THE JOURNEY!!!! THE PRE-ALBUM AVAILABLE HERE!!!!!

Well guys...it's been a hell of a process putting this great piece of work together. I'd like to take this opportunity to thank all the people that helped in putting my very first solo project into works. First and foremost I thank God for not only giving me the talent needed to do what I live and love to do, but for giving me the consistence and persistence to do this in the mist of people not wishing success on me along with plenty of obstacles put in my path. Without God there is nothing.

Now..to get off the religious tip, I'd also like to thank the great people and staff at Swafi Circle as well as Boutique Label. Ya'll been holdin me down for about a year now and I appreciate that. We all gotta start somewhere and I want ya'll to keep in mind that when you're at the bottom..there's no where else to go but up...word life.

Next I'd like to thank Nick G., my partner in crime who's been ridin wit me for years!! Since our early M.C.K. days recordin in my bedroom wit tha bogus computer mic in the closet plugged up to the desktop runnin off Windows ME and Ejay (lol) big ups to you my brother, you are much appreciated. We most definitely got next homie. Also shouts to my brothers Slayback and Phenomenal (Kenny, I hate callin you that joe, I know you think we forgot about you but I see you lil bro!! Remember patience is a virtue. You got plenty of success comin yo way kid. Now stop blowin my damn phone up!! lol jk)

Next I wanna thank DJ. H.K.. Bro you've been more help then ANYBODY during the entire process my dude. You literally are The Journey fam. You are the essence of Hip-Hop embodied in a scrawny lil nigga from Da Ridge. You have no idea how much I appreciate you joe. I swear if you don't blow up before I do, because I'm confident that we both will, the Hip-Hop society is clueless. Thank you so much bro...pause.. (OMG G MAN IS BACK LMAO!!!)

Rovi Rokmore and Asim Osaze also have my highest appreciation. We prolly wouldn't have done this project if you wouldn'tve forced us to (lol). I see ya'll vision clearly even when you two don't see eye to eye. But as long as we see success in our future ya'll ain't gotta look at nothin else, dig that.

Also I wanna thank the multi-talented Ms. Esraa Odeh for the great job on giving Hip-Hop a voice, we asked her to do it a lil last minute but she definitely came in made us proud and happy to be a part of this. You still a square though!!!

Also I wanna thank Jeff. Lil homie you and Dev D are well on ya'll way. I see more talent in you then half these cats with multi-million dollar deals. Can't wait til we work on The Coalition!!!

Also shouts to my older brother New Era Neece for guidin me and puttin me on game, also for introducin me to TrackHedz Productions who played a very VERY big role in this and doesn't even realize it. Well homie you in for one hell of a surprise (lol).

I got 4 more, bare with me (lol)

I wanna thank my parents who've always had faith in me even when they didn't believe in what I was doin, and who constantly remind me that failure is never an option.

I also wanna thank 2 out of the 3 loves of my life. The first being my bestfriend Ms. Asha Brown, for being extremely supportive and heavily opinionated right when I need her to be. I love you babe!! Second but most important to me is my late grandmother Mrs. Alma Jones...Grandma if you only knew what you mean to me...words can not explain how much I love and miss you and how much the rest of the family does. I'm tryin my best to make you proud, and will continue to do so until I can see you face to face again..just keep an eye out for me..."She's an angel..from Heaven..but she resides on the Westside".........R.I.P. Mrs. Jones

ok, last but not least I gotta say thank you to ALL my fans. I know I'm soundin like I'm jumpin the gun with my success but Ion care. Without a strong fan base an artist will NEVER make it in this game. So I do this for ya'll for what ya'll do for me. We taking it to the TOP!!







alright so I apologize for gettin' all sappy and ish on here, and I know what you're thinkin... "on to the next one" right? Well ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, m.c's and rappers, dj's and hypemen......I give you............

THE JOURNEY

-Mos'

(p.s.: click the title! lol, SHOUT OUT TO HIP-HOP!!)

