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I played Gorilla Zoe’s latest release “I Like Them Girls” on the radio this week, as well as at a couple parties. People were feelin’ it, even though they weren’t familiar with the song.

XXL: [...]Talk about the album.

Zoe: It’s gon’ be revolutionary. I’m on tour now and a lot of the time I’m in Atlanta just working on music and I just realized that a lot of the stuff that they playing on the radio in Atlanta hasn’t even made it to the rest of the world yet. It’s so many programs than Auto-Tune, it’s crazy, and when the rest of the world hears, it’s gon’ freak them out. They gon’ start scrambling. It’s ’bout to be 2010. If you really think you could get on the mic over some beat and freestyling is gon’ make it, then…

XXL: You have to be more creative.

Zoe: Oh my God, it’s gon’ be a sad ending to a lot of dudes. That’s why a lot of these great rappers can’t get no shows. They just don’t know how to switch. You gotta be out there in the element to know where the music going. ’Cause you gotta feel it. You gotta take it there. You can’t copy off nobody else and beat them.

XXL: Do you feel like you’ve gotten enough of a buzz with the first album that people are excited about this project? What kind of reception did you get?

Zoe: I definitely didn’t get the reception I’m getting now. Everybody was like “now I fuck with you” or “I like the hook” but now it’s on some other shit. I can’t really go nowhere without being recognized and that’s a good thing. They already on my second single in Atlanta. They started playing it like three days ago and my phone is blowing the fuck up and it’s like’ man, I [still] got five more singles. “Lost” is now creeping out to the rest of the world. So wait ’til they hear “What It Is,” “I Got It,” “Echo.” It’s gonna be amazing.

XXL: Outside of music what are the things that make you happy?

Zoe: Nothing makes me happy right now. There’s nothing on this earth that should give anyone complete happiness. You live, you do the best you can and be the best person you can be, but as far as just completely happy, you can be happy for the moment, happy for the day, or happy for a couple hours. Shit change up and goes up and down. I look at life as what it is. I’m happy to be alive but this ain’t heaven, man. This shit is close to hell. Like, I’m riding through San Antonio, man, and it’s so empty. It’s raining, it’s cold. And this lady on the bench in the cold. I ain’t got enough arms to reach out and help these people. A lot of these artists think they living in some kind of wonderland. They wake up in the morning and wake up in a loop. This shit real out here.
XXL

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