It’s a breezy 10-song set with three great MCs bouncing off each other, and Gillis’ production feels at once rooted in the warm tones of the Seventies and Eighties, with a few left turns for good measure. While Full Court Press is in many ways completely different from Gillis’ mashup albums, it’s also not so dissimilar. There was a certain camaraderie, it was a very fun, friendly vibe, and I think it comes off in the project.” “They were great sports about just letting it go. “I got to switch the mood up, like, ‘Now we’re going to do this, now we’re going to that,'” he says. The multi-day session took place right before the pandemic, and the very first beat Gillis played became Full Court Press‘ lead single, “Put You On.” That set the mood and tempo as Wiz, K.R.I.T., and DZA hopped on pretty much every beat he played. But when I reached out, everyone was down.” “I thought it would be interesting if I could get them together and do something as a group. “Those guys collaborated early on in their careers, and they started from similar places, but then went to do their own things and have very different lanes,” Gillis says.
Drama’s 1999 Dirty South hit “Left, Right, Left” doing a call-and-response with Roy Orbison’s “You Got It” the guitar riff of Stars’ “Hum” skronking beneath M.I.A.’s “Galang” the list of examples goes on and on. Over three albums - 2006’s Night Ripper, 2008’s Feed the Animals, and 2010’s All Day - and during his famously rowdy live shows, Gillis detonated pop’s spacetime continuum in astoundingly clever ways. “Can anyone afford to put it out? I’m not used to dealing with actual labels with a sample clearance team, so it was educational going through that process.”īetween 20, Gillis carved out one of the most unique careers in music with Girl Talk, a project that embodied the promise of the internet’s infinite jukebox. “When we were done, I was thinking, I don’t even know if this can come out!” Girl Talk - real name Gregg Gillis - tells Rolling Stone. No, the challenge Full Court Press presented was a hurdle that none of those years of mashups prepared him for: clearing samples. out April 8 via Asylum/Taylor Gang - is a marked departure from the producer/DJ’s wildly popular mashup albums. Not just from a creative standpoint, though Full Court Press - a collaborative album with Wiz Khalifa, Smoke DZA, and Big K.R.I.T. To finish his first album in 12 years, Girl Talk had to do something he’d never done before.
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