G-Eazy admits he was “embarassed” when he met his favorite MC

Bay Space emcee G-Eazy, in a current interview with SiriusXM, spoke about how he was starstruck when he first met his favorite rapper of all time and admitted that the encounter grew to become uncomfortable; he even went so far as to say he was left feeling “embarrassed.”

G-Eazy (actual title Gerald Gillum) first arrived within the mainstream round 2012. Initially rising as a document producer, Eazy labored regionally with acts comparable to The Cataracs and Lil B. Nonetheless, with musical connections across the Bay Area, the rapper slowly cultivated a fan base along with his tasks and, by the mid-2010s, was a star.

Nonetheless, previous to fame, the lyricist was a fan and large supporter of Kanye West. In a 2021 dialog with SiriusXM, the ‘These Things Happen’ rapper was requested which artists influenced his music, and Gillium was quick to name the Graduation icon.

Talking about his love for West as an adolescent, Gillium defined, “My first concert was Kanye West! I was, I think, 13 or 14, and it was College Dropout. And I remember at that time, Kanye, the barriers he broke coming out the gate with his first album, and just being so bold and being so unique and being so himself, and confident in who he was.”

G-Eazy continued, “And somebody else who, his genius was digging back and taking old soul samples and flipping those and reinterpreting them in a different way. And for that reason, he just always inspired me the most. That’s probably one of my biggest heroes.”

Talking concerning the first time he met West, in a 2018 interview with Reside Nation, G-Eazy disclosed, “Let me tell you about this one time I fan’d out. I met my favourite artist of all time, Kanye, and I did not know what to say. I was hella nervous. And I just started babbling.”

He continued, “Just, I don’t even know what I was saying, I watched his eyes go like… okay, anyway, and resumed a conversation over here. I was so defeated, I was so embarrassed. I just couldn’t help it, Kanye’s like, the greatest of all time.”

You possibly can take heed to G-Eazy’s SiriusXM interview beneath.