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From about the age of 14-23, I was obsessed with what is now referred to as "Old School" rap. Growing up in Queens, New York City, hip-hop culture was very prevalent. I was always more of a  "lyrical" person than a "musical" person and the competitiveness of lyrical rap "battles" drew me right in..

In our human forms, we are all ever-changing.
As a child, I enjoyed collecting baseball cards and watching such classic films as Superman and Star Wars. Hip-hop was the only form of  music I enjoyed.  As an adult, I simply collect memories, watch sunsets, enjoy virtually all film genres, and listen to everything from rap to country to
toddler tunes!

 

 

The Hip-Hop Career of
Young Andrew Greenstein aka "Mr. Greenie" - PAGE 2
 Below are links to a few more rap recordings with which I was involved as a teenager. Audio quality varies depending on equipment utilized and skill-level varies depending on what phase in my rap "career" any particular recording was made.


 


"Kick Up A Beat" - This was Triple Trouble before recording studios, before Tod Cagan was a member [Marino Mancuso was in his place]---before most of us had even turned 15 years old. Recorded in a basement with little more than a cheap microphone and an amplifier, it really just represents a couple of young friends playing around!
Click here to hear it!

"Listen To The Bass Go..." - Recorded in 1989 or 1990, this was our first adventure in a "real" recording studio (EM-ONE). In retrospect, the hook from this recording sounds so embarrassingly annoying to me..but hey, we barely knew what we were doing when it came to recording/producing. I think it's interesting to compare THIS recording (1989ish) with the "ONE STYLE" recording (1996ish)-- The improvement is ENORMOUS. 
Click here to hear it!

"Boom, Boom, Bap!" - Chances are good that I just put this link up to REALLY embarrass myself. This was done around the age of 14 in a basement with a microphone, amplifier, and tape recorder. Basically, it was recorded using the same "technology" as "Kick Up A Beat"--but with some lousy synthesizer programming and rhymes that border on ridiculous. Like "Kick Up a Beat," it just a few teenage friends playing around--being silly..but, most importantly, having fun...Click here to hear it!

"A Girl You Don't Know" (Part 1) - Written at around the age of 14, this was one of the better at-home recordings, but still quite...well, uhm, embarrassing when compared with the stuff I/we recorded some 6-9 years later. Click here to hear it!

"A Girl You Don't Know" (Part 2) - The second part...Click here to hear it!

"White Waxin" - Just a quick, amateur recording thrown together in "the basement" [or "the bedroom"] at around the age of 16 or 17. Click here to hear it!

"From A White Boy" - Inferior to the cut above, its description is otherwise identical.
Click here to hear it!

"Shout Outs" - Just havin' some fun in the at-home "recording studio"--roughly age 15-16. Click here to hear it!

 

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ME! - at age 16...
...posing for a [rap]
group photo shoot...

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