G-Stack: The OG's Guide to Growing Up and Moving On!
Dr. Stance sits down with the legendary G-Stack, who has been making waves in the music scene for decades. The main takeaway from our chat? It’s all about turning your hustle into a legacy! G-Stack shares his journey from the streets of Oakland to becoming a voice for his community through his music and now venturing into film. We dive deep into how the industry has shaped him and what he's learned along the way, especially about accountability and growth. Plus, he’s got exciting new projects on the horizon, including a trilogy of music that’s sure to capture the evolution of his artistry. So, grab your headphones and get ready for a fun and insightful ride with G-Stack!
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Speaker A:What's up?
Speaker A:What's up, y'?
Speaker B:All?
Speaker A:It's Dr. Stanz with turning your hustle into a legacy.
Speaker A:And I have the legendary.
Speaker A:Let me say that again.
Speaker A:Legendary.
Speaker A:Okay.
Speaker A:I'm talking about legendary.
Speaker A:When I was a kid listening to Mr. G Stack.
Speaker A:This is G Stack from the Delinquents.
Speaker A:Y' all welcome.
Speaker B:What's up with it?
Speaker B:What's up with it?
Speaker A:I'm completely honored to.
Speaker A:Cause, you know, I'm always talking about how to turn that hustle into a legacy.
Speaker A:And you've been in the industry for what, a couple decades?
Speaker A:I think that a few.
Speaker A:Exactly.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:Like, the world needs to know what's up with G Stack, man, Tell the people who you is, what you do.
Speaker B:I'm G Stack, one half of the rap group the Delinquents.
Speaker B:Oakland born and raised and just regular dude from the hood that, you know, felt like we need to speak for Oakland.
Speaker B:And that's what me and V. White did, you know, Period.
Speaker A:Still Period, period.
Speaker A:What do you have planned now?
Speaker A:What's happening now?
Speaker A:I know you got some records coming out.
Speaker B:We dropped.
Speaker B:Not too long ago, we dropped the Delinquent's album called Authenticity, which is out now.
Speaker B:Y' all go check it out.
Speaker B:And right now I.
Speaker B:So I took a break and why?
Speaker B:Because I just kind of wanted to recalibrate and re.
Speaker B:Like, you know, as Hov would say, allow me to reintroduce myself.
Speaker B:You know what I mean?
Speaker B:So I was.
Speaker B:I just kind of seen where my career had been from me dropping all those purple projects to all the features that I did and all the delinquent work that we did.
Speaker B:And I'm like, you know, now it's a defining moment for me.
Speaker B:So now at this time, in a defining moment, I said, how do I want to cap this off, right?
Speaker B:So film has always been my passion.
Speaker B:So shout out to my guy, Jay Stylin.
Speaker B:He was going to film school, so him and 4Rax encouraged me to go ahead and take my hand at it.
Speaker B:So I took some screenwriting classes, and I saw that writing a rap versus writing film or even TV or shorts, they all have different components and they're different.
Speaker B:Like when rap, you got maybe 30, 45 seconds to paint a picture.
Speaker B:If you're just doing a verse or if you're doing a whole song, you got maybe three or four minutes to paint a picture.
Speaker B:But don't require a lot of backstory.
Speaker B:Don't require a lot of character building and writing.
Speaker B:It's a lot of that.
Speaker B:You know what I mean, yeah, it's a lot, man.
Speaker B:So I just, I figured that's what I really want to do.
Speaker B:That's my passion.
Speaker B:I still, I love music because my first love.
Speaker B:But so I'm currently in the studio working on a project, solo project is called Ogto.
Speaker A:Okay.
Speaker B:Which is, you know, short for original gangster taking over period.
Speaker B:Because coming from the village, they had YGTOs in there.
Speaker B:Then they had, you know, lgtos, which was young gangsters and little gangsters.
Speaker B:Then they just dropped it down the gto.
Speaker B:And I said, you know, it'd be a good play on words because I felt like with the new, the new music that I'm doing, you know, it has some, some of the old components, but yet.
Speaker B:And still I really think that I'm an older guy now and I should discuss things in a different way.
