24):
Yeah, yeah
Erin Boogie (03:29):
Like you go through TSA as you, and then, like,
emerge from the bathroom asgreat God and fly home Whoa Yep.
Grea8gawd (03:35):
I go through TSA as me and then next thing you know
that guy appear.
They're like, oh, where he gothere.
They like, oh, I was on theplane with great God.
Yeah, yeah, absolutely.
Erin Boogie (03:47):
When did the masks start?
Grea8gawd (03:49):
The mask started my first robbery, so that would
have been like 97, eight, no.
Erin Boogie (03:58):
I was like, hey, yo Look at her face.
Grea8gawd (04:03):
So that's when the mask started.
Erin Boogie (04:05):
And I was like OK, well, we can just edit that out.
Lady D (04:08):
It's staying, though, like it's normal.
Grea8gawd (04:12):
When did it start, for great God?
The mask started like, probablylike a year before COVID, like
a year before.
Lady D (04:19):
COVID.
So you predicted COVID.
Grea8gawd (04:21):
No, I ain't going to.
No, I'm going to predict thatatrocity.
No, yeah, I predict that, but Iwas already in my mask groove
when it came out, so it was likeit's all good, I just really
like the whole mask thing islike just listen to what I'm
saying, man, what I'm saying,look, I don't want to distract
(04:42):
him by what I look like, becauseif I show y'all what I look
like, did it unfair that I don'tcare what he post to have her?
He post that when you look atsomebody right and you hit him
rap, right, I used to think thatman, he ain't did that.
He don't look like this, hedon't look like.
You know, we have, we haveparallel, certain looks to
(05:03):
certain things, like these uglydog skin dudes.
Oh, yeah, yeah, oh, we'llbelieve him if he, if he, spit
against a rap, because you know,we just, we just been color
coordinated that way withcertain things.
Oh, now I believe him.
Now I don't believe him becauseof this and that I don't.
You know, we even get them timeto judge and do none of that.
Just listen to these dots,that's it.
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Lady D (06:10):
I like that.
Grea8gawd (06:11):
I don't.
I really don't want it to beunfair, though, like when I take
this mask off and I start doingthese certain type of records.
It's going to be unfair forthese guys that don't look like
me.
Erin Boogie (06:21):
Can we expect you to take the mask off anytime
soon?
Lady D (06:26):
Does that mean you're taking the mask off for the
ladies Like is that?
Grea8gawd (06:30):
I'm going to take the mask off when I feel as though
I reached my pinnacle.
So just pitching me being onstage in the stadium and this
comes off one day.
And then I'm going to take itoff and then the lights going to
go down and I'm going to playmy documentary in the back of it
.
Oh, that's.
And we should have been new.
(06:52):
I should have put it togetherlike, oh that's great God,
that's how I'm going to do that.
So like maybe you know, like ayear, year and a half, and then
everybody will be smiling, likehow she is at the bottom, when
they were like, oh that's greatGod, like now it makes sense.
But at that point they won't beable to hate, they won't be
(07:13):
able to blackboard, they won'tbe 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.
We were in 1990.
, Nah, that's just the name ofthe.
This, this clothes is just 1990, something you know.
Peace, connecticut you know myboy, joe Baggay, out in
Connecticut, he got, he got asituation going.
(07:34):
So you know, I like, I like, Ilike supporting man, you know.
Lady D (07:38):
I see that we like that yeah.
Grea8gawd (07:41):
Yeah, yeah, look at him so you from.
Lady D (07:44):
I didn't know you were also from the Midwest Right Also
, so it's like both.
Yes, I guess ultimately, youchoose New York.
As an adult, do you rock withanybody from the Midwest?
Grea8gawd (08:01):
Yeah, yeah, you know, like.
So I got a bunch of family outthere, all my cousins, but I
like like I was just out therewith Bode James, you know, shout
out, bode, he in Detroit,that's Midwest.
My godbrother Weasel Sims, abillionaire boy scout, you know,
they from Chicago, murph Dilly,he from Chicago.
I got a lot of a lot of familyand extended rap family in the
(08:25):
Midwest, my man Guap.
So yeah, man, yeah.
Erin Boogie (08:29):
What made you decide on New York?
Grea8gawd (08:31):
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 tosee him and then when I got
over there I met a nice younglady, beautiful young lady.
I had my first child inRochester and then, you know, I
(08:51):
end up just leaving forRochester and going like an hour
over the Syracuse because myman had it popping over there
and he was like man, you can addhis 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 andthen I had two, you know two
(09:14):
more children and you know itjust been.
