In this powerful episode of We're Out of Time, host Richard Taite sits down with rapper, designer, and creative force Lil Gnar for a raw and honest conversation about mental health, the pressures of fame, and finding purpose beyond the spotlight. Lil Gnar opens up about his personal battles with depression and mild anxiety, shedding light on how he pushed through some of his darkest moments. He also speaks candidly about the dangerous realities within the rap industry—watching peers get lost to addiction and the tragic impact of illicit substances. But it’s not all heavy. Gnar shares what truly makes him happy today, what keeps him grounded, and gives us an inside look at his upcoming collaborations with Chief Keef and more. This episode is a must-watch for fans of hip-hop, mental health advocates, and anyone who believes in the power of resilience and reinvention. 👉 Subscribe for more real conversations every week. 🔗 All things Richard Taite, We're Out of Time, and Carrara Treatment Wellness & Spa:https://linktr.ee/richardtaite For more on Lil Gnar: https://www.instagram.com/lilgnar
Chapter 1: What struggles with mental health does Lil Gnar discuss?
I'm signing Chief Keef, and he's executive producing my new project. I got a lot of features on that, too, but I don't want to give them all away yet. I've dealt with depression as well, too, though. For a long time, I was super unhappy. I'm actually so happy these days. I have a house and a little dog and a recording studio in my house so I can go downstairs and work, because me, I love to work.
Chapter 2: How has Lil Gnar found happiness despite his past?
Like, if I'm not able to do what I want to do, then I get bummed out. People go, like, downhill from drugs, just really spiral out and just let it kind of control their life, and you just see them start burning out. You know, you can do one thing one time and completely check out. So it's a little scary landscape now. I don't really get anxious or scared to do anything.
Chapter 3: What is the impact of drugs on the rap industry?
I more so deal with maybe anxiety, wanting to do something and I can't. I'm not able to at the time. More like an impatient type of thing. And that'll kind of make me feel weird. I have to act like I like Boba because pretty girls like Boba. So I like Boba.
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Little Gnar. Yeah. How you been? I've been good. I've been in LA for like a week, like finishing post-production on my album. Good. Yeah. What's the album? In My Glory. In My Glory. Yup. What's that about? So I signed to Chief Keef like a year and a half ago. It's like, who? Chief Keef. What's that? It's an artist. Okay. Yeah, he's a rapper. He like started drill music and everything. Okay.
Chapter 4: What collaborations can we expect from Lil Gnar?
In Chicago. And so I signed to him like a year and a half ago. And this is my first project under his label. So I'm like putting that together. He's executive producing and stuff. That's nice. Yeah. Is that new? Yeah, it's new. So nobody knows about it. No, not really. We just broke news. Yeah. The full details. Yeah. Right here. See, Lisa, you wanted breaking news.
You just got it right out of the gate. All right. Yeah. So you're successful. Yeah, I'd say so. You want to be more successful? A thousand times. A thousand times, right? A thousand times. Okay. You want me to teach you the rule? Yeah. Okay. Show up. See, 80, 80, I think it's 80% of the people don't even show up. Yeah. You did great. You showed up, but show up on time. Right.
I can improve on that one. You're only an hour late. Yeah. Okay, cool. You feel sufficiently bad? I feel bad. Good. Okay, good. I love you. Listen to me. Okay? That's not to beat you down. Yeah. Okay? How old are you? Just turned 29. 29 years old. Yeah. Okay. You're going to show up on time. Yeah. You're going to show up with a plan. Yes. Then you're going to execute it. Yeah.
And then you're in the top 1%. Okay. Yeah. That's it. Show up, show up on time, show up on time with a plan and execute it. Yeah. There's like one or 2% of people that do all those things. Yeah. Now you're there. You are the one and you've got a ton of talent. Like everybody loves you. Yeah. Like I talked to kids in the last 24 hours. Yeah. And I told them you were coming. Yeah.
And they started to shake. Like I thought they were going to have a seizure. Yeah. Okay. So people love you. Yeah. All right. So let's talk about, uh, NAR. Yeah. So I saw something about a clothing line and it said narcotics. Yep. Okay. Yeah. I was looking at it. I'm like narcotics. That's, that's not cool. That's glorifying it. And then I saw it was NAR. Yeah. Cotics.
And I'm like, well, how do you not do that? That was like perfect. Yeah. Right. Yeah. But I did see somewhere that,
um what'd you do with the nitrous um oh i threw it away it was like i like uh it was a viral video actually because the galaxy guy was just getting so popular in atlanta with the young kids and so i did a video kind of just saying it wasn't cool and like just like opened it and like chucked it into a dumpster and it's kind of like blew up everywhere online well that's not bad dylan
That was pretty good. Yeah. Why'd you do that? Just to show kids, like, sometimes it's cool not to do what everybody doing. You know, like, I mean, nitrous is bad. Gallic gas is terrible for you. It fries your brain, you know. And so normally a rapper won't tell you to do it or it's cool or something. So I was like, I don't know, take a stance at least this one time and just throw it away.
