Jair Dynast - Art of Invention feat. Barack Obama

We originally released this joint as a free download during the month of February while I on Tour of Toronto High Schools as part of the Black History Month celebrations. The song has been downloaded over 20,000 times in these months of release. I wrote the song to pay tribute to the significant contributions African-American inventors have made to modern society.

At my shows “Art of Invention” has become a big fan favorite and the label indicates there is high demand from fans to have an official copy of the song. So here is the official release of, Jair Dynast’s “Art of Invention” featuring President Barack Obama on iTunes via eMultimedia Group, Inc.

“Art of Invention” is the third installment of for my “Vanguard Series” other joints to check for include “Simple Plan“ and “My Style“. “The Vanguard Series” is a follow up series to my now critically acclaimed debut album, V.I.A.L.E.N.C.E., that achieved RapReviews Top 10 Album of the Year, along with the #1 single on the Top 30 Grassroots Hip Hop Charts with the single “Vicious“.

You can download “Art of Invention” at iTunes today! And look out for more tunes as I have literally hundreds of songs recorded

Stay up,
Jair Dynast

Jair Dynast My Style

My new single “My Style” is now available for download at iTunes and other fine digital retailers. You watch the new video below and be sure to request the song at your local radio station.

Jair Dynast - Art of Invention

I’m very happy to announce that we have released my next rap single and music video “Art of Invention“. This song is a tribute to the accomplishments of African-American inventors and their contributions to our society. Many of their inventions were so revolutionary that they have made significant changes to thousands of lives and will continue to do so for many decades. You can download the song for FREE here.

Jair Dynast album - V.I.A.L.E.N.C.E.

“The INtro” is, of course, the introduction to the album putting the Hip Hop community on notice about Jair Dynast’s objective as a creative and passionate Hip Hop mind. The track also serves as a reminder to artists and music industry professionals alike that they are responsible and accountable for the music, ideas and images they release to the masses. “Incapable of living where you glorify, invincible entertainment comes alive/Now you stuck ingesting bullets family horrified” In every bar of the song, you’ll notice the use of words beginning with the word “IN”. Thus the title “The INtro”, a song I really wanted to set the tone for the whole LP.

Jair Dynast album - V.I.A.L.E.N.C.E.

“V.I.A.L.E.N.C.E.” is my debut solo offering to the world of Hip Hop. For me, it serves the dual purpose of introducing Jair Dynast – who he is and where he is from – to the world and to provide social commentary on the society in which we live. The misspelling of violence is used to illustrate an acronym “Vicious Ignorance Amounts to Little Except Negative Consequences N’ Expression”.

I chose this acronym because I feel that a lot of the negativity in our society is rooted in ignorance. This ignorance often becomes vicious due to the extenuating circumstances many of us are faced with because of our race, class and/or status in society. Often this vicious ignorance expresses itself through violence against people in the very same situation we are fighting to escape, see track No. 2 for an illustration.

In the following chapters, I try to provide some insight as to my state of mind and why I wrote and recorded what you hear on the album. I thought this was something fans of the music would enjoy and find interesting as I know for myself when I pick up albums I often wonder what goes through the artists’ mind that causes them to create the work they do.

Overall, my main intentions with this album are very basic. I want to reach out and affect some sort of change amongst people who come from the same situations I have gone through and/or illustrate.

Hopefully after hearing the album, I would have already reached one and possibly many more.

Bless,
Jair Dynast  (Jah-air Die-nast)

Jair Dynast Rockin a Barack Obama T-Shirt by XYCouture.com

I feel it is necessary, very necessary.

Besides the fact that he was by far the best candidate in the race and probably the best candidate the United States has had in a long time. Barack Obama is our Martin Luther King. And when I say our I don’t mean black people I just mean people of all colors of this generation.

This generation has been in desperate need of a major leader and President-elect Barack Obama is that leader. Our generation has been going astray for years and a leader like him and the platform he is presenting is so futuristic. He is talking about paying for every students education if they volunteer to serve their nation in some form. That is revolutionary. Plus so much more… I could really go on and on about his platform…

Specifically for black people, his presidency will adjust the mindset of our people. Barack Obama’s presidency allows us to think beyond the block, beyond the hustlers mentality of do whatever comes easy, beyond sports and entertainment, so many more of us can now know it is ok to reach in whatever direction we want to reaching. You want to be an Aerospace Engineer, you want to work at NASA NOTHING is no longer beyond black people. It will not happen overnight but it will happen… trust me

We now have a real life family to look at! I mean, he is a black man who is married to his wife, obviously loves his wife and he has two beautiful daughters. The disease that has been plaguing us where we have been prone to being baby mothers and fathers now we have a role model beyond that. I sincerely mean no offense to those that are baby mothers or fathers but we now have an example of a functioning black family as THE FIRST FAMILY!!