I've been in Syracuse eversince, but I go back and forth
to the between Syracuse andBrooklyn and Vegas all the time.
Lady D (09:24):
So I think those are three great places to be.
Erin Boogie (09:29):
Yeah, yeah, that's like the trifecta, yeah.
Lady D (09:31):
Yeah.
Grea8gawd (09:32):
Right yeah, the trifecta, yeah yeah, right now
you're tuned into the guy, thevoice.
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, inthe field.
I'm in the field right now withLady D and E Boogie.
So, hey, man, follow the God,follow them.
They've got beautiful smiles.
(09:53):
Go follow them, man, you cansee.
They can't see my smile, but Isee this.
It's beautiful, it's great God.
In the field radio.
You already know what it is.
Lady D (10:02):
So you've had your name Great God for a very long time,
right?
Well, it says you were with the5% nation and you were learning
your lessons like faster thanother kids.
Right.
And they said "you great Godthat's right and that was that.
Erin Boogie (10:20):
Are you still?
Lady D (10:20):
with the 5% nation.
Yeah, I mean it's sounds pasttense.
Grea8gawd (10:25):
So so I don't know if that maybe just was something
the way somebody wrote it, butso one thing about having
knowledge yourself and being inthe 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 getinitiated and you say, yo son,
(10:46):
I'm out, I don't want to be that, no more.
So that those teachers arealways in my mind.
You know those teachers are thereason that I talk, the way I
do, the way I handle people, theway I do.
You know my daily life is shownthrough those lessons.
So those lessons is alwaysgoing to be, you know, shown
through.
You know my daily life and whatI do every day.
(11:07):
So you know I may not like,like, obviously I might not go
to, to, to Parliament.
So Parliament is like going tochurch for 5%.
It's like where everybody meetup and you know the gods and the
earths and they go throughtheir lessons and you know they
go through their degrees andthey build.
It's a place to build withother gods.
(11:27):
So I don't do that as often,but the lessons is always going
to be a part of who I am.
Lady D (11:34):
I can understand that.
Erin Boogie (11:35):
Yeah, it's like writing 5%ers nowadays, or at
least not talking about it.
Grea8gawd (11:41):
Right, and that's why that's another reason why I
implemented in my record so muchbecause I feel like that when I
was coming up and I waslistening to music the brothers
that was that was putting thelessons in their music.
It intrigued me, you know.
So if I can spark that sameinterest in one of the young
gods, then I feel like that,because ultimately that's my
duty is to civilize, touncivilize and to teach the kids
(12:04):
.
So if we can teach, if I cangrab 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 SupremeAlphabet, now I gotta know my
Supreme Math to understand whathe's saying.
So that'll make them, becausethat's what made me dig into
having knowledge of self.
(12:24):
It was like when I hear peoplesaying this and that and it's
like the God Jew.
Or when Method man says you gotthe good power you.
It's like power you, what is it?
Okay, oh, okay.
So now you gotta do theknowledge and you gotta do the
homework and see what it is thathe's talking about.
So if I can spark that, that'llbe beautiful, even if it's
within a few people.
Lady D (12:45):
I mean, I want to know, I didn't know All right.
Erin Boogie (12:49):
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 missingthat nowadays, there's not as
much storytelling or as muchknowledge being passed.
Grea8gawd (13:01):
Right Now it's definitely, it's definitely
wanted down.
And that's why a great God ishere and that's the blessing of
great God is because I came upin an era where you had to be
dead nice to get a record deal,like you had to really be
talking about something and youhad to have some subject matter.
And it had to it better makesense, your hook better match
(13:21):
the lyrics and the lyrics bettermatch the hook when right now
it's just really about to beat.
So you know, if I can restoreany piece of that, you know,
like I said then I'm that's whatI'm here to do is to teach.
And then, you know, give themthe 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 givethem the ups.
(13:44):
I got to show them the ups andthe downs.
You know I'll be like everybodyelse and just say, oh yeah, I
was hustling, I had eight ball.
Now I got 40 birds and aFerrari and a mansion and all
these lion-ass rappers that gotthese young boys thinking that
they could go get a pound andnext thing, you know, they're
going to be scar faced when thatain't really how I go.
Lady D (14:05):
Yo, there's a comedian Ali Sadiq.
He was talking about that.
Like you know, I guess he wassuccessful 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 hewas 14.
So, yeah, by the time he was 25or something like that.
He better have been good at it.
Right.
(14:26):
Yeah, no doubt, but they don'tshow you that part.
