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Grieves - Shark Week
Artist: Grieves
Producer: Budo
Album: Untitled Rhymesayers Debut
Label: Rhymesayers Ent.
The 165th entry in our DJBooth.net Freestyle Series comes courtesy of Grieves, the Brooklyn native who earned reader approval for EP inclusion Smile for the Blade back in February. On his brand new, exclusive Shark Week freestyle, the up-and-comer flows over original boardwork by Budo. Grieves is currently working on his yet-untitled Rhymesayers debut, set to drop sometime this fall.
Readers can download a copy of In the Booth (Volume 4), featuring exclusive freestyles 91 through 120, here! Volumes one, two and three are available for download here, here and here. Watch for Volume 5 to hit our front page in late May.
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DJ Booth Crew  Total Ratings: 11639 |
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Grieves told me that he doesn't do traditional "freestyles," but that he'd love to create an original song incorporating the Booth as close to a freestyle as possible. I said, do it.
Thus, not that the back story is behind us (haha), the end result is on point. Big fan of the original production from Budo, and the flow (while lacking slightly in energy) is solid from beginning to end and engaging without being over-the-top. Extra points for the originality and length. I'm looking forward to the Rhymesayers debut. 
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| Posted on May 05, 2010 |
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Love this dude's flow. By looking at him, you couldn't tell if he had a good flow or not, but you shouldn't judge a book by its cover. The beat is nice.
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| Posted on May 05, 2010 |
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its mad straight but the beat aint special........until the trumpet like synth which is was firee its hott as a freestyle
3 spins its straight |
| Posted on May 05, 2010 |
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Tastemaker  Total Ratings: 492 |
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He's a beastly lyricist, really diggin this track. His voice reminds me of Gripz, lovin the track. Not quite classic.
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| Posted on May 05, 2010 |
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Cool track. The beat isn't anything special but his flow complimented it well.
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| Posted on May 05, 2010 |
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I keep telling myself not to make assumptions based on a picture and yet again I found my expectations to be horribly wrong. Solid "freestyle" track no doubt.
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| Posted on May 05, 2010 |
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Tastemaker  Total Ratings: 1216 |
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Production sounded pretty simple. Couple of instrumentals mending together with his voice wasn't a bad thing. While his voice and flow really doesn't grab me and leave me begging for more, Grieves does more than enough to show me that he has a creative spark hidden somewhere within his grizzly wordplay and Budo's production.
The change that came within the first minute or so as the track dragged on was pretty neat, but it doesn't really elevate the track too much more. Probably wouldn't listen to this again. Seems really slow and boring. |
| Posted on May 05, 2010 |
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DJ Booth Member  Total Ratings: 15 |
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i Like this, it's kinda chill.
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| Posted on May 05, 2010 |
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DJ Booth Member  Total Ratings: 272 |
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he look like he from the other side of the train tracks if you know what i mean but looks in hip-hop are deceiving...but getting to the actual quality of the work im gone say this dude decent...i mean he not bad but he not that new dude that everybody talking about ... i need to here some more official songs from him to listen to get a better opinion because he def din win me over with this
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| Posted on May 05, 2010 |
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Ok, let me be the first to say that Shark Week is the best week on television. God I love me some Shark Week.
As for this "freestyle", it just so happens that I'm in a more uptempo mood at the moment, but Grieves nails the laid back flow. Rhymesayers don't just sign anyone, so look at for Grieves. As we can hear here, the dude's got a future.
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| Posted on May 05, 2010 |
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DJ Booth Member  Total Ratings: 97 |
when i hit play...it takes me back to the home page...blah
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| Posted on May 05, 2010 |
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He sounds kind of corny.
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| Posted on May 06, 2010 |
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Grieves is a beast on this definitely feeling him looking forward to hearing more from him. ROTATING!!!
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| Posted on May 08, 2010 |
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Damn,I know I shouldn't judge a book by its cover but I couldn't help it, just like @Blaze31, and I was taken by surprise. This is a great freestyle.
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| Posted on May 08, 2010 |
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DJ Booth Crew  Total Ratings: 97 |
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As best as I can remember the only legit freestyle in this entire series was Hurricane Chris, but whatever...
I loved the beat. Nice, simple, smooth and it blended nicely with his verses. |
| Posted on May 08, 2010 |
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Not my favorite entry to the Series.
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| Posted on May 10, 2010 |
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| Posted on May 18, 2010 |
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