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By now you should know that I’m a sucker for vulnerability in music. Where the artist opens themselves up, exposing their vices, their love, their sadness and everything in between. So the music of today’s guest, GDP of West Orange, New Jersey was tailor-made for me.
What makes his latest album, Cross Off Matthew, so special, is not only only the sheer quality of it, but the surrounding context, and journey that GDP undertook to get here.
In this episode, we discuss the hardcore punk ethos and artistic background that has distinguished his sound and career path, the significant hiatus he took away from the indie music world, before recharging his batteries with none other than Fatboi Sharif with their 2025 album, ENDOCRINE, and how this all set the stage for an album that’s currently fighting for my #1 Album of the Year slot.
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*timestamps provided for YouTube version
Intro (0:00).
The Plug (0:52).
The Interview (2:28).
GDP’s hardcore punk ethos (4:29).
Useless Eaters and the challenges of indie music (16:11).
ENDOCRINE and Sharif re-sparking GDP’s return to rap (23:17).
The raw honesty of Cross Off Matthew (31:01).
Lessons learnt from creating Cross Off Matthew (37:39).
The unique sound of Cross Off Matthew (45:18).
When GDP made an engineer cry (52:48).
Future outlook of GDP’s creative life (55:10).
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Buy/stream Cross Off Matthew here.
Follow GDP on Twitter here.
Follow GDP on Instagram here.
Edited by: Alyssa Rodriguez
Intro/Outro beat by: BLOODBLIXING
Video animation by: Big Flowers
