G-Eazy
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40 free G-Eazy trivia questions with answers — music quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
G-Eazy spent years giving music away online and playing college shows before the charts caught up with him. The story is that of an independent rapper from Northern California who built an audience one free mixtape at a time, then turned it into platinum albums and top-ten singles. This quiz follows that climb. There are questions on the big singles and the famous voices on them, on the samples and old hits he has reworked, and on the albums from his self-released early years to his major-label run. Others cover his tours, his producers, the partners he has dated and recorded with, and his appearances in film, on television and in a video game. Plenty of questions ask you to name the song from a clue about its video, its guest or its story. It is written for fans who know the hits and want to test themselves on the deeper cuts, and for anyone putting together a hip-hop round for a quiz night. Every answer comes with a short explanation.
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Q 01Which G-Eazy hit began as a Bebe Rexha song called I Don't Need Anything, meant for her own album?
Me, Myself & I
Me, Myself & I kept Rexha's chorus and bridge and swapped her verses for his raps. Her label doubted the song suited her debut, so she played it to him on piano and he asked to have it.
Q 02Which singer was dating G-Eazy when the pair recorded the duet Him & I and performed it on Saturday Night Live?
Halsey
Halsey kissed him on stage when they first played the song at a small bar show, months before its release. She said the track mirrored their real relationship instead of a story invented for a single.
Q 03Which G-Eazy album shares its title with a 1922 F. Scott Fitzgerald novel about a couple wrecked by excess?
The Beautiful & Damned
The Beautiful & Damned runs to 20 songs about the pull and price of fame, and arrived with a short film he co-wrote. Fitzgerald's novel follows a couple partying themselves to ruin in Jazz Age New York.
Q 04G-Eazy raps a guest verse on Make Me, the lead single from which pop star's album Glory?
Britney Spears
Britney Spears then shared the stage with him at the 2016 MTV VMAs, where the pair blended her single with one of his own hits. His verse was recorded at a studio in Melbourne, Australia.
Q 05In which 2019 crime film did G-Eazy make his acting debut as Johnny, the lead character's ex-boyfriend?
Hustlers
Hustlers cast him as the father of the lead character's daughter. Jennifer Lopez and Constance Wu star as strippers who drug and fleece Wall Street clients, and Cardi B also made her film debut in it.
Q 06G-Eazy joined the ownership group of the Roots, a professional soccer club in which California city, his hometown?
Oakland
Oakland Roots began play in 2019, and club merchandise had already turned up in two of his music videos before he bought in. He was born in the city and spent his school years next door in Berkeley.
Q 07Which singer joined G-Eazy on Breakdown, whose video shows both artists facing tabloid headlines about their troubles?
Demi Lovato
Demi Lovato sings the hook, and he praised the courage it took to put such private struggles into a single. The pair performed it on The Tonight Show in front of a wall of scrolling headlines.
Q 08G-Eazy and the DJ Carnage released a 2017 joint EP that shares its title with which Will Ferrell comedy?
Step Brothers
Step Brothers, the EP, came out in March 2017, months before his fifth album. The 2008 film stars Ferrell and John C. Reilly as immature middle-aged men forced to share a bedroom when their parents marry.
Q 09G-Eazy ended a partnership with which clothing retailer over a hoodie advert widely condemned as racist?
H&M
H&M had pictured a Black child modelling a hoodie whose printed slogan called its wearer a monkey. The Weeknd cut ties with the Swedish chain over the same image.
Q 10What is the real first name of the rapper G-Eazy, born in 1989 with the surname Gillum?
Gerald
Gerald Earl Gillum is the name that appears on his songwriting credits. He is the elder of two sons of a fine arts professor, and one of his own producers was a college classmate.
Q 11Which G-Eazy single with ASAP Rocky and Cardi B peaked at number four on the Billboard Hot 100?
No Limit
No Limit rides a sample of a 1990s Memphis rap classic by Three 6 Mafia. The track began with him and Rocky working in neighbouring studio rooms, and Cardi B added her verse after they sent it over.
Q 12G-Eazy told Fuse that his intense, crazy-in-love duet Him & I was a song in the mould of which famous couple?
Bonnie and Clyde
Bonnie and Clyde, the bank-robbing lovers killed in a 1934 police ambush, gave him the us-against-the-world template. The video is gentler, trailing its couple through the streets and dive bars of New York.
Q 13Which G-Eazy and Kehlani song was recorded for the soundtrack of the film The Fate of the Furious?
Good Life
Q 21In the video for which G-Eazy song does he play a television news anchor who ends up interviewing himself?
I Mean It
I Mean It was his first song to reach the Billboard Hot 100, though it stalled at number 98. It kept selling for years afterwards and is now certified multi-platinum.
Q 22Which G-Eazy album was built to sound like a horror film soundtrack, with Wes Craven and Tim Burton as influences?
