Jason Jordan was born in Syracuse, New York and grew up in Manhattan, He is the son of a entrepreneur father and doctor mother. He spent his teenage years playing basketball and ravenously absorbing hip-hop sounds, and in college he began making music of his own. In 2015, he self-released his first mixtape, The Class Clown LP. 
 He followed it the next year with, What are you doing? LP. Jordan’s style developed over the course of these releases, and his technical abilities sharpened on 2020’s Lockdown. In 2018, he signed on with United Talent Agency as an actor. 
 In 2020, he signed with Sony Music for the release of his studio debut, Lockdown. The album's lyrics unpacked issues of racism, classism, and wealth and disparity. He resides in Los Angeles, CA.