When I say “you”, I’m referring to my blog.. as if it was a person. Technically, I guess it is a person. Better yet, a collective of people. Either way, pardon my neglect. To say it’s been hectic in Hong Kong would be an understatement. A few weeks ago, (June 10th to be exact) marked the exact 2 years of my arriving in Hong Kong. As some of you know, I’ve been here ever since. It’s funny reading some of the different stories I come across online. Ranging from “Jin moved to Hong Kong for his career and now he’s a millionaire” to “Jin flopped in America and now he’s back in his motherland selling bootleg Jordans”, I must say it’s neither of the two extremes. It’d be safe to say the actual reality lies somewhere in between those two versions.
One day, I’ll get around to telling the entire story of what brought me to Hong Kong in the first place. In the meantime, I can only describe what it’s been like since I’ve been here in two words: life changing. Two more words: eye opening. Okay.. three more words: truly a blessing.
Back to my neglect..
It just occurred to me how dope this website is and how much time and effort the team puts into it. Thanks to my CADV/PlanC/CMG family.
I think this whole time I was caught up in the mentality of “man, where on earth can I find the time to write and blog? I’m smashed with a massive workload already!” When in reality, I should be using this platform as a source to release and unwind. More importantly, a great way for those of you who are interested to see what is going on in my world.
In closing, to make up for my neglect, here’s the first two tracks I wrote and recorded to (no particular order) from the final Hiphop Census Mixtape selections. I wish I could find the time to write and record all of them in one shot, but that’s just not realistic. Do check them out and leave some feedback.
Thank you for your patience.
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Verses sound good, but your levels are a little too loud. Is this how it’s gonna sound on the mixtape or are these just the first draft/pre-mastered versions?
-ND
keep it up jin jin. good rhymes.
@ ND – i will probably go back and have the engineer adjust the levels.. but in the meantime, just something to listen to.
Nice job Jin!
I want to send u a free beat. Get at me?
yo wat’s good Jin?
Been a huge fan ever since Freestyle Friday (bought The Rest is History the first day it came out and copped your Properganda album too!) and I can honestly say you’ve been a huge inspiration. To say that I was excited to win your competition is a huge understatement.
Either way I just wanted to say thank you for this opportunity and I hope God continues to bless you and use you for His purpose.
what was the recording process did they send you recordings? did you just alter the you tube? did you go to them?, just wondering the sound great, kinda on the slow side, but i guess that goes with the vibe of the mixtape, hope fully theres a fun song or a hot song here or there but if not thats cool. thanks for doing this project! it is amazing! please dont let it be the last i know its alot of work but it getting the community together and getting talented people to do something they might not otherwise do. maybe pick another theme and do something like this again and again. that would be amazing!
Drop Change is soooo deep! make me feel like i’m in peace with myself… this is real music
Jin, I hope you read this, because there is much i want to say. To sum it all up: I love you, you inspire me, and your music touches my heart. You are more then just a chinese man rapping, you are a man singing about shit that needs to be heard. And that’s worthy of praise. I hope there are others listening to your tracks and thinking “what can I do too?”
take care (:
This is very good~”~
both tracks are great!
take ur time to complete the whole mixtape.
but is there any mp3 download for these 2?
p.s. miss ur eng raps
wow~~ these 2 tracks are pretty dope! Pretty amazed that u manage to do these 2 tracks with your crazy schedules~ We are missing your music a lot, but I know that u are about to release a chinese album with a famous asian producer. http://www.buy1get13.com Beside your english, we like your Canto rap also~
Keep it up!! Looking forward to your Hip Hop Census Mixtape~~
Can you update your “Upcoming Tours”? I’m in HK this summer -hoping to get my CDs signed by you. I came to HK last summer too- but you went back to NY =(
nice songs! Is it possible for us to have them? I will add them into my mp3 “Jin’s playlist” so that I can listen to your songs on the way to office every morning
you 4got bout meeeee
almost like the neglect because know you will come back and give us something to make up for it
. anyway don’t pressure yourself to post… we all know you are busy… but it’s always nice to read a post of course and have a little insight into the life of Jin…
off to listen…
Nice verses! Yes, levels were a bit loud, but I figured these were raw vocals (sounded like it was processed with eq, compression, reverb, etc.). Anyways, do not feel the need to rush. Good luck with everything!
correction.. I meant “sounded like it WASN’T processed)
Does anybody know who’se instrumental that Jin picked for his joint ” Angels “?
That good jin!!!♥
anyway add oil ah:)
im feelin “Drop Change” but the vocals and sound quality needs improvement because i can hear/distinugish from the two, so you might want to mix and level them out evenly. i also do think it depends on how the artist (Jin) wants the engineer to mix it. Sounded like compression was performed in the making, and whomever that produce the beat should always take avantage of a mixed down wave file to record the vocal over the top instead of an mp3 file…Btw, both verses are two thumbs up.
jin.. my man.. you are doing big things in hong knog and you never flopped in America according to your fans.. Keep ya head high and keep doing what you doing!
Master it in ny, lol
great rapping! <3 I like it!! looking forward to yr new rap
I love “drop change”
good job JIN !
I miss 100 grand jin.