That's the stupidest drug ever. Yeah. It's so lame. Good. That was a star player move, man. The star player move. Yeah. So what drugs are you doing now? Nothing really. I smoke a couple of cigarettes a day, vape slightly, smoke a little bit of weed. Uh-huh. Pretty sober these days. I really don't do much. I just, I like nicotine. Eventually I'll stop that.
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Chapter 5: How does Lil Gnar address the issue of fentanyl?
Girls who think cigarettes are the nastiest thing on earth and then go sit in a hookah bar for four hours. Like, it's not different. It just has fruit punch on it. Hey. Yeah? Thank you for coming today. Of course, man. I really appreciate it, man. I'm sick. You are an outstanding guest. Thank you. Will you do me one last favor? Of course. Okay. Promise me you're going to follow Dylan.
I never forgot about following Dylan. It hasn't slipped my mind this whole time. Tell him I'm sad. Yeah. See you next Tuesday. Here, here, and here. You get three tosses. Okay. What's the number you're aiming for? One, two, or three? You got to do it. You pick where you want to go. Now, here are the rules. Yeah. One, two, three. Yeah. That's worth two. So two, four, and six. Three, six, and nine.
Okay. Okay? You get three throws, and then I get three throws. Okay. I'm going to go from two to two. Okay. That's good. Hey, that was good. Bogus. No, it's okay. You're a lefty. It's awesome. Dude. That was fat. I'm embarrassing myself. No, no, no, no. You're doing great. That almost went into the neighbor's yard. All right. You got two of them? I mean, the second one went in. Two?
That was sick. All right. How many balls did you throw? One, two, three, four, five. I'm at five, yep. Okay, you threw five. Yeah. And you got four, five. You got five points. Okay. So the only way I can win is if I get... the three there, but I can't. Because you got your shit in there first. It's gonna block me out. I win. Damn! Give it up. Take the picture. He's good, man.
Chapter 6: What life lessons has Lil Gnar learned from his experiences?
Chapter 7: How does Lil Gnar feel about his success and future?
Type of shit is that. It's fucking terrible. Oh, my God, bro. I hate people who think they're better than you because they're vegetarian. Like, you have to take supplements to get the stuff I'm getting from protein. I don't know if you're healthier than me. You might be, but I don't trust it. Man. That's so much stuff. You are a genius. You're just a genius. That was so good.
Give me three more things that you hate. I hate sitting in the middle seat on a plane. I fucking hate it. I sit there. I'm like, bro, I need more money. I need to be, I don't even want to fly private. It feels like a waste of money. The only time I feel like I want to fly private when I'm sitting in the middle seat and that's the worst thing on earth. I sit in the middle seat.
Maybe I get unlucky like once a year and sit in that middle and it's the worst four hours of my life. I'm just like, I hate this. I hate it. I don't like people with overly inflated egos. A lot of people that aren't even that turnt will come through just thinking they're the shit. It's like, man, I'm actually famous. I'm not acting like a dickhead.
Bitches get their first 10,000 on Instagram and turn into fucking Britney Spears. Just calm it down. I hate traffic. Why don't you just drive? Why is there traffic? If you all just drive faster, there's no traffic. More cars just drive faster. I don't care. I don't understand the science of traffic. Even though there's more cars, why are you all doing 10? If y'all all just did 60, no traffic.
It's done. Somebody tell the cars. Tell Trump to tell everyone. Just drive faster. No more traffic. LA rush hour. Over with. Shout out to Lil Narc. Fixed the problem. God, you are the best. Thank you so much for that. It's all the crisis. That was so good, I'm not even pissed. Yeah. So, I have no rant. I'd have had some shit if y'all let me prepare. If I knew I had a rant, I'd have had an hour.
That was off the top, Mike. Oh, there's a lot of things that piss you off. That is awesome. Matcha, a little bit. What even is that? It's green tea powder. Why do y'all love it so much? I don't drink it, so I don't know. I've heard it's dope, but I tasted it. Ass. Ass. Ass. It's horrible. It's horrible. You know what else is horrible? What's horrible? Boba. Boba. Yeah. It's decent.
I have to act like I like boba because pretty girls like boba, so I like boba. I like tequila, hookah, and boba because pretty girls like those three things. Hookah? The girls like the hookah? They love hookah. Why? You just sit there and smoke and like... Gives them a little bit of a head rush from the nicotine because, you know, shisha is tobacco.
So it's a girl way of smoking a cigarette without smoking a cigarette. Because if you tell a girl, I smoke a cigarette, they're like, oh, that's disgusting. I hate cigarettes. You want to go smoke hookah? It's like, that's pure tobacco you're burning right there, right? It's just flavor. You know that, right? I hate that, actually.
Girls who think cigarettes are the nastiest thing on earth and then go sit in a hookah bar for four hours. Like, it's not different. It just has fruit punch on it. Hey. Yeah? Thank you for coming today. Of course, man. I really appreciate it, man. I'm sick. You are an outstanding guest. Thank you. Will you do me one last favor? Of course. Okay. Promise me you're going to follow Dylan.
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