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Jms Brynt

James Winston Bryant (born April 18, 1988), also known as Jms Brynt, is an American artist, athlete, engineer and hacktivist.

Early Life

Bryant was born in Westchester, New York and raised in Spring Valley, New York (a small suburb outside of New York City). He is the middle child of Robert and Helyn Bryant. His father moved to New York City from Roanoke, Virginia in elementary school and his mother moved to the United States from Jamaica when she was 6 years of age, where she also eventually ended up in New York City. The two met in college (Fordham University) and moved to Spring Valley to start a family upon graduation.

Athletics
In 2005 Bryant attended Saint Patrick High School in Elizabeth, New Jersey (now known as The Patrick School) where many professional basketball players developed their abilities (ie Kyrie Irving, Al Harrington, Samuel Dalembert, Michael Kidd-Gilchrist, Johnathan Kuminga) in an attempt to be ready for the next level. He was recruited by many mid major division I programs but committed to the United States Military Academy (USMA) his senior year of high school after pressure from his parents. In 2007 he attended the USMA Prep school, and attended USMA in 2008 where he studied engineering and played Division I basketball before dropping out after his freshman year.

Music and Tech

In 2009 he re connected with hometown friends Marc Mavrik and Sha Hef, and a few other artists making names for themselves in the underground nyc music scene - but before he had a chance to collaborate on music returned to school and attended Gannon University in Erie, PA on a full athletic scholarship in 2010. The home facility of the basketball program was shared with the Cleveland Cavaliers G League team where another New York native Danny Green, (NBA basketball player) was playing at the time. During this unsuccessful attempt to reignite his basketball career he used his class time to learn both software and audio engineering, but never had much interest in making or sharing music. After dropping out of college again in 2011 he bought a MacBook Pro and taught himself how to engineer vocals and make beats via Reason, Logic Pro and GarageBand. In 2014 he was offered an A&R job with Warner Music Group but turned it down due to going through FDNY firefighter in-processing.

Bryant began his music journey by competing in beat battles and in 2016 he began getting attention from music industry talent in a setting that would potentially lead to more networking opportunities. He was a runner up in Clash of the Beatmakers in 2019 and that same year played beats for the Brooklyn natives Sheff G and Sleepy Hallow when they were signed to another close friend's (Junior Galette) music label (NULA records) - but never ended up making any music together. "I dont know, I guess I was a little too late to the bk drill wave." After some time off from music to make money and learn how to be a New York City firefighter, Bryant made a few songs that ended up getting the attention of Broward County native and friend of XXXTentacion, Kid Trunks. Their collaboration is due to come out some time in 2024.

Activism

Motivated by minds like Steve Wozniak, Aaron Swartz, and Eric Snowden, as well as content like Mr. Robot, The Matrix, and Ghost In The Shell, Bryant was always looking for ways to use technology to manipulate his surroundings. In 2023 he hacked an app called Samsung Global Goals and raised 100k for the lesser fortunate in under 6 months until the app creators caught wind and altered the algorithm. He also has a history of manipulating the algorithms and metrics of numerous other platforms on various different scales.