J. Raise, Jr (born October 18, 1996) is an artist/music producer from Fasano, Italy. His music is defined by timeless grooves and meticulously syncopated rhythms. A very strong hip-hop attitude deeply infected by the complexity of jazz and broken beat, moved by the sweetness of soul music. After years of deep dive into the sampling science, studying all the abilities of his MPC2000XL to the core, he released an handful of singles between 2015 and 2017 jumping on the latest years of the SoundCloud lofi beats era. In 2018 he co-founded the independent label Resilienza Records joining as well its roster with two beat tapes in 2019 Hi My Name Is, Vol. 3, and No Man's Tape. In 2020, he released Lifted Quest for the worldwide independent label NINETOFIVE. As follow up to this project, in 2021 he released the instrumental tape Likewise (NINETOFIVE® x Resilienza Records) another solid piece of work that contributed to the creative evolution of his own sound identity. J. Raise, Jr released his official debut album CALL FOR YOU for Universal Music Group - Island Records Italy on October 27th 2023. A joint project with the UK singer and multi instrumentalist Alijaa, which sees the appearances of Chicago's rapper Mick Jenkins, Detroit’s very own Frank Nitt (Frank N Dank), the UK singer and saxophonist parthenope, and New York based rapper Hiero.