He was my earliest production mentor, and I owe him my career. Seprock let me borrow his stuff and taught me how to use it I made the first Grip Grand demos on his gear. At the time I was already in my crate-digging bag, and I was writing raps every day, but so far I’d never been able to hold any equipment. He had a crew of friends who’d come up together on a military base in Japan, and they’d been making beats and rapping for a while. He was the first cat I ever met who owned his own sampler, drum machine, and 4-track tape deck. Sep was a year behind me in school but several years ahead in terms of making music. I was in college, walking across campus, when my friend and fellow aspiring rapper/producer Seprock called me over and said he had a record to play me. I first heard MF DOOM’s “Dead Bent”-the 12-inch version, the good one-on a gray Oregon day in 1997 shortly after its initial release. Grip Grand once took his fronts out and lost them shits. Please support your favorite rap writer collective by subscribing to Passion of the Weiss on Patreon. We crashed the barbecue like Riddick at the Garden.
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