Just Black solo?
It really shouldn’t come as a surprise – he rolled onto the rap game solo 13 years ago with, Women Ain’t All That Bad.
“Now, I’m back to how I came in the game,” he said in an exclusive interview with the American in his Central West End office.
“It was just time to do me as an artist instead of as a CEO,” said the street-heavy rapper.
“I didn’t have anything else to share,” he said.
Over the years, the factuality rapper and businessman influenced the local Hip-Hop grind with his skills, determination, vision and calculated methodology.
No wonder his then Black on Black indie label attracted a merger with his best-friend Guccio’s Quit Playing indie label to form Black on Black/Quit Playing in 2000.
The Movement was born and its offspring, the Allstars, hit the scene with a line of hits from the early It’s Serious off the All City CD to Pop One, which hit the airwaves earlier this year when Pop One rapper Vic Damone, Top Dolla, Nimmy Hendrix (formerly Nimmy Russell) and Just Black had already showed signs of spitting alone.
Well it’s official now and a lot has changed: Just Black is now Jus Bleezy and he head’s Jus Bleezy ENT, his own thing.
He already has a lead, whip-riding hit rocking airwaves and sending people to dance floors.
It’s called Like Me, featuring national recording artist Trey Songz who rightfully croons, “You Ain’t Never Met a Cat Like Me,” in the hook.
Jus Bleezy is definitely one of kind from the way he thinks, moves, lives, talk real ish and backs it up in the streets and on wax.
“I can’t stand fakes (they know who they are, he said) and phony rappers, but I love women – street and bougie,” he said.
His love for women is evident on Like Me, a funky grown-up R&B-laced rap song that raps to women about what they get when they get with a cat him.
Jus Bleezy’s been putting out hits since he came on the scene. And he’s putting his ducks in a bulls-eye-friendly row.
These days he’s taking a shortcut through clubs to the radio. He’s always been able to lock the streets down, but now he has orchestrated a clear path to radio by simply reaching out to deejays in attractive and professional ways.
His consultant Reno, who co-manages Aloha Mishcheaux, told him to build his report deejays like no other.
So, of course, Jus Bleezy took it a step further.
He has done nearly 1,000 drops on Digi Wax, an international deejay coalition that rates, polls and distributes music.
Many of those deejays are set to attend a Jus Bleezy’s St. Louis DJ Technology Retreat and Convention January 29 through January 31 at various St. Louis locations.
He has met with 80 of the 196 deejays that he says call the metro area home.
And for his mixtape, Go Hard or Go Home, he got “the best” to host it: DJ Khaled, currently known for his “we the best” riffs on tracks.
He credited St. Louis native DJ Kut (now living in New York and gigging on the city’s popular Power 105.1 radio station) with hooking him up with DJ Khaled.
“I got to be a part of the best,” Jus Bleezy said.
“It’s not like saying, ‘I’m the best as in better than everybody,’ but this is the best because I did my best,” he said.
His mixtape also features producer Drama Boy, who produced the 2007 rap hit Shorty, and has guest appearances from rappers Rick Ross, Yo Gotti and Vic Damone.
Go Hard or Go Home has 12 original songs that live up to the ready-heavy Like Me, produced by Twayne.
On December 20, 2007 Bleezy’s premiered the video for Like Me, produced by Da Boney Body, AKA Dana Christian.
The premiere went down at The Moolah and was presented in the upscale fashion that Bleezy rolls with.
In attendance were: DJ Kut, the Derrty DJs, Allstar DJs, member of the former Allstars, Guccio, Alice Prince, Songress Jzanell, Reno, Eye Candy Models Fabienne, Kim Martin and Bridgett and Dwight Stone who gave Bleezy a radio show in 2005. Of course, the show was called Reality Radio.
If it ain’t real like him you count Bleezy out.
For more on Jus Bleezy checkout www.myspace.com/jusbleezyent