Grea8gawd (14:29):
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 somethingand you don't tell somebody
like you I'm not I can't justgive you the glamour aside I got
to let you know that yourmother might get kidnapped, you
might have to hurt somebody,people might try to hurt you.
You understand, you're going tolose work, you're going to go
up, you're going to go down.
You never know what's going tohappen in that game and it's
(14:54):
built for destruction, to behonest with you.
So if you don't tell a youngman that, or even try to keep
him away from that, then yeah,you can't call yourself a man.
Lady D (15:06):
So what does success look like for you?
Because it's not the, it's notthe jewelry
Grea8gawd (15:13):
Yeah, so for so successful me in terms of rap is
just being heard, becausethat's all I ever really want to
do is just let somebody hearthese records and let them hear
what I had to offer.
So for me it's just being heard.
That's why the music isdifferent, because it's not
financially driven.
It's not.
(15:34):
I'm financially good already,so now I could really give you
my heart.
I don't have to conform to whatsells and what I think may sell
and what may not sell.
I'm just geek.
I just plugged the auxiliarycord into my heart and go in the
booth you know I'm saying orget in front of the microphone
and give you all of myexperiences.
Lady D (15:56):
It's genuine, it's not desperate.
Grea8gawd (15:58):
Right, yeah, not at all, not at all.
Erin Boogie (16:02):
Discuss a little bit about your sound, because
your sound is very differentfrom what the mainstream is
pushing now, especially in NewYork.
There's such a focus on drillmusic.
But you're not bad at all.
Do you feel the pressure toconform to that.
Grea8gawd (16:18):
No, I don't know.
It's enough of that.
It's so many people giving themthat, what you just named it.
I don't need to give them that.
It's a lot of people's servicein those fans.
I'm here to service theaudience like you that want to
hear something different.
They're actually want to hearlyrics, they want to hear a
record that makes sense.
(16:39):
That's not just talking aboutthe same old thing, because a
lot of these records, all ofthem, is just it's really the
same record, it's just adifferent beat, but they're all
really saying the same exactthing.
You know what I'm saying.
Even if you listen to an artistand you listen to his album, it
really don't really be nosubject matter.
You don't really get to knowwho they are as an artist.
You get to just know how muchmoney they got, how many women
(17:01):
they slept with, what they.
You know how much they spent ontheir jewelry, how much they
house cost, they car cost, andthen you get an ego to the next
song.
It's the same thing.
My car cost this, my house costthat, and yeah, I ain't hear
that.
So I don't feel no pressure whenit comes to me giving them what
great God has been given,because I know that it's needed.
(17:21):
I know I'm feeling a void withthat and I can sleep better that
night knowing that I'm givingthem something different.
I gave them that before, thoughDon't get it wrong, and don't
and I'm not, and don't mistakeit.
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 anddowns of that game, so I just
(17:41):
explained a little bit of all ofit.
Erin Boogie (17:43):
I love the artwork on that project.
Yeah, that artwork, yeah, thankyou.
I like your artwork in general,but when I saw like with the,
with the shovel, is the, therazor blade, the blade, yeah, I
thought that was.
Lady D (17:55):
I was like what you said it was the ball.
I felt like man, I was slow, Iwas like I looked at it and we
were talking about the mask, andthen I came back and looked at
it again I said, is that a razorblade?
Erin Boogie (18:10):
I saw that and I started cracking up.
I was like this is lit.
Where do you come up with yourartwork?
Do you do your artwork or doessomeone do it for you?
Is it your ideas?
Grea8gawd (18:18):
Yeah, so a lot of it is always my idea.
That particular album cover wasTravis Chapman.
That was his idea and he let meborrow that idea because it
went along with what I was doing.
So I could take no credit forfor that cover.
But every other cover is, is,is, is my guy Stay Fresh, corpse
out of?
Uh, uh, uh, where in state?
(18:40):
Where did my Godbrother fromCzech, czech Republic, and he
does all of my artwork ingeneral?
Him and then Craig Dyer do alot of my artwork too.
So you know if it's it's one ofthose three.
But uh, that snow day joint wasdefinitely Travis Chapman, that
was his, that's his brainchildand I'm like, ooh, that's
perfect, whoa.
Erin Boogie (19:00):
How did you link with someone for art in the
Czech Republic?
Grea8gawd (19:03):
Uh yo, this internet, the world, the Instagram,
instagram.
He started off as a supporterand somebody who liked the music
and then he told me that youknow he did.
He did artwork and he didcovers and what's the beautiful
thing about him is that after hedid the very first cover, then
he ended up doing the God Squadlogos for my chains.
(19:23):
He did every cover after thatand 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'stime to break bread, we'll break
bread.