All the crap they throw at our generation on TV, in video games and movies. All the violence and negativity. This now must be adjusted. Of course there is a place for it all – I am not gonna front and say that I don’t like a good gangster flick – but the over saturation of our generation and the “dumbing down” of a generation must now slow down!

When I dropped my first album, in doing various press interviews with journalists and radio personalities etc, in more than a few occasions I felt like the fact that I demonstrated clear intelligence, a sense of accomplishment, a sense of consciousness, smarts and was well read and spoken was off putting to them. It was like they felt it was strange to encounter a rapper that displayed all of these qualities not to mention I’m a black kid. Some of course embraced it while many others seemed to want to challenge my intellect to see if was for real. Well whatever! It is now cool to be intelligent, accomplished, polished, smart, well spoken, well read and visionary!

President Barack Obama has given this whole world new energy! LET’S GO!!!

What up my peoples it’s been a crazy long time since I have had time to update my blog. I haven’t been lazy though. I have been in the lab working on a ton of new rap music. You’ll be seeing more new hip hop singles and videos from Jair Dynast being release very often! The first of these joints is “Simple Plan”. “Simple Plan” is hot off the Vanguard Series:  Chapter I – The Herald. In the coming weeks I’ll explain in more detail what the Vanguard Series is all about. The single “Simple Plan” is now available on iTunes. So if you want to support just click here to buy “Simple Plan” by Jair Dynast. Also, make sure you sign-up over at my new website www.jairdynast.net for exclusive new mp3 and other hot ish for FREE!

Take a look at the new video below and hit me up with your feedback as I always appreciate your thoughts!

.:Professionalism – Your Rap Biography:.

Besides your music your Biography will have a major impact on how your are perceived by the public. You want to have a well written and informative Biography that sells you and your talents but does not come off as an advertisement. Your accomplishments as a musician and an individual are both very important to highlight in your Bio. Have you won any rap music contests? Have you played at the CMJ Music Marathon? Have you had your music chart on any major rap music charts? What is the press saying about your music? In life what have you accomplished outside of music? Have you attained a basketball scholarship? etc.

I mentioned these specific points because they are all things I have personal accomplished and they all feature in my biography which was written by a professional publicist that works with eMultimedia Group, Inc. Please note: You don’t need a professional publicist in order to have an effective Biography and wrote a very effective biography for myself well before I had any label situation. The reality is most you will be an unsigned rapper for a while before you have a record label behind your career. Therefore you have got to develop a lot of the key elements of being a professional rapper on your own and it is my aim to see that you do!

Another other important element your rapper biography will need is the human element. What have you been through in your life? Was life amazing for you or was it a struggle? A lot of people would think that having had struggle in your life would be the best thing to mention in your biography. However, it is not necessary to have struggle to bring the human element into you bio. A well written biography could very well mention that you have been rich all your life but because if this you have been privileged to experience a lot of things others haven’t and this makes your music more well rounded. If you weren’t born rich but had some setbacks in life mention that. I was diagnosed with a heart alignment that forced me to give up my basketball scholarship after reading about that in my biography a lot of journalist who interviewed me asked about it and wanted me to expand on the whole thing. Yes, it was a devastating time in my life which contained a lot of pain for me but it made me who I am today and people want to know.

Hip Hop has always been about taking a negative situation and putting a positive spin on it so stay true to that when writing your biography. It is not good enough to just tell people how long you have been rapping, you are in a local crew and work with this producer and that producer. Tell your potential fans who you are, what you have been through and what you are about. These same elements should also be applied when you write your songs. Trust me, they will connect.

I know I have touched on this before in previous posts but I think it is worth expanding on a little bit more. Presenting a professional package is very important in order for the industry to take your music seriously. When I speak of the industry I am not only concerned with record labels because record labels are the last step in this new information age. Before record labels even consider your music these days you have got to build. You have got to build with DJs, Journalists, Bloggers and last but not least Rap music fans.

In my next few posts I will go into more detail about some of the most important elements required to present a professional package. Stay tuned.