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JunClassic

JunClassic (Lincoln W. Lewis) aka Gabarah aka Jun,(pronounced June) is an entertainment executive, producer and recording artist based in New York City. He is president and chief executive officer of Classified Recordings LLC, and is also a member of the one-time hip hop group Monsta Island Czars, a recording artist entity with more than a dozen members assembled by artist and executive Percy Carey, aka MF Grimm, and promoted by Carey's record label, Day by Day Entertainment. JunClassic also released selected earlier recordings courtesy of Day by Day. JunClassic and former Czar member and recording artist Monsta X comprise the recording artist tandem Dynamix, which released two albulms independently in 2003 and 2005.

Contents

1 Biography 2 Discography 3 References 4 External Links

Biography

JunClassic was born a first generation American to Jamaican immigrants and raised in Jamaica, Queens, in the area officially designated "South Ozone Park" but better known as "Southside". The Southside Queens neighborhood has long been notorious throughout the city for its rampant violent crime and drug trafficking and for being the home and haven of a number of famous criminal kingpins (most notably Lorenzo "Fat Cat" Nichols and Kenneth "Supreme" MacGriff) and hip hop artists (most notably Curtis Jackson aka 50 Cent and Tha Lost Boyz). Southside was among the cradles of the cocaine and crack epidemics in New York City, and the unique history of the area, with its widespread poverty, heavy police presence, and significant concentration of public housing projects (and their relationship to drug proliferation) has been explored and in numerous publications and periodicals.

Motivated by the struggle around him and galvanized in his formative years by the "golden age" of hip hop in the late 1980s and early 1990s (which coincided with his childhood and adolescence) JunClassic set his sights on music at an early age and was writing and recording music by the time he was in high school. Jun found time to pursue his recording interests even as he plyed his trade as a rapper and hustler on the streets of New York City and enrolled in undergraduate courses at New York University. Jun eventually obtained a B.A. in Media Ecology from NYU and worked as a music journalist and contributor for a number of publications. . Jun went on to secure an M.A. in media and communications from NYU and would ultimately exploit his knowledge of mass communications and marketing in founding his record label, Classified Recordings, in 2005. Classified has since overseen ten record releases including full length albulms, extended play collections, and mixtapes featuring a variety of artists and producers. Throughout the label's development and establishment, JunClassic collaborated with numerous artists and executives, particularly Monsta X in the formation of Dynamix and MF Grimm and Infinit EVOL in the reformation of the Monsta Island Czars. Jun, or Gabarah by his M.I.C. moniker, worked closely with group founder and Day by Day CEO MF Grimm in the creation and promotion of Czars material and especially on the production and post-production of Grimm's 2006 triple-disc effort American Hunger] . Despite the disintegration of the group the same year and Grimm's break with the Czars, Jun has maintained his connection to several of his fellow artists, including Monsta X, his close associate, Kong (whose 2008 albulm, Kongcrete, was released by Classified), Megalon, for whom JunClassic has done production and promotion, and Infinit, with whom Jun continues to work closely. Jun recorded steadily throughout his time with the group and promoted both his own group, Dynamix, and the Czars. Jun also continued to develop his reputation and career as a solo artist with a number of feature performances, independent releases, and live appearances. His ascendance as an artist and entrepreneur accelerated with the establishment of Classified in 2006 and the release of his first feature length albulm on the label, Too Much Ain't Enuff. Jun went on to release two more albums on Classified, Overqualified (a full collaboration with fellow Queens producer l8sho) in 2007 and Imaginary Enemies in 2009. Jun also released an EP (??????????) His most recent work, the hard-hitting mixed tape Southside's Savior (produced by Dub-MD and mixed by DJ Husky) dropped in the summer of this year. Jun is expected to appear on a collaboration with eminent Queens alum [[Large Professor in late 2009, and two upcoming Classified releases, Harvard for Hitmen (an extended play effort produced by Melodious Monk) and The Hope Business (full length album) are slated for 2010.

Discography

STUDIO ALBULMS 2 Much Ain't Enough (2007) Overqualified (2008) Southside's Savior - The Mixtape (2009) Imaginary enemies (2009)

EXTENDED PLAY COLLECTIONS Late Nites and Early Mournings (2009) Better Than Fiction (2009)

COLLABORATIVE ALBULMS Shock and Awe Vol. 1 (2002) - with Monsta X Shock and Awe Vol. 2 (2003) - with Monsta X

FEATURE APPEARANCES Unsigned Hype - Bits N Pieces (1997) M.I.C. - MF Grimm (2006) M.I.C. Flag - Monsta Island Czars (2006) Gabarah - RAVAGE the Meccagodzilla (2008) Hated - Kong (2008) Red Tears - Kong (2008) Angst - Kid Hum (2009) Passport - Kid Hum (2009) Bouquet of Flowers - Kid Hum (2009) P.A.T.O.I.S. - Cy Yung and Dub MD (2009) Bing Cherriez - Cy Yung and Dub MD (2009) Canteen - Husky (2009) Falling Down - DJ Vlad (2009) Everyday - IV (2009) Please Don't Go Away (2009) Success - Wordsmith (2009) Seven Deadly Sins - Judah (2009)

SINGLES AND UNRELEASED MATERIAL Fuck Giuliani - Clockwork Productions (1999) Testify - Unreleased (2000) Sloe Songs - Unreleased (2001) Unda da Moonlite - Unreleased (2002) Zodiac Killa - Monsta Island Czars unreleased solo (2005) ? - Life of a Stillborn Child by I.N.F. unreleased (2007) The Morning - Unreleased (2008) Hol Up - Unreleased (2008) Bonesmen - Truth Scriptures Vol. 1 (2008) Real Shit - Unreleased (2008) The Dope Song - (produced by J-Zone) (2008) Yes - (produced by Krhome) (2008) Flow Unorthodox (2009) Genius - (2009) NYC Day - produced by Large Professor (2009)

References 1. 2. Queens Reigns Supreme Ent Week