Too Deep
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About Too Deep
New duo, drum n bass http://toodeeply.bandcamp.com/ The Hippie Hoodlum is Greg Mozian. He was born in Stone Ridge, New York and grew up in Woodstock and Queens, New York. He attended the Bronx High School of Science and graduated Queens College. He was dynamic even in youth. Primary musical influences include: The Roots, A Tribe Called Quest, Digable Planets, Cypress Hill, and the crush of Queens MC’s that emerged in the 90’s. Having been weaned on rock and roll, he found hip hop at a young age. “Growing up in Woodstock my brother had 5 rap tapes. DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince, LL Cool J, Beastie Boys, Run DMC, Young M.C., and Kool Moe Dee. Moe Dee was always my favorite.” Other influences include: Dali, Jim Morrison, Richard Feynman, Terence McKenna, Stephen Hawking, Pee Wee Herman, Hunter S. Thompson, George Carlin, Eddie Murphy, Jerry Seinfeld, Henry David Thoreau, graph artists JA, Sane, SNX, Earsnot, De La Vega... A young man, Greg moved to Queens an amateur poet in 1996. An MC named M-80 hit him in the face with a verse, and it was a transformative experience. “It became personal. Doable.” “I live and grew up on 21st Street. The fact that Nas and Mobb Deep and Cormega and Capone-N-Noreaga were so poppin’ when I moved back to Queens, and that this was all coming from a few blocks down 21st, made me involved and feel a part of it. “I started break dancing with some dudes freshman year. We started a little clique, breaking and writing graph all day, doing talent shows and battling other schools and crews. I just kind of immersed myself in the whole culture. I was writing poetry this whole time. But didn't start freestyling until maybe junior year and somewhere along the way started writing to meter “I had a lot of rhymes written but was still nervous to spit them and find producers to give me beats, so I bought an MPC senior year and started making my own beats. I didn't know they were going to be so ill. I always liked the nostalgic feel of vinyl so I got real into record digging and learned how to get ill with the sampling.” At 18 he was in open mic’s in NY, building his freestyle up, killing it with punch-lines, and, according to numerous sources, straight chopping heads off in battles. Out of sheer necessity, the Kid won $500 in a competition just before his brother’s bachelor party in Vegas. After success in the freestyle realm, he took a sabbatical (his Crossroads period) to focus on the art of songwriting. He felt it was important to leave people “something to remember me by, something to listen to when you get home.” “That was always the part of freestyle that bothered me, that it’s so ephemeral. I mean, that’s the beauty of it too. But I always knew I had something to say that people would want to hear.” The Larry David on the Mic, the Hippie Hoodlum, Alfred E. Neuman Lyricist, Young Gary Coleman with the courage of a Stonewall Jackson, Precision of a Young John Stockton, with the range of Larry Bird, flare of Domonique Wilkins, the grace of Clyde Drexler, Mozian is the Lenny Dykstra of hip hop. More or less It is said that Greg can spot a Mets fan from 80 yards, minimum. He performed his first hadouken in rural Spain in 2009.
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