Elvy The God has been on a hiatus for the greater part of the year. His last release was a single on Valentines Day called "Heads Up," and before that, it had been over a year since he dropped an actual project. Recently Elvy stopped by the Clark St. Studio for a Q&A, and shared with us what he's been up to during his hiatus; as well as the name of his upcoming project set to release before the summer is over. 

CSC: Elvy, thanks for stopping by the Clark St. Studio. Tell me, what were you smoking before you got in here? 

Elvy: I was smoking some mack one and some mother fucking uh what was that some dosilado or some shit like that yeah. 

CSC: Introduce yourself to the people watching and let them know what you do. 

Elvy: I'm Elvy The God. I'm an artist from the city of Chicago. 

CSC: A lot of people want to know about your ethnic background. What is your ethnicity?

Elvy: I'm Puerto Rican. I'm all type of shit, to be honest. I'm Puerto Rican, Mexican, we got some Native American in our shit too.

CSC: How did the pandemic treat you?

Elvy: Good, decent, the same. I've been running it up. Loading up on music and shit. Working, that's pretty much it. 

CSC: Tell us about your work relationship with AQ and also the joint project you two released called Apply Pressure.

Elvy: I've been working with bro since I was like 15. Our relationship grew throughout the years. Bro, ass be going crazy with the beats, engineering, and mixing all that shit. Applying Pressure just was some shit that we had put together. We got some other shit coming too. It's called Too Much Pressure. We probably go drop that this summer. 

CSC: What's your creative process like? Do you write your raps or freestyle?

Elvy: I could freestyle, but I'm practicing on that shit. I write. That's what I do mostly. Sometimes it can take a day, sometimes it can take 30 minutes, sometimes that could take a month or a year. It depends on how I'm feeling.

CSC: Now tell us about Brainiac Music.

Elvy: Brainiac Music, that's a whole of hot shit. Go get on that right now. Yeah, but that's just some shit. I was just thinking of going in on you feel me. I have some A-quality tracks on there, too, like Sin, on folks that's one of the beats when I went into the studio and listen to the beat like damn what the fuck? What this shit is? I finished the hook like in five minutes. That's pretty much a project where I'm showing my versatility in. Melodies, all type of shit, rapping, punch lines, metaphors, but I got another project coming called Take Over. That's probably going to be one of the best bodies of work I've put out. 

CSC: What's one of your favorite lines you've ever rapped?

Elvy: What I say in "John Wick," 'the Ak turn him into pork when it chop, that's one.' I was just making that shit, and sometimes it just be coming to me. I be rocking to the beat, and that shit will just come out of nowhere. All of them come out of nowhere. In "La Mafiamilia," in the first part of that bitch, 'I'm in the dirty deep its part of the streets, where gun sounds disturbing the peace, these ni**as know we ain't keeping the peace, this Smith and Wesson sweep him right off his feet,' that bitch came about crazy. It was just one of them hard-ass beats. Sometimes I get beats where they so fucking raw. It was a beat I was stuck on, but I really liked it so much. I kept trying to come off on that bitch, and one day I was sleeping before I woke up, and I was still dreaming. So in the dream, I was saying what I just said right now. It was before I ever wrote down that shit. My body wake up, and I play the beat of my phone, and I say that shit, and that shit was just raw as fuck. 

CSC: You haven't dropped music for a while not, and the last time you did drop, it was something different this past Valentine's Day. Tell us more about that song. 

Elvy: I made that shit about two years ago. It was some different. I just be trying different shit, know what I'm saying to see where it goes. My pops always be telling me you gotta have some for the bitches, the ladies. The bitches are the ones who are going to buy your shit, and he ain't bullshitting. Then Benny use to be telling me that shit. He also use to tell me I had to step out of my comfort zone, so I just tried it.

CSC: What's the reason behind you not dropping more music this year?

Elvy: I just be loading up, bro; you feel me. When I drop, I just wanna keep dropping. Whenever I do pause ups and shit, its because I be loading the fuck up. I'm an independent artist, so a lot of the shit I do is by myself. 

CSC: If a record deal presented itself, would you sign?

Elvy: It gotta make sense for me to sign. I'm not just going to sign some shit. I've already been through some goofy shit like that, so I got my experiences. When a record deal comes, that's when it's there, but it gotta make sense. I'll rather just be independent. 

CSC: You've worked alongside Diamond Visuals throughout your career. What's one of your favorite bodies of work you've executed alongside him?

Elvy: I got a lot of shit I did with Diamond. We got a lot of fucking videos. I think "Mental" was one of the rawest ones. My favorite scene from Mental is the one where I'm like a priest in the hospital, and there's like a patient tweaking the fuck out in the background. 

CSC: After you get the munchies what's your go-to meal or spot to eat at?

Elvy: I don't like street food like that. I like home-cooked shit. You eat a meal of that shit, you'll be good the whole day. I like fucking with Ponce, that's a Puerto Rican restaurant. I be getting some arroz con gandules and lechon and a parcha.

CSC: Who is Elvy currently listening to?

Elvy: I don't really be listening to rappers like that but fucking uh. I listen to a few mother fuckers that be going crazy. You already know Gucci he be going crazy. I be listening to his artist Big Scarr and Pooh Shiesty. Chicago ni**as like King Von, Lil Durk, who else I be listening to I'm trying to think I fuck with Kodak Black heavy, he raw ass hell. DMX, I fuck with his shit, rip DMX, G Herbo, that's pretty much it, Lil Baby, there's more there's a lot of artists I be listening to I be listening to different varieties of songs you feel me. 

CSC: Is there anything you'd like to let your listeners know?

Elvy: I got a whole bunch of hot shit on the way. Sorry for the wait. A whole bunch of fucking lava coming. About to be an earthquake around this bitch, and um yeah, just stay tuned for the mother fucking heat. Love all of ya'll, appreciate ya'll.