oh you know the usual babe you know me staying cold so hold up hello before
young gravy would drop songs like one thought to thought red thought blue
thought with more than 23 million views on YouTube and mr. clean which has more
than 41 million views on YouTube and more than 90 million streams on Spotify
at the time of this recording before he would sell out shows around the country
before his album sensational would chart on Billboard before gravy would collab
with Juicy J lil baby drum ugly God and Chief Keef for Tampa Bay bus down Tampa
Bay busting save their marriage before young gravy would have over a hundred
25k followers on Twitter close to a million followers on Instagram and over
850 K subscribers on YouTube at the time of this recording before he would make
use of his labels marketing dollars to buy ads on pornhub but he might have
gotten a discount after he proposed to one of the site's biggest actresses
brandi Love and tell brandi Love I say hi big fan of her oh dude there's no
what I think it is is it I got bored the nurse was hot and before you would get
arrested in Atlanta well my story short like this dude's mom
whose house we were at called the costumes like you have his burglars in
my house cuz she okay so gravy started out as one of those artists that toes
the line between being a constant mean and a serious rapper so closely that
it's hard to tell if there's ever been a moment where he's been serious in his
entire career there's not like some memes I mean I mean it doesn't mean kind
of but it's not like goofy you know I mean it is but it's like it's foreign I
mean according to his Twitter bio gravy makes music for your mom your dad and
your sister I guess your brother isn't the intended audience but whatever his
demographic his music is reaching millions of people and I gotta say it
took second to catch on but at this point I'm
a big fan and there's no denying that gravy is killing the game and is serious
with the music and in his own words all aboard the gravy train what's going on
good people in the comment section I hope you're having one heck of a day my
name is Jeremy act and I'll be your host today walking you through the life and
career of young gravy prior to Fame here for me of course on before they are
famous now I've actually been talking to gravy and we're gonna set up an
interview within the next couple of weeks so you've got to let me know what
you want me to ask gravy in the comments down below and I'll pick the top few
questions and I'll put your YouTube channel name or you can send me
questions on Instagram and I'll put your Instagram name when I ask them in the
final cut of the interview but before we start I've got a trivia question for you
the viewer what date did young gravy get his driver's license on place your
guesses in the comments down below and I'll give you that answer at the end but
I'll see you after the intro
young gravy was born Matthew had URI on March 19 1996 in Rochester Minnesota the
biggest Hospital like in the u.s. is there I live like downtown right by it
so like everybody there is like a nurse or a doctor or like a janitor at the
Mayo Clinic he's talking about the Mayo Clinic which
employs more than 60,000 people that's pretty crazy when you look at the fact
that Rochester itself only has a population of a hundred and fifteen
thousand people growing up his musical inspirations were outcasts and Nate Dogg
and in high school he became a huge fan of currency later on he found Action
Bronson 2 Chainz and Juicy J and he liked the way that they chopped up in
sampled beats but he was also really inspired by older music which is why he
blends both the new and the old music now Matt also played basketball in
middle school but he never took it too seriously Matt worked at a summer camp
called Camp Olsen YMCA and when all the kids would go to bed him and his friends
would freestyle for fun they started a rap group but also didn't take you very
seriously but it was in one of those freestyle sessions that he actually came
up with the rap name young gravy pulling through smooth you could call me young
gravy and then like right when I said everyone just like stop like alright
your name is now young grave you said you said prior to young gravy his early
rap name was mr. butter probably cause he was so smooth on the mic he continued
to rap her fun but still wasn't posting anything online and in 2014 gravy
graduated from Mayo senior high school and he attended the University of
Wisconsin for college and it's there that he actually started taking rap
seriously his friend was cool with the ADI at the time and was telling gravy to
look out for him and then like they're like brother my mom he's about till I
blow up and I was like I can't say and then like he boot off got like real
quick just cuz he's unique and you know so that's what he realized that he could
actually do it too but he knew that he had to be different he wanted to create
a unique sound using old-school samples and new-school flows and trapped so he
started putting on music under the name young gravy but he didn't tell any of
his friends about it and didn't reveal his face he also didn't want to lose the
job he had at the time because of his rap career
gravy was working at a place called generator with an 8 in the middle and
according to their website they are turn-key platform for the creative
economy that connects startups entrepreneurs artists investors
universities and corporations the generator platform includes pre
accelerators accelerators corporate programming conferences and fellowships
focused on entrepreneurs artists and musicians if only they knew about math
secret identity maybe they could have helped a motor connected him in some way
so he started posting some songs on soundcloud and slowly his songs began to
