(Krs-One Presents) Greenie
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BHF Alumni: KRS-One and Greenie-Passing the Torch
June 23, 2010 by Ron Grant
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KRS-One. Kris Parker. The Blastmaster. The Teacher. Knowledge Reigns Supreme Over Nearly Everyone. No matter who you are or how you refer to this living legend, pioneer, colossus, icon and former BHF performer (2008 to be exact), you most certainly have to refer to him as a man who time and time again makes history, takes risks and isn’t afraid to go his own way, while taking many of us along for the ride.
So it should come as no surprise to fans and followers that KRS recently took on the roles of producer, trainer and mentor for an up-and-coming Queens, NY artist Greenie. For the first time in his 20-plus year career, The Teacher has executive produced an entire album for another artist. As reported on June 22 on RapWeekly.com and PRWeb.com, KRS has been working with Greenie for the last year to produce It’s All Good, a 14-track, full-length album that will be released in the coming month.
Greenie, a Queens-bred Jewish MC who’s rhymed since 1983 and has been described as “highly controversial” and “unusually skilled”, is releasing the album as his debut project. He describes on KRSOneAlbum.com the opportunity to work directly with KRS-One as “a dream come true for me.” He’s already performed in spots around the country, including Florida and Virginia, to promote the new project. Video of Greenie performing is available at the site.
Fans of KRS are sure to be in for not only hard-hitting beats and heavy subject matter, but a different perspective and angle on hip hop. With track titles like ‘Snake in the House’, ‘Already In Heaven’, ‘Real Terrorism’ and “Sign the Prenup (Put Yo Name on the X)’, It’s All Good definitely sounds like an album that’s not for the faint of heart, but may also teach a thing or two to both die-hard fans of KRS and those looking for something new in Greenie.
It’s All Good boasts appearances and production by some of Hip Hop’s heaviest hitters and most well-love pioneers, including Busy Bee, DJ Kenny Parker, Jesse West and Sean C & LV of P. Diddy’s Hit Men production team. The album touches on many heavy topics such as U.S. governmental policy, religion, racism, marital infidelity, divorce, terrorism, and much more. KRS, recognized by many as one of the greatest MCs of all time, also performs with Greenie on five of the albums’ 14 tracks.
It’s All Good can be previewed at KRSOneAlbum.com and will be available worldwide in early July. - Brooklyn Bodedga
Hip-Hop Pioneer Krs-One Producing Rap Music for Greenie
by Skimask on June 23, 2010
in Rap News
Two and half decades into his groundbreaking career, hip-hop and rap music (www.krsonealbum.com) pioneer Krs-One has teamed up with highly controversial, and unusually skilled up-and-coming rap star, Greenie.
Boasting 23 years of rapping experience on his own, Greenie’s first full-length CD, entitled “It’s All Good,” was executive produced by Krs-One and also features a number of other heavy-hitting hip-hop celebrity credits never before put together on a freshman release.
“Greenie twists his life story into an inspirational tale for all to turn their own pains into triumphs…”
The album’s epic rhythms set stages for more than a dozen tracks featuring dramatic stories, epic rhythms, and attacks on U.S. government policy, religion, police, racist families and more. As a lyricist, Greenie is a perfectionist; he’d have to be nothing else in order to have become one of the only emcees in history to have ever shared the mic with and been produced by Krs-One —who is widely recognized as one of the five greatest emcees of all time.
Krs-One himself performs with Greenie on five of the CD’s tracks. Additionally, Busy Bee, the world’s first solo emcee and star of the 1982 film WildStyle, performs a comical role in the song “Married Girl 3462”– an over-the-top track about marital infidelity and Internet cheating.
Music production credits are likely to include Jesse West, Sean C & LV, DJ Kenny Parker, and others. It is confirmed that Sean C & LV, part of Diddy’s HitMen Production team have provided two beats—including the title track for Krs-One’s highly controversial project with new artist, Greenie. Specifically, Sean C & LV provide an epic, dramatic track for the song “It’s All Good”—in which Greenie twists his life story into an inspirational tale for all to turn their own pains into triumphs and they also provide a remarkably hardcore, driving beat for “Already In Heaven,” an undeniably controversial track in which Greenie denounces world religions declaring such things as “I’m forgiving my own sins and I’m already IN heaven” and “You gave me a talis, you gave me a yamalke//Why don’t you give me back my foreskin for Chanukah?”
