Ah man. I missed his intros for like the past 10 years. I have to catch up. Here’s one from his Warlordz mixtape, released this past summer.

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If you want to understand me, you’ve got to understand Queens. Visually, it’s the most suburban part of New York City. It’s got long, quiet streets with freestanding houses placed between modest front and backyards. I’ve read magazine interviews where rappers say their ‘hood is like every other ‘hood. That might be true for some of them, but if they’re from New York City, they’re probably lying. Anyone who’s ever been there will tell you, New York is totally different from the rest of the country. The buildings, the streets – just the number of m-s packed together – there’s nothing like it. There’s no part of Compton that looks like Harlem. There’s no zone in Atlanta that could get mistaken for Bed-Stuy. It’s just not gonna happen. In the rest of America they build out. In New York, they build up.

There’s only one part of New York that you could say looks and feels like nearly every other ‘hood in America, and that’s the south side of Queens. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not saying Queens is generic or that it doesn’t have its own flavor. I’m just saying that if you look at Queens the way n-s look at things – is there dope dealing? Do people drive cars? Do people live in little one-story houses like me? The answer is yes, if you’re talking about Queens and just about any other ghetto in America. I’ve always thought that was part of the reason I can write music that appeals to people outside the five boroughs better than any other New York rapper. How you live influences your mind state, and people are able to empathize with my mind state because even though it’s different than theirs, they get where it came from.

So I guess I should thank my grandparents, Curtis and Beulah Jackson. They’re the ones that moved my family to Queens in the ’50s from Ackerson, S.C.

When they bought their house in 161st St. in Jamaica, the same house I got shot in front of 40 years later, the streets weren’t even paved. Dirt roads in New York City. I think they built the roads when my mom was a child, in the ’60s, because by the time I was born in 1975 our street looked pretty much how it does today.

Until I got my first check from “Get Rich or Die Tryin,’” that house was the biggest asset that anyone in my family ever had. To my grandparents, that house meant the world.

Qwel + Silence – Preamble
Killah Priest – How Many
Jungle Brothers – Back In The Jungle
DJ Muggs + Sick Jacken – Silent Crimes
Bored Stiff – Medicine
Bored Stiff + Del – C Thru The BS
Eligh + Magi w/ BasikMC – Saving Face
Jendor – Cut The Apple In Half [prod. by TapeMastahSteph]
Mumbles – Lakysha Bodha feat. Rebecca Kleinnman and Shanti Shivani
Kill the Vultures – Midnight Pine
Jay Electronica – Voodoo Man
Brotha Lynch Hung – Goodnight
UGK feat Kool G Rap and Kane – Next Up
Hydroponic Sound System w/ Mr. Blakes + Mes The Jive Turkey – Its Working Blues Mix
Fineprint – Ashby
50 Cent – 187 Curtis



Download GRANDGOOD Audiocast Volume 091107 (Side B) by G as a mix or as individual tracks

Special Ed – This Mic
La The Darkman – They Keep Talking
Aceyalone – Jungle Muzik Feat. Jah Orah
Fineprint – Wicked
C Rayz Walz And Parallel Thought – Chorus IV
DJ Muggs Vs. Sick Jacken – Land Of Shadows
Boot Camp Clik – The Hustle
Statik Selektah – Did What He Had To Do (Showoff Mix) (feat. KRS-One, Large Professor, Larry Cheeba)
Percee P – 2 Brothers From The Gutter (feat. Diamond D)
COS – We Don’t Talk To Police
Blu And Exile – the narrow path
Octane & Illite – Bassline (feat. Kodac & One Be Lo)
Sunspot Jonz – Sidewinderz
Grouch – Dedication
Giovanni Marks – Subtalk (s.t.2k5 Rmx)
East of Underground – I Love You

What’s the big deal? Authenticity? F$ck you, pay me. Yeah, yeah, we’ve hinted at the ugliness of selling out around here before, but really, can we hate on him or Cope2 or anyone else? Like Jay-Z said, “…overchargin’ n*ggas for what they did to the Cold Crush! Plus, it’s kind of funny.Link

Chill,

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Rhymefest, ODB – Build Me Up Link
Fatlip – Writers Block Link
Old School Vendetta – All About The Timing Link
Shyheim – No mercy Link
MOP – Muddy Waters Link
Bugout – What Up B Link
Onry Ozzborn – Digest The Hardcore Link
Necro, Ill Bill, Goretex, Mr Hyde – Severed Organs Link
Disflex6 – Dream Sequence Remix Link
Candy 22s – Lonely Nights Link
Mikah 9 – The Beretta Factor Link
Andre Nickatina and Equipto – Caught in a verse Link
Bigg Jus – Night Before Link
Dooley-o – I Don’t Wanna Lose You Link
OC – Challenge Y’all Link

Audiocast: Generally, newly released contemporary HipHop with not enough press. As played by GRANDGOOD. Broadcasted on the eleventh of each month. Every now and again grandgood friend Lapu Patiño also blesses us with random audio. Visit www.grandgood.com for more info.