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Jonathan Soyke (born June 7, 2002), also known as JJ Soyke is an American hip-hop/rap musician from York, Pennsylvania.

Early Music
Soyke began making music in the summer of 2016. Using a cheap, USB microphone, help from fellow rapper Jeremy Gordon (Waste.), and Audacity, he put together a few diss tracks, which embodied his judgemental and secluded outlook on others from his high school. After receiving disciplinary measures from school administrators for the slander of fellow students, Soyke set out to make his music more personal. His new songs, still largly produced in Audacity, now took a topic of focus. In songs such as Escape, (rereleased in 2017), he discusses how he utilizes rap as an escape from his anxiety and depression. In Real (also rereleased in 2017), he talks about not wanting to put on a fake persona for others, and how the "real" him may seem dark and gloomy.

Newer Music
A majority of Soyke's music was made with the help of Waste. (Jeremy Gordon), his fellow rapper/childhood friend. As Gordon's knowledge of underground musical production expanded and finances become more availabe, he purchased better equipment and started using the program FL Studio 12. The pair released a single titled The Rise Of P2, a reference to their pseudonym (P2) under which they released their diss tracks. In this track, Soyke abandoned his dark and gloomy style for a modern-rap/trap style song. The single was instantly their most succesful, getting about two-thousand plays that year. It was after this that Soyke decided to make an album, of which he would combine the intimate, dark-style music with the modern rap sound. This album was titled Loman Ave an homage to the place he and his friends hung out growing up.

Influences/Cloudwave Records
Soyke is working on his next album he announced as titled James I; he and his fellow rappers are working for a more rock-infused sound. This grunge-like tone can be especially heard through Waste's The Stars Are So Bright. Largely influenced by other artists who started out through SoundCloud such as XXXTentacion, they looked for a hard rock/grunge infused with rap sound. All working together, they decided to form a record label with music producer/rapper Shane Speal and Greg Anstine, (YVNGANS.) They titled this record label Cloudwave, after the vaporwave visual influences/aesthetic they embodied on their social media outlets such as Instagram.