Grey Matter is a solo artist who has been involved in hip-hop through MC'ing and Graffiti for over 17 years and has blessed the stage with the likes of Evolve Music's Hip Hop Addicts (including Maja Skill, OkeraSun, Macaw Peacock to name a few) and Ghetto DJ, Blacksmith (a.k.a. Lil' Joe) from MOB Productions, D. Villegas, Bobby-Lo & More! He has opened for Circus (ShapeShifters), Acid Reign and the Hip-Hop Addicts and is a regular at most Ordnance, Ruffneck and Broken Silence(IE) hosted events. Grey Matter is also the Art Director for Hood League Records and will be releasing a mixtape on their label VERY SOON as well as his 2nd solo album under RYMEnt and Evolve Music! Catch him regularly hosting 4 ELEMENTS Hip-Hop @ FACES in Riverside, CA each Saturday this Summer 2007!!!
Influences
Cypress Hill, Chino XL, Mobb Deep, Ice Cube, Dr. Dre, Heiroglyphics, Del The Funky Homosapien, The Shape Shifters (especially AWOL, 2Mex, Circus and Akuma), OMD, Dynospectrum, Snoop Doggy Dogg & Tha Dogg Pound, 2Pac, Bone Thugz N Harmony, Aceyalone, 50 Cent, Andre Nickatina (Dre Dog) & Equipto, Dr. Octagon, Anticon (especially Dose, Why?, Sol and Buck 65), Atmosphere, Boo Yaa Tribe, Eminem, Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band, Sun Ra, Xzibit, Fat Joe, Lords Of Brooklyn, Everlast and House of Pain, MC Eiht, DJ Quik, The Dangerous Crew and The Click (All the Bay Area - Too Short, Richie Rich, Spice-1, Ant Banks, MC Pooh, E-40), Wu-Tang Clan (especially GZA, Method Man, ODB-R.I.P., Ghostface Killa and the RZA), The Almighty Jizzm, Erick Sermon, Rakim, D-Nice, Special Ed, Public Enemy, Rage Against The Machine, System Of A Down, SoleSides/Quannum (Gift Of Gab, Blackalicious, Latyrx, DJ Shadow), DJ Q-Bert, Ice-T, Sublime, The Pharcyde, US 3, Digable Planets, LL Cool J, Beastie Boys, Run DMC, The Visionaries, Nas, Masta Ace, MC Breed, Naughty By Nature, Queen, Radioinactive, Portishead, Radiohead, Pycho Realm, Weird Al Yankovic, Michael Jackson and many, many, more!!! I JUST FUCKING LOVE MUSIC, AS MANY GENRES AS YOU CAN THROW AT ME! Where's BB King? Ella Fitzgerald? Classics, man, classics.
Sounds Like
Some REAL shit! I sound like Hip-Hop, I sound like Music, I sound Human and Alien and Rhythmic and Chaotic. I am for everyone.
GREY MATTER aka DARK MATTER aka THA MINISTER aka GREAT MASTER aka MESSIAH of MESSAGES aka INSINERATOR
“I REPRESENT HIP-HOP IN IT’S PUREST FORM, INCLUDING THE 4 ELEMENTS, MC’ING, BREAKING, DJ’ING AND GRAFFITI FOR SURE! I’VE BEEN INVOLVED IN GRAFFITI AND HIP-HOP FOR 17 YEARS AND HAVE LOVED IT ALL MY LIFE! I LOVE TO CREATE HIP-HOP IN VARIOUS FORMS, SUCH AS HARDCORE, POLITICAL, LYRICALLY CHALLENGING, BATTLE RAPS, POETIC FLOWS, CONSCIOUS AND POSITIVE HIP-HOP, LATIN AND EXPERIMENTAL”.
AFTER THE BREAK UP OF “GRAFFIC APHLIKTIONZ”, A GROUP CONSISTING OF HIMSELF (AS THE SICK ONE) AND HIS COUSIN ‘THE RAGE’ (who went on to pursue a career as vocalist 'Bleeding Lung' in the popular So. Cal. metal band SANGRE), GREY MATTER HAS RELEASED 1 SOLO ALBUM ENTITLED “IMMACKULATE MISCONCEPTIONS” COMPLETELY DIGITAL, SINCE HE BEGAN PURSUING MUSIC IN 1998. “IMMACKULATE MISCONCEPTIONS” WAS HIGHLY POLITICALLY CHARGED, FULL OF HARDCORE RAP TRACKS (SOME OF WHICH COULD BE CALLED HORRORCORE SUCH AS ‘SUPERNATURAL’) AND SOME VERY EXPERIMENTAL TRACKS WITH COLLABORATIONS FROM DTS, OKIRASUN AND DOLPHINBRAIN FROM EVOLVE MUSIC. DUE TO LACK OF DISTRIBUTION, IT WAS NOT WIDELY HEARD, ALTHOUGH MUCH OF THE MUSIC IS STILL BEING PLAYED ON SITES SUCH AS MYSPACE, SOUNDCLICK AND AMONGST FANS IN THE INLAND EMPIRE REGION OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA.