Speaker B:You know what I mean?
Speaker B:I don't think that I seen somebody had posted.
Speaker B:I did an interview in the Village with a, with a guy, he was doing like some, some hood stuff and he.
Speaker B:I was talking about how, you know, growing up in.
Speaker B:Back in the days, you know, it was money all through the Village and you know, even in the Oakland industries and you know, people got paid by the day, some got paid weekly, right.
Speaker B:And they started posting some people's comment and saying, oh, you shouldn't glorify that or you shouldn't, you know, and.
Speaker B:And I wasn't right, correct.
Speaker B:I was just stating the fact, right.
Speaker B:But it made me look and see that there's a lot of open ended sentences that I put out there and there's a lot of open ended opinions that I put out there.
Speaker B:And I think this is my time to clarify that and give them better understanding, a better understanding of who I really am and how I really feel, you know, so.
Speaker A:And who is that?
Speaker A:Who is G Stack today supposed to G stack 30 years ago?
Speaker B:We gonna say, well for one, you know, I've been through a lot, you know, and back then when I was in, you know, in the Village growing up and when I was.
Speaker B:Me and V were early on in Delinquents, you know, no one saw, you know, the future.
Speaker B:You know what I mean?
Speaker B:Like we didn't even know if we would live to see it, right?
Speaker B:So you couldn't prepare for something that you didn't know was going to be around the corner of them.
Speaker B:So now, you know, I'm living those moments that I thought I would never see and I just think that I have to embrace them differently, you know.
Speaker A:So absolutely.
Speaker A:Are you A father.
Speaker A:You got any kids?
Speaker B:All right, chill.
Speaker B:I got kids.
Speaker B:I got grandkids now.
Speaker A:Single.
Speaker A:Tell the people I do this to all the men that come.
Speaker A:The only one was Mr. E. That, no, I'm married.
Speaker A:Cause he know I know, but I do this to all y', all, man.
Speaker A:Is y' all single?
Speaker B:I'll say this.
Speaker A:Oh, I hit him every time, don't I?
Speaker B:Personally, every man I ask that, I'll say that I'm not married and never have been married.
Speaker B:Right.
Speaker B:So why are you?
Speaker A:What's the problem?
Speaker B:Well, you know, when I was younger, I really had seriously considered it, right?
Speaker B:And seriously considered.
Speaker B:And I went forward and I was almost this close to asking her.
Speaker B:And it just was, you know, I prayed because I'm a believer.
Speaker B:That's another thing that people don't.
Speaker B:I didn't really give them and delinquencies because, you know, I was brought up in the church, you know, so, see, and I prayed and God gave me some signs.
Speaker B:I'm like, well, guys, you know, it's kind of.
Speaker B:I hear you, man, but, you know, let's just give me one more shot.
Speaker B:Jesus just hit me upside the head with it.
Speaker B:And he literally.
Speaker B:She literally fired on me.
Speaker B:So when she fired on me, I was like, you know what?
Speaker B:I gotta hear you now.
Speaker B:So after that, I just never really quite entertained it.
Speaker B:And I have had some women in my life that probably had deserved that from me, and it just wasn't something.
Speaker B:And that's something that's probably part of my journey right now is probably to see that it has to be probably something that I could see in the future.
Speaker B:Yeah, man.
Speaker B:Because like I said, I really.
Speaker B:They say you don't have no regrets, but in relationships, I have had some.
Speaker A:Really, you don't look at them maybe as lessons, could have been lessons as well, to make.
Speaker B:They were lessons.
Speaker B:But I also feel like that I was, you know, protecting myself.
Speaker B:Right.
Speaker B:And you can't, you know, you can't always be fair when you're protecting yourself.
Speaker A:Interesting.
Speaker A:What is something you think the people don't know about Glenn?
Speaker A:Not G Stack, but Glenn?
Speaker A:What don't people know?
Speaker A:Tell them to.
Speaker A:I like exclusive shit.
Speaker A:Okay?
Speaker A:That's what my platform is for.
