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Behind the Music: Good Job

Back when I was in elementary school my mom would sometimes ask “How you doing in school?” and I would reply “failing”. She’d then say “boy stop playing with me!” and move on to other things. When open school night would come and she’d receive my poor grades on the way home she’d say “I more » (read more)

Gif – If They Only Knew : Hip Hop Poetry

January 25, 2013

Gif the griot – Matrimony || Hip Hop Poetry

January 25, 2013

Gif the Griot – New EX.O.L.L Alternate Cover

January 21, 2013

Almost There Free Download || Hip Hop Poetry

January 15, 2013

Hey Daddy/ Daddy’s Home – Usher – Gif Remix

January 6, 2013

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Type of Sh*t that Makes You Cry on Christmas

December 23, 2012

Merry Christmas, Feliz Navidad, Happy Kwanzaa, Merry Hanukkah and all that. It’s been awhile since I caught up with you guys so I just wanted to pop in and say happy holidays and share a few holiday memories with y’all. Do you remember how it felt to be a kid on Christmas? Sitting here writing more » (read more)

Behind the Music: Invisible (The Ramona Moore Story)

November 24, 2012

In 2005 on my way home from school, I came across an article in the Village Voice news paper titled “NYPD Inaction over a Missing Black Woman Found Dead Sparks a Historic Racial-Bias Lawsuit”. The article told the story of Ramona Moore, a 21 year old Black college student that went missing for nearly four more » (read more)

Hurricane Sandy & Giving Thanks this Thanksgiving!

November 24, 2012

On the night of storm Sandy we were coasting. We halfway stocked up on supplies in case the reports were accurate but we didn’t go hard like we would have had we really believed things were going to get ugly. We had a bathtub full of water, we had bags of bottled water, and we more » (read more)

September 28, 2012

J. Cole New Verse Off Chaining Day at Open Mic – YouTube

Official EX.O.L.L Press Release

Gif Confronts Race & Identity in America with EX.O.L.L. Radical thought requires radical art. That’s the idea behind everything emcee and performance artist Shawn “Gif” Folk does, including his latest album, EX.O.L.L. EX.O.L.L., which was released on May 1st on iTunes, Amazon, and Bandcamp, was born out of Extraordinary Ordinary Lives of the Living, the more » (read more)

New Music from my UK fam Marcus Explains: Bump this!

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EX.O.L.L Featured on Left Over Cake

Gif Confronts Race & Identity in America with “EX.O.L.L.” [ALBUM] | Leftover Cake. (read more)

Gif “EX.O.L.L.” Album in Peace! Magazine

Gif Confronts Race & Identity in America with his new album “EX.O.L.L.” – Peace! Magazine. (read more)

Gif – EX?.?O?.?L?.?L (Extraordinary Ordinary Lives of the Living) (Album) | TheHipHopHead

Gif – EX?.?O?.?L?.?L (Extraordinary Ordinary Lives of the Living) (Album) | TheHipHopHead. (read more)

Gif – EX.O.L.L (Stream) | EASTSIDE MORALES

Gif – EX.O.L.L (Stream) | EASTSIDE MORALES. (read more)

EX.O.L.L Experience the Online Booklet

Peep the online booklet and listen to the album with the lyrics and photos that inspired it: EX.O.L.L Experience the Online Booklet I decided to put my web background to good use in creating this environment for you to get a real experience while listening to the project. I wanted to take it beyond just more » (read more)

Almost There on HoodHype Hip-Hop Talk Show: Episode #168

HoodHype Hip-Hop Talk Show: Episode #168 – Our FREE App has Arrived!. (read more)

In The News – CBGBs, Gif and Molly Moore Music News From NYC

In The News – CBGBs, Gif and Molly Moore Music News From NYC. (read more)

Extraordinary ordinary Lives of the Living back cover

Buy Now on Itunes Extraordinary Ordinary Lives of the Living (read more)

Strength in Numbers

Time Saturday, March 10 at 11:00pm – March 11 at 3:00am Location Hiro Ballroom 88 9th Ave. btwn 16th and 17th More Info Doors at 11pm Hosted by Peter Rosenberg Music by 2 Hungry Bros 18+ $15/$12 Advance (read more)

