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
I’m deeply saddened by the passing of Michael Jackson. His talent touched me at a very early age. I remember the excitement I would have when the one television station we had in Barbados was going to broadcast the Grammy Awards and Michael Jackson was scheduled to perform.
My mother couldn’t afford to buy any of the jackets or his glittery glove or any of the many Michael Jackson toys on the market at the time but I would get an old glove and my moms Sun Glasses and be ready to do my own version of MJ’s moonwalks. Michael I know you are looking down on us from heaven and I’d like to thank you for the amazing songs, the inspiration I’ve gotten as a songwriter and producer from studying them and for showing us how music transcends all the borders and barriers that our society creates!
May God have mercy on your soul, Michael.
Jair Dynast
Michael Joseph Jackson (August 29, 1958 – June 25, 2009) Rest In Peace
Michael Joseph Jackson (August 29, 1958 – June 25, 2009)
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.
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.
“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.
“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.
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!
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.
Being a rapper on his grind, over the years I have come to realize the value of relationships and the value of networking. When I started rapping I was hungry to get on and I would hit all the local shows and events just networking and meeting people in “the industry”. Through all of this I met a lot of people who were in charge of putting on these events and I was able to pass on my demo CD and eventually get involved in a lot of shows and events going forward once they heard my music. When I started out I wasn’t the most out going cat so meeting people and networking was often a very tiring task for me. But with the help of other more out going members of my crew I quickly overcame all of that and was so focused on hustling my talents we ended up as far as Atlanta handing out Vinyl and selling CDs.
My networking also brought me to meet a lot of other rappers and producers. Through those relationships I formed common alliances and furthered my knowledge of my local industry and the politics that govern it. Unfortunately, politics never seems to go in my favor so I had to hustle to earn every opportunity that came my way. Lucky for me my talent helped me get over the lack of political favor. I’m talking having to audition for show slots where I shouldn’t have had to etc.
Moving forward many of my lasting relationships have pointed me in the right direction when it came to getting a team behind me, a label behind my team, and fans behind my music. So network your ass of and build lasting relationships. These relationships will be key to your long lasting career in the Rap/Hip Hop industry.
