G-Eazy‘s pain from losing his mother was palpable as the rapper broke down in tears while performing a tribute to her at his Los Angeles headline show this week.
The concert went down at The Fonda on Wednesday (May 10) – the second of two “special” California shows he’d announced in celebration of his fans. In addition to debuting four new songs, G-Eazy performed his 2022 tribute single “Angel” for only the second time – and his emotions were raw.
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“I wanna dedicate this whole show to my mom,” he said between tears. “I know Mother’s Day is on Sunday but I just wanna say that moms are the superheroes of the fucking universe and I just dedicate everything to all of you so thank you so fucking much. I tried to perform that for the first time ever last night in the Bay. Fuck, I miss my mom so much. Thanks for letting me do that.”
The four new songs he debuted during his set are titled “Be My Guest,” “Free Throws,” “Nada” and “Beautiful Surrender.” It’s unclear for now if they’ll be on his forthcoming album.
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G-Eazy lost his mother, Suzanne Olmsted, in late 2021 – just two months after dropping his These Things Happen Too album. She was G’s biggest supporter, and the lyricist penned a vulnerable eulogy to commemorate her on Instagram.
“The shock still won’t let me accept the feeling that I’ll never get to hug you in person again,” he wrote. “My queen, my hero, my everything…my mom.”
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He followed up this tribute with a single titled “Angel” in 2022, a measured, guitar-ladden ballad far different from any of the snappy commercial rap beats on These Things Happen Too. The song wasn’t part of any roll-out – he made it just to celebrate his mother. He followed it with a well-deserved break from music for the rest of the year.
“I’ve just been allowing myself the time I’ve felt I needed to kinda reset and kinda figure out where I wanna go, and allow myself time to grieve,” G-Eazy told HipHopDX last June. “For the better part of the last decade I never really took a break, it was always just go go go, so I think it’s important every now and then to slow down and evaluate what it is you wanna do with intention.”
When asked if he felt her passing had actually hindered his creativity, he responded sincerely.
“It’s like, there’s this gaping,” G-Eazy stops himself, searching for the words. “There’s a void. There’s this missing part of me that’s been difficult to live with and adjust to, but ultimately grieving can be a difficult process and it’s not always a linear one, but I’m finding ways to honor her in the music and to keep her spirit with me at all times.”
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Back in March, G released the first single off his as-of-yet untitled new album, “Tulips & Roses.” On the Gabriels-sampled track, the rapper affirms that he’s back in the game and ready to dominate again.
“My star’s back shining bright, I just polished it,” G raps. “Something in my spirit woke back up/ Time to go to work pick the slack up/ Please no more comparisons you ain’t gotta bring that up/ Salute my brothers we can all coexist/ Took a hiatus, I’m like what did I miss?/ Gerald’s back in his bag they don’t do it like this.”
