Grey Matter is a solo artist who has been involved in hip-hop through MC'ing and Graffiti for over 17 years and has blessed the stage with the likes of Evolve Music's Hip Hop Addicts (including Maja Skill, OkeraSun, Macaw Peacock to name a few) and Ghetto DJ, Blacksmith (a.k.a. Lil' Joe) from MOB Productions, D. Villegas, Bobby-Lo & More!

Do you play live?
He has opened for Circus (ShapeShifters), Acid Reign and the Hip-Hop Addicts and is a regular at most Ordnance, Ruffneck and Broken Silence(I.E.) hosted events. Grey Matter is also the Art Director for Hood League Records and will be releasing a mixtape/album on their label VERY SOON as well as his 2nd solo album under RYMEnt and Evolve Music! Grey Matter was seen with partner DJ Seizure, hosting 4 ELEMENTS Hip-Hop @ FACES in Riverside, CA each Saturday during Summer of 2007. Grey is expecting to tour with new material after several releases.!!!

Would you sign a record contract with a major label?
Probably not, I'm representing for the underground and the underdogs 24/7.

History:
Fomr a child, Grey Matter was exposed to the lifestyles of Skating and Breaking through his cousins, later forming a group with one of them. After the break up of "GRAFFIC APHLIKTIONZ", a group consisting of himself (as the Sick One) and his cousin 'The Rage' (went on to pursue a career as vocalist in the popular metal band SANGRE), Grey Matter has released one solo album entitled "IMMACKULATE MISCONCEPTIONS" completely digital, since he began pursuing music professionally in 1998. "IMMACKULATE MISCONCEPTIONS" was highly politically charged, full of hardcore rap tracks (some of which could be called horrorcore such as 'SUPERNATURAL') and some very experimental tracks with collaborations from DTS, OKIRASUN and DOLPHINBRAIN from Evolve Music, a collective from Southern California. Due to lack of distribution, it was not widely heard, although much of the music is still being played on sites such as MySpace.com, Soundlick.com and amongst fans in the Inland Empire region of Southern California.

Your influences?
Cypress Hill, Chino XL, Mobb Deep, Ice Cube, Dr. Dre, Heiroglyphics, Del The Funky Homosapien, The Shape Shifters (especially AWOL, 2Mex, Circus and Akuma), OMD, Dynospectrum, Snoop Doggy Dogg & Tha Dogg Pound, 2Pac, Bone Thugz N Harmony, Aceyalone, 50 Cent, Andre Nickatina (Dre Dog) & Equipto, Dr. Octagon, Anticon (especially Dose, Why?, Sol and Buck 65), Atmosphere, Boo Yaa Tribe, Eminem, Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band, Sun Ra, Xzibit, Fat Joe, Lords Of Brooklyn, Everlast and House of Pain, MC Eiht, DJ Quik, The Dangerous Crew and The Click (All the Bay Area - Too Short, Richie Rich, Spice-1, Ant Banks, MC Pooh, E-40), Wu-Tang Clan (especially GZA, Method Man, ODB-R.I.P., Ghostface Killa and the RZA), The Almighty Jizzm, Erick Sermon, Rakim, D-Nice, Special Ed, Public Enemy, Rage Against The Machine, System Of A Down, SoleSides/Quannum (Gift Of Gab, Blackalicious, Latyrx, DJ Shadow), DJ Q-Bert, Ice-T, Sublime, The Pharcyde, US 3, Digable Planets, LL Cool J, Beastie Boys, Run DMC, The Visionaries, Nas, Masta Ace, MC Breed, Naughty By Nature, Queen, Radioinactive, Portishead, Radiohead, Pycho Realm, Weird Al Yankovic, Michael Jackson and many, many, more!!! I JUST FUCKING LOVE MUSIC, AS MANY GENRES AS YOU CAN THROW AT ME! Where's BB King? Ella Fitzgerald? Classics, man, classics.

Favorite spot?
Southern California

Anything else...?
Just, check out my MySpace page and drop some comments. Peep out the links page for the homies doing hip-hop across the West Coast and the World! Peace to the Dark Emperors.After Dark.Burning Until Metal Smokes.Playing 4 Keeps.All 2 Krazy and the rest of my family!