Unlike so many other hip-hop and rap music artists today, Greenie doesn’t spend all of his time whining about life’s hardships; Like his title track “It’s All Good” demonstrates, life can be difficult—VERY difficult—but there is a REAL way—a STREET way even—to turn EVERY negative into a positive. Describing his childhood from getting beat up in Queens constantly [“It ain’t matter that I’z dope, no one cared that I’z live//White kids weren’t allowed to rap back in ‘85”]…to being raised by his drug-addicted older sister…to his speech handicap—and a disastrous marriage, Greenie demonstrates how he not only got back on his feet but turned all of his life’s “issues” into positive, important parts of who he is.
The new CD can be previewed and ordered at KrsOneAlbum.Com and is scheduled to be released internationally in early July.
- Rap Weekly
Discography
Albums
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Krs-One Presents Greenie "It's ALL Good" [Azoos, 2010]
Singles
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My Son, The Schvartze [2010]
Real Terrorism (feat. Krs-One) [2010]
Sign The Prenup [2010]
Married Girl 3462 (feat. Busy Bee) [2010]
1 Cop, 2 Cops (feat. Krs-One) [2010]
Dance Like It Don't Matter (feat. Krs-One) [2010]
Cum, Dicky, Cum
Play Before Work (feat. The 352 Boyz) [2010]
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The stories are crazy: A desperate housewife jerked Greenie off into her unsuspecting husband's dinner salad while the poor man worked.The Planned Parenthood doctor who gave him a vasectomy ordered him to send a sample for testing after 20 ejaculations...so he told his girlfriend he has a medical prescription for her to get out 21 loads...New Jersey cops beat him up for drug dealing yet he's never sold drugs in his life. He can take out almost any emcee in a battle. He's from Queens, New York but he lives in a rural Floridian swamp area now (much like Shrek!)...Greenie's been dirt poor. He's been filthy rich. He was happily married. He was tragically divorced. He was raised by a drug-addicted older sister with a penchant for suicide yet now he raises his own children completely sober... In 2010, Krs-One, the "teacha" took Greenie on as the most unique...and gifted apprentice EVER...
Raised in Queens, New York City, Andrew Greenstein, aka Greenie, possesses indisputable lyrical skill (he's been rapping since the mid 1980s!) but his unusual life is NOT at all typical of anyone in society; much less of anyone in hip-hop society. With or without hip-hop, Greenie's life is an inspiration to all but it is through hip-hop that he now chooses to spread his message...
It was early 2009...Greenie had just lost millions of dollars he'd earned through 7 years of entrepreneurial labor...after working 125+ hours per week. But poor investments didn't take him down as hard as the simultaneous end of his "fairy tale" marriage...an event that occurred shortly after his ex-wife turned to drugs and was caught sleeping with an alleged pedophile.
Crushed, Greenie left society behind and went to meditate for days in private seclusion, where he began to write lyrics about his life. In pain, he began by writing only of suffering ...rhyming about his life's so-called tragedies. He began by digging into his past and cursing what he once considered to have been a handicap and how it held him back for 3 decades. Unable to even speak until he was about 30 years old, Greenie felt he had wasted his life in silence and could've married someone else if only he'd had the vocal ability back in his early 20s to speak to females instead of searching silently online. "Yeah..but then I wouldn't have my two amazing children," he realized in a moment of enlightenment. In fact, Greenie began to realize that the same impediment he had loathed for decades ...had also led to so many blessings in his life: For example, had he not been speech handicapped, Greenie would've gone for traditional job interviews instead of hiding behind the silent wall of entrepreneurial effort that led him to make millions. Indirectly but undeniably, his speech impediment led to the creation of Greenie's wonderful children and it also led to him earning millions of dollars.
Had he not been co-raised by a drug-addicted older sister with a penchant for suicide, Greenie would've experimented with drugs on his own and been likely to have led a much less positive lifestyle. In short, as Greenie wrote his rhymes, he was beginning to understand EVERYTHING that happens in life... is...all..good. Negative events always ...eventually.. lead to something better in our life stories. And so, he made a commitment right then to TRUST that all of the "bad" stuff yet to come in his life would always turn out good...It HAD to. That, he knew, was how life WORKED...
Weeks later, the song Greenie had written on scraps of paper during self-imposed seclusion, had become a demo tape entitled "It's ALL Good"---and that song would soon become the ONE that grabbed the attention of one of Greenie's lifelong hip-hop admirees, The Blastmaster Krs-One. Greenie fully realizes that this fateful crossing of paths never would've happened had he not divorced his ex-wife, lost a financial fortune, and hid out in meditative seclusion. Be thankful for all of your "losses" and for all of life's so-called "tragedies." Just like everything in life, it is really...ALL...Good!
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