Ich meine der ist East, war doch auch mal bei Ruff Ryders unter Vertrag, oder?

The son of Chinese immigrants, Jin was born and raised in Miami, Florida. "(My parents) did the restaurant thing, but unfortunately if didn't really take off (like) how they show it on TV. The American Dream - it's not even about hard work, cause nobody worked harder than my father. Sometimes it's just the life you're dealt." Jin, however, was determined to take control of his own destiny and make a major impact in another, more creative way.

In the 8th grade, Jin started freestyling with friends in the school cafeteria. Quickly catching the hip-hop bug, he started battling and performing. "I battled any and everywhere possible. One time I was at a movie theatre and I battled an employee in the bathroom." Developing a reputation as one of Miami's most clever lyricists, Jin's dreams of making hip-hop a career still seemed distant. He was growing up alongside New York's early-1990s hip-hop renaissance - Nas, Wu-Tang Clan, Mobb Deep, Jay-Z and Onyx were his favorites - but his day-to-day existence in a city better known for Luke and 2 Live Crew seemed radically different from the urban cityscapes captured by his favorites. When he had the opportunity to move to New York City in October, 2001, he knew it was do-or-die: "I came up for family reasons, but I figured that if I was gonna do the music thing, New York was the place."
Again, Jin dove headfirst into the city's various scenes. "I was everywhere... I hit the back-packer circuit, I hit the Times Square/42nd Street circuit, which is all those...

Hier seine aktuelle Myspaceseite:

www.myspace.com/therealjin

Und bei Wiki steht, dass 2008 ein neues Album geplant war?!:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jin_(rapper)#Universal_Music_Era_.282008-_present.29

(irgendwie lässt sich der Link nicht richtig kopieren?!)