"The Journey" Music Video...(Promo)

The Show 104.5 WRFU FM. presents "L.I.F.E. & A.R.T." feat. Jay Mos'

Profile Playlist by Jay Moses

Profile Playlist by Jay Moses

Nick & Jay Ish 10/7/09

PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT!!!

Throw Back Studio Session

Yo I was 17 yrs old when this was filmed, I been doin this for a while ya'll and it makes me smile ta look back on this to notice it was documented. I randomly came across this old footage on YouTube and big ups ta my old engineer Will Hawkins of All or Nuthin Productions. This Song was featured on Marino Vs. Moses the mixtape me and my homie Nick G. did back in '07 released in '08. Here's the song in case your curious of how it sounded.

"Lord Forgive 'Em (Freestyle)"

KillaT TV - Jay Moses Interview 9/24/09

Collective Thought Interview 9-22-09

Collaboration Blog

Our Sad Excuse For A Blog lol 8-10-09

So this vid has nothing to do with..anything lol..

"I'm Going In" Mixtape Leak

"I'm Going In" from the upcoming street album "Jay Moses presents: The Journey" hosted by H.K.. feat. Lil' Jeff & D. of the Fly KidZ, and Nick G. Tha Boss.

http://www.zshare.net/audio/637697455aa803e2/

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"Like Me" feat. Cam Morris - Studio Session 7-17-09

so this was pretty much tha basics of a 5 hr session we had tha other for the song off of my album "Like Me" feat. Cam Morris. Check it out!!

Fly KidZ - "Joe Cool"

So these cats are all Champaign-Urbana born and raised, but surpisingly they're making their mark on tha city.

D., Lil' Jeff, and Yung Tee make up the group known as tha Fly Kidz and for their ages, they are extremely talented.

You can check em out on my blog, as well as on youtube.com/jaymoses217

just because I'm feelin generous and they were nice enough to leak it, heres a free download of their song recently debuted "We Go Hard" off their album College Prep

---> click the song title "We Go Hard"

I will be workin wit these dudes in the near future so definitely be on the look out for that,

peace,

-Mos'

Dude Got Bars!!! Jay Moses

as can be seen on dudegotbars.blogspot.com

"Best I Ever Had"

Lol so I saw the Drake video "Best I Ever Had" directed by Kanye West on MTV2 and really..all I can say is "breast I ever had, chest I ever had" lol. Kinda corny...definitely can tell 'Ye hand picked all the women for that joint. He's gettin kinda notorious for that don't you think. If you follow him like I have you remember the whole process with the original "Flashing Lights" vid. But back to Drake, I like dude..he's definitely got go lol kind of a breath of fresh air but I dislike his decision with him signing with Young Money. I'm sure he did it for a good reason. His single "Best I Ever Had" is pretty hot. I bump it myself when ever drivin somewhere, I heard two different remixes to it. One with Busta Ryhmes that I didn't really dig too much, (no disrespect ta Bust cuz I mean..he's Bust..enough said). Then I heard one with Drake's label mate Nikki Minaj that was kinda hot. Her voice is kinda annoyin when she spits cuz she has that really thick ass NY accent but sure enough her bars go harder then most dudes out right now. But over all tha joint is hot. He's gettin hella airtime, bookin really good gigs, gettin really good features..and the most respectable thing I respect about his hustle.., he did all that without havin an album out. Congrats by the way for makin it on to Hov's "The Blueprint 3" set to come out September 11th. 2009. That's a monumental achievement for an artist with no discography record lol. But yeah man..

holla back,

-Mos'

FIND MY WAY

So lol...since I know everybody is excited about my album "Return of

the Converse Kid" which comes out fall of 2009

(which I'm sure you've all read several times by now), I've decided that I'd do a series of blogs specifically addressing each and every song on my

up coming album.

And yes even joints that don't make the cut.

