The Grouch has been played on NTS in shows including Ted Draws, featured first on 8 November 2018. Songs played include More Than Meets The Eye, Where I Wanna Get and Language Song.

The Grouch always wanted to make beats since he first heard about this music called hip-hop. His dad played keys and he felt music was inside him as well, but he didn’t plan on being an MC. Being from Oakland, he grew up on local heroes like Digital Underground, Too Short, Toni, Tony, Tone, and many others.

Around ‘91/’92 Del Tha Funkee Homosapien and the Hieroglyphics crew were first starting to make noise…