Me and my Writer's Bench squad had a chance to sit down and chop it up with Grap Lover where dude tells some CLASSIC hip hop stories about how how he got into hip hop, how Pete Rock made the beats for Heavy's Big Tyme album using pause tapes, how he ended up with his verse on the Basement, the hoopla around why INI's debut album never dropped and how he connected Little Brother to Pete Rock to how Pete Rock and CL Smooth started out as a 3 man crew, how the Pete and CL break up affected him, if he's still rhyming and making beats and how the day went when Pete Rock made the beat for the remix for Das EFX's real hip hop. Plus you get to hear Grap play some bangers live right out the SP1200!

http://www.willmakebeatsforfood.com/2013/11/live-from-writers-bench-grap-luva.html

thanks for posting this, looking forward to checkin it out..

Thanks...met this brother while in DC this past summer...good peoples....

Great interview! CRAZY stories...especially the story of him making the Real Hip Hop Remix! Good stuff...check out some other eps too...good show. Ya'll are onto something.

Good looking fam! Yeah, we've been doing the show for a couple of months now. Got Prince Po of Organized coming on next week and prayerfully Dave from De La...

I appreciate you taking the time out to check out the show! Salute!

Always enjoyed his laid back style and of course his work on Center of Attention.

I'll read this interview with enthusiasm.

thx for postin

grap luva is just dope to listen to. i'm gonna have to listen to some more of these episodes. don't always agree with y'all, but anytime you get level headed, knowledgeable dudes speaking on music, you will enjoy yourself and learn something.

I appreciate you taking time to check out the show fam! Yeah...half of the time none of us agree but I don't think we've done an episode where I haven't learned something or at least saw things from another perspective. Good Looking again!

whether you agree or not, or wonder why they left this or that album off their list, it was dope lsitening to them break down their choices. shout out kil for having the roots mtv live at the 930 club poster in the background.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifD8t2qF1mI&list=UUFhLtgW6eP1zY3fmdYQufjw

Yeah...we're about to do another show on slept on albums show cause there's SO many of 'me out there. Good looking for the shout out to for the Roots poster...gotta shout out my dude DJ Fusion for the hook up!

no disrespect 'cause i know you said he's your boy and all, but Andres gave himself away when he said ice t "looks like somebody who plays a new york city cop" and "color is a popular song, but other than that..." To say that ice t wasn't being felt except for "colors" is just wrong. and then to say that "death row" put him on to hip hop and that dogg pound is the first west coast album he got into just doesn't cut it for me.

and then he didn't know who rasco is....i mean i can list a bunch more things.

y'all need someone from the west that actually grew up in the 80's to speak on west coast hip hop.



and the nas/dead prez shit was fully explained and wasn't ghostwriting in any way (unless you honestly believe nas and stic man are liars)

I feel you fam...I sometimes forget that Andres is about 8 years younger then me and I think he gave a dope perspective of the West for his age bracket but yeah, we'd love to do another show with a cat who's more in the rest of the Bench's age bracket (38-42) so if you know anybody who'd be down to sit in and chop it us with us inbox me and let me know. Good looking!

but compared to how knowledgeable y'all are on east coast hip hop....?