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Rather Be

by Gurp City

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GROUP: GURP CITY
ALBUM: RAMP CAMP VOL. 1: THE FLOOD
RELEASE DATE: Tentatively September

In San Francisco’s rap underground, DJ Toph One’s arcane GurpWinos Happy Hour at club F8 every first Friday has only just recently begun to make a blip on the Bay Area beatheads’ radar. But Gurp City, the rap crew that’s been honing their skills there for the last few years, is about to change that blip into a flashing alert with their debut, RAP CAMP Vol. 1: The Flood. “They keep telling me, what’s empty will soon be full,” says the group’s leader Eddie K, “So now Gurp City is being called to fill that void, to fill that cup, but we’re ready, because we know it’s our turn to pour up.”

The tacked out, slumper single, “Rather B,” the project’s first smoked out leak is already accompanying whip sessions, couch sessions, garage sessions, behind the shed sessions and any other cutty spot where they fire the dank. Lakeview-based Eddie K, brought together a gang of MCs in a waterfront house in Clear Lake, CA where the crew got on gurp and rap history was made like a ritual. If you can’t hang to the wee hours you better just duck the death blow, jack. Backed by tight beats from G-Pek, Brycon, Ink One, Tone Jonez and DJ Grief, the core make-up of the album’s lyrical styling includes raps from Eddie K, Big Sammie, Jake Uno, Z-Man and Luke Sick. Other crew members QM, Brandon B, Philo and Nel also make cameos. Speaking on the glories and tribulations of a life lived at the limit, RAP CAMP is what drank culture rap funk is all about.

As citizens endeared to the inebriated aspects of rap music and leisure time, as well as fans of turntablism and beat-digging, Gurp City brings back the crazy drunken style to the art of rhyming. “Gurp” represents the drank flow and dank smoke of verbal ripping in which even a slurred rant is enough to guillotine the heads of a hundred despots. “City” stands for the massive of affiliates—the City is deep, a veritable municipality of rap talent—and includes Yole Boys, Trunk Drank, Rec League, The Watershed, Grand Invincible, Official Spill and On Tilt who are also slated to host a Gurp City related compilation this year. From their private dock on the shore of Clear Lake, a secluded recording location, rugged bumps and a fiasco of entertainment coincide to compose a timeless chaos bathed in bass. As Luke Sick explains, “There’s 24 hours in a day, and 24 cans in a case of beer. Is that a coincidence or universal perfection? I don’t know, but you can rest assured that we’re going to do our best to find out.”

You might remember Luke Sick from Sacred Hoop or his song “Bury Me Standing” on DJ Z-Trip’s debut album “Shifting Gears,” or Eddie K from his work with Bigg Tae on the “Concrete Dreams” compilations. You might also know of the illustrious Z-Man who has been touring virtually nonstop with the likes of True Justice, Equipto, Aceyalone, A-Plus from Souls of Mischief and Chino XL, just to name a few.

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released August 3, 2018
Produce by G PEK/ Vocals by Z-Man, Luke Sick, Big Sammy/ Mixed and Mastered by D-Wiz

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Gurp City’s heart and soul Eddie K also known as 88 got his chops with SF DJ crew Bulletproof Scratch Hamster as its only MC, Eddie K became an underground sensation from Frisco to Phoenix to Chico to St. Paul to Portland to Seattle. He has been on numerous projects and put out 2 albums, Future Spit and We Got Trunk Drank with Brandon B to form Trunk Drank. These albums became instant hits in SF ... more

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