Tell me if you’ve heard this one before: A midget, The Outlaw, and Grieves walk into a club . . . Actually I’ll let Grieves tell it.

I caught up with Grieves via T-Mobile signal while he was out in Portland, a few days before the Rhymesayers Soundset Festival. We got into Together/Apart(released yesterday so pick it up, HERE), the process for the new album, and definitely a lot more. . . Oh yeah and that thing about the midget & The Outlaw.

@bjones21: I’m here chiming in for the phoner today.
@Grievesmusic: Yeah I’m into it. I was supposed to do another one before you guys, but they’re not as punctual as you are. You’re at 12:20pm on the dot.

BJ: HAHA yeah I just noticed that myself. Ya know we try to keep it together; make sure you guys get your shit done & same here.
G: I appreciate it more than you can possibly know.

BJ: Where you at right now?
G: I am in the basement of some college, in Portland.

BJ: You have a performance there then, headed to Soundset?
G: Nah I got a lady friend out here, and she goes to college and wanted me to sit in on her ideology class; and I told her I didn’t want to. So I went to Seattle’s Best and got a Chai Tea while she’s in class, and now I’m in some weird basement, while she has a meeting with her study group and i do my rap interviews.

BJ: Alright not bad, is she just a lady friend? Just handshakes and that’s all?
G: Yeah just a lady friend.

BJ: Let’s jump into the new album.
G: Yeah.

My home girl in the field Lyric Jones, who I caught up with at @A3C this past fall (interview), put this together of her time in SXSW 2011 in Austin, TX. If you need a primer on a few of the young thundercats getting into hip hop Lyric is giving it to you.

According to trusted sources, during the months of July and August 2010, we should see a significant increase in the national birth rate.  Currently standing at 14.18 births/1000 people, the figure is expected to rise to approximately 17.32 births/1000 people during the aforementioned months.