For now, I'm a pay it forwardand I understand the concept of
paying it forward.
I did that for years, so Iadmired him for that.
So I'm like you know, I givehim the chance to do all the
(19:44):
artwork after that and he goabove and beyond too.
So, like, if I asked him for anIG cover or I asked him for an
EP cover, he gonna send me theEP cover.
He gonna send me the YouTubebanner, a Twitter banner, a
Facebook banner.
He gonna send me a moving jointShout out to Stay Fresh, man.
Like, stay Fresh, corp.
Man.
Erin Boogie (20:02):
Yeah, shout out to Stay Fresh for real.
Grea8gawd (20:04):
Nah, for real, he like, he go.
It's like you know, somebodymight have took three weeks to
do just a regular cover, but hea go, he always go above and
beyond.
So shout out to the God brotherfor that man.
His grandmother is sick.
I wanna send her a shout outright now and you know, some
prayers up to her on her speedyrecovery also.
Yeah, that's my guy.
Erin Boogie (20:25):
Did he do the Kill Bill remix cover too?
Grea8gawd (20:28):
Who did?
No, he didn't.
To be honest with you, I forgotwho Cause Kill Bill remix.
I put that on my page and I gotso many different remix, so
many different people submittingit, so pardon me, but I forgot
who did the one that I end upusing.
It might have been my man,william Bostic, though, but if
it wasn't, yeah, you know, Iforgot.
(20:49):
I forgot who did that one.
Erin Boogie (20:50):
It's SZA here the remix yeah.
Grea8gawd (20:53):
You didn't see the thing on my story.
Erin Boogie (20:55):
No, I missed it.
Grea8gawd (20:56):
Yeah, I'm gonna get a screenshot and repost it.
But yeah, man, yeah, I wasactually gonna shoot a video for
it and all that.
I still might shoot one, causeI just love that record.
Sza's one of them, people likethat.
I got put on the SZA late and Iused to just hear that record
when I on Hot 97.
I'm like the melody justintrigued me and the way she
sounds and I'm like who is that?
And then I looked up theinstrumental one morning and I'm
(21:19):
like yo man.
Then somebody asked me aboutdoing a remix before the
official remix came out and I'mlike I thought it was somebody
from her camp but it ended upnot being.
But somebody just wanted me todo a remix and was perpetrating
like there was some from hercamp.
So I did it thinking that itmight be the real remix.
Erin Boogie (21:36):
Yeah, that was a dope remix, especially like the
juxtaposition between hersinging and then like your raspy
voice with the bars coming in.
Grea8gawd (21:43):
Yeah, oh, you liked that one, I appreciate it yeah.
And that was really like thefirst time that the ladies got
to hear great God talk aboutsomething other than a lot of
people were saying like, oh, Iwonder if he could.
I wanna that's.
Is that all he could do?
I wonder if he could do thisand that.
So it was like I felt like that.
That record was perfect timingfor me to just show my range as
an artist at the same time andthen not compromise who, great
(22:06):
God.
But did you feel like it was a?
Did you feel like, oh, hegetting soft when you heard it?
Erin Boogie (22:10):
No, cause I wasn't sure like the reason behind you
hopping on it.
You know what I mean, causesometimes people just hop on
like a industry B or a big songjust 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 oneverse at the end or anything
(22:31):
like that, like you sounded likeyou belonged on the record.
Grea8gawd (22:34):
Right, oh, that's dope, that's dope, that's dope,
that's dope.
Lady D (22:38):
So it mentions that.
So in March, right?
I think we got your bio inMarch.
In March your goals were todrop an EP every quarter.
Are you on track for that?
Grea8gawd (22:50):
still.
Oh nah, you know I ended upsigning the deal and you know
when you sign like when you, Iended up signing with rock Marcy
, shout out to rock Marcy andPimpire.
I ended up signing the deal, sonow, like dropping dropping
music is is is not as easy as mejust saying I'm about to drop
my EP today and upload it.
If I hadn't signed the deal, Iwould have did that, though,
(23:11):
cause I definitely got four orfive EPs ready right now.
Lady D (23:15):
Like literally that's what it says.
Grea8gawd (23:16):
Yeah, I got like four or five of them ready right now
.
I could do it.
I could have did it, but youknow well, for respect for my
brother and respect for thelabel, I'm just waiting it out
to see what, see what me androck can do, and then then we're
going to flood them.
Lady D (23:28):
So how do you feel about ?
If you think about that, so inMarch, right, your goals were
one thing, and it's August,right now, and the drastic
change in that plan.