Speaker A:I always like to, you know, provide, like, a safe space for people to be vulnerable.
Speaker A:To tell people what they don't know.
Speaker A:Cause people know you as G Stack from the delinquents.
Speaker A:What don't they know about Glenn?
Speaker A:Like you said, one.
Speaker B:Well, that I, you know, I was born and raised in the village I definitely have been going to church practically as long.
Speaker B:Cause that's my family kind of did real religious, so.
Speaker B:And just the fact that I love my people wholeheartedly and I'm loyal to a fault to my people, right?
Speaker B:And even to a degree to where sometimes, you know, people be telling you that, oh man, I don't even know why you even mess with them.
Speaker B:I don't even know why you even.
Speaker B:And I'm like, well, for me personally, I just can't shake who I care about.
Speaker B:I don't just care about everybody, you know what I mean?
Speaker B:But my people, I care about them.
Speaker B:I care about their well being.
Speaker B:I care about, you know, how they look.
Speaker B:I care about just letting them know how I feel about them, you know, So I think that's one of the things.
Speaker B:And like you said, you know, the fact that I'm a believer in Christ and the fact that I've never been married, you know, and that's okay.
Speaker A:It's going to change.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:How old are you?
Speaker B:I'm 53.
Speaker A:Oh yeah, you got time.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:So you got time.
Speaker B:And the fact that I feel like, you know, I feel like we owe the younger generation.
Speaker B:Like we all, you know, I was in the village back when again when they came with the YGTOs and they came with that because, you know, the older people, we were probably the third generation of the village and cats would be in there and we wouldn't let them hang with us, we wouldn't let them do.
Speaker B:And they do weird stuff and we'll just let them have a section of the village and we'll go to another section, right?
Speaker A:But shit, we were scared to go through the village, you know, I'm from 55th.
Speaker A:I was scared to death to go through the village.
Speaker B:Okay, we didn't fool around, but everybody feels like we should have took some time.
Speaker B:But you felt like they were unteachable, you know, Absolutely.
Speaker B:You felt like.
Speaker B:And really.
Speaker B:And we still have components of that, you know what I mean?
Speaker B:So my thing now is also what I want to do with my music is also, you know, address some, you know, some of the elephants in the room.
Speaker B:Because I feel like we, you know, we separate ourselves and now we're sitting up looking at these kids and like, oh, they're wild and they don't care.
Speaker B:But we gave them nothing to care about.
Speaker B:If you erase the fact that OG spent time with us teaching us stuff and you know, true enough, we looked up to them and true enough, we allowed them the space to tell us that and, you know, you know, I'm quite sure you're old enough to know when they had the phrase we don't listen.
Speaker B:So when you come with that, there's no talking.
Speaker B:Right?
Speaker B:So.
Speaker A:Absolutely.
Speaker B:But I still felt like we didn't try hard enough, we.
Speaker B:And me being from the village, you know, I grew up.
Speaker B:My father's side of family's from 69th and my mother's side of the family from 65th.
Speaker B:So I, you know, I grew up more in 65th than in 69th, but all my friends, we all kind of went to the same schools and, you know, and once my grandmother, which is my mother's mother, rest in peace, when she moved out of 69th, I kind of, you know, stopped going there as much.
Speaker B:Right.
Speaker B:But I'm.
Speaker B:I'm in 65th.
Speaker B:There was, you know, there was this moment when the OGs were still running it, and then the divide happened.
Speaker B:And when it happened, it was all kids running a whole neighborhood.
Speaker B:And we did some damage in that sense, you know what I mean?
Speaker B:And I feel like that.
Speaker B:But we didn't know no better.
Speaker B:You know what I mean?
Speaker B:We was surviving.
Speaker B:We was in survival mode.
Speaker B:So I think that right now, these young cats are in survivor mode.
Speaker B:And the ironic thing is that some of us adults are in survivor mode still because the economy's crazy and people are crazy.
Speaker B:So I just think that the fact that I care.
Speaker B:You don't really probably get that from my music, right?
Speaker B:And just like I said with the post, the fact that I care about where we're at now and turning that around if I can is one of the things I think people don't know about, because I don't really, you know, I don't really do a lot of interviews.
