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hier eine bio hab die vom label bekommen, sehr interessant was da drin steht.
Every generation deserves its own poet, one who truly owns the right to document the struggle of the ordinary person in the midst of oppressive forces. Def Jam’s best kept secret and America’s newest rap dilemma, Jinx Da Juvy, emerges to claim that title while holding the world in contempt with his debut album, “From A Young G’s Perspective.”
Born in Brooklyn’s Brownsville section, eighteen-year-old Jinx, a.k.a. Derek Carr, was raised by his mother in the aptly named Langston Hughes projects. He began to rap and write rhymes at age twelve when his family sought temporary housing in a homeless shelter. Seen through Jinx’ adolescent eyes, these unstable beginnings reinforced his view of a warped and unfair world which he began to document in his rhymes. His tenure at high school was brief and he quickly dropped out to sell drugs and run the streets. During this period Jinx met rapper Kool G Rap who, impressed by his lyrical skills, took Jinx to several record executives including, Lyor Cohen and Kevin Liles at Def Jam Records. Jinx turned them on their heads and soon the major labels were locked in a bidding frenzy to sign him. Founder and CEO of Def Jam Records, Russell Simmons won out, and signed Jinx at age fifteen
But the dominant voice of the streets maintained its chokehold. Consumed by thug life, Jinx played the streets hard, until what was left of his innocence was blown away by a bullet during a drug shootout. Jinx catapulted out of his youth and into an angry, frenetic coming-of-age, where his attitude was one of violence and destruction. At age sixteen, Jinx was a recording artist at a major label, a drug dealer and a father; his childhood had long passed away. Jinx’ life would remain in purgatory for another two years until the searing jolt of a second bullet, this time during a police shootout, became the catalyst for real change. “I was shot in the same place, same spot, same building. It was time to get out,” he recalls. At this point, Simmons, seeking to take a more personal approach with Jinx, went to see for himself the pressures his prodigy was faced with. Simmons immediately moved Jinx out of the hood and clamped down on his extra curricular activities. Simmons intuitively knew that stability was the key to harnessing this raw, hungry new talent. “Russell felt my pain, he understood where I was coming from” recalls Jinx. With this new lease on life came the determination that his music not be released posthumously, and under the watchful eye of his mentor Simmons, and management team, Teflon Muzik (run by brothers Sean and Dezo Webster,) Jinx focused and began work on his debut album.
“From A Young G’s Perspective,” weaves a checkered past with street wisdom to read like a Tarantino movie. It is clear from tracks, “Living in the hood,” and “Brownsville,” that Jinx understands power and wealth and how the lack of it affects his generation, and that more of it doesn’t always signify change. “Niggas think it’s easy, cos I’m f*ckin with Def Jam/I’m from the hood and in the hood I’ll remain.” His poignant, “Mama Don’t Cry For Me,” is beyond his years and eloquently delivered as he releases his mother from the responsibility of his upbringing. Jinx also shares his melodic-romantic side with “Regret,” before he brings it solidly home with the trademark system-wrecking beats of producer Just Blaze with, “Candy Man.” With his first two singles off the album, Jinx resists the trend to sugarcoat his lyrics, opting instead to keep it street with club joints, “Back It Up,” and “NY to LA”.
What will ultimately make Jinx this year’s valedictorian will be his uncanny skill at documenting a situation and then offering up a fistful of solutions. Explains Jinx, “I make people who don’t respect what we do, respect why we do it.” The poet Langston Hughes once lamented, “How many bullets does it take to kill a fifteen-year-old?” This is a question that Jinx Da Juvy can firmly tell you how to dodge.
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YOU ONLY GOOD AS WHAT YOU COME UP AGAINST
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