Natural Born Learner

Jean Grae is a highly acclaimed rapper and producer known for her dense, polysyllabic rhymes as well as her biting sense of humor. A mainstay of the New York underground hip-hop scene since the mid-'90s, she began releasing solo material in 2002 and collaborated with artists such as the Roots, the Herbaliser, Talib Kweli, and many others. However, due to countless music industry woes, she's largely remained a freelance artist since the late 2000s, digitally self-releasing the majority of her solo work. She's also branched away from music into acting and comedy.

This is the first Mosaic set to be pressed at Chad Kassem’s Quality Record Pressings in Salina, Kansas. About the pressings coming out of QRP, Michael Fremer wrote on TrackingAngle.com,” all I can say is THIS IS INCREDIBLE!!!!!! The sonics are spectacular and the pressing quality is as good as has ever been pressed in my opinion. The backgrounds are dead, black, silent the way Japanese pressings used to come on JVC ‘Supervinyl!’ and believe me it doesn’t get any better than that, though this may even be richer, darker and blacker.”