Good music is felt not heard. Gramatik apparently understood that at an age… Read Full Bio ↴Good music is felt not heard. Gramatik apparently understood that at an age of 3 according to his mother as she used to catch him glued to the radio in his older sister's room whenever there was an old funk or rhythm & blues joint on, tapping his leg on the floor along with the beat. Damn, talking about a sign on what will your child do when he grows up!

Parents got him taking piano lessons in the elementary music school when he was in 2nd grade, but he dropped out 2 years later because he wasn't feeling that whole classical music thing as that was the only genre they were teaching. He later got some private piano lessons, learning the stuff he wanted to learn to play like Beatles and Rhythm & Blues in general. He and a few of his 4th grade classmates formed a band and became the youngest band in the history of his elementary school, playing school events on the regular. When he got to 7th grade he discovered Hip-Hop and felt totally overtaken and compelled by it's elements, especially by the power of the rhythmically accented poetry(RAP). He soon left the band, started writing and became an MC. His friends were amazed by his flow and delivery since there were no hip-hop artists in his home town Piran(Slovenia) at the time, except him and one of his classmates and they were dope on top of it! They formed a duo called Bow Down and threw the first hip-hop party in the history of their home town. In 1998, Gramatik met his first audio sequencing software on the computer of his classmate's older brother and felt like he got struck by lightening, totally overwhelmed by it! His parents were financially struggling at the time, so they couldn't afford a computer, so he was hanging out at his friend's house all the time, messing around with the sequencer when his older brother wasn't home. 2 years later his parents bought him a computer and the first thing he did was install that audio sequencer! He started producing his first beats and day by day felt more and more compelled by the craft & the magic of it. It wasn't long untill he discovered sampling which became his one true love in the music making process, chopping up all those old funk, soul, blues and jazz tracks he used to listen to all the time and making something completely new out of it was the best feeling ever. All of a sudden his life started to make perfect sense.

In 2006, he and 2 of his friends, fellow MC's, released their debut hip-hop album as a group called 5th Element, which was critically acclaimed throughout the country as one of the best hip-hop albums in Slovenia. After the album, Gramatik felt hip-hop just wasn't enough, that he was limiting himself with doing only one genre while he enjoyed listening to so many of them so he started producing House, Techno, Breakbeat, Electro, Drum'n'Bass, basically any genre that he liked which was anything that evolved from Blues, Jazz, Soul and Funk, as those ''father genres'' were all embedded deep in his style, whatever he would do. He realized that to him, music is much bigger than a genre name and their specific categorization, it's all about embracing what moves you and rejecting what doesn't. He released his first ever track on Beatport.com in june 2008, which was an Electro House track, a remix he did for DJ Vitamin D's track entitled Motherfuckers Know Whos The Best. The track ended up 24 on the Electro House Top 100 chart, a nice surprise and an excellent quality validation for this newcomer. Soon after that he ended up on 40 of the House Top 100 chart with his tribal banger Letz Get Ill while his Dreams About Her EP topped the Chil Out top 100 chart for 3 weeks. He kept releasing different stuff on various labels all owned by DJ Vitamin D which he became good friends with. Not long after his first release stroke the chart, Vitamin D suggests to him that he should scrap up those 20 hip-hop beatz he had sitting in a flash player on his myspace for over 2 years and release them as an album on the new Chill Out/Trip-Hop/Instrumental Hip-Hop label he's about to open inspired by those same beatz he was listening to. So Gramatik does that(thinking he won't sell more than 3 tracks off the album since they were just 2:30 minuets long hip-hop beatz, which are not commonly sold on beatport) and the album he entitled Street Bangerz Vol.1 get's released in december 2008 on the fresh new label Cold Busted. little did he know that the album was gonna catapult straight to the 1 spot on the Top 100 Chill Out chart and has been holding hostage the first 20 spots ever since. Street Bangerz Vol.1 has been a total success, completely unexpected, selling over 50.000 tracks world wide in less than 6 months on beatport alone. It made him realize that quite often, the things that you expect to work the least, usually work the most. Gramatik is now working on various projects while determined to keep up the SB series, dropping one a year, perfecting them volume after volume and hopefully tour the world in due time.