Grea8gawd (23:39):
Nah, it's beautiful, I'm not going to lie it.
Just you know, what it reallyshowed me was that it's never
too late for one.
And then just you got to justjust consistency and being
persistent and just staying atit, and it can happen, because
you know this, this is not myfirst rodeo.
It's not like that.
I started rapping last year,but I was always one foot in,
(24:01):
one foot out of the streets andthat really consumed most of my
time, most of my energy.
Well, that's what I was puttingmost 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 Iand I can't be more, you know
happy about the outcome.
I'm glad that I did that, causenow I don't have to do the
(24:22):
things that I was doing before.
Erin Boogie (24:24):
Talk about signing a deal Cause, literally when I
was doing research for thisinterview and someone had asked
you like are you looking for adeal or whatever?
And you said no.
So what made you flip on that?
Grea8gawd (24:35):
Because of who it was .
So rock more seems like the,the, the, the, the JZ to the
underground.
So imagine me telling rock likenow I'm cool, son you know what
I'm saying, like no, no, he'snot saying Right.
Knowing his reach, knowing whatcould come out of it, knowing
that I watched him propel peoplethat I know personally to start
(24:58):
them, you know, so it was ano-brainer for me.
I said, nah, of course, likelet's join forces.
And then you know his effort atgetting 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 doit, let's do it.
But initially, like you know, Ialways said I never really won
the record deal because I neverreally wanted to conform to the
(25:21):
way that they release music andthe way that they things that
you gotta jump through when youwant to label.
But over at them.
Lady D (25:28):
So is that what you expected?
Grea8gawd (25:30):
Well, having a deal, yeah, Nah.
Yeah, because as soon as I gotthe 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 stagesbefore I even signed the deal.
So you know who could ask formore than that?
Erin Boogie (25:51):
And you guys have a project together too.
Grea8gawd (25:53):
Yeah, so we're working on a project right now.
It's called God Brothers, sothat's me and Rap Marci going
back and forth like Ray Quawainand Ghost Dead, you know, and
that should be coming out.
I'm thinking it's going to comeout before the end of the year,
for sure.
Erin Boogie (26:06):
That's exciting Congratulations.
I like it Yay.
Grea8gawd (26:08):
Thank you, I appreciate it.
Erin Boogie (26:09):
So talk about the God Squad.
Grea8gawd (26:11):
The God Squad.
So the God Squad consists ofrappers, it consists of
producers.
God Squad is a whole, is afamily.
That's why, like you hear merefer to somebody as my God
brother Like we not friends, webrothers in this, you know.
So the God Squad is just dope,dope MCs.
(26:32):
Like we can really put out acompilation.
I'm putting out the compilation, the God Squad compilation,
with my next project.
So you know, simultaneously I'mputting them both out at the
same time and I'm going tointroduce you to everybody
that's in the God Squad and yougo, it's like.
It's like a 2025 version ofWu-Tang.
You know what I'm saying?
All walks of life, differentraces, people from different
(26:55):
places, there's all here for onecommon cause, which is to show
the world that we can get busyon this mic.
So that's what the God Squad is.
I'm on there, you know, everyweek we all jumping on each
other records and it's dope.
It's coming out real dope.
The walking movie in the fieldradio, you know, the vibes turn
(27:15):
up in the building Ice to God.
Lady D (27:17):
That's the hip hop 50.
Erin Boogie (27:21):
question 50 years of hip hop.
Lady D (27:24):
All right.
Erin Boogie (27:25):
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 ofthe last 50 years?
Can you rap it and then let usknow why it's your favorite?
Grea8gawd (27:38):
One like single bar.
Erin Boogie (27:40):
One single bar.
That like blew your mind oh.
Grea8gawd (27:43):
God, one single bar.
I think of one bar that justalways stuck out.
I got some.
All of my favorite MCs are sodope but it's hard, right.
Okay, rock him, rock him.
I tell you who you are, whyyou're here.
Take it in stride, because itmight take a year.
That's my favorite single onebar.
(28:04):
I tell you who you are and whyyou're here.
Take it in stride because itmight take a year.
So that line was hit.
That was him letting the peopleknow like I'm the God, like he
had knowledge yourself and I cantell you who you are and why
you're here.
But take it in stride, bepatient, because it might take a
year.
You understand that's my thing.
(28:26):
That probably was one of mysingle most favorite bar.
Erin Boogie (28:28):
Rock him.
It's like the nicest person onthe planet.
Grea8gawd (28:31):
You know what's so crazy?
Ask me how I've ever met rockhim.
Erin Boogie (28:34):
Have you ever met rock him?