Speaker B:Delinquents never have.
Speaker B:You know, we don't.
Speaker B:We don't do a bunch of features.
Speaker B:We don't do a lot of interviews because, again, we, you know, we want to control what people hear from us.
Speaker B:You know what I mean?
Speaker B:And now I feel like if that's the case, then as an artist that don't really do a lot of interviews, that don't really do media, a lot of media, then I feel like then you gotta have your work speak for, you know, like when you, you know, you can.
Speaker B:You could listen to Tupac back in the days, and you didn't necessarily have to have an interview on him, you know what I mean?
Speaker B:Because he gonna tell you on one of these songs how he feels.
Speaker B:And a lot of artists, why, you know, people question, oh, Is Tupac the, you know, the best rapper of all time?
Speaker B:I think he's the most felt.
Speaker B:That's what he said.
Speaker B:When we drop Authentic Records, nigga, they felt, you know what I mean?
Speaker B:And I think nobody has captured that moment.
Speaker B:Cause he could call you a B in one instance and then keep your head up in another one and mean both of them, you know what I mean?
Speaker B:So there's no hypocrisy there.
Speaker B:That's truly how we live.
Speaker B:Like, you know.
Speaker A:Absolutely.
Speaker B:Some days you feel strong about.
Speaker B:I mean, I was.
Speaker B:There was things I felt strong about when I was in my 20s and 30s.
Speaker B:And then when I got my 40s, like.
Speaker B:Yeah, well, okay.
Speaker B:And then when I got, like, man, you know what?
Speaker B:So it don't make me a hypocrite.
Speaker B:It makes me grow.
Speaker A:Absolutely.
Speaker B:You know what I mean?
Speaker A:Absolutely.
Speaker B:And that's what I think that this project is about growth.
Speaker B:It's about, you know, the original gangster in me taking some accountability.
Speaker B:That's what it's really.
Speaker A:Ooh, I like that I take my hat off to you then, coming on the platform, because to me, you are a legend.
Speaker A:I definitely grew up slapping your ass.
Speaker A:You in the delinquents for show.
Speaker A:And, you know, we met through the mutual friend that used to date.
Speaker A:That's Shay Shay.
Speaker A:Shout out to you.
Speaker A:Love you to death.
Speaker B:Shout out Shay Shay.
Speaker A:Shout out Shay Shay for show.
Speaker A:You know, she.
Speaker A:You know, I don't know if you know about me, but I do foster care and I do transitional housing.
Speaker A:So Shay works with the company, and so she's been doing really well with that.
Speaker A:Yeah, she's been doing really well with that.
Speaker A:But I want to know where we.
Speaker A:Where do you see yourself in five years?
Speaker A:You stay like, is it music?
Speaker A:Getting married, Finding a wife.
Speaker A:I'm clown ting today.
Speaker B:Five years from now, God willing, I'll still be here.
Speaker B:Absolutely.
Speaker B:And I'll be cleaning up some of the mess that I made.
Speaker B:Right.
Speaker B:Whether it be in the streets or whether it be in relationships or, you know, but also, I plan on, you know, definitely having a film portfolio out.
Speaker B:And.
Speaker B:And Ogto is a trilogy.
Speaker B:So it's.
Speaker B:There's an EP and then another EP and then the full album.
Speaker A:Okay.
Speaker B:So I'm releasing a trilogy on that because I got a lot to say.
Speaker B:Right.
Speaker B:And I. I just want to be full circle, full circle and not have to, you know, work.
Speaker B:So, like, right now, I have a janitorial business.
Speaker B:Right now I'm, you know, again, getting my film company started.
Speaker A:I want a documentary, please.
Speaker A:Thank you.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:Amen.
Speaker B:Amen.
Speaker B:Amen.
Speaker B:And just, you know, just.
Speaker B:I want to be able to kick back and watch.
Speaker B:Watch it be on autopilot.
Speaker B:You know what I mean?
Speaker B:Cause right now, it's kind of like I'm restarting, you know, so rebranding.
