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 confusing code of leave-no-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 metricfuckton 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, I'm not about to gatekeep or proclaim to be some kind of 'purist', little too old to care about labels or cred, only interested in being authentic to myself. I was going through some serious personal moments in life during the production of these tracks that I wont get into to keep this short(ish). It felt great to shake the rust off and produce selfishly for myself and only myself. Working on tracks became a new meditation and it is so liberating to just work on tracks for the sole purpose of working on tracks.

Circling a bit back to my point I wanted to originally make - GSG is somewhat limited to a person from a decade and a half ago but is still important to the story. I've initiated a new name for the art I am expressing in 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 tracks as a kind of 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. 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