When we last interviewed an up and coming Roach Gigz in May last year, a week or so before he was set to release ‘Roachy Balboa’, he admitted that the mixtape was probably his first serious effort at music. Jams like his and Lil 4 Tay’s breakout local hit I Get It and the D-Lo-featuring Smackdisplayed Roach’s contagious energy and hinted at his massive potential, but that one DJ Racks-helmed project, which even lead to a very favourable review by David Drake for Pitchfork, was by far his greatest and most coherent body of work to date. Until today.
Just over six months later and Gigz, having become a young father and achieving regional fame as one of 106 KMEL’s Bay Area Freshmen 10, is taking music more serious than ever, but at the same time not serious at all. Read, listen and enjoy.
Read the full interview over at Southern Hospitality.