Speaker B:And I'm.
Speaker A:Okay, we'll say rebranding.
Speaker B:Reintroducing myself.
Speaker A:Thank.
Speaker A:As you said.
Speaker B:Yes.
Speaker B:Period.
Speaker A:Period.
Speaker A:Period.
Speaker A:Well, what would you tell these Y N's today compared to who the new G stack is?
Speaker A:Like, what would you tell them in regards to their future?
Speaker B:Well, I just, you know, I definitely feel like this.
Speaker B:I feel like, you know, they're, you know, to.
Speaker B:For one to commit a crime, even the most heinous crime, it only take a few seconds.
Speaker B:Right.
Speaker B:And it'll cost you the rest of your life.
Speaker A:Absolutely.
Speaker B:And I just definitely believe between, you know, on those that get caught, between getting caught and getting this.
Speaker B:This long stretch of.
Speaker B:Of a sentence, you got to look up and be like, damn, this wasn't worth it.
Speaker B:I wish I could have done something different.
Speaker B:So I. I would say that in any instance, you can't.
Speaker B:Your best time to make a decision is before, because anytime after that, it's an adjustment.
Speaker B:Right?
Speaker B:And I just believe that just like V and I, we didn't see the future.
Speaker B:And I think that some of them don't see the future.
Speaker B:You can't see the end of this.
Speaker B:Like, we can't feel like.
Speaker B:I mean.
Speaker B:Cause, you know, we old enough to know that, you know, people wet their finger, stick their finger in the socket, you know, and people have done it, you know, and not give a damn, you know what I mean?
Speaker B:And you knew it was gonna still happen, and you just wanted to see what it felt like.
Speaker B:Well, it's not as minimal as that, but it's still the same theory.
Speaker B:You know, a lot of people feel like they're not gonna get caught, that's not gonna happen to them, or it's not gonna feel the same.
Speaker B:Right?
Speaker B:But we're losing at a rapid rate.
Speaker B:You know what I mean?
Speaker B:And there's some, you know, some good kids out there.
Speaker B:You know what I mean?
Speaker A:Absolutely.
Speaker B:You know what I mean?
Speaker B:Some people that we love, you know what I mean?
Speaker B:Like, my nephew just got shot two days ago.
Speaker B:You know what I mean?
Speaker A:I didn't hear that in Oakland.
Speaker B:No.
Speaker B:In Antioch.
Speaker B:But, you know, doing the same dumb stuff and then getting, you know, God blessed him, you know, is just in and out, and it still was.
Speaker B:He didn't learn from it, though.
Speaker B:He was Talking about it.
Speaker B:And he was, you know what I mean?
Speaker B:And you know, definitely, you know, we grew up, I still got people that be in my face talking to me like, yeah man, you feel me?
Speaker B:Why are you talking in cold in my face?
Speaker B:Like, you know, we didn't want to say.
Speaker B:You didn't want to say nothing straight out back in the day.
Speaker B:So.
Speaker A:Oh yeah, they telling it all on the Internet now.
Speaker B:So I just would tell them, man, you know, you know, if you have any care for the future, respect it, you know, period.
Speaker B:And when I tell my daughters all the time, you know, and my son, but mostly my daughters, that, you know, you can't do something today that you don't want to face tomorrow.
Speaker B:So you gotta, I like that enough.
Speaker B:You gotta really, really give it some time today and say, hey, do I really wanna.
Speaker B:Like even when, you know, they came out, the freak naked people was like, uh, that ain't me today.
Speaker B:And girl, when you threw your shirt up, you meant it.
Speaker A:You know what?
Speaker B:I meant it.
Speaker A:You showed mint it.
Speaker B:I think that we all have to take some accountability and the best time to take accountability is right now.
Speaker A:Absolutely.
Speaker B:Cause tomorrow you just trying to throw a band aid on a bullet wound, you know what I mean?
Speaker B:So.
Speaker A:And we don't know what tomorrow brings, so.
Speaker A:I think that's a very good point.
Speaker A:Did you come up in the two parent household?
