‘Paper’ Featuring Jay Rock [Song]
Tech N9ne’s latest release, The Gates Mixed Plate, includes the track, “Paper” featuring Jay Rock.
Here is more info on Jay Rock taken from his Myspace Page:
For a rapper to command your attention, it all comes down to the voice. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, Public Enemy’s Chuck D had millions of fans hanging on to every word of his booming baritone. In the mid-1990s, The Notorious B.I.G.’s steely poise and vocal precision led many critics and fans to proclaim him the best rapper of all time. Now, in 2006, get ready for the next rapper with a magnetic voice, someone whose pristine raps demand attention. His name: Jay Rock.Born and raised in Watts, California’s notorious Nickerson Gardens Projects, Jay Rock got his first encouragement from his music-making relatives, who noticed the impact his deep, melodic voice made on song after song. They were like, you’re hard. And you’ve got a voice for it, too. You’ve got a real cool voice to it, Jay Rock recalls. A lot of people started hearing me and they would tell me that my voice catches them. So, I started working it, working on my craft and got more and more confidence.
Jay Rocks confidence led to a string of heated appearances on neighborhood mixtapes. The gifted rhymers clever phrasing, gritty realism, storytelling swagger and powerful voice grabbed the attention of Top Dawg Entertainment boss Dude Dawg. Once in the studio with an independent company backing him, Jay Rocks output increased and improved.
After shopping his demo to a number of major labels, Jay Rock and Top Dawg earned a deal with industry powerhouse Warner Bros. Records, also home to Lil Jons BME Recordings, E-40, The Federation and Talib Kweli, among others. The Warner Bros. executives were impressed with Jay Rocks distinctive flow, his vivid lyrics and, of course, voice. Already a star on the Internet, his always-updated myspace.com/jayrock page features three songs that have more than 100,000 plays.
One of those cuts is LA Shit, Jay Rocks stellar reworking of Busta Rhymes New York Shit. When I heard that song, I thought it was a hot-ass song, so I wanted to get on my LA shit about what we do out here, says Jay Rock, who has long been a fan of Busta Rhymes phraseology. I was paying respect to Busta and his song, and thats for the mixtapes right there. I want LA to get an ear for it.
LA will also appreciate the energetic California Soul, which details the treacherous reality of California’s streets. Game produced the record and he gave it to me. I met him at the studio about a week later and let him hear it, he went crazy! He liked it so much he recorded the hook on the spot. On the smooth That’s My Word, Jay Rock asserts his status as a man of his word, while To The Top documents his ascent from project resident to his present day successes. It was a struggle to get to where I’m at now, he says. I’m talking about going from the bottom to the top, what I was going through starting off. I’m legal now. I’m signed. I started off at the bottom, made something out of nothing and am going to run with it until I get all the way to the top. Click here to read more about Jay Rock.
The Gates Mixed Plate, Tech N9ne’s latest release, features the singles “O.G.” and “Jumpin’ Jax”. Tech’s third release in a series of collaborative studio projects coined “Collabos”, features Devin The Dude, Glasses Malone, Jay Rock, Yukmouth and many others. The Gates Mixed Plate is in stores now.
To learn more about Jay Rock check him out on Myspace, Facebook, JayRockMusic.Com, and follow him on Twitter.
, features several tracks produced by Michael “Seven” Summers. Seven produced the single for the album, 
, and his production skills have been featured on every Strange Music release since. Seven’s melodic, piano and orchestra heavy tracks are always laced with clean, bangin’ drum patterns, which provide the perfect backdrop for Tech N9ne and his Strange family to weave their intricate rhyme schemes in and out of. If Strange Music’s process of creating studio albums can be compared to that of a painter creating his or her most significant work of art, then their unmistakable, progressive sound is undoubtedly the galleried masterpiece on display for Hip Hop heads, music lovers and casual listeners around the globe to circle around, critique and admire. Sticking with this comparison, lately it seems as though Seven’s tracks have been the catalyst of that signature sound, the ingredient that quickens the chemical reaction between all of the other musical components, allowing them to harden or cure properly ensuring the quality and durablity that have come to be expected when it comes to a Strange release.