If I record the song for my album and it doesn't meet my album standards and doesn't get released on it, you'll still be able to read,

watch and hear why the song didn't make the cut.

So with that being said, our first order of business is my first single entitled "Find My Way".

This song has a lot of background to it.

The song is dedicated to, written about and inspired by a close friend and fellow artist (and she's an artist literally) Esra Odeh.

Also the song is a tribute to A Tribe Called Quest.

Most Hip-Hop heads will catch that right off the bat.

This song doesn't have a feature on it though we recorded a rough draft to get a feel for the song.

Also to help surprise Esra who's never heard the actual song along with the rest of you.

Reason why I wanted to surprise her was she's hella stubborn lol, and she knows I have a song for her so she constantly asks about it.

So we recorded a fake version of her song to kinda throw her off a lil' but and confuse her until we were ready to let her hear the actual song lol.

That rough version of the song is available on zShare and you can download it by clicking the following title of the song -- "Find My Way".

The finished version of the song is about the comparison between music and painting.

How they're both one in the same.

Both are forms of expression and emotion, they both require creative thinking, they both require patience and acquired tastes,

and they both are created simply with one idea which eventually grows into something much bigger.

Esra paints pictures with her paint brush and and canvas, while I do the same with my mind.

With her being the subject of my rhymes, it was very easy writing this song.

I didn't want to go over to many heads by being extremely metaphoric and at the same time refused to dumb down my thoughts for my audience

(shout out to Lupe).

So there are plenty of clever lines inside the song.

The challenging part which my manager thinks will be very difficult, is pushing this joint as a single.

It's not quite "pop" enough to receive radio play.

But Roky (Rovion "Rovi Rokmore" Reed, producer of 98.9% of my tracks) and I think Hip-Hop heads will appreciate it a lot and respect me for it.

Especially with me being at the young age I'm at I should receive some type of recognition from a more mature audience which is fine with me lol.

Also we have the video planned out and we feel that whatever you don't grasp by listening to the track, you'll be sure to pick up with the visuals of the video.

We hope to have Esra and possibly one of her paintings cameo in the video and we're talking to local director Matt Harsh of Harshpro about shooting the vid.

Keep an eye out for the song and the video soon, footage from the studio session will be uploaded soon!!

-Mos'

Preview Of Third Single

So this joint right here was actually originally recorded right before Christmas of '08. We laid down a rough draft of this song but never really completed it. We dug it up out of my track record and decided to record it with adjustments to it

because in my personal opinion the song is very worthy of mainstream attention. I have plenty of other songs to back it up. As of now we're thinking of only having 10 songs on the album. Of course we'll have bonus joints, and then there will be 3 specific singles that we already have picked out. "The Return of the Converse Kid" will be the perfect record to purchase when it releases fall of '09....guaranteed. Check it out.

-Mos'

We're Finally Working On The Album!!!

-Rovi Rokmore (Rovion Reed), is officially working on the production of Jay Moses's second single (which has yet to be titled) following the first entitled "Find My Way". Both from the upcoming album "Return of the Converse Kid" which is in full works now. We began recording for it recently and hope to be done completely (recording, mixing, mastering) by some time in August of this year. We've already began planning shooting a vid for "Find My Way". The second single actually hasn't even been titled yet but I have a really good feeling about the concept I'm using. It being a follow up single, it has to be as good or better the the first. The first is more down to Earth with everyone who's in tune with Hip-Hop....not to be confused with Rap music. But it's actually a dedication to a close friend of mines who I'll leave nameless for the time being just in case she doesn't want her name out there just yet. But it's about her and her craft, and what she loves doing which just so happens to be creating art. Also the song is a tribute to A Tribe Called Quest. So there's a lot going on behind the scenes of that song which haven't been filmed yet or discussed, so I figured I might as well film the beginning stages of making the second single so I wouldn't have to back track like I had to for "Find My Way". So stay tuned, watch, and enjoy.

-Mos'