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Jacob Reuben Marchand (born June 4, 1987) is an American rapper based in Huntsville, Alabama. He is better known for his stage name J.Reu. He Made his performance debut on the 2006 Best Buy Retail Road Show after creating the Christmas jingle for Best Buy TV and Radio 2006 winter ad campaign.

Early Life
Jacob Reuben Marchand was born in New Orleans, Louisiana on June 4, 1987 to Paul and Florence Marchand. Jacob recorded his first record at the age of 5 with the New Orleans children choir singing the "Our Father Prayer" also known as "Lord's Prayer". Several people told his struggling single mother to put him in the music industry but she wanted him to finish school.

Career
Writing music was just a hobby in the beginning. During high school he started to put out music and became the talk of the school. Jacob having the most likely to be famous picture in his year book made him only more hungry for the fame, fortune, and love for music. He continued to put out music to friends and classmates and gained a small fanbase. Somehow the made its way into the offices of several record label executives at Def Jam Recordings and he was looking to sign a major deal. Unfortunately J.Reu and the talent company based in Atlanta, Georgia never came to an agreement therefore the deal was never completed.

J.Reu, who was full with disappointment in the talent company, and in the time he invested with them began to realize he can't depend on anyone but himself. So he put out another album in 2005 called "Changing the Game". He made several tracks but finally put 19 on the album. While shopping his music he ran into longtime friend Theodore Lindsey and Mr. Lindsey began to shop J.Reu's music to his nephew "Nick Cannon" for his then "Can I Ball" record label. At the time they had already filled their roster so J.Reu was not a good fit. He then linked up with best buy after writing a jingle for the Christmas holiday best buy season. J.Reu was then selected to tour with Best Buy in front of thousands the tour kicked off in [St Louis, Mo].



Fxck Molly
In August 2013 J.Reu released his highly controversial new single :Fxck Molly" . Molly is a slang term used for MDMA (Ecstasy) or possibly Methylone (bk-MDMA), these are drugs associated with clubs and dancing. J.Reu has stated in a press release that he is tired of the use of Molly in hip hop and how musicians are making a drug popular amongst the youth. The release of Fxck Molly J.Reu stated is not a PSA but more so a blatant call out to hip hop artist who have no lyrical content and constantly use the drug molly as filler lyric. "These n***a's sounding the same, all i'm hearing is quotes" . Mixed refused were provided to the Fxck Molly single. Unrelated to the single release the term Molly started receiving recognition for being a slang word for MDMA and several artist including Kendrick Lamar started anti-molly campaigns such as Death To Molly. Radio Stations began refusing to allow the use of the word molly to be even played on the radio across the [United States of America]. Artist including Lil Wayne and Rick Ross have both been banned from radio for a small period of time due to the controverial lyrics using Molly as a date rape drug. The music video for J.Reu's Fxck Molly was release in February 2014 as a music video and a short film.

Tours

 * Best Buy Retail RoadShow (with Best Buy and "The Link" Magazine)
 * No Gimmicks Tour

Studio albums

 * 2005: Changing The Game
 * TBA: No Gimmicks EP

Mixtapes

 * 2010: The Huggz -N- Kissez Mixtape
 * 2012: WiLLRap4Beatz
 * 2012: WiLLRap4Beatz2

Music Videos

 * 2006: Best Buy Live [Performance Video]
 * 2011: Straight To The Bank (UnOfficial Video)
 * 2012: Straight To The Bank (Official Video)
 * 2012: The Effin Man (Ft Paul Revear)
 * 2012: To The Top (Ft J.Erv)
 * 2014: Fxck Molly
 * 2014: No Gimmicks

Singles

 * 2005: When I Think About You (featuring Dawn Forbes & Robert Pressley of Committed (group))
 * 2012: Straight To the Bank
 * 2012: Can I Get On
 * 2013: Fxck Molly
 * 2014: No Gimmicks

Features

 * 2007: Mista Freezy - Black Light (Ft J.Reu & Ben Frank)(Prod By Ben Frank)
 * 2010: Antonio Dye - Just Go (Ft J.Reu)
 * 2010: KayNyne - Dat N***a (Ft J.Reu & Goldie)
 * 2010: Paul Revear - What I Want (w/ J.Reu)
 * 2010: Geo Definite - She Got Me Like (Ft J.Reu)(Written By J.Reu)
 * 2011: J.Erv - Aye Shawty (Ft J.Reu) (Written By J.Reu)
 * 2011: Polanxx - Stereo Love (Ft J.Reu)
 * 2012: Wem - All I Know (Ft J.Reu) (Written By J.Reu) ( Prod. By C.P. Beats)
 * 2012: Morrisa Jeanine - Whatever You Like (Ft J.Reu)
 * 2013: B-Coolin - Sex Positions (Ft Young Scrap & J.Reu)

Remixes

 * 2009: Unladylike - Bartender (featuring J.Reu & (RedStone)
 * 2009: Se7en - Girls (Remix) (featuring Lil' Kim & J.Reu) (prod. Darkchild)
 * 2010: Rocko - Maybe Remix Ft J.Reu & Rick Ross (rapper)
 * 2010: Donnis - Gone Remix featuring J.Reu
 * 2010: Demarco - Show It (So Sexy) (Remix) (Featuring Sheek Louch, J.Reu, Craig & 2 Pistols)

Jingles

 * 2006: "Welcome to the holidays"(Best Buy Jingle)

Writing for other Artists
Artist who have recorded J.Reu's songs include:
 * Antonio Dye - "Two Weeks Notice", "Customer Service", "Simple Girl".
 * Young Tezz - "Good Girl"
 * Morrisa Jeanine - "Whatever You Like" "Out The Game"

Nominations & Awards
The KnocDown-SCM Awards was established 2008 in Memphis, Tennessee to honor artist, producers, DJ's, Models and other industry candidates that have been voted for by the public.


 * rowspan="1"|2009
 * J.Reu & Redstone
 * Out of State Rap Group of the Year
 * Nominated
 * Nominated