For the south there has been many new artists to make their mark. Gorilla Zoe is slowly but surely making an impact in hip-hops most flourishing times. With the digital age coming upon us like wildfire we sat down with Bad Boy/Block Ent.'s newest artists and found out what exactly runs through his mind. Enter Gorilla Zoe....
illRoots.com: First off, thank you for the interview.
Gorilla: No problem.
illRoots.com: So who is Gorilla Zoe?
Gorilla: Gorilla Zoe is the streets. Gorilla Zoe is the hood, the spokesman for the hood. Gorilla Zoe is the truth.
illRoots.com: One song could summarize your entire life?
Gorilla: I would have to say “Me Against the World” for the time that I’m living right now.
illRoots.com: What can we expect in the future for you?
Gorilla: Well everything that you heard from me and everything that you know about me is new. I’ve only been rapping for like a year and a half. I’m going to stay who I am and connected to my roots.
illRoots.com: How do you feel you’ve grown as an artist over the past year or so?
Gorilla: Oh man tremendously. I have an outlook on the game now you know what I’m saying? It was a hobby and me being who I am and God being first than it will all work out for the best. It was a hobby but I know what I’m doing now. Its called recording artist, that means its an ART to recording and I’m learning it. That along with production, the production that I have going on is crazy. I’m burning up the streets with the mixtapes. I just got this new mixtape with DJ Teknikz called “Joog Music”. I’m just trying to do bigger music.
Click Here for DownloadillRoots.com: What were doing before you were doing music?
Gorilla: Entrepreneur, I was in the streets. I hustled and I was a business owner.
illRoots.com: Whats missing in hip hop that you feel that you can fill that void?
Gorilla: The truth man. Real Music, Feeling, everything that it is.
illRoots.com: With your “Jug” could you elaborate on what that song encompasses?
Gorilla: Man, Jug is a form of hustling. Its like if you Jug somebody with a knife there going to bleed. Well basically its like if your selling a 1992 Chevy and you sell it to me for $4000 and I know this clown that stay 160 miles away for $8000, I pay for the gas, I get a little tune up on it, nice little wax. Take it to him sell it to him for eight grand when I only spent minimal. That’s a joog, capital, because really I didn’t own nothing, I just did the joog.
Gorilla Zoe - Tryna Make A Jug
illRoots.com: Other than Hip-Hop what other ventures are going into?
Gorilla: Basically right now I’m working on opening up this fine dining restaurant. I been into that. I mean when I went to jobcore I went and did culinary arts and I always wanted to get into that. Its like a fine dining upscale hood restaurant.
illRoots.com: Oh yea I’m a fat boy at heart I had food on the burner before I called you so.
Gorilla: There it is. Right now I’m trying to get in tune with my fans more. Right now I have a number that they can call or txt and I can hit them back: 678.608.0521. I’m doing a lot of ghost writing and production.
illRoots.com: So your doing a lot of ghost writing?
Gorilla: Uh uh that’s why its called ghost.
illRoots.com: [Laughs] That’s why its called ghost. I hear you. From where Hip-Hop is where do you think hip-hop is going?
Gorilla: I think its going to keep evolving and its going to be a mixture between gangsta rap and pop and that’s the only way its going to survive. You know its going to be a big mixture, and if your not saying anything lyrically than its not going to work.
illRoots.com: God Bless you for saying that. I can’t stand somebody that don’t say shit. Who would you want to work with that we wouldn’t expect you to work with?
Gorilla: The Gorillaz.
illRoots.com: So whats new coming out besides your album?
Gorilla: Right now I’m really focusing in on building the brand Gorilla Zoe.
illRoots.com: Thanks to DJ Teknikz, Bad Boy, and Zoe. Check out more Gorilla Zoe.
