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= Amin Joumah "Reazon" = Amin Joumah, better known by his stage name "Reazon," is a freestyle rapper, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist who is currently earning his B.A. degree at the American University of Sharjah.

Early Life and Career
Amin Joumah, better known by his stage name, “Reazon,” is a Brazilian-Jordanian born in Irbid, Jordan on Nov 10, 2000. Up until 2007, Joumah lived in Jordan until he moved to Abu Dhabi, UAE, and began his education in Al Dafra Private School. He then moved to Dubai and began earning his university degree at the American University of Sharjah (AUS). Before he showed an interest in music, he found pleasure in a variety of extreme sports. Joumah was drawn by Adam Hicks’rap verse in the Disney movie “Lemonade Mouth,” and it ultimately started his love for music. Joumah pushed himself to memorize as many rap songs as he could, until the day he decided to write his own rap songs.

He began practicing his music in 2011 and wrote his first song in 2017 which was entailed lyrics of unfortunate events between him and old friends and which he described as “Horrible and trash.” After he showed a few of his close friends, who did not appear very encouraging, he decided to pursue his dream and practice writing new and improved songs. After that, he eventually dropped his first single named “Treasure Chest” which is only found on SoundCloud and YouTube. Joumah appears to be his own best and worst critique as he admitted he “didn’t know anything about music production, and just recorded his vocals, slapped on a beat and put it out.” When his first song dropped, he made a point that he thought it was “Hamam (bathroom) quality.” With that experience in mind, he continued writing more songs which brought him a collaboration with a Canadian producer. Together, they published his song “Still Fine” onto streaming. Ever since, he has been dropping more songs like “In Retrospect” in November of 2018.

One of his EP singles, “True to Self”, has been in the making ever since he “first picked up the pen.” “True to Self” consists of 6 tracks, all of which are available on many streaming platforms. He shortened the song down from an album’s length to an EP’s length when he realized that no one would listen to an album with his insufficient amount of followers. His latest EP dropped in October which followed his song Vibracao on January 24. The rapper admits it was his first time dropping a song where he rapped in Portuguese and received positive feedback. Just two days ago, he dropped “Tipsy (freestyle)” which is a song that originated from a freestyle voice message he had with his friend from 2 years ago, and it remains one of his favorite songs although he personally thinks the lyrics are, to put it in a better way, “nonsense.”

Musical style and Influences


His favorite rappers are J. Cole, Kendrick Lamar, and Eminem “definitely influenced and influences” his style because he happens to be one of the first rappers Joumah listened to, and he feels Eminem has a great deal of impact on the way he used to rap. Also, he feels he is influenced by American rapper, and songwriter, Joyner Lucas who influenced him to drop a song called “Well Aware.” Joumah likes to call himself an “experimental rapper” and specified he doesn’t like to put himself under one category but that is also in line with the fact that he hasn’t found the one subsection of rap that he wants to stick to forever. He feels that when a person does that, they are stuck with that category forever with no turning back. He acknowledges some themes of his music are recurring, for example, his song “True To Self,” matches the vibe of his song “Invisible” from the previous EP, but that’s “just the vibe of the song and it depends on the vibe that he is personally in and would make a song about that.”

Personal Life
Although the rapper did not have much to say about his personal life, he did not hesitate to mention his loving girlfriend of two years, Chris Ishak, who is a singer and musician as well (whom he frequently collaborates with). Reazon has a love for film and enjoys a variety of movies; most notably, his favorite movies are Inception starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Interstellar starring Matthew McConaughey. Due to his immense admiration for the North Carolina rapper and producer Jermaine Lamarr Cole - known as J. Cole - his favorite song is “No Role Modelz” and his favorite album is “2014 Forest Hills Drive." Joumah describes himself as both a rapper and a multi-instrumentalist; a guitarist, drummer, pianist, DJ, and producer. He has a brother and a sister, and he lives with his family, including their three dogs and three cats.

Reference
Joumah, Amin. Personal interview. Conducted by Akram Alnuaimy, 29 March. 2020.