User:JaySinificance

There is a man residing a few minutes outside of PA's lovely city Philadelphia, in the town of West Chester. This is known as the area of the wealthy, the middle class grinders, and the low income hustlers eating off the rich. In the midst of this regular madness, blind to the average eye, a very skilled emcee was born on December 20th 1987. Few knew that he has more to offer to the hip hop game than many attempting at the current moment. From growing up a troubled youth, with a rough family life, Jay Sinificance seemed to find himself in more juvenile placements than recording studios. Jay started to rap around the age 11 with a friend on a karaoke machine, using cassette tapes to record his tracks. When he was 15, he was incarcerated for 9-12 months at a juvenile placement center. At the center, they allowed Jay and a group of other children who were interested in music to go to a recording studio in York, PA. This was the ARC's attempt to get troubled youth into something positive and creative. Jay says, "I didn't really start seriously recording until I was 18". At the age of 18, between 2006-2007, Jay recorded a 21 track mixtape named "The Change Up." This was recorded at Tribe Records Studio in West Chester, PA. After a failed attempt to push his mixtape himself with little support, Jay found himself back at square one. Broke, hungry, and still with no lead towards a rapping career, Jay was arrested for selling cocaine in 2008, and managed to make his bail to fight his case. In the midst of fighting charges filled against him, and getting by day to day with barely any money, Jay found himself in his home studio recording multiple tracks a day. He taught himself how to mix and master his own tracks, and also produce beats. In March 2009 Jay teamed up with a handful of rappers and his first official manager/engineer Jesse Giacomucci (Jocko). Together they formed a group called MDS (Madd Different Skillz). The group ended up breaking up less than a year into working on 4 different projects, and shooting one music video (40oz To Freedom). After what Jay says was another failed attempt, he continued to work on more music. In August 2009 Jay started working on a project/mixtape called "Drop Knowledge", which he claims is what ended up polishing his flow as a emcee completely. He said, " I did like 80 or 90 some tracks and released only 17, me and Jocko would record for sometimes over 12 hours a day". After releasing Drop Knowledge in November 2009 and at what seemed to be another failed attempt at breaking threw, Jay continued on to another project named "Fiji Water Fresh". Sadly this project was put on hold due to Jay’s loss of his Mother passing on February 14th, 2010. Shortly after that, Jay was sentenced to 3-6 years in prison due to past offenses, but with the option of a up-state military boot camp program being offered, Jay took it to receive a shorter sentence of one year. “Fiji Water Fresh” is his most recent project to date, and is set to release September 14th, and it is also being hosted by Dj Ill Will. Jay says "This is a must have, its official from start to end and ITS FREE!!, you couldn't ask for something any better." Jay is currently working with platinum French producer Laurent Konrad (Discobitch, Helmut Fritz, Ragsy) on various electro singles set to on being released this September along with the “Fiji Water Fresh” mixtape. With Jay Sinificance’s buzz growing many still seem to think first, who is this guy? And second, why isn't he signed? From his amazing tongue twisting lyrics, to his catchy heart felt delivery, to his incredible versatilely, it is obvious he can be significant in this music business. Written By Abigaill Hawkins