J-Zone

Westchester-bred, Queens-based rap musician J-Zone (née J. Mumford) started his musical goal when he found and mastered a number of equipment before he also managed to get out of primary school. Developing up in suburbia, he particularly dreamed of a profession playing bass electric guitar in a fresh urban funk music group and would scour record shops all night to find out previous funk LPs merely to imitate the basslines. Encircled by hip-hop tradition and a now-significant vinyl fabric collection, influenced by Yo! MTV Raps, and affected by famous brands the Bomb Squad, Marley Marl, DJ Leading, and regional beatsmith-made-good Pete Rock and roll, J-Zone nevertheless place his funk fantasies on keep by enough time he reached senior high school — where he also gained his pseudonym because of the same zany, zoned-out character that would ultimately express itself on his recordings — to focus on his growing skills like a rap maker and DJ, while also sometimes dabbling as an MC privately. It wasn’t until a pal connected him up with Vance Wright, Slick Rick’s longtime DJ and maker, though, that his profession officially started to take off. Based on J-Zone’s house demos, Wright brought him in to the community studio he possessed as an intern, as well as the teenaged Area eventually proved helpful his method up to mind engineer. By enough time he had learned the studio room, the fledgling manufacturer was also prepared to go to SUNY Buy in NEW YORK, where he majored in Music. His mature task, actually, also ended up being J-Zone’s unintentional debut record, the longer EP Music for Tu Madre, pressed and released in 1999 by himself slapdash record label, Aged Maid Entertainment on vinyl fabric- and cassette-only. Generally considering himself even more of a manufacturer when compared to a rapper despite proof to the in contrast, the record also presented the “Aged Maid Billionaires,” several MCs going by Al-Shid and Huggy Keep, both of whom he’d go back to on all following recording tasks and countless potential live shows. The EP gained significant hype in underground circles, not really least due to the essential early support of Bobbito Garcia, who performed J-Zone’s early singles on his well-known radio program. The next year saw the discharge of another EP, A Bottle of Whup Ass, and nearly across-the-board acclaim. At the start of 2002, he authorized a distribution cope with Extra fat Beats Records release a the third Aged Maid Billionaires joint (though his 1st “formal” full-length), Pimps Don’t Pay out Taxes, then consequently got an indefinite sabbatical from rapping to focus on the specialized side from the artwork, producing 12″ produces for both Al-Shid and Huggy Carry, furthermore to creating paths for Biz Markie, Celph Entitled, and Louis Reasoning from the Demigodz, Cage, and Large & Mighty, amongst others. By the end of the entire year, J-Zone came back to his personal music, placing out the “S.L.A.P.”/”Ho Kung Fu” solitary and planning his fourth appropriate album for the summertime of 2003, and a supergroup task going by him and Dick $tallion, Go-Rilla Pimp$. EMPLOYMENT Ain’t Nuthin’ But Function premiered in 2004.