Jesus Christ, Haile Selassie I, Malcom X(El Haaj Malik Shabazz), Robert Nesta Marley, Kool Herc, My Dad (Leighton G, Phillips), Harriet Tubman, Nat Turner, Paul Bogle,Rakim Allah, James "J-Dilla" Yancey( for his strength and his power to endure!!),My Mom, Pete Rock, Anthony T. Browder, Just to name a few...
Hailing from uptown New York's Mt.Vernon,Greg Phillips A.K.A "Grap Luva" got his start out in the hip hop game dancing on tour with his older cousin and hip hop pioneer Heavy D,around the same time his older brother was about to drop a gem on the hip hop world as 1/2 of the ledgendary duo Pete Rock & CL Smooth. With the release of Mecca & the Soul Brother, Grap made his way onto the album with one of the most memorable freestlye's of the time...lets put it this way Lil Fame of M.O.P saw Grap coming out of the studio and asked him to kick it for him...Shortly after that Grap and a few of his boys(Rob O,Marco Polo) formed a group calling themselves InI,due much in part to Grap's Jamaican roots...with production duties handled by his brother Pete Rock the group released their first single and video for the classic 12" "Fakin Jax" on Elektra, with little push or promotion the groups,now heralded as a classic first full length album "Center of Attention" unfortunately never saw the light of day...With the subsequent demise of Pete Rocks Soul Brother Records to be distributed through Elektra the group parted ways with their label and the album was lost in limbo...that is until....a couple of years later gangsta rap and the so called "East vs West" fued was in full swing, a couple of songs started popping up on mixtapes,even though they sounded like recordings of recordings Djs all around the world were putting these songs on their mixtapes(yes actual tapes kiddies) and low and behold they were bootleg copies of songs off of the InI album"Center of Attention" fast forward a couple of years from then the very much classic album was bootlegged so much and sought after by so many that BBE Records decided to track down the masters and actually release the album almost a decade after it was recorded,the demand was that strong...As all this was going on, Grap stayed working with cats from all around the world releasing a slew of singles and now producing tracks for some of hip hop's up and coming heavyweight emcees in the game right now...although a very elusive cat Grap Luva has etched his name in the hip hop history book and has devout fans allover the world...he has helped alot of cats get on (Kev Brown,Sound Providers to name a couple)and to this day is sought after by new jacks all over who remember the first time they heard that famous first line "I am the one they call the G the R the A the P and..."
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Decades has passed since you were first pressed/from rough paper to being neatly dressed/in a light card board jacket with the plastic stretched/the title on the right with the price to the left/couldnt wait til you were released from the shelf/bobbing my head imagination and my two step/static kicks matched the thumps in my chest/I cant believe they tried to put you to rest
Barbecues in the back yard/by the garage next to the tree/you spun/shaded from the sun/ in 45, 33/how the groove repeats/was amazing to me/it was almost biblical to say the least/then they went digital and the prices in-creased/the sound was clearer/some even used compacts as mirrors/in their reflection/you were disrespected/you fell back, accepted rejection/but what kept you alive, they realized that you were the essence/from politics, parties, nooses, and dirty weapons/you kept the music spinning in the age of depression/even assisted with stories in sunday school lessons/in the event you skipped we still got the message
You gave hope to couples/prevented alley scuffles/static melodies kept the mind off trouble/provided theme music for Arthur Ashe's dominance in doubles/to kids on the hop scotch and bottle bubbles/you set it off/with alcohol, water, and soft cloths/even when you warped/ you stayed on torque/ reading comics on the front porch/showed resilence with blood on the court/and the poor soul outlined in chalk/from the corner store we walked/excited about the sounds we bought/in a rectangular paper bags/some your joints were sad/others made us laugh/we were glad/cause pops one day would let us have/the table that turns/for us to sample, bang beats, and songs to burn/for the people in streets and money to earn
Its the passion/that keeps the love everlasting/be listening for the static when the radios blasting/when cd's scratch and pc's crash/you can sit back and laugh/cause you'll be safe
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ey G, hows it going duude, I just wanted to drop in to say thanks for the tunes, I got that InI with peterock lost tapes sh*t. Good Work forsurely, very well composed , good Looking out
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by the way Thanks for some of the Teachings on the flow tactics I know you I gotta say thanks, cuz you got the Seniority
What up Grap...After the success of "Geoffrey the butler: Fresh Pimp of Bel Air " the musical...Willowtreez proudly brings you the long anticipated "Blak-e-Mon: Gettin Me Some" the musical. Featuring a star studded cast of silver screened legends (they said it would never happen) and a music score of the highest quality...be one the lucky individuals to witness this extravaganza (Beijing will be classed as a smouldering amber flint compared to this bad boy). Tickets for the worldwide tour are going fast so ORDER YOURS NOW!!!! This is gonna be bigger than Band Aid.
Im back to flipping and scribbling on loose leaf/for the past ten/I gave rest to the pen and made beats/left the mic on the shelf/cause I felt/the game was losing it's depth/so I started chopping drums with the measure and steps/never lost the love for the way words connect/to make ya bob yo head and bruise your neck/I mean I had to change scenes/ and develop ways in making the green/cause they made it for wack niggas to appear on screens!/so I stayed up late/finger walkng through crates/to create something great/slicing the loops whatever it takes/to make em relate/to the sounds of the Raw Furiouz/having fun taking my craft serious/now I got a few cats curious/about the way I put a mix together/or the way I fix the letters/to form words into action/cause the rappers that are in practice/be slacking/so Im here to change the attraction/of the rhyme show/careful when deciding where my lines go/like seperating the blinds and let the shine glow/ and truncating my lengths for the wave flow.....
"Dust My Mic Off"...a page from "The Rhyme Book"
written to one of my bangers..inspired by hip hop and producer emcee's!
I am the G the R the A the you know the rest you it wrote A.D. coming thru like hurricane ike tell you whole cru i said stay ^ and get money, A.D. out.
LOTS OF RESPECT TO U, GRAP LUVA. I WANNA INVITE U TO LISTEN TO MY LATEST WORK. NEW JIMCREDIBLE REMIX!! NUEVO JIMCREDIBLE REMIX!! LITTLE BROTHER "LIFE OF THE PARTY" PEACE Jim B.
