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Gini Grindeth : Darker Side...
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Gini
will razzle-dazzle daze and amaze you with fast-paced
hard to the core lyrics one minute, and then in the
next instant transport you with stammering slurs of
speech to a disc-world only Terry Pratchett or J.R.
Tolkien could fully understand. In 2004 he released
his solo-project "Darker side of Reason" along
with a music-video Paradise Road screened on SABC. He
truely is an up and coming MC of note and is determined
to eat anything that moves-even a member of the crowd
from time to time. |
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Also the cat is
a wild-style graffiti artist too who along with Rasti
are producing clothing under their own label Munk. To
top it off, Gini claimed champion position as a free-style
artist in 1999 and 2001 at the annual African Battle
Cry (CPT). |
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Gini Grindeth's
Interview : |
| "I've been
rhyming since 1996, doing shit with Fifth Floor, Uncanny
Cessmen and some joints on the Concentration Camp with
Fungus The Mutated Lung as side projects, but my immediate
crew is AMNORMAL DETAIL…which is myself and Hymphatic
Thabs, DJ Raiko and Evesdrop the new edition, thats
more like mixing Hip-Hop with theatre. " |
Graffiti :
"Really thats when I started with Hip Hop,
lots of bombing trains, now its more productive work.
Its the strongest element…I always think of myself
as a graff-writer first, its been my love for years.
On that level its the most true element in HIP HOP.Cats
are still being locked up on graff charges…People
has been drawing on surfaces since the beginning of
time…and whats the fucking difference now…just
because some people have claimed ownership now its wrong.
Everything you think you can do freely will be suppressed…there
is only a certain limit to freedom. " |
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| " Freedom
is just a nice concept, an idea that people use as an
excuse..its goes hand-in-hand with other words like
democracy. Its just a word at the end of the day that
makes you feel better about the world. Graffiti will
always be a problem unless you are paying for it. Thats
how it is these days, its cool if you can put it on
TV and you’re paying 30 000 bones…if you
are paying for it then its acceptable cause we all are
living in a fucking capitalist world…If you don’t
have loot then you are feeding on the bottom. If it
sells then its O.K." |
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10
Years of Democracy : "They are trying to
paint a pretty picture to the world about the new S.A…yeah
everything looks a little different, but thats what
they want you to think if it looks different then it
must obviously be different…shit hasn’t
changed its still the same…its just at the surface
thats where it looks different. The same people who
had their fingers in the pie is still running the economy,
still running everything. Its all good if graffiti suites
them but if it doesn’t, lock them up and throw
away the key!! Shit is getting heavy, cats are getting
shot at, hunted down. So everytime you go out to paint
trains there is a chance that you can die, there are
private police that are trigger happy. Cats have dodgged
bullets… its no lie!"
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ALBUM
- Darker Side of Reason : "Exploration of
Characterization... A journey thru the life of a character
called Gini Grindeth, exploring the different elements
of life…of the mental suppression thats holds
people back from their creativity. An alter ego’s
look on life…cause the world is a strange place
and its getting stranger…a question on why, who,
where and what. The music video called "Paradise
Road" was made on zero budget same as the album.
I’m not trying to get my face out there to much
but its dope cause its a change from the commercially
overplayed shit that just bombards the airwaves. They
are prepared to show another side to Hip Hop…instead
of making people bounch …lets try to get them
to open up their brains." |
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To
be continued ... |
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