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.
Skylight
Gramatik Lyrics
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(Oh I wouldn't be)
I'll be long gone
(Oh I wouldn't be)
Gramatik's song Skylight features a chorus that repeats the phrase "I'll be long gone." This phrase carries a sense of both finality and anticipation. The singer seems to be preparing for a departure, whether it be physical or emotional. The repetition of the phrase emphasizes its importance and hints at a reluctance to leave. The parenthesized line "Oh I wouldn't be" creates a contrasting effect, suggesting that the singer is not entirely enthusiastic about their upcoming departure. This line gives the impression that there may be some unfinished business or emotional ties that the singer wishes they could stay to resolve. Overall, the lyrics of Skylight convey a sense of bittersweet longing for something that is about to end.
Line by Line Meaning
I'll be long gone
I will soon be leaving, departing from this place or situation
(Oh I wouldn't be)
(But if given a choice or opportunity,) I would not choose to leave
Contributed by Owen C. Suggest a correction in the comments below.
@johnjackson9133
Anchor down the boat yeah we're solid like a centerback
Bright future livin while your blinded like a cataract
only rode me once and I never brought the saddle back
stay a hundred like I'm usuain but I ain't into runnin track
Make her whale like she's gareth bale
Only paper trails
Rolling up the lettuce in a letter I ain't talking mail
Never wanna imitate copy if u Rodger that
Want me as a dad but I'm bringing not ur fathers back
Foot is on the gas so I don't plan to stop now
Anyway the breaks broke so I don't really know how
Kill this and kill that u can the beat run
Pulled her pants down then I shot her with meat gun
Sauasage link pink yeah the pussy never stink
And the Flow is never stale but I'm working out the kinks
Yeah working out the mind cuz I'm spittin all the time
All day grind so you know we're doing fine
24/7 spice like I'm Devin, always spit facts, preach peace like a reverend
Jabar dropd hooks well I guess that's what the beat lack
Spit it with no feed back Cuz I don't really need that
Imma let my meat clack
Imma keep on doing things
Never time to settle down, I ain't into buying rings
Ur sinking a rock while rowin in the black sea
I'm gatsby so don't ask me where the cash b
Eyes been glassy
remind where the ass be
Ur girl found me
homie that was last week
Yeah
Now I'm ridin with the other one
Message to a pig shootin clips up at another's son
All he did was run.. and now his life is done,
Cedar got 411 I leave u stunned
Truth gets twisted a swisher imma roll it up
Slid in like im Reyes hit her with a hey wassup
Let me see that ass and let me get the digits too
Pocket full of presidents, nuts are full of elmers glue
@Ranookswierdstuffs
little samples like that are what keeps life going
@ryanthelove
this song feels like a joyride in your favorite car on a night with warm air
@yahyahtaza-daqhayah7104
All who gave this thumbs down aint got no taste this is smoothe two steap music
@djblondi138
I agree with you.....smooth
@MajesticFoil
Sorry im late but is this kind of music classified as two step music
@kilokutz190
I feel like sitting here and pressing replay till this song becomes the most relevant WHEN SEARCHING FOR GRAMATIK
@alfhabeta
Listening and chiling from across the Atlantic...greatings from Portugal. Great tune
@StinkyWaffle
This song reminds me of flying in a dreamscape with a golden sunset over a city with no limits. "Finally I can be happy with nothing holding me down"
@el_kuks
So many years have gone and this sound is stіll sweet
@michaelluciano1980
Yessir!