Mini Hip Hop Concert: Greg Grease | Amoeba Berkeley

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Amoeba Music: Free In-Store Mini Concerts

Amoeba Music regularly welcomes traveling and local artists for in-store performances at their San Francisco and Berkeley locations.

Hear your favorite artists for free often right before they hit the stage elsewhere in the Bay Area.

Friday, June 26, 2015
Amoeba Music: Free In-Store Mini Concerts

Welcome Minneapolis rapper Greg Grease to Amoeba Berkeley for a live set and signing of his new album Born To Lurk, Forced To Work.

“We lurk late,” reads a line from Gwendolyn Brooks’ iconic poem “We Real Cool,” describing a group of young Black men shooting pool on the south side of Chicago. The last line reads “we die soon.” Death, preceded by the carefreeness of youth is a juxtaposition all too familiar to Black Americans. To lurk is to be your own boss. To defy America’s social order. To lurk is to survive, and as a Black American, survival is work in itself.

On his new album Born To Lurk, Forced To Work, Grease trades the south side of Chicago in 1959 for present day south Minneapolis. The constant of racism remains – most topically in Minneapolis’ infamous Lurking Ordinance – as does the effortless cool in the face of it. He lurks late, but knows he still has to show up for his job in the morning.

Born To Lurk, Forced To Work, works by honing in on what Grease has always aimed for: music that’s multi-dimensional.

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