INTERVIEW: Rapper/Singer/Producer Davy Jones

Lets meet the man behind the talent, 20 year old, David Jones.  Before the rapping and the singing Jones was a poet all throughout high school soon graduating at Columbia University for Radiology.  This guy does it all and that’s what drew me to him, he reminded me of myself.  He has a passion for music as a whole, as an art form rather than just a lifestyle.  All honesty, Jones is a clown who enjoys making people laugh who loves to praise women for what they’ve done (ladies get at that fast…there’s not that many out there)

I wanted to start off with your name; you went through a lot of name changes… Yea my rapper name used to be Johnny…that didn’t quiet work out, I wasn’t feeling the name and before that it used to be John Doe and now its Jones

So you’ve had a previous mix tape out, how did that go?  It was called “The Sign Me EP”, that came out July 4^th, 2009.  It didn’t go anywhere because of my networking game.  I put it out there more for my friends.

..And now your working on a new mix tape: Yes it’s going to be called “G.I. Jones” hopefully having 14 songs.  With this mix tape I want to be the rebel for the rap industry because people just make songs and make songs with no meaning behind it.  A lot of people want to do it for the fame.

Feature: Abs, Owner of Clothing Line "Erare"

So I met the owner of ERARE yesterday(finally LOL); me and this guy have been arguing over twitter probably for the last week until he told me i needed some ERARE on my page.  Even though I knew of his line from before I didn't know he was the owner of this ERARE...call me mean but I was gonna meet up with this guy to tell him that the name of his clothing line was already well known and that he should maybe change it...yea i put my foot in my mouth when Abs gave me my own ERARE snapback(a way to Butta's Heart...crewneck sweatshirts and snapbacks) so he won cool points with me.  Now as most of you already know I never wear any brand without knowing the meaning behind the brand because that's when I'll know if I should wear it.  Your brand should always define your audience not the other way around.  I don't follow the brand for the hype, I follow the brand because it defines me.

Interview with Rapper J.Aire

Keith Nelson, Jr. also known as Justin Aire, ‘J.Aire’ for short has caught my ear.  This artist began with a mic and a mouth full of poetry flowing through it - this is where Keith got his stage name. In 2001, he was dealt the card of hip-hop and ran with it.  After listening to his mixtape and interviewing him there is no doubt that J.Aire reminds me of a black Eminem with a Lupe sound.  After releasing his first mixtape, “PenMe”, on National Smoke Day, 4/20 of this year I was able to catch up with J. Aire who is now working on his second album “Aire is Everywhere.” As an artist to watch he markets himself with “Aire is everywhere. I want to be everywhere…like Aire.”

So Keith tell me, why did you stay with the poet name J. Aire and where did it come from?

The name came from me trying to think of a poet name for myself and it was just a nice play on words.  I stayed with my poet name J. Aire because I began to realize that my old rap name, Karnage, no longer reflected the type of music I was making. J. Aire sounds more light, intellectual.  The name is also more marketable and doesn’t leave bad connotations from it.

What made you go towards the musical route?

Honestly, my friend Craze is the initial reason I began to pursue music because he and I have a great vision for what we wanted to do in the game. As time grew on I realized that I'm really good. Like REALLY REALLY good and that’s not on some cocky shit. It's simply that these rhymes just kept coming to me but then it stopped just being rhymes and evolved into whole songs…then that turned into album concepts…then turned into marketing schemes and before I knew it, I was starting PenMe and performing.