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name | Jin Au-Yeung |
chinesename | 歐陽靖/欧阳靖 |
tradchinesename | 歐陽靖 |
simpchinesename | 欧阳靖 |
pinyinchinesename | Ōuyáng Jìng |
jyutpingchinesename | au1 joeng4 zing6 |
birth name | Jin Au-Yeung |
othername | Jin, MC Jin, Jin the Emcee, 100 Grand Jin, The Emcee, AyoJin |
ethnicity | Hakka |
ancestry | Hong Kong |
origin | Hong Kong |
birth date | June 04, 1982 |
height | 168 cm |
birth place | Miami, Florida, USA |
restingplacecoordinates | |
occupation | Rapper, songwriter, actor |
genre | Hip hop, R&B; Christian Hip hop |
instrument | Vocal |
voicetype | Rap |
label | Ruff Ryders/Virgin, Crafty Plugz, Draft Records, Imperial, Universal Music Group, Catch Adventures |
yearsactive | 1997–present |
spouse | Carol Au-Yeung |
website | MC JinA I Y A ! (old website) |
associated acts | Kanye West, Wyclef Jean, Ya Boy, }} |
Biography
Early life
Jin Au-Yeung was born on June 4, 1982, in Miami, Florida, to Hong Kong Chinese immigrants. He was raised in North Miami Beach, where his parents owned a strip-mall Chinese restaurant, and where Jin attended schools. He graduated from John F. Kennedy Middle School and North Miami Beach Senior High School.
2001: Freestyle Friday
After graduating from high school in 2000, Jin decided to forgo college and moved his family to Flushing, Queens, New York City in 2001. He began performing freestyles and selling his own mix tapes on the streets, in hip-hop clubs and wherever else possible. His big break came when the BET program 106 & Park began inviting local rappers to hold battles in a segment known as Freestyle Friday. He won seven battles in a row, enabling him to be inducted in the Freestyle Friday Hall of Fame.
2002–2005: Ruff Ryders Era
That same night of his Hall of Fame induction, he announced that he had signed a deal with the Ruff Ryders. His first single under Ruff Ryders was titled "Learn Chinese". It took a sample from the 1992 song "They Want EFX", from hip-hop group Das EFX. The second and final single for the album was originally supposed to be "I Got a Love" featuring Kanye West, but was later changed to "Senorita" because Roc-A-Fella Records did not want to over-expose Kanye West. The album was originally scheduled to be released in the summer of 2003, but was delayed for over a year by the label. In October 2004, Jin released his debut album, The Rest Is History, which reached number 54 of the Billboard Top 200 albums chart. Both of his singles, "Learn Chinese" and "Senorita", failed to be major mainstream successes. Nonetheless, Jin's music video "Learn Chinese" was the first video ever to be played on MTV Chi.In 2003, Jin made an appearance in the movie 2 Fast 2 Furious as a mechanic named 'Jimmy'. His song "Peel Off" was featured on the 2 Fast 2 Furious soundtrack. He also collaborated with British Indian Bhangra artist, Juggy D, in the song "Kohl Aaja (Come Closer)", when he was in London doing some promotion for The Rest Is History.
2005–2008: After Ruff Ryders
On April 23, 2005, Jin and rapper "Serius Jones" engaged in a rap battle. The battle was featured on Fight Klub DVDOn May 18, 2005, Jin revealed that he would be putting his rap career on hold in order to explore other options. To make this clear, he recorded a song titled "I Quit", which was produced by the Golden Child. The announcement was widely misunderstood to have marked the end of Jin's rap career. However, he later re-emerged under a different alias, The Emcee, and freestyled over such songs as Jay-Z's "Dear Summer." He released a single called "Top 5 (Dead or Alive)" where Jin displays his lyrical talent in explaining the history of hip-hop's greatest artists. The legendary DJ Kool Herc, who is credited as the founder of hip-hop, appears in Jin's music video. After signing with an independent label, CraftyPlugz/Draft Records, Jin released his second album, The Emcee's Properganda on October 25, 2005. Jin was also featured on the Taipei-based pop artist Leehom Wang's 2005 album Heroes of Earth.
Jin released two albums in 2006. The first one, 100 Grand Jin is a mixtape/album that was released on August 29, 2006. The single released off the album is "FYI", for which the rapper shot and released a music video. The second album released in 2006 is Jin's third LP, I Promise.
On Jin's MySpace, Jin mentioned that he is working on another English album named "Birthdays, Funerals and Things In Between". Jin premiered a song called "Open Letter to Obama" on April 24, 2007, which made him become 1st on Barack Obama's Top 8 list on MySpace.
On April 16, 2007, Jin made a tribute song to the victims of the Virginia Tech massacre called "Rain, Rain Go Away". Recently Jin has decided to make his November 1, 2006 Internet album put together by Roy P. Perez© and his team of producers at Romeo Ent., I Promise, available in retail stores. It will be out on October 23, 2007.
Jin released a new song through his MySpace page. The song is titled "Fill In The Blanks", and Jin encourages his fans to record their own verse into the song.
