So, you know how some things look better on paper? Well, the new Grip Grand shirts are back from the printers. The good news is, these shirts are guaranteed to make people stop and stare in the street! The bad news is, they’ll be staring at your crotch.
In case my recent video “freestyle” over the Popular Demand beat just wasn’t enough for you, here’s some downloadable audio, newly recorded at the Bum Shelter.
Grip Grand — Popular Demand Freestyle (Studio Mix)
This video is for everyone who thinks Grip Grand is a disembodied voice in a box and not an actual person. To prove my existence, I filmed myself rapping. And to show you that this isn’t all computer-generated trickery, I did it from the least flattering angle possible. If I were some kind of cyberbot, I would have way fewer chins. So enjoy your behind-the-scenes glimpse into my rap life–this shit is more rare than a Bigfoot sighting.
Sometimes, you can’t be sure an idea will work until you do a demo. Thus, the video you see before you. The jury’s still out on whether it’ll work or not. But clearly it would have to be redone, as the current version just won’t do. I couldn’t even remember the words to my own song! I guess we all make mistakes. So why am I passing this possibly-failed experiment on to you? Because that’s the price you pay for following my so-called career, sucker. Thought you’d be used to it by now…
Goin’ through some old CDs last night, I stumbled upon this little gem. The Desert Dwellas, straight outta Vegas, released The Killa Fish Prauject roughly a decade ago. I bought it on the strength of a review I read somewhere, back when people used to do things like buy CDs by artists they’d never heard of. I’m glad I did. (Songs after the jump)
Beautiful Girl fell off the map sometime in the first half of the double-oh decade. It was the second Brokelore reject (after Broakland Now, see earlier post), so maybe I already played this for you in 2003. Like I care…
This is…not much of a song. (Zing!) I recorded it a few years back, fast and dirty. Two unrelated verses, two beats, no hook, and a strange, wholly irrelevant intro…sounds like a hit! Named after the first two words of each verse, “This Is” was never intended to be more than a way to store these verses and beats in the vault for posterity. And yet here I am, showing it to people indiscriminately (wink wink). Whatever. I’m bored.
Here’s a deep cut from the vaults (as they say). This unusual piece, produced by DJ Flip & Freezemaster Slick, was done about two years ago, before my man Obama took office. But a lot of it is still true, don’t fool yourself. This type of political diatribe isn’t my regular lane, but at the time it was hard not to get heated about world affairs. Frankly, it still is. So add me to your list of rappers to invite to the rally, right after Immortal Technique, Dead Prez, and Paris. I’ll bring the chronic, you bring the kegs. Of gunpowder.