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GASHI Opens Up About New Album, Career Struggles, Issues With Post Malone & Why the Music Biz Is ‘The Most Difficult Thing in the World’

GASHI sits down for a lengthy interview with Billboard to talk about his career struggles and his new album 'Killah Whales of Gotham.'

The Albanian, New York-bred artist has long established himself as a musical acrobat, tumbling and twirling from hip-hop (2019’s GASHI), to R&B (2022’s Elevatorz), to EDM (“Safety,” “Creep On Me”), to country (2024’s Brooklyn Cowboy) and even ’80s funk (2020’s 1984). Once a buzzing new artist, his career admittedly stumbled due to what he says was a combination of factors: toxic label dealings, personal frustrations, crumbling romantic relationships, the pandemic and much more. I came in to the game rapping and I felt like — I’ve been such a genre-bending artist for so long that I didn’t think it was gonna be a problem to keep doing it.

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