Grea8gawd (28:36):
Never, never, nope.
I want to meet rock him.
Erin Boogie (28:38):
So the college radio station that we broadcast
on did a show probably six orseven years ago now, and rock
him was the headliner.
They used to do a free, like itwas called hip hop 101, and it
was supposed to be like a, youknow.
They had all the elements, sothey would have DJs, they would
have break dancers come, theywould have art and they would
have rappers come and rock himcame out and he was like one of
(29:04):
the only that hung around afterhis set and made sure that he
talked to everybody and tookpictures with everybody and it
was just.
It was just like such a dopemoment for from such an iconic
person.
Grea8gawd (29:14):
Yeah, no doubt, no doubt.
And for him you would so manypeople that got egos that you
like.
Why do you got like all peopleyou got to, but him, him, rock
him is one of the people thathas earned the right to maybe
have a little bit of ego anddon't have it.
So that's the beautiful partabout that.
You know what I'm saying.
Erin Boogie (29:35):
They tell you don't meet your idols.
You know what I mean, causesometimes it could be it could
go left.
So when you beat someone likerock him, who is down to earth
and it, you know is that reallyappreciates the fans and you
think of how far he's come.
It's just like an extra specialtreat.
Grea8gawd (29:51):
Nah, absolutely, because he definitely earned the
ability to the right to have anattitude if he felt like it.
You know what I'm saying.
But that's dope.
That he don't, that's superdope.
Lady D (30:02):
All right, yo.
So you know, I was goingthrough music and I've seen a
lot of Joey Majors and I waslike yo, have we interviewed him
?
And I was like no, we haven't.
But then I went in our emailand it was just so much music
for this guy.
Right, I'm talking aboutworking with him because we
don't know him yet.
Grea8gawd (30:19):
So Joey Majors is one of my God brothers.
He, he, he.
He's from he, from upstate NewYork.
I met him in upstate New Yorklong long time ago and dope MC,
dope MC, always ready to work.
He probably got seven, eightEPs done right now.
But when I first, when I firstjumped back here and started
doing putting my music out on aconsistent basis, he was one of
(30:41):
those ones that was always belike hell.
You know, put the music out,keep putting the music out.
You know what I'm saying.
And yeah, yeah, that's all he.
Yeah, that's what he does, allhe do.
Yeah, he, he dropped.
If he could drop an EP everyother week, he would yeah, but
yeah, now that's that's.
That's that's like my brotherman, you know, we got, we got
(31:02):
business ventures together.
Um, actually, like like thebars documentary Buffalo and
bars stand for Buffalo, albany,rochester, syracuse and I went
to each.
I went to each spot and I triedto get the dopest people you
know what I'm saying so that theA&Rs go see who to come and get
next from upstate New York.
Who do I need to interview fromAlbany, though?
Erin Boogie (31:22):
Yari Toro, yari Toro.
Grea8gawd (31:25):
Okay.
Well, can you?
I need you to put that togetherfor me and DM me.
Put us together in my DM, okay.
Lady D (31:30):
I will.
Grea8gawd (31:30):
And I'm a coming interview him for that Cause.
Erin Boogie (31:32):
I really didn't get to interview her.
Grea8gawd (31:35):
Oh, it's a girl.
Erin Boogie (31:37):
Is she up next?
Let me tell you.
Grea8gawd (31:39):
Okay, all right, that's even better.
That's dope I got.
I got Shane War on there, I gotArmani Caesar, so it's dope to
have a female from Albany.
Erin Boogie (31:47):
Thanks.
Who's just talking about ArmaniCaesar?
We want her on the show too.
Grea8gawd (31:50):
Oh yeah, I put a word in for you, no doubt.
Yeah, oh yeah.
Erin Boogie (31:53):
Yeah Well, talk about, talk about that, talk
about an upstate documentary.
I feel like upstate is kind ofbeen cracked wide open thanks to
Griselda.
Grea8gawd (32:02):
Right, absolutely.
Erin Boogie (32:03):
Like all of a sudden, people are paying
attention and it's like, oh myGod, not only are there a ton of
dope MCs up there, but y'allhave your own sound.
It's not sounding like New Yorkcity.
Grea8gawd (32:11):
Right.
So you know so the bossdocumentary is something that,
uh, I think it's something that,uh, me and actually me and
Conway was working on it yearsago and then I ended up losing
the footage and losing the harddrive and, um, when I was in
Vegas, me and Benny was outthere shooting a video and he
was like, nah, you should putthe bars back.
Now is the time to put the barsout, because now the light is
on upstate, like you said,thanks to them.
