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WHO'S JAYBURN???

 

BEEN WRITING SINCE I WAS 13 YRS OLD, AROUND THE SAME TIME I MOVE TO STATEN ISLAND.. I ALWAYS LOVE POETRY, IT WAS THE ONLY WAY TO EXPRESS MY FEELINGS.. GOT MORE SERIOUS ABOUT WRITING WHEN I WAS SELECTED ALONG WITH A FEW OTHER STUDENTS FROM CURTIS HIGH SCHOOL TO MEET WALTER DEAN MYERS.. SINCE THEN I BECAME MORE AND MORE SKILL OF MY WORDPLAY AND STORYTELLING BUT I STILL DIDN'T GET INVOLVED WITH MUSIC UNTIL I LEFT NEW YORK AND MOVE TO ELIZABETH, NJ IN 2009, THAT SAME YEAR I RELEASE A DEMO JOINT ON MY BIRTHDAY, A FEW MONTHS LATER I RELEASE MY FIRST DEMO TAPE 'WELCOME TO THE FUTURE" AND SOON AFTER I STARTED THE GROUP V.M.G. (VICTORY MEANS GREATNESS) I CAME BACK TO STATEN ISLAND TO LIVE AGAIN AND TO FOCUS ON MUSIC A LITTLE MORE. TEAM UP WITH LONGTIME FRIENDS BLACK ANT THA PROPHET AND NEW PEOPLE I MET ALONG THE WAY NAME ELSU, MOE MILLZ AND P-30 BUT ELSU AND MOE MILLZ WERE LOCK UP SO IT WAS JUST ME , BLACK ANT AND P-30, TOGETHER WE DID FOUR DEMO TAPES, (DISTORTED MUSIC - JAYBURN, I AM THE BAD GUY - BLACK ANT THA PROPHET AND THE P-30 CHRONOLOGY AND GENERATION RX- P-30) AFTER THAT WE SORTA BROKE UP FOR THE MOMENT SO I KEPT WRITING UNTIL MY GOOD FRIEND FOR MANY YEARS NAME JAMES JONES HELP INTRODUCE ME TO D.W.COOP WHO I ALREADY KNEW FROM THE DAYS IN HIGH SCHOOL BUT HAVEN'T SEEN IN YEARS.. , THEY BOTH MENTOR ME IN MUSIC AND IN LIFE. DROP MY FIRST RECORDED STUDIO TRACK THAT FOLLOWING YEAR AND BY THE END OF 2012 I RELEASE MY FIRST MIXTAPE CALL" IT'S A COLD DAY IN HELL"


IN MARCH 2013 I RELEASE MY COMPLIATIONS TAPE CALL "THE DEATH OF GARBAGE RAP" AND THAT SAME YEAR I DROP MY SECOND MIXTAPE CALL "BURN SEASON : THE J.A.B. TAPES"


AS 2014 ARRIVED, I WENT THRU MANY CHANGES THAT HAS DEFINE WHO I AM THIS YEAR.. IN JANUARY I WENT THRU LEGAL AND PERSONAL ISSUES THAT MADE ME RETIRE FROM MUSIC FOR A BRIEF SHORT TIME. DURING THAT TIME I STARTED DOING THINGS I DIDN'T THINK I CAN DO. STARTED MAKING BEATS, GRAPHIC DESIGNS, RADIO SHOW AND BLOGGING FOR OTHER INDIE ARTIST.. THEN I RETURN BACK TO THE BOOTH IN MARCH AND RECORDED THREE TRACKS AT CYBERTRON STUDIO. THE TWO TRACKS I RECORDED WOULD PLAY A BIG ROLE IN MY RETURN INTO HIP-HOP. RELEASE "DARK VISIONS" AS MY FIRST SINGLE AND WAS GIVEN GREAT REVIEW. BY FAR MY BEST JOINT TO DATE WITH OVER 2,000 PLAYS AND COUNTING.. THEN RELEASE MY SECOND TRACK CALL "BURNUMINATI" A SUMMER TIME BANGER THAT'S REACHING 1000 PLAYS AND MORE.. AFTER THAT I STARTED TO COMBINE WHAT I HAVE LEARN AND MADE A WEBSITE TO SHOWCASE MY WORK. AROUND THE SUMMERTIME I RAISE THE BARS HIGHER WHEN I BECAME APART OF A INDIE LABEL CALL AMERICAN WASTE CAMP RECORDS.. NOW BEING IN A LABEL I USE MY CREATIVE SKILLS TO HELP AWC RECORDS REACH NEW HEIGHTS.. AFTER COUNTLESS OF TRACKS WITH THEM I ANNOUNCE THAT IM DROPPING BURN SEASON 2 AND MY EP WILL BE CALL BURNUMINATI EP IN 2015. TO COMPLETE THIS GREAT YEAR I WAS NOMINATED FOR BEST MALE HIP-HOP ARTIST AT THE JUZZ ROC THE MIC AWARDS. THEN A MONTH LATER I WON FOR BEST MALE HIP-HOP ARTIST. ALSO RELEASE THE AMERICAN WASTE CAMP MIXTAPE - RISE OF THE CAMP. 

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IN 2015, I CONTINUE MY RISE AS AN ARTIST IN NEW YORK BY DROPPING BURN SEASON 2 IN JUNE AND IT'S STILL A COLD DAY IN HELL IN NOVEMBER. ALSO I WAS NOMINATED 2 JUZZ ROC THE MIC AWARDS FOR BEST MIXTAPE (BURN SEASON 2) AND BEST SONG (I'M ON) IN ADDITION TO THAT I WAS AWARDED THE JRTM AWARDS FOR BEST ARTIST. PLUS I WAS RUNNER-UP TO THE RISING SUN ALL-STARS FOR THE SILIVE BEST HIP-HOP ARTIST LIST. 

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IN 2016, I WENT THRU ALOT OF NONSENSE BUT I STILL FIND A WAY TO PUT OUT MUSIC. BY THE END OF THE YEAR. I WAS ABLE TO RELEASE THE BURNUMINATI PREVIEW (EP) ALSO I WAS NOMINATED BY JUZZ ROC THE MIC FOR BEST HIP-HOP ARTIST AND BEST SONG (WHAT'S MY NAME) AND ALSO FOR BEST GROUP (RESPECT THE LADDER).  I ALSO WAS ABLE TO WIN THE SILIVE LIST FOR BEST HIP-HOP ARTIST.

 

IN 2017, WAS A TIME PERIOD FOR ME AS I TOOK A STEP BACK IN MUSIC AND STARTED TO FOCUS MORE WITH FAMILY AND TO DEVELOP WORKING ON MY DEBUT ALBUM. DURING THE SUMMER TIME I RELEASE MY FIRST OFFICIAL SINGLE CALLED "BAD INTENTIONS" WORLDWIDE. 

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