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Green Ragz is the second release by Canadian Hip-Hop group Grove Street Families, a follow up to 2020s 2ReelGz

Background
In February 2020 The GSF released 2ReelGz in which Slip 2 Tha D has expressed his hate for that is until the October re release in which he got the album right. He knew this album had to be better. The album went through many different concepts and ideas. The first plan was to be a Star Wars trilogy album where Disc One would be the lightside with themes that we're light and not violent then there would be the Darkside a very dark and violent album. This idea was revisited with Slips second album, a double album titled The Force, using the same tracklist and no features from NDF. The second idea was to record 31 tracks and split them into 2 albums but after all tracks were recorded Slip decided to make it one album 16 tracks worth, all the leftovers were split into compilation albums called rarities.

Production
Every single track is produced by Slip 2 Tha D. He learned from 2ReelGz as to what the groups style was so he made beats to fit everything. Originally the album was going to be produced by the same artists as 2ReelGz and close friend and GSF member BullDxgg. Things changed with BullDxgg leaving Phoenix Records which forced Slip 2 Tha D to produce the entire album. The album was wrapped up in March of 2020 but down the line in October of 2020 Slip 2 Tha D improved as a producer and realized the albums beats sucked, Northside is the only untouched track from the reproduction.

Recording
Unlike 2ReelGz which was recorded in 2 weeks, the group spent a month and a half recording all 27 tracks. About 5 tracks into the recording the group had adopted new member G1NG3R SN4PZ into the group he appears on 7 tracks but was in the studio for all the audio quality is incredibly better then their previous releases due to Slip getting a mic and a pair of studio headphones. Not only that but Slip learned how to mix vocals. Originally Christy D was supposed to appear on all songs but he was expelled at school due to fighting causing him to be unable to hit the studio. Slip 2 Tha D had recorded all his vocals in January 2020 but when he went in to have NDF record his first verse off the album for Northside everything changed. His flow was so aggressive and loud and good it caused Slip to delete all his verses the same day he freestyled his Northside verse. All group members were happy with the beats and vocals.

Writing
The writing process was quite simple. On 2ReelGz NDF wrote 3 of Slip's verses and Slip only wrote 2 for him but this time Slip wrote 6 NDF's lyrics for 6 songs and he wrote all of G1NG3R SN4PZ verses he also wrote all of his own, Slip was much more productive this album then anyone.

Lyrics
The lyrics or themes of the album are very different of it's predecessor it's less offensive and more violent and more about women and there's less swearing and discussion about rape. It also has heavy subject on weed.