(32:32):
So, you know, I just startedgoing back around, you know,
getting everybody that was dope,young, old, new, veterans,
that's from upstate, so we canshow 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 (32:49):
That's the perception, buffalo.
Lady D (32:52):
Buffalo what they're pulling them buff they're
pulling on over there.
Grea8gawd (32:55):
They, they husking corn Like nah boy.
It's the same thing going on inBuffalo as everywhere else, and
it might even be on the largerscale.
Yeah, that's it.
It's so fun.
Lady D (33:12):
I mean the crazy part that, because there'd be trains
and all type of stuff, and ifyou're on route on one of those
major you know Amtrak lines andstuff oh yeah, you're subject to
that.
Yeah, no doubt.
Grea8gawd (33:26):
Of course, yeah.
So yeah, the documentary isjust highlighting, man, that the
producers, like I said, theradio DJs, whoever's the who's
who's from that particular city.
I went and interviewed them andwe put it on a documentary and
we turned it into a series.
Erin Boogie (33:43):
When is that coming out?
Because now I'm intrigued and Iwant to watch it.
Grea8gawd (33:46):
So it's going to be out real soon.
I'm just going back and forthnegotiating a deal with a couple
, a couple different networks,seeing who going to give me
those M&M's.
You know, whoever going to giveme, 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 (34:01):
Hell, netflix.
To cut the check, I'm ready.
Grea8gawd (34:03):
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 (34:09):
You don't get no money in streaming at all.
Grea8gawd (34:10):
Yeah, one check one time, and they don't want to.
Erin Boogie (34:13):
Over residuals.
Yeah, that's why they're allstriking.
Grea8gawd (34:16):
Yeah, I need some mailbox money.
Erin Boogie (34:17):
I hear that, oh my goodness.
Yeah, I need some money whileI'm resting to be but shout out
to you for knowing the businessand being smart enough to
understand that, because noteveryone does.
Grea8gawd (34:26):
Yeah, no doubt, yeah, yeah, Great God, thank God,
this guy under this mask, man hegot intelligent, so it seems
like you've worked with so manypeople already.
Erin Boogie (34:40):
Yeah.
Lady D (34:41):
Who are you looking forward to working with in the
future, like artists andproducers or whoever?
Grea8gawd (34:46):
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 aproducer I would definitely fill
in Alchemist.
I got a project that I'mworking on right now with Havoc
from MobbD, so that's coming outcrazy.
(35:06):
We got like five songs done,yeah.
Erin Boogie (35:10):
When's that coming?
Grea8gawd (35:11):
out.
I don't know Havoc want to goto Japan and finish the project
over there and kind of documentit.
I'm about to take the mask off.
I'm getting hot.
Lady D (35:23):
I was like yo, I was mad scared.
I'm like I cannot deal withthis Lady.
Erin Boogie (35:30):
D was about to pass out.
Grea8gawd (35:35):
Hey, you know what?
I take it off for a Yacht Show.
After I do it on stage, theyhit me again.
I would take it off for a YachtShow.
Erin Boogie (35:43):
But I'm immediately .
Grea8gawd (35:46):
Now when you see me on stage D they say yo remember
what you said, great God Allright.
Erin Boogie (35:50):
So what's next for great God?
Grea8gawd (35:52):
Two weeks we put out another EP entitled
self-entitled EP, Great God.
And then after that I'm puttingout the EP called Still Snowing
, you know, as a prelude to, Imean, the extension of Snow Day,
and then the Rock Marcy project.
So you know, like four EPscoming up real soon, very soon.
Visuals Snow Day the movieStar-Mob Godbrother Uncasso,
(36:14):
legendary unconscious fromdiplomats.
He's starting in the movie.
So yeah, and the Snow Day movieis like a half hour movie that
all of the videos kind ofintertwine into a storyline.
So that's, you know, somethingdifferent than just going in
front of the liquor store orgoing in front of my bins and
shooting a video or you knowwhat I'm saying.
Lady D (36:34):
Like hanging out with this high end hooding.
Erin Boogie (36:37):
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 likewhen we had you know, hype
Williams videos and lyrics andlike that.
So it's like it's happening now.
Grea8gawd (36:50):
Yeah, the high end hooding.
I like that.
This is like upper echelon,yeah, upscale.
Yeah, you gotta come up with aname 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 (37:04):
Oh listen, yeah, you gotta get with him on the
name, and then you could do thewhole merch line.
Lady D (37:10):
That's right.
Erin Boogie (37:11):
Yeah, yeah, you got like the merch, that kind of
rivals Griselda.