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February 25, 2012

New Music – Cash 4 Gold Feat. MC K~Swift Free Download

January 27, 2012

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Ghetto Mentality

August 12, 2011

Black people in America have long been vilified by the white population of this country. To justify slavery they depicted us as subhuman, uncivilized savages that threatened to rape their women, among other things. We needed to be “civilized” by good Christian white folks to progress from our intrinsically animalistic ways. The perceived innate [...] (read more)

A Great Mighty Walk – John Henrik Clark – The man that changed my life

What’s In Your Hand Black Man? – My Motivation

This is one of the most powerful speeches I’ve ever heard. (read more)

Extraordinary Ordinary Lives of The Loving – 08/07 Sunday @ Nuyorican

Inspired by Black Skin, White Masks, The Extraordinary Ordinary Lives of the Living is a provocative and controversial Hip Hop theatrical performance, starring one of Hip Hop’s rising stars, Gif, featuring Poetry, Spoken Word and political Hip Hop music. In The Extraordinary Ordinary Lives of the Living, Gif takes the audience on a journey from [...] (read more)

Finally the time has come – Extraordinary Ordinary Lives of The Living

The Po’vitches

Extraordinary Ordinary Lives of The Living – Invoking

Slave blood cut from kente cloth chip off the old block where souls get sold pumping that powdered rock & if you getting money round the clock whores treat every nut out your cock like a share of stock & you can’t get a loan from your man tell him you need a stack & [...] (read more)

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January 30, 2011

Download Intellectual Street Music Vol.1 Mixtape

January 29, 2011

New album “Extraordinary Ordinary Lives of The Living” coming soon. Till then Download part 1 of the Intellectual Street Music Mixtape series. More to come… Tweet (read more)

Intellectual Street Music Vol.1 Mixtape

December 28, 2010

09/17 Gif In Concert @ Recoup Lounge

September 13, 2010

Hip Hop for Dummies Concert Recoup Lounge 210 Rivington Street New York, NY 10002 United States Come through and watch me & my homey Mag share a stage for the first time. Oh yeah, we got a few other talent performers on the bill too. Peep the line up: Gif Dale Chase MaG Jon Braman [...] (read more)

New Merchandise Coming Soon…

Ok finally I got some merchandise coming. This is a preview of the line of “Intellectual Street Culture” Tee’s I’ll have soon. Drop me a comment with your thoughts on the design and make some request on color combination’s you’d like to see. (read more)

Gif @ Mojitos 06/11/2010

Gif performing @ Mojitos 06/11 admin : Thursday 03 June, 2010 : events Yeah, I’m going to rock a couple tracks with my boy Phes. It’s ill how we can do a concert style performance almost anywhere. 116th street New York, NY (read more)

Gif @ Monthly Bondfire I’ll be in the building

I’m going to float through to A Monthly Bonfire. Tuesday 07/27/010 I have this new joint I’ve been dying to do. I haven’t even recorded it yet but I just can’t wait to let people hear it. Come out 07/27/010 Tuesday to the Bowery Poetry Club 308 Delancy Street New York, NY $5 Doors open [...] (read more)

New Music Be So Blind | Gif

Hey Daddy (Daddy’s Home) – Remix ft Gif

YouTube – Hey Daddy (Daddy’s Home) – Remix ft Gif. (read more)

I Need A Dollar Remix Featurng Gif on Vimeo

Brown Meaning Not Black

I was watching an Indian comedian on Comedy Central a few nights ago. He wasn’t really that funny, but that’s beside the point. I was bothered by him constantly referencing Middle Eastern people as Brown. See that’s where this whole using a color to categorize race thing gets confusing. I could have sworn that not [...] (read more)

All This To Get A Look At My Nuts

A young militant Muslim boy is allowed to board an American bound airline with explosives, despite being on a terrorist watch list, and now the government wants airport security to get a good look at my nuts. Sitting in front of the idiot box the other day I got a glimpse of the security scanners [...] (read more)

Lost With Dreams

I was thinking about dreams the other day. You know how big our dreams are when we’re young? We think so grand. For me, I wanted to be a famous MC traveling the world with mad adoring fans, making millions of dollars, driving expensive cars, mad fine ass women, etc. As you get older, you more » (read more)

Gif Performing In The Eyes @ CMJ Live

February 14, 2010

Gif Performing Good Job Live @ CMJ

February 14, 2010