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Simply put, Grafh was on the verge of becoming one of New York's biggest rap stars à la 50 Cent in the early 2000s. His electrifying mixtapes and guest verses grabbed the attention of rappers from all coasts, enabling him to cut tracks with Jay-Z, Scarface, and E-40. Unfortunately, label shakeups and general inertia, all-too-common recurrences in the record industry, left the aspiring MC's projects on the back burner. Grafh was known for his unbridled personality and graphic wordplay, which prompted some to call him the black Eminem, but those qualities are reflections of his past. Growing up in Jamaica, Queens, Grafh, aka Philip Bernard, witnessed the gunning down of two important figures in his life: a mentor and father figure who taught him his street smarts and his estranged father who returned into his life in his mid-teens. He still managed to make it to college but quit after three years, partly due to financial reasons but mainly to concentrate all his energy into a music caree...