So I feel like if you had likea high end hood merch line out
of here, Out of here.
Grea8gawd (37:22):
I believe so too.
Like the merch, that I'm doingright now is very, very it's
very dope.
It's simple, but you know, likeyou said, it's like upper
echelon, like my hoodies, islike 500 GSM, like.
So that's like the equivalentof a Balenciaga blank, not a
champion blank, you know whatI'm saying.
Or a blank, or now I mean I'mreally taking time and picking
(37:47):
the right cloth, picking theright.
You know everything for the,for the merch.
So, yeah, it's different, it'sdefault entity all the way
around, all the way around.
Erin Boogie (37:55):
I love it.
Yeah, exciting, that's reallyexciting.
Well, is there anything elsethat you want our listeners to
know?
Grea8gawd (38:00):
I want them to know that they can go to greatgodcom
right now and you can get abrick.
You know my album came in abrick, Did y'all?
Erin Boogie (38:07):
know that.
Yes, I thought that was salt.
Lady D (38:09):
I heard I'm not going to make it through the interview.
Grea8gawd (38:12):
I'm not like the power is that B-Man would
disappear.
When I said brick, the wholescreen was just the solar system
.
Erin Boogie (38:19):
Yo, the merch is like art pieces, like I was on
there and I'm about to ordervinyl and all that.
Grea8gawd (38:24):
Please, yes, yep, so order the vinyl to just DM me
and we figure out the vinyl, thebrick, the shirts, everything
is a go right now, but the brickyeah, you had to buy the brick.
You cut it open, you open thebrick and you get the hard drive
from inside of the brick.
Erin Boogie (38:41):
Yeah, I saw that.
I want to do that Instagrampage right.
Grea8gawd (38:43):
Say it again it was on your Instagram page.
Erin Boogie (38:45):
There was a video.
Grea8gawd (38:46):
Yeah, yep, everybody.
So like a lot of people, a lotof, I just sit down like Tim
Bricks, just like last week,everybody getting a bricks right
now Can you say that it soundsso like yeah that's like you can
get a brick.
Lady D (38:58):
I was like, oh.
Grea8gawd (39:04):
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 (39:09):
Listen, could we be a hip hop focused show without
understanding the culture andthe game that goes behind it?
Ok, listen.
Lady D (39:16):
I'm in the military.
We move bricks.
Erin Boogie (39:18):
But gangsters become rappers.
Grea8gawd (39:21):
That's right.
That's right.
Well, yeah, man, yeah, dm meboth.
Yeah, like, if y'all want toget a brick or any any merch,
it's, it's easier for me to justto DM me and then I send it,
because I'm sending out somestuff tomorrow.
So sometimes my site gets sobuilt up that it's been taking
people two, three, four weeks toget to get a, to get a merchant
.
Lady D (39:39):
Now yeah, I mean tonight with my break.
Grea8gawd (39:43):
Now the bricks and the vinyls.
Is is dope, I ain't going tolie.
Lady D (39:46):
Give the people your social media and everything and
where to find you.
Grea8gawd (39:50):
G R E A the number eight G A W D.
As great God G R E A eight G AW D.
Twitter, instagram, facebookonly fans, all the above man.
Erin Boogie (40:03):
Only fans.
That link to.
Grea8gawd (40:08):
Yeah, yeah.
So now listen to the mask onthe only fans link is dangerous.
You might not want to getcaught up on there.
That is a rabbit hole.
If you you got a blog on myonly fans, we got some real time
on your hands Like that, thatright there, and make sure you
got a few hundred on your card,because it just gets better and
(40:28):
better and it's intriguing.
It's different.
Erin Boogie (40:31):
That's where you should do the unmasking.
Then you could charge peoplefor it.
Grea8gawd (40:34):
Oh right, I actually only fans, so you want to run
the account, because I can'teven run all these accounts I
got to get.
I need a team.
Erin Boogie (40:43):
No, we do that on the side.
Lady D (40:45):
No.
Welcome back to in the fieldradio.
You know what I'm about to do.
Make sure you follow in thefield radio.
Write to me, tell me what youthink, do some request.
You know I'm saying talk to me,do shout out.
If you write to me in the DMs,I'm a read it and I'm going to
(41:09):
do what you tell me to do.
Boss me around.
I like that stuff.
Add in the field radio oneverything.
All right, I'm about to get outof here.
Big thank you and I love you toanybody that's rocking with us.
All our loyal listeners loveyou guys.
Thanks for chilling with thosechicks on Mondays in the field
(41:30):
radio 91.3 FM.
Wvkr Poughkeepsie.
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