Get a Grip
Gramatik Lyrics

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I ain't the one who's gonna take you home so get your ass in the cab alone
Don't waste your time and don't you dare waste mine
'Cause there will be plenty more where you came from. I won't lie, yeah
I thought you were fly, but then you kept on getting up in my face
You should know it ain't like that, so don't you even try that
Move on over out of this place

You've got to get a grip girl, I am not your man

If you can't see this girl, how could you understand?
You've got to get a grip girl, I am not your man
If you can't see this girl, how could you understand?

Girl I know that it's the way that I move
That's got you thinking I could do it for you
You've got to take your place in line
Or find a different guy cause every woman's trying to hit this too

I won't apologize for telling you how I feel inside
And if it's too much for you, then do everything that I ask you to girl
Turn around and walk away. Accept that I ain't making your day
Damn girl get off of your knees
I'd love to see you go but I ain't watching you leave

You've got to get a grip girl, I am not your man
If you can't see this girl, how could you understand?

You've got to get a grip girl, I am not your man
If you can't see this girl, how could you understand?

Overall Meaning

The lyrics of Gramatik's song Get A Grip Feat. Gibbz deal with rejection and setting boundaries. The singer, who is assumed to be a man, tells a woman that he is not interested in taking her home and advises her to get a cab alone. He doesn't want to waste his time nor hers, although he initially thought she was attractive. The woman keeps getting up in his face, prompting him to explain that it is not like that, and she should move on from the situation.

The singer sings that the woman needs to get a grip and understand that he is not her man, even though she is drawn to his moves. He tells her to accept that he won't make her day, and she needs to take her place in line or find someone else. Additionally, he won't apologize for telling her how he feels and asks her to turn around and walk away. He adds that he does not watch her leave, and he wants her to get off her knees. The song's underlying message is about setting reasonable expectations and respecting boundaries in relationships, romantic or otherwise.

Line by Line Meaning

I ain't the one who's gonna take you home so get your ass in the cab alone
I'm not interested in going home with you, so it's time to leave and go home alone.

Don't waste your time and don't you dare waste mine
Stop wasting our time with this pointless conversation.

'Cause there will be plenty more where you came from. I won't lie, yeah
There are plenty of other people out there, and I'm not interested in you.

I thought you were fly, but then you kept on getting up in my face
I was initially attracted to you, but your behavior and attitude turned me off.

You should know it ain't like that, so don't you even try that
I'm not interested in you romantically, so don't try to pursue anything further.

Move on over out of this place
It's time for you to leave and find someone else.

Girl I know that it's the way that I move
I'm aware that my actions may have given you the wrong impression.

That's got you thinking I could do it for you
You may have thought I was interested in you, but that's not the case.

You've got to take your place in line
You're not the only one trying to pursue me, so you need to wait your turn.

Or find a different guy cause every woman's trying to hit this too
If you can't handle the competition, you may want to look for someone else.

I won't apologize for telling you how I feel inside
I'm not sorry for being upfront with you about my lack of interest.

And if it's too much for you, then do everything that I ask you to girl
If you can't handle my honesty, just follow my lead and leave me alone.

Turn around and walk away. Accept that I ain't making your day
It's time for you to accept that I'm not going to be the one to make you happy.

Damn girl get off of your knees
Stop begging and trying to change my mind.

I'd love to see you go but I ain't watching you leave
I'm not interested in you, so you can leave without further notice.

You've got to get a grip girl, I am not your man
It's time for you to realize that I'm not interested in being in a relationship with you.

If you can't see this girl, how could you understand?
If you are unable to accept the truth, you won't be able to understand why I'm not interested in you.

Contributed by Bentley D. Suggest a correction in the comments below.

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