Jean Grae Retires!
posted by Mojo Marshall
This is the saddest music news I’ve read all year. Her Bootleg of the Bootleg EP is one of my favorite all-time records.
HipHopDX is reporting, it looks like Jean Grae is bidding adieu to the record industry. In a new blog on her MySpace page, the Brooklyn emcee thanks all of her fans for their support and gives salutations to hip-hop, with a finalizing tone.
“Everyone who has been on this ride with me since the beginning and continues to be a supporter of music that makes you feel something true and vulnerable and honest by being just that.
It’s been a wonderful and awful journey all at the same time. Mostly leaning towards the wonderful part..lol.
Thank you for letting me share what I could with you and sharing yourselves back, as you have really been the reason that I kept on.
It’s always nice to know that you could be the voice of someone who didn’t have one, or know just how to say it. No comment or letter or statement of appreciation has ever gone unnoticed. I love to write, I love to be able to create imagery and a world out of just words.
I will always love what I consider to be true hip hop music… from the bottom of my soul.
I hope you will continue to distinguish those who are contributors to the evolution of hip hop and other black music as both an auditory stimulation and a culture, taking care that they are put in a position to do so.
Thank you listeners, whom I consider my friends and family….
Enjoy…. see y’all around..
It’s been amazing.. thank you again.
peaces..”
Jean Grae joined Blacksmith Music, Talib Kweli’s label imprint under Warner Bros, in September 2005. She was set to formally release Jeanius, the heavily-bootlegged and delayed album produced entirely by 9th Wonder, later this year.
Jean Grae - “My Crew”
Talib Kweli + Jean Grae - “Black Girl Pain”