THUMP: So where was your head at when you were making the Hold Me EP?
Cooly G: Well, "Oi Dirty" was made probably about three years ago. I had Scratcha DVA round making beats; listening to Bob Marley, and drinking wine and smoking.Then I started this beat, and he was like "that's it, we got it!" And when I said "Oi, dirty", it was because we were having a conversation, but the mic was on. Basically, we were talking about when you're in a club, and guys touch girls. Like, if a guy was to touch my bum I'd just be like "Oi, diiiiirty."
"Hold Me", I started making in the daytime. The kids were running around, then them lot went to bed and I carried on. Then the baby got up but I was proper into the track by then, so I just had to put my breast out - I breastfeed still innit - and I just kept going. I didn't wanna stop making the tune! I was like, "Just get on the titty, quickly, come on!"
And then, "Molly", I don't know, I was going through some sort of phase. I think I was depressed last year, but I don't really know. I think I had a breakdown, slightly. There were times when I would just be really scared to go outside. It was hard for me to take my son to school. I had to hold on to the wall. I couldn't walk properly. I was just, fucked out of my head. Proper stressed out. Some people started coming round like, "What's wrong with you? You're fucked, you need to fix up," and then I just got out of it quickly. I had a little break to myself for a couple of weeks. So the "Molly" tune, I don't even know how that happened to be honest. It was a mad time.
I like how tongue-in-cheek it is that you called it "Molly". Where did that come from?
Cooly G: You know what, it wasn't even about drugs. I don't take drugs myself, but because everyone was on a hype about it I was like "This one's gonna be for all the molly heads who are just fucking wasted." It kind of happened so quick that I didn't even realise that I'd made the tune. I just make tunes every day all day long, when I've got the time. When the kids are just doing their thing, I'll make them really quickly. Sometimes I don't even know how it happened, it's just like, "Oh, that's sick…"
So, what's been keeping you busy over the last year or so?
Cooly G: In the last six weeks I've started a new LP, and I've basically finished it. It's proper different. It's crazy. it's sexy, it's rocky, it's - I dunno man, it's just sick. I'm so happy about it.
You say it's different, but there's so much difference across what you've put out already...
Cooly G: This is even more different! I've changed the tempos, I'm doing full songs, I've got featured artists on there... It's very sexy, trap-ish, R&B-ish, rock-ish. All different kinds of shit.
I like that you say "rock-ish", that's different to anything you've done before.
Cooly G: Yeah, basically there's a lot of heavy metal guitars in it. Proper punchy shit going on. Proper melodies, melodies that'll get stuck in your head.
So you were in more of a songwriting zone?
Cooly G: Lyrically I was just thinking of loads of things as soon as the beat was done, so I was in a good zone. That's why I went all out to finish it instead of longing it out. I just want to get on stage. I wanna do music videos. I wanna collaborate with people. I just wanna be out there. I feel like I haven't pushed myself properly. People know who Cooly G is or whatever, but I haven't really gone hard.
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