2008-present: Catch Adventures
Jin has done a collaboration with an Malaysian MC Point Blanc track titled "One Day". The Music Video can be viewed on YouTube.He has recently released a demo song called Worst Enemy which has garnered over 130,000 views on his Myspace. He also put the song Welcome To The Light Club on his Myspace page. Jin is a Christian, stating in his song "Welcome to the Light Club" he was baptized in 2008. He has featured in Far East Movement's "Millionaire". He has done a track over a DJ Premier joint titled "World Premier". He is also collaborate with producer Trendsetter aka Mark Holiday.
He has his own youtube channel which he uploads 3 minute video blogs about his life. Http://www.youtube.com/ayojintv
Jin currently resides in Hong Kong. He stars frequently in commercials there, and making numerous appearances on TVB like Big Boys Club.
He has recently thrown out a Hip-Hop Census in honor of the 2010 Census and Chinese New Year 2010. He released a mixtape entitled "Say Something", on May 15, 2010. As said by Jin, this mixtape is open to anybody and will be mixed from the general population along with Jin. According to JinSuperGroup.com, Jin will be releasing a new album with his friend Hanjin in 2010.
On July 10, 2010, Jin collaborated with Mandarin singer Hanjin Tan () to release another Cantonese album 買一送一
Jin also released a music video for his English single "Angels".
On March 7, 2011, Jin released a music video for a song from his upcoming English album entitled "Charlie Sheen," collaborating with artists Dumbfoundead and Traphik/Timothy DeLaGhetto. Jin recently released an ep titled "Sincerely Yours".
Jin released his new single called "Shoot For The Moon" on June 4, 2011. His birthday was on the same day. He also plans to release the full English album later in November.
Jin is managed by talent manager Carl Choi.
On February 12, 2011, MC Jin and his Chinese American wife, Carol, got married on the small island of Puerto Rico.
Other activities
Responding to the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami, Jin participated with Jackie Chan and numerous other celebrities in a special three-hour charity concert on 1 April 2011 to help raise funds for Japan's disaster recovery effort.
AIYA!
AIYA! is Jin's catchphrase and has been used by him many times recently. It is also a typical phrase or interjection used by Chinese people that simply means "Oh my gosh!" An image/logo has been created recently that was designed by Tom Ngo. The Logo could be printed out and then you could take a picture of yourself with it and get into the video for his song "Aiya!"(featuring Toestah). The catchphrase and its logo have been used in many places related to Jin. An "AIYA!" shirt will be available soon.
Discography
Studio albums
Cooperative Albums
Songs in
Mixtapes
EPs
Music Videos
! Year | ! Video | ! Director | ! Video Link(Youtube) | ! Notes |
Jin - Learn Chinese emimusic | ||||
"Senorita" | Jin - Senorita emimusic | |||
2005 | "Top 5(Dead or Alive)" | Todd Angkasuwan | Uses a collection of people voting for their top 5 rappers. | |
2006 | "FYI" (featuring Young Mac) | Todd Angkasuwan | ||
"ABC" | Todd Angkasuwan | Jin 歐陽靖 'ABC' MV universalmusichk | Cantonese. Contains a short appearance of the producers of the song, Far East Movement. | |
Daniel Wu / Jason Tobin | Jin 歐陽靖 '搵兩餐' MV universalmusichk | Cantonese | ||
"飲啖茶" | Evan Jackson Leong | Jin 歐陽靖 '飲啖茶' MV universalmusichk | Cantonese | |
"香港Superstar" | Jason Tobin | Jin 歐陽靖 '香港Superstar' MV universalmusichk | Cantonese | |
"上堂時間" | Jin 歐陽靖 '上堂時間' MV universalmusichk | Cantonese | ||
"喂喂搵邊位" | Kim Chan | Jin 歐陽靖 '喂喂搵邊位' MV universalmusichk | Cantonese | |
"Angels" | Hosanna Wong | JIN "Angels" Official Music Video (2010) AyoJinTV | ||
"711" (featuring KT) | "711" - MC Jin feat. KT AyoJinHK | Cantonese. Filmed in 7-Eleven. | ||
"It's About Time" | Romago Presents: MC Jin "It's About Time" AyoJinHK | Cantonese | ||
"Charlie Sheen" (with Traphik & Dumbfoundead) | Kevin Boston | "CHARLIE SHEEN" (Official Music Video) Jin x Dumbfoundead x Traphik AyoJinTV | ||
"人氣急升" | Kevin Boston | MC Jin人氣急升MV - NEW ALBUM 回鄉靖 Hong Kong release date: 8/8/11 AyoJinHK | Cantonese | |
"Aiya!" (featuring Toestah) | AIYA - Jin feat. Toestah AyoJinTV | Song repeated twice to fit all pictures in. | ||
"Shoot for the Moon" | Carl Choi | JIN "Shoot for the Moon" Official Music Video (2011) AyoJinTV | Song edited for video. Uses various images and video from his life and career. | |
"發咗達" | Benny Lou | MC Jin發咗達MV - NEW ALBUM 回香靖 Hong Kong release date: 8/8/11 AyoJinHK | Cantonese | |
Filmography
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Various/Alternative Names
Jin may be called many different names at many points in time and so you may need to make sure you know them in situations such as searching for him. Here are some of the names:
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