We caught up with the brilliant and insightful Gerald Miller a few weeks ago and have shared our conversation below.

Gerald , looking forward to hearing all of your stories today. Do you feel you or your work has ever been misunderstood or mischaracterized? If so, tell us the story and how/why it happened and if there are any interesting learnings or insights you took from the experience?

All The Time. When I started making music nobody really understood my style. I always felt like I was ahead and the only people that understood my thought process was the producers. I felt like in away they were different. Every thing meshed so well. My Style is experimental with a direction; it could be trap music R&B contemporary, or traditional hip hop but it would always have a spin to it. mind you this is when I first started in 2019. What I took from that is just keep doing me nobody’s the same and I’m being myself. I told my self the listeners will adjust or adapt to this new sound. Just create!

Great, appreciate you sharing that with us. Before we ask you to share more of your insights, can you take a moment to introduce yourself and how you got to where you are today to our readers.

When it comes to anything I do I’m a workaholic. If I’m passionate about something nothing can drive a wedge between me and the goal. In this instance let talk about music. I always free styled for fun even. In collage is when I started making music like my junior year. My friends told me to get in the booth for real. My boy Bo at the time secured the Mac and mic and we just locked in. Later he left it with me and I just went crazy. Did some singles made my first project and My peers on campus gave me motivation to keep going and I locked in with alotta over seas producers (Jun, I am Synthetic, alec,) just to name a few it was like 80 producers in the chat at the time I had access to all of them so it put it in perspective for me. I even ended up opening for Young Nudy during homecoming that year. I felt like I was chosen to do this. I originally went to school with football tennis and academic scholarships and majored in Biology, chemistry, with a speciality in forensics.
Im now 12 albums in with 2 deluxe a couple eps and a lotta unreleased and a good bit of features. Not to mention tho videos are crazy I try to do a good bit of cinematic stuff, make a story look a movie. I’m thankful for all the connections I made and the faith ppl put in me to preform at a high clip and make good music. Big shout out to TooCozyy, Ocean, & My brand Whoa Musik. We constantly working making connections and I’m big on production now so I’m giving the fans the best possible work. With no label behind me. Were OVERLY PUSHING all by our selves.

Can you share a story from your journey that illustrates your resilience?

So for a lot of artist the see an opportunity to try and break. I’ve seen a few. It’s definitely hard to make it stick from behind the scenes. At one point I had producers like Ronny J (Omg Ronny) contact me cause liked som songs I did with a couple of his producers before they signed to him. Long story short he never got back up with me after I sent him music. And another is having 300 & YSl tap in with me posting my video on there media hub page with artist they we pushing like Megan the stallion & gunna videos etc. so this was big to me I’m from the A my sound fits perfectly. Fast forward that an app came out called fwaygo it was supposed to be like sound cloud. Young thug and the (ceo of Mercari at the time) John LagerLing at the time were investors and Thug was scouting talent. Basically I went on a crazy run on there went number 1 on the app a few times, won 1k and I got to speak to the goat himself (Spida) on club house with wack 100, Jhon, and the creators of the app. He said the music was hard and keep goin they seein the work. After that it was set for me to fly out to Cali and meet these people but pandemic slowed that down and shortly after. Young thug was hit with Rico charges. Some of the motion slowed up, my Instagram acct was taken for a year. Just had to bounce back. It’s some other times but these might be the biggest to me. I just kept going never let that stop me. I ended up doin a album titled “SLAUNSEN KARTER 7” a play on “Barter 6” This album was all Thug Samples. Imma get it to him oneday hopefully.

How can we best help foster a strong, supportive environment for artists and creatives?

The best thing people can do is support support support. I put a lot of money in to this and people put a lot of time energy beats and videos into my career. I’m independent I do this for the people that’s all that matters. Steams is like .000004 of one penny. Support us like the majors while we independent and we won’t need to sign. If that makes any sense to you I’m bad an explaining the technicals.
Support comes in the form of repost, plays, telling a friend, putting people on the music. Everything helps

Contact Info:

• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/whoathegoat?igsh=MjRkdWEzZmN2bmNx
• Twitter: https://x.com/whoathegoat?s=21&t=19MPuA0-ggmeqKFFeAyxEQ
• Youtube: https://youtube.com/@bigwhoathegoat?si=aenAunE4LR-_8JLL
• Other: Find my music on all platforms @ Big Whoa the Goat or Big Whoa The goat & 626

Image Credits

N/A. I own all photos