EST Gee

Focusing on the realist side of Southern rap, EST Gee authentically documents day-to-day life in Louisville, Kentucky, incorporating trap and other contemporary variants of the genre. After developing a unique style on several self-released mixtapes, EST Gee signed with Interscope for the release of his gold-certified 2021 project Bigger Than Life or Death, and in 2022 he delivered his debut studio album, I Never Felt Nun, a collection of tense street raps with occasional dips into melody provided by guest rappers like Future and Jack Harlow. The album made it to the Top Ten of the Billboard 200 and R&B/hip-hop charts. That success was followed by a pair of equally tough 2023 projects, Mad and El Toro 2. I Aint Feeling You, Gee's second album, landed in in 2025 with Lil Baby and Travis Scott featured on the standout track "Houstatlantaville." Raised in the Newburg neighborhood of Jefferson County, Gee got a football scholarship to Indiana State University. He was the first in his family to attend college, but his studies were cut short when he went to prison. After getting out, he began making music in 2017, crafting a moniker by joining the acronym EST -- Everybody Shine Together -- with Gee, a reference to his first name, George. His relaxed but relentless lyrical style was often characterized by a signature trail-off in delivery at the end of a track. This is evident on El Toro, one of two albums -- the other being Die Bloody -- that he self-released in 2019. These projects coincided with the birth of his son. In September 2019, Gee was shot five times after filming a video in Atlanta. He was hospitalized for a short while due to his stomach injuries, but also sustained visual impairment in his left eye. He had already completed sessions for his next album, so his convalescence was punctuated by the release of singles such as "Morals," "Taught Different," and "On the Floor," material that all ultimately appeared on March 2020's Ion Feel Nun. Sadly, early 2020 saw the death of his mother, and his brother,