People in Your Neighborhood: Jean Grae

Jean Grae is one of those people with an impossibly New York life. She grew up in the Chelsea Hotel, went to La Guardia High School (the FAME school), and eventually rose to prominence in the alternative hip-hop scene that ruled the city in the late ‘90s and early 2000s. She released records on Talib Kweli’s Blacksmith Records and Babygrande, and worked with artists like Immortal Technique, Cannibal Ox, and Pharoahe Monch, even making a memorable turn on Wale’s Back to the Feat