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About Me

To me, the goal of my bio is to just let people know what makes me interesting. Problem is, I’m not even interesting to myself. The things that most interest me now are the twisted parts of me, the parts that make me feel like an alien when around normal people. I feel different. I feel like I don’t fit in naturally, without a conscious deliberate effort to act like other people.
I’m from Milwaukee, Wisconsin. I write rap songs and I sing. My friends make beats. I rap to them. I moved to California this summer to really concentrate on making something happen with this music I make. I love hip-hop, but I also love R&B, rock, and whatever else I hear that grabs me. I don’t want to make music that sounds like other proven, cliché styles. I’ve always been a creative innovator; I want to always be pushing in some new directions. I record for indie label Young World. It’s awesome. Young World has already released 2 of my mixtapes. People really liked them. But my new stuff is gonna blow those albums away. I started rapping seriously 4 years ago, and I improve every year. I do music because I like to express myself and to entertain. I’m available for performing and recording, can do all styles of hip-hop including some I just made the fuck up, and I have a catalogue of all types of songs for different crowds. I think I can use music as a tool to effect change in my community, as corny as that is probably gonna make me look.
I want superstardom. Hilarious, considering the music I make is mad introspective and not exactly “poppy”. Fuck it. I’m trying to figure out ways to sell out, to really say something exciting and interesting. But I’m kind of a depressed dude. I spend all my free time downloading, writing, and recording music. I showed a lot of promise in school, but I never did anything that matched my potential other than through the arts. I went to school because my dad wanted me to, and I put minimal effort in it. At least guys like 50 cent went nuts with drive and got somewhere.
I’m a young black kid from the suburbs of Milwaukee. I lived on the edge of the town, like Eminem in 8 mile, just outside the reach of the inner-city. Barely in the suburbs, with my lower middle class black family, the rare one in the white neighborhood. Now it’s so much more common, I see all these kanye west-looking, Hollister-wearing oreo's running around all smiley. It wasn’t like that for me. I spent my school time in white people land, where most of the blacks were bussed in, and my free time sneaking into the hood to kick it with my cousins and my friend Cornelius. So I’ve always lived in these 2 worlds, and that informs my music heavily.
I have violent mood swings where I’m extra-happy or extra-sad. But a lot of times, I just feel numb. I don’t feel anything. It sucks. I feel like it gets hard to tell what’s real. Am I even good at rapping and singing? Or am I living in a continuous fantasy world where Im this future rap star? I think I can do well underground. But I’m too odd to really market on tv. Oh well. If I can one day make money off this, that’d be cool. Enough to provide for me and some twisted, fucked-up girl.
What the fuck is my bio? What a boring story. What have I done? Not a god damn thing. Who might like this crap?
I think loners, losers, outsiders, outcasts, rebels, rabble-rousers, punks, Goths, skaters, emo kids, coffee shop chicks, middle-class blacks who read pro-black poetry at open mic's. You know, the fags. The kids who the jocks, preps, and cool kids clown and beat up. I think I’m pretty fucking uncool by the standards I think are meaningless. I think I’m very cool by my own definitions and values.
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Want to Support Cali Music?

This past weekend i was all about California artists. Rap? I was playing this artist Glasses Malone's new song with Akon and DJ Toomp. R&B? Keyshia Cole from out of Oakland. She's got this great r...
Posted by jon henry on Wed, 17 Oct 2007 10:41:00 PST

October 9th 99.3 FM Radio Show!

I had an interesting week. I'm on this new song-a-week thing. I'm just on a roll recording new music. I'm making money. I'm partying in Pasadena with my dude James. I'm dancing with ladies and tak...
Posted by jon henry on Mon, 08 Oct 2007 09:19:00 PST

I Imagine We Are In Love...

let's get more fucked up...I feel like this freakish hideous t hing I wa spicturing like a seeing a girl wodosmehwer  and shei lis tlei the shtiht    to me when I sie ee her beauti...
Posted by jon henry on Sat, 29 Sep 2007 08:03:00 PST

Sept. 9th Radio Show

Spotlight Exposure: Victory Records' Bayside This week went very well. It included fun things like making money, looking at pretty girls, writing new songs, drug experimentation and the start of t...
Posted by jon henry on Mon, 10 Sep 2007 07:57:00 PST

Introducing...Black Skellington

Tonight let's get more fucked up. let's take a trip inside my head and see what twisted little freakish things we can find. I can introduce you to the friend inside my head. His name is Black Skelling...
Posted by jon henry on Fri, 28 Sep 2007 06:10:00 PST

Lets Get More Fucked Up

blog entry: "hypochondriac"Yesterday was a complete bust as far as I'm concerned. I accomplished so little it's pathetic. I had such ambitions. But I've just been feeling so exhausted. Work is the cu...
Posted by jon henry on Thu, 27 Sep 2007 12:37:00 PST

Kanye West Vs. 50 Cent: Who Won?

When the towers fell, I think I was just waking up. I came downstairs to a sunny September day. The television was already on, and they were replaying the horrible footage of the tragic events that ha...
Posted by jon henry on Sun, 16 Sep 2007 10:12:00 PST

Jon Henry Attacks Black People!

I tried to beat the heat this weekend. It's been 100+ degrees for like 3 or 4 days straight in Cali. It got to be unbearable. This heat requires you to shower with the coldest water (and multiple time...
Posted by jon henry on Thu, 06 Sep 2007 05:44:00 PST

August 26th Radio Show: Did "Against Me" Sell Out?

Click here to get your own player.Spotlight Exposure: Against Me I play Pop music on my radio show. I warn listeners in advance, because there are definitely people who seem to have issu...
Posted by jon henry on Tue, 28 Aug 2007 11:30:00 PST

Me on a Movie Set?!

Last night i drove to Carson, CA to catch Warped Tour concert-goers leaving the Home Depot Center. I promoted my music and my radio show to young kids leaving the all-day rock-a-thon as they waited ...
Posted by jon henry on Mon, 27 Aug 2007 08:57:00 PST