![]() ![]() G-Eazy has considered Oakland home ever since, even though he recently bought a Tuscan villa in the Hollywood Hills. He was born in Tempe, Ariz., and spent time in Reno and Fresno (where his father is an art professor at Cal State Fresno) before he and his mother - photographer and former San Francisco Art Institute professor Suzanne Olmsted - settled in the East Bay when he was in the first grade. “I kind of felt like I was making music for nobody.” G-Eazy poses for a selfie with fan Z’dra Jaye at Outside Lands in August 2015. “I would refresh my MySpace page to check the plays and there weren’t many,” he says. It was 10 years ago that G-Eazy uploaded the Auto-Tune-infused track “Candy Girl” to his MySpace page, making first contact with the world at large. “There’s a lot of baggage that comes with it. “At a point, you wake up all these years later and you’re here, and maybe it’s not everything you thought it would be,” he says. “When I was a kid and fell in love with music - I started making beats and rapping when I was 14 - I chased this fantasy I had of coming this far and traveling the world and living this life,” he says, speeding through Los Angeles in his black Ferrari on one of his increasingly rare days off. ![]() The 6-foot-4 rapper with the chiseled features of a ’50s film star has worked tirelessly to get to where he is now and acknowledges it has taken its toll on his psyche. Last month, he appeared alongside Metallica and Dead & Company at the Band Together Bay Area benefit concert for the North Bay fire relief effort at AT&T Park, running through fan favorites like “Me, Myself & I,” “You Got Me” and “Some Kind of Drug,” even using his time onstage to blast President Trump. He’s gone on to scoring Top 10 hits and sharing the stage with Britney Spears at the 2016 MTV Video Music Awards in just a little more than a decade. Talking to someone will save your life, and your life is always worth living… I love you, I’m here for you, you’ll achieve all your dreams.G-Eazy, born Gerald Earl Gillum, has been through it all in the time since he started making mixtapes at home and selling them for $5 a pop along Telegraph Avenue in Berkeley to the release of his third studio album, which dropped Friday, Dec. “Talking to someone makes you incredibly strong, incredibly wise. “I’m here to tell you there is no truth in that,” Reynolds learned. Reynolds encouraged everyone to “just unwind” and “let go of all the stresses” after a “hard couple of years,” right before the band performed their 2017 hit, “Whatever It Takes.” Reynolds also shared a personal story before performing “Demons,” admitting that he previously struggled with seeking therapy for anxiety and depression because he feared seeking help was weakness. “What a beauty, what a pleasure to be here, experiencing real music with real, live people,” frontman Dan Reynolds said, welcoming the audience to ALTer EGO 2022. The band launched into “Believer,” blasting confetti into the crowd at the iconic Los Angeles venue, The Forum, on Saturday night (January 15). Imagine Dragons kicked off the iHeartRadio ALTer EGO presented by Capital One with a high-energy set, packed with their biggest hits. ![]()
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