6 Aug
In light of the requests of producers wanted to make beats for Jin, he’s now throwing a contest to all the producers out there! The winning beat? He or she will have an opportunity to produce a track on Jin’s new album. Fans now can delight in two things: 1) a fan will have an awesome chance to produce a track and 2) that Jin will have a new album coming out! For details, check below:
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5 Jul
Back in May Jin released his latest mixtape entitled Say Something including the track “Angels”. Well today he’s just dropped the official MV for said track featuring him in various locales around the city using an interesting cinematography style giving the entire thing a time-lapse type of feel. He chose a good song to make the MV for, I just wish there was more variety in the video. But this is a song with a message, so I guess the audio is much more important than the visuals anyway.
29 Jun
Jin has a new text interview out with the Examiner. It isn’t too long but they cover a lot of ground in just a few questions, with topics ranging on events from most of the past decade. They start with some background on Jin’s rise to the top of BET’s freestyle friday, to his major label debut album, to his cantonese projects and working in Hong Kong. Jin continues to explain how his faith plays a strong part in everything that he does and what he has in store in the near future.
You can read the entire article over at the Examiner or after the break.
14 May
Jin’s been talking about it for a while now, but today’s the day and it’s finally here. His new mixtape entitled Say Something is now available for free DL. The album’s got 8 tracks, including the title joint. So what are you waiting for? Grab it HERE.
In other news, voting is closed for the 2010 Hip Hop Census mixtape. Look for the results of that contest to be announced in the near future along with the full mixtape.
12 May
Don’t know how I missed this one, but thankfully the fine folks at ChannelAPA caught this one a few weeks back. This is some footage from an event at Columbia Univeristy where a panel was held on Asian American’s in the media. They got a truly influential group of people to participate including Jin, Miss Info, Illmind and Rik Cordero. From the looks of it, it also may have served as a springboard for some future collaboration among the artists with their respective mediums. We may be late to report this but if you haven’t seen this clip either, it’s an encouraging watch.
25 Apr
Jin, arguably the most well-known Asian-American MC, decided to drop a track in tribute of all the Asian MC’s he respects that are doing their thing right now. This song is in response to a list that was published by a blogger on their top 10 Greatest Asian MC’s list, where Jin made the cut at #1. It’s encouraging to see Jin give a nod to his fellow colleagues, or as his once famously said in a Freestyle battle “cause Game recognize game”. He spits over the instrumental to Drake’s “It’s Over”.
Here’s the complete list of rapper’s he shouted out on the track. Ill.
19 Apr
Jin announced earlier this year that he’s looking to drop a new mixtape entitled Say Something. He’s revealed the official album cover, shared a couple more deatils, and posted up the title track for your streaming pleasure on both Myspace and Youtube. You can hear the title single below. From what we’ve heard so far, I feel like Jin’s grown as a writer but lost a little bit of the edge and tenacity he had from his younger years, though I’ll leave my final thoughts until after the mixtape drops in full “soon”.
What is it: 8 new English tracks.
Where you can download it: Here.
When you can download it: Soon.
In the meantime.. check out the title track “Say Something” on my Myspace (does anyone still use MS??) page http://myspace.com/therealjin.
22 Mar
Jin’s got another track to preview off his upcoming Say Something mixtape. It’s still currently untitled but he’s spitting over the famous Jay x Rihanna x Kanye ‘Run This Town’ instrumental. I’m really digging how everything he’s previewed so far has some real content in it. Jin’s really progressed as an artist, from battle MC, to commercial Ruff Ryders material, to raw underground with a mixture of both to social commentary and introspection. I’m definitely intrigued as to how this project will turn out upon release.
11 Mar
Jin’s announced that he’s got a new mixtape in the works called Say Something and he’s posted up a rough preview of one of the tracks. This one is tentatively entitled ‘Beautiful Story’ and is set to the instrumental of Eminem’s “Beautiful”, one of my favorite cuts from his last album.
It’s a simple autobiographical track of how Jin came up in the game and how he’s gotten to where he is today. I really like the concept but there are definitely a lot of elements that are pretty rough. It’s understandable though since this is just a demo, uncut webcam preview. With a some polish in the right places this could be a pretty great song.
28 Feb
Jin has announced that he will be creating a brand new mixtape by the people, for the people. What does this mean? He is holding a competition inviting anyone (including YOU) to jump on your favorite instrumental and create a song about the state of Hip-Hop, and leave space for Jin to spit a 16 on. Once all the entries are in, voting will commence and Jin will get on 10 of those tracks, thereby creating the new mixtape. It’s an exciting opportunity for anyone who’s ever wanted to collab with the man.
Here are the official instructions courtesy of Jin himself:
CALLING ALL MCS!!!
Be a part of the 2010 Hiphop Census (For The People By The People) MIXTAPE
1. Pick your favorite instrumental.
2. Record a song leaving a 16 bar verse open. (The song can be about anything. Be creative!)
3. Upload the mp3 to youtube as a video response to my announcement video (above).
4. Viewers (you all) will vote for their favorite 5 songs and I will pick my 5 favorite songs.
5. I will add my verse on the 10 selected tracks.
Timeline:
Submission date – Feb. 28th to May 1st (2 months)
Voting will take place from – May 1st to May 14th (2 weeks)
2010 Hiphop Census Mixtape (For the People By the People) – June 4th (my birthday)
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