Jamesy

So What Do You Wanna Know About Me?
My name is James AKA Jimmy AKA TeKneeK AKA Taesheek
I was born in Hollywood, CA on June 24th, a Cancer
I'm an ABK - an American Born Korean
I graduated from Walnut High School
I graduated from Mt. SAC earning 3 degrees: A.A. in Fine Arts & Humanities, A.A. in Language Arts & Communications, and an A.A in Social & Behavioral Sciences.
I'm pursuing my Bachelors/Masters in Communications - Journalism @ Cal Poly Pomona.
I'm pursuing a career within the Los Angeles Angels Organization.
I love 80's music (my heart), oldschool hiphop (my coming of age), slow jams (my romance), smooth jazz (my relaxation), classical (my peace), R&B (my entertainment).
My heroes are Bruce Lee (unbeatable), Boogaloo Shrimp (undisputable), Nas (greatest ever), and Jesus Christ ultimately (my life).
I'm an Introvert but occasionally Extroverted.
I love Latina women #1, then Mixed women #2, then Asian women #3.
I blend well with Taurus women the best of everyone.
I strive to be good but I sin like everyone.
This is me...
MUSICAL INFORMATION
I grew up listening to 80's pop/rock music. I use to listen to all the top 40 music that was big in the 80's and spent day-to-day appreciating the radio at the time.
As I gotten older, the 80's were the regular everyday music, but in '85, I grew to a new sound that was first introduced to me by my cousin. I use to spend Sundays after church visiting my aunt down in Crenshaw in downtown Koreatown and would sit in front of their home stereo and I saw all these albums, 2 Live Crew (2 Live is What We Are), Ice-T (6 in the Mornin), Doug E Fresh (The Show), and for the next 8-9 months, I would also come to my cousin's house and listen and listen to these new albums that appeared in his stereo collection...
... and that's when I realized this new sound I was exposed to was called hip-hop. A year passed and then I heard albums from LL Cool J (Bigger and Deffer), Beastie Boys (Licensed to Ill), Fatboys (Crushin').. etc etc....
I grew to appreciate hip-hop so much that I found a local radio station around my way in '87 called the Big Beat Showcase dj'ed by DJ Mike and the Cisco Kid. The show broadcasted on 88.7FM KSPC. It was a college radio station that played the purest hiphop in 1986 beyond. Artists like Audio 2, Big Daddy Kane, Cash Money and Marvelous, Stetsasonic and LL were huge.
Then the BDP, Salt N Pepa, Run DMC, Public Enemy thing started coming in ... and Def Jam Records was a household name. In the west, I was more on-charge with 1580AM KDAY and first being exposed to something so different and so shocking... I began to listen to it all the time ...
Eazy-E & N.W.A.
My favorite hiphop album of all time... and my favorite hiphop group of all time. It took many years to really digest and appreciate all the other great things coming into fruition with hiphop: Tribe Called Quest, Leaders of the Nu Skool, Digital Underground, Gang Starr, Kwame, King Tee, Low Profile, Compton's Most Wanted, Nice N Smooth, Kool G Rap & DJ Polo ... KRS-1... Kool Moe Dee... Ice Cube, Cypress Hill...
But in '93-'94 --- four acts came out that blew my mind musically and lyrically:
Dr. Dre & Snoop
Wutang Clan
Nas
Notorious B.I.G. w/ Puff Daddy
.... The four biggest impacts to take hiphop by storm in the most ruthless way. The music was beautiful ... the entertainment was lush ... and the appreciation was pure ... Hiphop was amazing and fun. I was not a good rapper nor a good emcee -- but what we had to listen to all day everyday inspired me so much to practice, work and get better ... And now all I can say is that I've listened to all the lyrics, all the rhymes.. all the anger, all the emotion, all the imagery and stories ...
... and today I'm inputting all I need to know with hiphop musically and pouring it into a more positive and more thought-provoking way.
I'm nourishing the sounds in hiphop that once attracted listeners and once brought out the animation in people and I'm feeding it to the young kids ... the young children ...
... with positive lyrics.
The things we see today are so impure, immoral, and overly exposed to the young kids that this world today doesn't teach the rights from wrongs enough in music. What better way to feed into them with spiritual words, positive lyrics and realistic views .... all integrated with that rough but danceable music ... the real music ...
... the hiphop music.
One of my ambitions is to promote goodness to kids .... to show respect and care ... to show compassion and understanding ...
In this page... the music you hear will only show just that.
Listen to me ... and see what I am, listen to what I do, and understand how I think...
God bless.