Hardwork beats talent, when talent fails to work. This is one of Gray Classic's favorite quotes. Gray Classic is a talented songwriter, rapper, and singer that was born and raised in Irvington, New Jersey.
Gray began his music career in 2008, after playing one season of college football at the University of Rhode Island. In 2009, Gray built his own record label company called Grind Camp Records. Gray had always wanted to be a professional recording artist, since he was a seven year old boy. When Gray was age seven, he was gifted a VHS cassette tape that had three of Michael Jacksons music videos on it.
These Michael Jackson music videos inspired Gray to become a recording artist. Before Gray began his music career, he focused on school and sports. Gray attended both Boca Raton Community High School and Boca Raton Christian High School. Gray played both football and basketball during his time in high school. After scoring sixteen touchdowns, while playing the quarterback position at Boca Raton Christian High School, Gray sign a full scholarship to play football at the University of Rhode Island. After one semester in college Gray dropped out of college to pursue a full time career in the music business.
In 2010, Gray released his first mixtape titled In The Zone Vol.1. In 2012, Gray released his second mixtape titled In The Zone Vol. 2. Gray would release his third mixtape titled In The Zone Vol. 3 in 2016. After the release of Gray's third mixtape, he decided to focus more on the behind the scenes work. In 2017, Gray launched his own music marketing company called Grind Camp Global. In 2023, Gray began working on his third mixtape titled Rock Star Lifestyle.
All it takes is one song or one music video to change an artists music career completely around. For Gray Classic, that song and music video is "Swagged Out". In the summer of 2024, Gray release the official music video for his hit song "Swagged Out". At first Gray wasn't sure about what his fans would think about his Swagged Out music video. Gray shot the music with a cheap Cannon video camera, at a cheap hotel in Boynton Beach, Florida. Gray was on a two month vacation in Boynton Beach and was inspired to shoot a music video after he bought a new watch. Instead of letting the inspiration dissapear Gray, didn't hesitate and began writing down ideas for a music video. Gray did his first video camers interview after shooting his swagged out music video. Gray has been in the music business for the past seventeen years and he has never recorded a video of him getting interviewed by a journalist. So Gray decided to not only shoot a music video but he also recorded his first interview on the same day.
Then, Gray started recieving a lot of discouraging and hateful comments, on Intstagram, about his Swagged Out music video. This is when Gray knew that he had something special with Swagged Out.
Gray had re-signed a second record deal with Grind Camp Records in 2024. Gray knew had been working very hard to this would be his last chance at
