Biography

"It's G.F.B. and the B stands for Bastard, not the Bizzle!" So what does G.F.B. actually mean, we ask? "Graham Fat Bastard, the one and only."

Born Graham Martin in Stratford on 24th May, 1986, G.F.B. shortly moved to Brentwood, where he has lived ever since. His interest in music began at 12 years old, when he began listening to 2pac, Limp Bizkit, Cypress Hill and N.W.A, amongst others. At 16, Graham left school and hooked up with his school-friend Noi to begin rapping and form 2.8.3.

2.8.3. was where both Noi and G.F.B. began to learn their trade, with various studio and live experience, even travelling to Thailand to make their music. After the trip to Thailand, both members went their own way. G.F.B. kept on writing and rapping, but nothing really took off, until he met Tony "J.D." Chalk, bass player for Stonemunki.

G.F.B.'s love of all things metal and hip-hop made him an easy fit into the group, and after joinging the band for one song, Different, he was asked to join as full-time member of the band less than 6 months in. A hectic writing, recording and gigging schedule stretched G.F.B.'s abilites to the very limits, and helped to instill a work ethic in him that still carries on today.

In 2007, G.F.B. started work on his first mixtape, Too Dumb To Do Anything Else, collaborating with a number of different musicians he knew to provide him backing tracks that crossed a wide range of genres and styles. After a year of hard work and recording, the mixtape was finally released, in January 2008.

Immediately G.F.B. was straight back to work with Stonemunki, and on his second mixtape, Different Shades of Grey. "I wanted to keep the ball rolling," he explains "so I started writing for the second mixtape straight away. I'd been writing for three years, but had been doing metal for the most part, so I wanted to keep up the work on the hip-hop side of things because there's so many ideas in my head, and not all of them can be expressed through metal!"

G.F.B. has released two mix-tapes so far, and has performed various gigs in the Brentwood and Romford areas. His third mixtape is being released shortly, and with this release, G.F.B. really hopes that it will be Third Time Lucky.