Frances Capell did a great interview with Yung Gleesh while he was up in New York City recently;

By his late teens, Gleesh had already achieved local celebrity status playing percussion in the GoGo group TOB, which is commemorated by a tattoo on his right bicep. “Do you know how big that was? That was our Hollywood,” he says. “If you was in the band, you was Jay-Z and them.” In those days, Gleesh was known as Boogie, a more laid-back version of the self-described “shitbag” he later became. “With Boogie, I just smoked weed, minded my business, didn’t say too much,” he says. “After Boogie, I started hustling and making money. You would think Gleesh would be my most chill phase. No, that was my most ratchet, shitbag phase.” He pulls down his ski mask so only his almond-shaped eyes are visible. “When I ain’t got nothing and ain’t nobody doing nothing for me, I’m shitbag shawty and I’m coming for your ass.”

Read the whole interview here.

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