So four years ago I made a post from the heart to all 3 people that keep tabs on an obscure beat maker on a now obscure, but much loved website. It was a scream out into the void as my avoidance of a digital footprint endured during the tweens. I’ve not been on any social media or involved with any local artists in a long time.

I started making beats again and producing a metric fuck ton of beats for a friends’ use but in parallel began producing music that drifted from what I consider hip-hop or even rappable. As if I care about the current state of hip-hop, or music, I'm not about to gatekeep or proclaim to be some kind of purist. I’m a little too old to care about labels or fitting in a box. I’m only interested in being authentic to myself. I was going through some serious personal moments in life during the production of these tracks. It felt great to shake the rust off and produce selfishly for myself and only myself. Working on music became a new meditation and before I knew what I was even doing, a cohesive whole came together.

I've been going under a new name for the art I am expressing at this moment and anyone reading that wishes to follow can find me under the name Riposte (https://linktr.ee/riposte).

That all said, I still plan on honoring my NG ties here with uploading some one-off tracks and beats as a kind of GSG epilogue (for the time at least, because nevers are useless in this timeline).

Peace, Respect, and so much thanks to all NG peoples.

-GSG

My first official release is up on bandcamp as a free/pay whatever (and at the time of this edit on Apple/Spotify/Youtube/Pandora… wherever you stream music) Check it out if you want to see what I have been up to musically. Its more electronic - less hiphop, but whatever to genre anyway. https://r1poste.bandcamp.com/album/right