Gerald Earl Gillum was born on the 24th May 1989, in Oakland, California USA, of Ukrainian descent through both his parents.He is hip hop artist, songwriter as well as a record producer well known under the professional name G-Eazy or Young Gerald. He has been nominated for MTVU Award, three Best of Beat Awards and The Best of the Booth Award. G-Eazy has been accumulating his net worth being active in show business since 2009.
How rich is the hip hop artist? It has been reported that according to the latest estimations the overall size of the net worth that belongs to G-Eazy is more than $1 million.
G-Eazy Net Worth $1 Million
To give some background facts, G-Eazy was raised in Oakland, and after graduation from high school he decided to enrol to Loyola University in New Orléans for the program of the music industry, and while studying there he began working on his own style. For the aspiring artist, creating the tracks of mixtapes was very interesting and he has released a number of them, including “The Tipping Point” (2008), “Sikkis on the Planet” (2009), “Quarantine” (2009), “Big” (2010) and “The Outsider” (2011). These provided a good stat to his net worth.
In August 2011, G-Eazy published the mixtape “The Endless Summer” (2011) via his official site which finally attracted great public attention. Combining elegant flow generated with sly, clever and smooth lyrics, the album, although independent, was ranked third in the iTunes Hip Hop. In 2012, G-Eazy appeared on stage during the Vans Warped Tour. In 2013, G-Eazy made his first big tour, and concert tickets were sold everywhere including New York, Milwaukee, Salt Lake City, Seattle, San Francisco and Los Angeles. No wonder that the tour added huge sums to the total size of G-Eazy’s net worth.
Subsequently Paste magazine declared that G-Eazy was one of the top 2013 performers, and High Times named him to be the best underground artist. During Doobie Awards in 2013, Lil Wayne asked him to join a national tour of the Most Wanted Festival in the USA. In 2014, G-Eazy published his first studio album entitled “These Things Happen” (2014) which peaked in first place on the Billboard Top R&B / Hip-Hop Albums, Top Rap Albums and Top Independent Albums. The critics agreed with the fans of G-Eazy: the artist is brilliant. These accolades did no harm to the growth of his net worth.
In 2015, Young Gerald was invited by the Australian singer Grace to record a cover of the song “You Don’t Own Me” by Lesley Gore, who enjoyed great success in the 1960s. The re-release reached number one on the Australian charts, and was certified platinum by selling over 70,000 copies in Australia. The new studio album of G-Eazy is going to be released in October, 2015 and it is believed that it will increase the outright size of G-Eazy’s net worth and popularity.
Finally, in the personal life of the hip hop artist, he prefers to keep it private, though reveals that he has a girlfriend who is very supportive, loving and caring; rumours have been flying that this girlfriend is Devon Baldwin.
