Underrated Artist of 2012

   The year is almost about to end usually at the end of year we reflect on what has gone down. This year we have been seen a lot of great work from artists such as Frank Ocean, Miguel, Lupe Fiasco, Ab-Soul, Kendrick Lamar, Sean Price, Nas, and Ryan Leslie. Those artists are getting the love that they deserve this year they all put out incredible pieces of work, but I wanted to talk about an artist that I believed that got slept on. Now I’m not going to lie to you I also slept on this artist as well I came to the party late.


 JMSN

   The underrated artist of 2012 is Christian Berishaj aka JMSN who at the beginning of the year released his debut album Priscilla. I came across JMSN couple of months ago when Game released his playlist for his album Jesus Piece I was looking at the guest features I knew everybody expect JMSN. So I Google JMSN and he comes up on djbooth.net and his album is carrying a 4.5 rating from listeners. After reading the reviews on the site I began to listen to the album and I was blown away and the album has stayed on my rotation since that was two months ago.

     Now his music is very unique it has a blend of neo-soul, R&B and Trip Hop there has been some comparison to The Weeknd which is easy to assume because their music is “Dark R&B”. If you had to make a comparison it would be a mixture of Frank Ocean, Justin Timberlake, and The Weeknd. JMSN produced and wrote the entire album by himself and early this week announced that he is working on his next album the Blue Album and he is doing a collaborative album with Ab-Soul. Next year is looking like a big year for JMSN whose stock will continue to rise. Like the listeners on djbooth I’m giving the album a 4.5 as well only blemish on the album was the guest feature Boldy James who just came off lazy on “Girl I use to know”.

 Favorite Tracks

 “Do U remember the time”
 “Runaway”
 “Love & Pain” 

For more information on JMSN check out his Twitter and Tumblr page
https://twitter.com/iamjmsn
http://iamjmsn.tumblr.com/
 Debut album available on Itunes and Amazon
https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/priscilla/id498021920
https://amzn.com/B0073WMRCM

Up and Coming Stars In 2011 Part One

In a music industry that is watered down with mediocrity music, where  radio station play the same music everyday and labels now signing acts for ringtones rather than quality music it’s becoming harder and harder to find good music. But it’s always refreshing when you listen to a new artist that makes you hit the repeat on your IPod or whatever you use to play your music. These four artists are here to stay and will stay in your CD/iPod rotation.

Frank Ocean- Singer/songwriter also a member of Odd Future Wolf Gang Kill Them All, Ocean has written songs for acts like Beyonce, Brandy, Justin Bieber and John Legend. At the beginning of the year Frank released a mixtape called Nostalgia, Ultra to which has been well received from music critics and fans. You can find Nostalgia, Ultra at datspiff.com or buy the Nostalgia, Lite when it comes out which contains songs from Ultra. You can also check Frank on Jay-Z and Kanye West “Watch the Throne” which Oceans lends his vocals for “No Church in the Wild” and “Made in America”. Word has it Ocean has also landed himself a feature on Jay-Z next album.

With the R&B lane open due to the inconsistent music of artists such as Ne-yo, Chris Brown, and Usher.

Ocean is a talent to be recognized and a warning to the current R&B singers to stepped their game up.

Twitter.com/@frank_ocean

http://frankocean.tumblr.com

Frankocean.com

Miguel – Is another singer/songwriter who has seen his stock increase this year Miguel last year had the smash hit single “All I want is You” the same title of his album which was released in November 2010. The reason Miguel stock is rising he only sold 11k copies the first week when his album came out.  The singles “Sure Thing” and “Quickie” are receiving heavy rotation on the radio as of July 2011 “All I Want Is
You” has sold over 200k copies and single “Sure Thing” has sold over 800k of digital/ringtones sales.  You can’t turn on your radio without hearing Miguel which is impressive for a guy whose first single came out last summer. If you haven’t already go cop Miguel’s Debut album “All I Want is You” I promise you won’t be disappointed.

http://miguelunlimited.com/