GDP Announces First New Album In 14 Years “Cross Off Matthew” Due Out Oct. 23 Via Run For Cover Records; Shares New Song/Video "Island In The Sky"

GDP Announces First New Album In 14 Years “Cross Off Matthew” Due Out Oct. 23 Via Run For Cover Records; Shares New Song/Video "Island In The Sky"

GDP has returned with the announcement of his first new album in 14 years! Arriving October 23rd via Run For Cover Records, "Cross Off Matthew" proves that the NJ emcee is still in top form, with 12 tracks of mind-bending beats and razor-sharp bars that are sure to please longtime fans and new listeners alike.

To celebrate the announcement GDP has shared the album's lead single "Island In The Sky" a crunched-out cut of pounding drums and warped production that kicks off the rapper's return with a bang, and offers the perfect introduction to "Cross Off Matthew"'s causticly personal attitude and atmosphere.

Watch the "Island in The Sky" music video via YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hc552tZSvho

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GDP got his start in the late 2000s/early 2010s with a run of DIY hip hop albums that were heavily informed by his roots in hardcore punk and skateboarding. His early releases gained traction within independent rap circles but after years of grinding he shelved the project to focus on photography, film, publishing, and even global health work. But he never strayed far from music and in 2025 he released ENDOCRINE, a collaborative album with Fatboi Sharif, that officially marked his return to the GDP moniker.

Now "Cross Off Matthew" is the first proper GDP album since 2013's Holla and it strikes a balance between fearlessly expanding his sound and reminding listeners of what made him such a formidable presence in underground hip hop to begin with. The record is a slow-cooked labor of love, born out of taking enough time away from something to understand the journey with greater perspective and appreciation.

"I'm older, arguably wiser, but that creative fire stayed with me," GDP says. "I wanted to make something that felt nuanced, something that ! could feel proud of." Throughout the record he examines vices, interpersonal relationships, the collective dread of late-stage capitalism as well as the pitfalls and rewards of trying to lead a creative life in the midst of it--all with GDP's trademark humor and commentary, now refined by years of life lived experience.

PRE-SAVE "CROSS OFF MATTHEW" HERE!

LISTEN TO "ISLAND IN THE SKY" HERE!

"Cross Off Matthew" track list:

1. Another Country

2. Seroquel

3. Island in The Sky

4. Mezzanine

5. Holstein

6. Location Therapy

7. Bipped

8. Undone

9. Rock For Light

10. Money For Nothing

11. Ethereal Sphere

12. Doom Loop

Biography:

"Slide in the party like three monkeys wearing a trench," GDP says in the opening seconds of Cross Off Matthew, his first solo album in over a decade. The line is indicative of the New Jersey emcee/producer's relationship with music, one that's ebbed and flowed throughout his career and eclectic discography. Entirely self-produced, Cross Off Matthew feels like a reintroduction as well as an expansion of what makes the cult rapper so beloved.

GDP came up in the respective punk, hardcore, and skateboarding scenes of New Jersey, roots that inspired his DIY approach to making hip-hop. He applied a decidedly punk ethos to his brand of neo-boom bap on early releases like 2009's Realistic Expectations and 2011's Useless Eaters, albums that celebrated his youthful indiscretions but also signaled an old soul lying beneath the surface. He opted to release them on punk/indie labels (including Run For Cover and Ride The Fury Records) instead of more traditional hip-hop outlets, and along with an ambitious touring schedule, he carved out a dedicated fanbase throughout the early 2010's.

As GDP's following grew, making ends meet as an independent artist in New York City became increasingly prohibitive, and the project he'd started as a 17 year old began to lose it's luster after years of pounding the pavement. He ventured into film and photography work under the pseudonym George Douglas Peterson, exploring new mediums in an effort to scratch the creative itch. He published zines and photo books, directed music videos and even found his way into global health work, documenting and coordinating medical missions to some of the most impoverished regions of the world.

But he always kept music close, whether playing drums in the hardcore punk band Ankle Monitor, or his electro grind-core side project, Orange Crystal. G began working sporadically with fellow NJ-bred wordsmith Fatboi Sharif and the two eventually released a collaborative album, ENDOCRINE, on steel tipped dove's Fused Arrow Records in 2025. The project led to him experimenting with more ideas and he quietly began clawing his way back to GDP with renewed purpose.

Cross Off Matthew is a slow-cooked labor of love, born out of taking enough time away from something to understand the journey with greater perspective and appreciation."I'm older, arguably wiser, but that creative fire stayed with me," he says. "I wanted to make something that felt nuanced, something that ! could feel proud of." Throughout the album, the production toggles between foreboding and facetious just as deftly as his bars. Tracks like "Island In The Sky" and "Location Therapy" make rap confetti out of caustic guitars and glaring distortion, while "Seroquel" and "Rock For Light," (the latter a nod to NJ rap royalty, The Outsidaz) embrace GDP's signature blend of East Coast hip-hop and punk sensibilities, with lyrics that highlight the sharp wit and heady philosophizing that he made his name on. GDP examines vices, interpersonal relationships, the collective dread of late-stage capitalism as well as the pitfalls and rewards of trying to lead a creative life throughout it all. The wiseman that peaked out from beneath the shield of debauchery on his early releases has now come to the forefront, as GDP's trademark humor and commentary feel refined by years of life lived experience.

It all comes to a head on the serendipitous closer "Doom Loop" interrogating his own motivations for making music amidst relationships gone awry. His vulnerabilities are laid bare in a compelling breathe of emotional clarity, contextualizing not only the preceding songs on the album but the choices made, the bonds formed and collapsed that led him to this writing it in the first place. If the wait hadn't already made it clear, new GDP music is nothing to take for granted.