gain popularity online there were a lot of youtube basketball and fight
compilations using his songs in their videos and his soundcloud kept growing
with more and more eyes coming to his page but when he saw ugly God blow up
off of a similar style he was inspired to go harder he knew that he could
really make it he get it like like let me just let me just try you know we'll
see people see what's good the first song he ever uploaded was called cam
which gave him some online buzz but when he released the mr. clean EP he really
gained a true fan base the song continental breakfast reached over a
million streams on soundcloud and when he sampled the Chordettes mr. salmon and
through some trap drums over table young Grady's career went to the next level
the song gained over six point seven million SoundCloud plays and more than
fifteen million streams on Spotify in under a year mr. clean would eventually
be certified gold in the US when he dropped the music video for mr. clean
gravy finally did a big face reveal yo why is this kinda why is this comedy he
kind of looks like how I would have pictured him I'm not gonna lie he sort
of looks like how I would have pictured him and he came a long way from this jet
ski his first ever live performance was at South by Southwest 2016 in Austin
Texas and it was actually on his 21st birthday in 2017 gravy put his foot to
the pedal and began releasing more music including the Thanksgiving Eve EP on
gravity EP and the baby gravy EP he became the number one artist on in défi
and caught the attention of labels without gravy format except for in
Georgia it was there that he was arrested two separate times in 2018
gravy was attending a party in Georgia that got broken up by the cops the mom
of the kid throwing the Artie called the cops snitch and since
the town doesn't have a lot of crime an excessive seven cops showed up at the
door gravy was 18 at the time and he was
drunk so he was worried about being accused of underage drinking so him and
his friends hid in the woods and in a reddit AMA he said I was hiding in
various parts of this huge backyard for probably five hours hearing my friends
get picked off one at a time in little bouts of screaming finally a cop found
out where he was and that's when things escalated I'm standing in the middle of
the road with my hands up and this cough has the audacity to jump out of his car
with his gun out screaming get on the ground you effing Yankee and shoves my
face into the street while handcuffing he says of the day we were accused of
burglary and I spent the night in jail I got probation with community service I
was in the wrong place at the wrong time so all of the felonies were expunged but
I still got charged with criminal trespassing and underage drinking the
day I got off probation I was super hyped and inspired this is my freedom
song it was a burglary criminal trespassing a couple couple charges for
like drugs that weren't even like we're just there that weren't mom they charged
all of us with them because they're just some like the southern like power trip
cops gravy moved to Montana and did 240 hours of community service at 25 days
doing 10 hours a day with one day off and by community service he means he
worked for his friends thrift shop so it doesn't seem that bad but when he was
released from probation he dropped the song one thought - thought red thought
blue thought which is one of my favorite song titles of all time and the song
took off like crazy he told power 106 that he wrote the song
in 30 minutes and it was actually the shortest amount of time he ever spent on
a song the second time he got arrested in Georgia was for breaking into a tire
store in Buckhead because this kid I met at a bar told me his dad owned it and I
was too drunk to think twice when he forced open the door with a shovel he
should probably just never go anywhere but his hotel room in Georgia from now
on okay gravy just stay inside but gravy is really about that
life though at an Iowa State party he beat a kid up for saying something race
to his friend he spent the night in an Iowa Jail after that but some of his
fans actually saw that on his IG story and bailed him out and the assault
charge was reduced to creating a raucous noise eventually gravy signed with
Republic Records and was said to drop his debut album his artist profile on
the Republic side says he's spitting smooth and slippery Rhymes dedicated to
milfs and filtering old-school samples through gritty trapeze young gravy might
very well be the most unique emcee to emerge in decades can't argue with that
as for the future baby just wants to keep making music and continue to make
his fanbase smile through his song saying sure my music gets put in a lot
of memes so I'm a meme rapper but what I make music is always about the music
quality first what I get in the booth and goofy comes out of my mouth I keep
it if it sounds good definitely not making music with the goal of being
silly but I'm aware that I say funny I guess I do it more to make people happy
so I bring a smile to people's faces when they think what the f did he just
say and gravy I'm a huge fan so I'm looking forward to talking to you soon
and keep killing the game I want to get that much bigger I'm I kind of do but
like getting too big would be kind of like annoying you know and like I like I
already get recognized enough and I'm just trying to live my life so like if I
could just like stay around this level and like not go lower or yeah and it was
May 8th 2012 that gravy got his driver's license now you know but as for this
video that's all I got for you as for the rest of the story we'll have to wait
and see because this is before their famous dream good look better I hope you
have one heck of a day if nobody's told you today I love you and I will see you
in the next video peace