As I’m always desperately on the lookout for new music that is not full of whiny little bitches or self loathing/righteous folkey shit sung by men in their mid 20′s sounding like men in their late 80′s I am usually left bitterly disappointed. Cus it seems like that’s all there is… Lucky for me I came across Brooklyn’s own, gONNA gET gOT. The tracks off their 2008 release My Microphone and their compilation of GGG’s earlier incarnation tracks Bills 4 Skills Vol.1 (according to GGG “A B4S track, for those of you not in the know, is a song Trip Jeezy and Co. does about whatever the fuck you want… could be yer GF, yer fam, yer job, yer dick, yer… you get the picture.”), remind me of the good old days where songs that made it on the the radio and MTV were MAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAd good, and were it still those days it would be no sweat for these guys to be all over you like genital warts on a 47 year old hooker.
Now gONNA gET gOT is led by the man who calls himself by that very name, (also Trip G, Trip Jeezy and simply… G and formerly Drugorious in the years past in The O). This man has the illest (damn right I said illest!!) rhymes you’ve every heard come from a white guy without trying to sound black (you know bling, bling nigga, nigga, nigga). And with an actual band behind him (Most recently comprised of Ry Pilla on Drums, Davey P on bass and Suga Ray Chambers, DJ and backing vocals) he mixes a punk vibe with an upbeat style and harmony and lyrics so goddamn descriptive, catchy and clever, it’s almost as if you’re reading a book about the guy. A book filled with anecdotes ranging from fucking a fat bitch in a bathroom to dealing with his personal pains of fighting for success.
Through his past with the band The O to his career now with gONNA gET gOT, G has been rattled with disappointment and pain that, unlike most people these days, he uses only to fire up his passion to lay down another track. (In this past month alone, right before heading off on the Escape The Wintour with Screaming Mechanical Brain and Shiragirl the relationship between band members crashed causing them to cancel all of their planned shows and tearing them apart as a band altogether. But in G’s own words, “For those who have followed my “career” trajectory, from the O through gONNA gET gOT, you know there is no reason to worry that this bump in the road will keep ol’ Trip Jeezy down. gONNA gET gOT will be back in effect sooner than you think.”)
