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Making Something from Nothing
Sunspot Jonz grew from the East Oakland soil that kills so many of its own seeds. Resilience, intellect, and the gift of gab allowed him to overcome more challenges in his youth than most people face in a lifetime. In the environment in which he lived, and so many of the homies died, Sunspot kept the original vision of Hip Hop alive, with a four track and dream, hustling tapes on Telegraph Ave., guerilla style, a warehouse livin', Top Ramen eatin' savage, sending a different message than all the other MC's in the game. His life experience made him know that any human being can control their own destiny. Any human being can choose to ignore the negativity that society attempts to force upon us, and choose a different reality. Sunspot Jonz is a visionary. Through Music and Film, he has provided others a glimpse in to his reality, and a chance to tap in to one of the longest running messages of self empowerment and determination in Hip Hop music. Since he pressed his first album in 1995 and convinced Amoeba music to let him use their shrink wrap machine and sell his homemade tapes, he has been about sharing his vision, intellect, and insights, and shining a light on the injustice and inequity that exists in the world, culturally, socially, and politically. Sunspots message has always been one of possibility, of hope, and of change, long before the terms came to be in vogue. Sunspot pursued these ideals with a Revolutionary tenacity unmatched by any in the industry, always striving to create social action, through his contributions to the world. The beats are always tight, and sometimes songs are entertaining, funny, BANGIN, or get your groove on smooth, but somewhere, buried in there is a pearl of wisdom, or social commentary waiting to be unwrapped. Sunspots vision, sense of community, and example founded legendary Hip Hop groups Mystik Journeyman and Living Legends, and provided a whole roster of talented MC's beats to rhyme .. they could make their own. The first to invest in a sampler, SunSpot also began sampling musical genres and making beats and sampling songs, sounds, and languages from around the world that others hadn't experimented with yet. From Mt. Fuji, to the Outback to Europe and all over N. America Sunspot Jonz has performed, and spread the gospel of underground Hip Hop world wide. Every where he goes, and everything he does he makes the impossible, possible. Positively motivating the world to do something, anything, different than the current insanity, he consistently makes something from nothing. He created a genre where there was none, created a market from nothing, and then began marketing and promoting himself in to, show after successful show, while the whole time people told him that he couldn't do it. Underground HipHop is thriving and alive, especially in Cali, because of SunSpot Jonz's tireless effort to produce, promote, and support not only his own music, but the efforts of others in the genre he helped create. He has done as much to unite the scene as anyone else. He does what he does for all the people in his life that have told him he would fail, and for the sheer beauty of proving them wrong. Sunspot as always told the alternative story of HipHop to the one being told in the main stream. From his fist albums, and then big shows like Unsigned and Hella Broke, his vision has always served as a reality check to corporate Hip Hop and as a force to unite the underground. His love of Hip Hop has made him a prolific artist, releasing albums and music videos at an amazing pace. Even when it looks like he's doing nothing, he's making something happen. The work of a Producer, an MC, an Artist, a song writer, a sound engineer, a script writer, a director, an actor, a poet, a dreamer, and a visionary, is never done. Through his work as a solo artist, as Mystik Journeymen, and Living Legends he has on average four releases per year since 1997, and that's not including all of the guest appearances on other folks albums he's done.
Sunspot's ability as a businessman, honed as a hustla, are on par with his creative side. Revenge entertainment, Outhouse Records, Spare Change productions, Dreamzcape, Sunspot has a business for just about everything required, to run a media empire, and they are all producing product right now. As a director for Dreamzcape Sunspot has directed a Living Legends video in rotation on MTV and has a feature film SonnyDreamweaver set to release in 2009. Sunspot's relentless search for new sounds, and desire to create new communities, reunited him with another kid that came up in the Bay Area music scene, Julian Brooks. Julian broke in to the industry, with ModSquad on TNT the same label that released Digital Underground and Tupac's first album. They knew each other back in the day and re-united recently in Los Angeles. Julian had evolved a long way from the early 90's MC and now a full fledged producer with a sonically diverse background from years in the industry Julian brought a whole new sound to SunSpot's LA studio. They decided to collaborate and create yet another genre of music, fusing Julian's HipHop, Drum N Bass, Electronica, House, and alt. indie rock, with Sunspots signature pounding bass lines, melodies and lyrics and The Temper Twins were born. This new sound will make 2009 another year in a long line of profilic years. With three Temper Twins album's set to release and two solo SunSpot Jonz album's Fight Destroy Rock Volumes 1&2, eight music videos, MTV and other outlets will be sharing SunSpot's vision and message with the rest of the world on a massive scale. With a full performance schedule, and several film releases Sunspot has never been more focused on continuing to create markets, and music, and filling the seats. Underground means against all odds. A revolutionary, a pioneer, Sunspot Jonz, can never be stopped.