GI & Costello

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https://www.facebook.com/pages/GI/151979781533552?fref=ts http://soundcloud.com/keepinitlit GI started emceeing at a young age picking up an interest and hobby in buying c.d's and learning the words to recite. Once learning the flow and use of poetic styles within he to his own route and to write his own lyrics and was recommended to join the Finglas Youth Resource Centre where a group was made for local Hip Hop artists to come and learn writing techniques and challenges but also to make their own music. Here he learned how to use Propellerhead Reason 3 and Recycle and from then hasn't stopped making beats. This created some opportunities for him performing in Whelans at 15 for Spunout.ie and took part in a documentary called "Dare 2 Dream" which has been distributed all over schools in Ireland. At this time GI was approached by a play director Ray Yeates, who had an idea that he wanted to put to put to action where he combined 2 completely opposite Irish Cultures and developed them as one, the farfetched idea involved elderly and young people from Donegal that are fluent in Irish and sing stories acapella in the Irish Language called Sean Os and combined it with Dublin hip hop, this is called Hip Nos. The Hip Nos crew performed in the Barrow Street Lane Theatre, New York, Vicar Street, Dublin and also in South Africa in 2010. Through this project G.I got to meet some of the martyrs of Irish Hip Hop such as Urban Intelligence members Lunitic, 4Real and Dj Moschops and develo

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