Grafh sits down with the French Magazine Gasface for this hip hop interview. Grafh talks about his start and how he focused more on the street than the music despite some of the industry’s biggest names coming into the Blackhand Studios to work with Chaz. He speaks on the overwhelming amount of mixtapes that are out, and how the oversaturation is bad for sales and hip hop music in general. Grafh gives props to Nas as one of the best artists from Queens to really speak on what was really going on in Queens through his story-telling ability. Grafh also talks about growing up with the influences of the artists that made Queens what it really is, but a lot of the younger hip hop artists and individuals really don’t know what Queens is about and are repping it wrong.
Another solid interview, though I wish Gasface would have posted up the questions asked. Grafh has a crazy history to tell, as we have heard in many of his songs. Coming up in Jamaica Queens and being surrounded by one of the most influential people in the hip hop world in Chaz Williams, he definitely has a lot to speak on. Not too mention the politics of the hip hop music industry that he’s encountered with labels, and now working to establish Blackhand and really repping the New York underground hip hop music reemergence. Shout out to Grafh. Press play!