Adversity prepares us for anything and everything. One of Baton Rouge’s roughest neighborhoods Zion City equipped TG Kommas with the experience, knowledge, and wisdom to tell stories with no shortage of heat, honesty, and heart. In doing so, he immediately connects through pain and truth. Amassing tens of millions of streams and views independently and earning acclaim from Elevator Magazine, Music Connection, and many others, he invites everyone into his world on his 2022 project, Too Trench 4 TV [Music The Label/Atlantic Records], and more to come.

“There’s a lot of love where I’m from, but there’s also a lot of hate and killing in my trenches, so I grew up fast,” he observes. “When you listen to me, I want you to feel like you’re in the trenches. If you’ve never been in the trenches, you’ll feel it.”

As a kid, TG Kommas split his time between his father in Dallas, TX and mom where he primarily resided with his twin sister in the Baton Rouge neighborhood of Zion City. At just ten-years-old, dad put him in the studio for the first time, and he quickly developed his skills on the mic. Obsessed with the radio, he listened to the likes of Lil Wayne and Drake nonstop. After graduating from high school, he held down a job in construction as a flagger and continued to write and record music, adopting the TG for “Trench God” and embracing his childhood nickname Kommas. In 2019, he introduced himself with “Snakes” before catching fire with “Go Back Inside” a year later. He also joined forces with 42 Dugg and Foogiano on “I Know,” while the 2021 banger “Big Steppa” [with NLE Choppa] posted up 1.7 million Spotify streams and 1.5 million YouTube views. Gaining traction, Elevator Magazine proclaimed, “TG Kommas has too much potential to continue flying under radars.”

Signing to Music The Label and Atlantic Records, he linked up with DJ Chose in 2022 and assembled what would become Too Trench 4 TV.

“We locked into the studio, and I put a lot of heart into the records,” he says. “The title means I’m too trench for all of this shit. It’s too real.”

Now, Kommas introduces the project with “Barefoot” [feat. Fredo Bang]. An off-kilter piano melody curls around skittering 808s as his wildly manic high-pitched flow practically chokes the verses. It gives way to an intensely irresistible refrain as he repeats, “Like barefoot.”

“It’s self-explanatory,” he notes. “I really say everything in the lyrics. Me and Fredo ended up linking up, and he killed it.”

In a full circle moment, a Baton Rouge legend Boosie BadAzz blesses “Go Back Inside” with fresh fire on the tape. Meanwhile, he reteams with Foogiano for the piano-laden warning “I Ain’t Scared.” On the other end of the spectrum, melodic keys glisten through “Welcome 2 The Trenches.” He gives a lyrical tour of his neighborhood as he shouts out old friends and neighbors in between a hypnotic autotune-powered hook. He admits, “Been all around the world, but ain’t nothing like the ghetto.”

“I’m talking about the trenches,” he says. “It’s a personal one, because it’s where I’m from.”

In the end, he’s bringing everyone into this place.

“If you listen to me, I hope you gravitate towards what I’m saying,” he leaves off. “I’ve been working on all of this for a while. I’m just getting my story out for you all.”