CURRENTLY GREY MATTER IS WORKING ON SEVERAL PROJECTS INCLUDING THE CREATION OF HIS OWN COMPANY RYME (Ruben Young Entertainment & Media), A MIXTAPE, WITH LONG TIME FRIEND DJ SEIZURE AND PRODUCERS FROM HOOD LEAGUE RECORDS, A LABEL GREY MATTER IS CURRENTLY THE ART DIRECTOR FOR. A SOLO ALBUM ENTITLED "GRAVE MATTERS", AND A COLLABORATIVE ALBUM WITH MEMBERS OF “THE DO-GOODERS” OF THE EVOLVE MUSIC COLLECTIVE ARE ALSO IN THE WORKS.
GREY MATTER HAS OPENED FOR, PERFORMED WITH AND BOOKED VARIOUS WELL KNOWN UNDERGROUND ACTS FROM THE WEST COAST SUCH AS ACID REIGN, CIRCUS OF THE SHAPE SHIFTERS, HIP HOP ADDICTS, DJ ICKEE, OMINOUS WORDS, S.O.P., ABOMB RECORDS, PURE UNKUT AND MORE. HE HAS ALSO BEEN INVOLVED IN CREATING MEDIA SUCH AS WEBSITES, FLIERS AND PROMOTIONAL MATERIALS FOR VARIOUS ENTERTAINERS, RECORD LABELS, AND INDEPENDENT FILM COMPANIES SUCH AS BUKUE ONE FUNNYMAN ENTERTAINMENT (MC AND GRAFF WRITER; MANAGER FOR DEL, HIEROGLYPHICS AND ABSTRACT RUDE), QLP FILMS, SANGRE, EVOLVE MUSIC, HOOD LEAGUE RECORDS AND MORE.
GREY MATTER CAN BE SEEN IN A SCENE FROM “GRAND THEFT PARSONS”, A SMALL BUDGET DARK COMEDY FILM STARRING CHRISTINA APPLEGATE AND JOHNNY KNOXVILLE. WATCH IT ON SHOWTIME REGULARLY OR RENT / BUY IT FROM YOUR LOCAL VIDEO STORE!
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"GRAVE MATTERS" THE ALBUM DROPS JUNE 18TH, 2008 & MORE!
TO EVERYONE WHO HAS BEEN AWAITING THE ALBUM "GRAVE MATTERS", IT IS ON IT'S WAY!
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IT'S BEEN DELAYED DUE TO SEVERAL TECHNICAL AND PERSONAL REASONS, BUT THAT'S OK BECAUSE I HAVEN'T RELEASED AN ALBUM IN SO LONG, THIS WILL BE WORTH THE WAIT.
THIS IS ONLY MY SECOND OFFICIAL RELEASE, AFTER MY DEBUT "IMMACKULATE MISCONCEPTIONS" WHICH WAS DISTRIBUTED DIGITALLY BEFORE I EVEN HAD A MYSPACE ACCOUNT!
FEAR NOT, THIS SHIT IS HOT AND WILL BE DROPPING OFFICIALLY ON: "JUNE 18TH, 2008"
IF THE CD'S ARE NOT READY BY THEN, I WILL BE OFFERING SPECIAL PRICING FOR DOWNLOADS EXCLUSIVELY THROUGH BETA RECORDS.
WHEN I SAY SPECIAL, I'M TALKING PENNIES PER SONG!
PRE-SALE PRICE FOR THE CD'S ARE $12, BUT THAT INCLUDES A FREE T-SHIRT AND FIRST DIBS ON MY NEXT PROJECT, A "FREE EP" WITH A PRODUCER FROM ILLINOIS I AM KEEPING SECRET FOR NOW, BUT THIS WILL BE ON A NEW STYLE OF HIP-HOP FOR ME, SO STAY TUNED!
DON'T FORGET, MY COMPANY RYME IS IN EFFECT, PRODUCING GRAPHICS, PRINT AND CLOTHING FOR THOSE ARTIST, MUSICIANS, SMALL BUSINESSES, PHOTOGRAPHERS AND CLOTHING LINES ALIKE! OUR WEBSITE WILL BE UP SOON, HELPING YOU PROMOTE YOUR MUSIC, ARTWORK OR EVENT!
.. Hi there Grey Matter first of all we'd like to say thanks for being our myspace pal. We wanted to make sure you knew the reason incase we suddenly vanish off of your friends list. The movement we've started for indie artists has grown significantly and consumes all of our time these days. We seldom sign into our myspace account and this is making several people believe that we are ignoring them. We are not ignoring anyone, we wanted everyone to know that. What we're doing has become so busy we just don't have the time for myspace any longer, so in all honesty we are probably going to just close our myspace account.
Many people wanted to use us in the future so if you were one of those people make sure you bookmark the link below so that in the event that we do close our myspace account you won't lose contact with us. I wish you the best of luck in your music career. Thanks again for being our myspace pal.
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