![]() I feel like I’m more polished, I’m cleaner ’cause I sit down and I think about shit. ![]() Being on my path right now, in my solo career, I feel like I’m better than ever before. Going from not ever traveling anywhere in my whole life to just going every day, different places, for like, a year straight. Throughout my whole Shoreline career, I think I did a little bit more partying than sitting down and really thinking about shit. I think it was really just the traveling and opening my mind up, and then seeing how the culture is all around the world just made me wanna be a better artist. How did you develop as an artist early on? I was like, Man, I wanna rap, too! I been doing it ever since. Rocky was doing that shit, and I just seen like, a young, fresh movement. One of the people that was fresh out when I was 18, 19 was Rocky. I got my first mic and I was like, I’ma do it. When did you think you could go far with a music career? All my best friends, the whole Shoreline Mafia, OTX was a graffiti crew that I’m turn- ing into a label. It was like an ego thing, so rapping just went along with it. ![]() The whole point of graffiti, it’s like an attention thing. I did graffiti my whole life up until this point, really. It was something that always crossed my mind, but I never got to do it, I kept doing graffiti. There wasn’t really Hispanic rappers that was doin’ it how I wanted to do it. ![]() When I was in elementary school, I remember, it crossed my mind, wanting to rap, but I never really did it. XXL: How did you start in graffiti and then become a rapper? OhGeesy: I been doing graffiti since I was in elementary school, so I’ve always been like a bad-ass lil’ kid. With the release of his solo debut effort behind him, OhGeesy speaks with XXL about the ups and downs of the last year, why he feels Shoreline Mafia broke up, having Kanye West-level goals and starting anew. But, with a love for rap and Atlantic Records behind him, OhGeesy, who’s of Mexican descent, found traction, most notably with his DaBaby-assisted single “Get Fly,” which has 20 million Spotify streams and counting. Being a new father to his 2-year-old-son, Sincere, trying to navigate life as a solo artist and working on his own sound was certainly a challenge. As quarantine life began to affect the process of making and releasing music, the Los Angeles-bred rhymer, born Alejandro Carranza, persevered. In other new music releases, stream Pop Smoke’s posthumous album here.OhGeesy started to record the project shortly before the COVID-19 pandemic gripped the world last year. Mafia Bidness drops July 31 via Atlantic Records. Stream “Change Ya Life” on Spotify and Apple Music. Mafia Bidness will also be Flexin’s last project with the group, announcing on Twitter that he will be “Moving foward w my individual career Nd visions for myself Nd where I wanna be.” The members have been off doing their own things recently, with Vicious dropping his Breakthrough mixtape in May. The album will be Shoreline Mafia’s first full-length group release since September 2019’s Party Pack, Vol. The group also dropped off its lead single “Change Ya Life,” produced by Helluva. Mafia Bidness marks the four-piece’s - composed of OhGeesy, Rob Vicious, Fenix Flexin and Master Kato - sixth release under Atlantic Records, including the re-release of their debut mixtape ShorelineDoThatShit. Shoreline Mafia has officially announced the release date of their debut studio album, Mafia Bidness.
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