Speaker A:What was your childhood like?
Speaker B:Yes, my mother was definitely, you know, she said, baby, I didn't, you know, I ain't raised you to be out there doing this and I ain't raised you to be messing with women like that.
Speaker B:And I didn't, you know, and it took me to grow to understand that I definitely probably have disappointed her in that way.
Speaker B:But again, I don't, you know, I never brought weird stuff to my parents home.
Speaker B:I never, you know, but I still understand that if I would have took where they were teaching me, I could have probably been in a different place.
Speaker B:But I don't have any regrets for the place that I'm at because I've met beautiful people on the way.
Speaker B:I've done some things that who would have known that I would have done that?
Speaker B:When me and Vy hooked up, we was just high school friends and I'd have never known that we would have such an impact on, on at least the Bay Area hip hop culture, so.
Speaker B:So I'm thankful for the route that I've taken.
Speaker A:Oh, well, we thankful too.
Speaker A:And I'm glad you mentioned that because you know, everybody that comes on the show is that we bear them with gifts.
Speaker A:You get gifts.
Speaker A:I think you put your time into the bae and you deserve, you know, one.
Speaker A:You're a legend.
Speaker A:You deserve to be treated like one.
Speaker A:So I want you to look up under your seat.
Speaker A:It's just a traditional thing that Dr. Stantz do do, you know.
Speaker A:And we just wanna gift you.
Speaker A:Cause you definitely deserve some luxury.
Speaker A:Okay.
Speaker A:And when you wake up in the morning, just like I tell everybody, I need you to put the shit on every morning before you go to bed.
Speaker A:When it's cold at night, put the shit on.
Speaker A:Okay.
Speaker A:Get your nice little Versace robe.
Speaker B:Okay.
Speaker A:You see it?
Speaker A:You know what I mean?
Speaker A:Okay.
Speaker A:And then I also, you know, I just wrote a book.
Speaker B:I was gonna ask you about this.
Speaker A:I just wrote a book.
Speaker A:It's kind of going a little viral.
Speaker A:So definitely I want you to read that.
Speaker A:Check that out.
Speaker A:Read it.
Speaker A:But we thank you for coming.
Speaker B:I want to thank you, thank you for having me.
Speaker A:Absolutely.
Speaker A:I was so happ.
Speaker A:She said, yeah, he coming.
Speaker A:You know, we want you to continue, you know, prosper.
Speaker A:You know, if anything else you want to tell the people, like what to expect from G Stack.
Speaker B:Well, like I said, ogto the trilogy, probably gonna drop the first installment in May.
Speaker B:And then maybe every so often when I feel the vibe is right, I'll drop the next installment.
Speaker B:But it's a trilogy and it's gonna be accommodated with a lot of content.
Speaker B:We doing a lot of footage for it and hey, maybe, who knows, maybe I might even drop a short or something to go with it.
Speaker B:I don't know.
Speaker B:But I'm still working on it though.
Speaker A:And that's okay.
Speaker A:I mean, patience is a virtue.
Speaker A:Take your time because you want to perfect it.
Speaker A:Right?
Speaker A:Because like you said, you want people to see the G stack, the good guy in you.
Speaker A:Right?
Speaker A:So I appreciate that and we thank you for coming to G Stack.
Speaker B:And I just like, like I said, I appreciate you having me here.
Speaker A:Yes.
Speaker B:Everything from this point forward, I'm just trying to be intentional.
Speaker A:I. I appreciate that.
Speaker A:We need more people like you actually to be more intentional in what you do.
Speaker A:And you're owning up to, you know, not always doing the right thing, but being accountable.
Speaker A:And I think that's extremely important.
Speaker A:So we thank you for coming to share your story.
Speaker A:Cuz you said you don't be on platform, so I definitely feel like I won one.
Speaker A:So we thank you.
Speaker A:Thank y' all so much for tuning in with Dr. Stance at turning your hustle and and twill legacy.
Speaker A:We were honored and blessed to have the one and only legend G Stack, y'.
Speaker A:All.
Speaker A:We'll hi.
Speaker A:Absolutely.