When It's Dark Out
When It's Dark Out leans on piano loops and foggy synths to get that late-night chill. It entered the Billboard 200 at number five and went platinum the following summer.
Q 23Which album, G-Eazy's major-label debut, reached number three on the Billboard 200 in the summer of 2014?
These Things Happen
Good Life has a video shot in downtown Los Angeles and cut together with scenes of Vin Diesel, Dwayne Johnson and the film's cast. Kehlani had been his opening act on tour two years earlier.
Q 14Which Pretty Little Liars star dated G-Eazy and sang with him on a 2020 cover of Radiohead's Creep?
Ashley Benson
Ashley Benson, who played Hanna Marin across the drama's seven seasons, also guests on the indie-leaning side project he put out that summer. The two were a couple from 2020 to 2021.
Q 15In which city did G-Eazy earn a music industry degree from the local Loyola University in 2011?
New Orleans
New Orleans gave him more than a degree: a fellow student became his long-time producer, and he was nearly booed off stage at a college talent show on the night his future manager spotted him.
Q 16G-Eazy and 2 Chainz were opening acts in 2013 on the America's Most Wanted Tour, headlined by which rapper?
Lil Wayne
Lil Wayne was among the first big names he ever opened for, in 2010 while still a student. The star later added a verse to the remix of his single Order More.
Q 17G-Eazy sat at a chef's table as a guest diner on which Gordon Ramsay television show in 2023?
Hell's Kitchen
Hell's Kitchen seated him with the women's team in its 22nd season, where one contestant with a crush on him fought to keep her composure as she greeted him, then cooked a smooth service.
Q 18G-Eazy's single 1942, with Yo Gotti and YBN Nahmir, was made for the soundtrack of which basketball comedy?
Uncle Drew
Uncle Drew stars Kyrie Irving as an ageing streetball legend, a character he first played in a series of Pepsi adverts, alongside retired NBA greats such as Shaquille O'Neal and Reggie Miller.
Q 19G-Eazy's single Provide, with Chris Brown, samples which 1996 hit, earning its British singer a featured credit?
Return of the Mack
Return of the Mack topped the UK chart for Mark Morrison in 1996 and reached number two in the US the following year. Provide was the third track he and Chris Brown had shared.
Q 20Which G-Eazy song got a 2021 sequel titled Running Wild and found a new audience on TikTok in late 2023?
Tumblr Girls
Tumblr Girls, a wry look at the blogging site's aesthetic, spent 28 weeks on Billboard's TikTok chart almost a decade after it came out. Its video shows models enjoying an idyllic day at the beach.
These Things Happen sold 47,000 copies in its first week after years of free mixtapes, and topped Billboard's rap albums chart. A sequel with almost the same name followed seven years later.
Q 24Which Bay Area rap veteran from Vallejo guests on G-Eazy's Far Alone and on three of his later albums?
E-40
E-40 rose to wider mainstream popularity with his 2006 single Tell Me When to Go, some twenty years into his career. He has since appeared on four of the younger rapper's albums in the space of seven years.
Q 25Which rapper co-headlined the 2016 Endless Summer Tour with G-Eazy, with YG and Yo Gotti as supporting acts?
Logic
Logic shared top billing across the United States that summer. A mixtape planned to go with the tour, a follow-up to the 2011 tape that first got its maker noticed, was scrapped when samples could not be cleared.
Q 26Which G-Eazy single features Charlie Puth, who first wrote the song in 2015 at a low point in his life?
Sober
Sober began with sung verses that Puth felt never worked, so he went looking for a rapped story to replace them. The two had bonded on tour in Europe over a shared love of Bay Area hip-hop.
Q 27Which G-Eazy song featuring Hoodie Allen has two numbered sequels, the second arriving on the 2024 album Freak Show?
Lady Killers
Lady Killers found its biggest audience through its first sequel, a remix that charted in Britain a decade after release once TikTok users picked it up.
Q 28Which G-Eazy and Blueface single samples Let's Ride by Richie Rich and has a black-and-white video with neon accents?
West Coast
West Coast doubles as a love letter to California, and its video is packed with cameos from local rappers. A remix a month later added verses from Allblack and YG.
Q 29G-Eazy raps on the Australian singer Grace's 2015 cover of which Lesley Gore anthem, produced by Quincy Jones?
You Don't Own Me
You Don't Own Me went to number one in Australia in Grace's version, released a month after Gore died. Quincy Jones had also produced the 1963 original, long hailed as an early feminist anthem.
Q 30G-Eazy first won wide attention in 2011 with a mixtape update of which 1961 number one by Dion?
Runaround Sue
Runaround Sue, Dion's warning about a faithless girlfriend, pulled in more than four million YouTube views in the rapper's version. He gave the whole mixtape away free online to reach more listeners.