From a young age exposure to musical pioneers created interest and curiosity for Jaz. The sounds of artists like Andre 3000, Lil Wayne, Michael Jackson, Trey Songz, J. Cole, and wide variety of Gospel played a large part in the development of his taste in music. A Battle Creek, MI, native, Jaz looks to create a path for artists from this small town to excel. With political sentiments, and personal experience being the contextual foundation of his art, each tune gives you a glimpse of the artist. “How they gone remember me in this life?” Jaz states on his Intro(Life). Graduating from Western Michigan University with a degree in Sociology, Jaz finds music to be his platform to share social commentary. It’s where melodies meet the mind. With rhymes over production sounds that resemble the drum patterns that set the stage for lyrical brilliance, to gliding across alternative, soul-funk beats. Metaphors, similes, homonyms, triple entendres and more! Jaz is as smooth as the name states. This Afrocentric artist is one to be remembered.