Every time you look around, you hear rappers speak about progressing, bearing their soul, and truly delving deeper into what they are about. Most of the time, it is just fluff to pad the fact that their new album is a rehashing of old themes and nonsense. Jacewon is not that artist.
Born in Illinois and residing in Southern California, he has built a strong following with his "Indie"-minded Hip-Hop. After working in various groups and situations, ranging from his old collaborators "The Def Poets Society" to artists such as Oddisee, Snowman (Jack Sample Pros), Freddie Joachim, Choice37, and others, he has been in the studio crafting something of a departure to the style that his fans have come to know him for. Entitled Evolution, his debut for Otherbeats Records, plays like a swan song to Jazz and the Blues, two genres that both Jace and his producer, B-Side (of Poetry In Motion Recordings), gain inspiration from. Instead of just "rhyming for the sake of riddling", you can feel the emotion Jacewon is dropping over the tracks. Tapestries are being woven, stories are concocted, and it stops just being "Indie Hip-Hop", and is just well-crafted music. The aim is not to alienate those who took the trip to the well with Jace, but to try and let them know that "Indie" is not all about who can kick the largest number of syllables into a bar, but bearing one's soul, letting the music and the words take you to another plain.
Inspired by a wide spectrum of artists which include Nas, Bob Dylan, Donovan, Pharaoh Monche and others; Jacewon is bridging the gap and paying his respect. Breathing life into a genre he considers to be "on the ropes", showing you the roots of the tree as he plants his own seeds. More than an MC, he is an artist who is truly being real: not the glamorized, MTV/BET vision of "real" that you see in many acts today, which is more glitz, bells and whistles than anything tangible. As he said in one of his old tracks, "it's hard to find somebody who cares", but in Jacewon, we have a man who truly cares not only about what his listeners are being fed, but also cares about the music that moves him. His evolution is just starting – don't miss the bus.
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