Florida Genre: Hip-Hop/Rap Years Active: '10s |
BiographyAt the age of eight, Jacksonville, Florida native J. Dash was capable of playing Mozart compositions on the piano. By age 13, he was in a band. Eventually, he took up producing and rhyming, and released his first two albums, Odyssey of a Corporate Looney Tune and Something Else: Music for the Color Blind, respectively, in 2006 and 2007. A few years later, the second album's "WOP" (as in "without prejudice") — a club-rap track driven by bright synthesizer sounds — gained some traction and prompted him to re-tool the song. He released this new version on his third album, Tabloid Truth, in 2012. In 2013, the reach of "WOP" extended — propelled by a popular official video and many unofficial videos, the single entered Billboard's Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart a second time and reached the Top 15. It even managed to cross into the mainstream Hot 100. All the while, the University of Florida graduate kept his birth name a secret and remained employed as a computer engineer. . At the age of eight, Jacksonville, Florida native J. Dash was capable of playing Mozart compositions on the piano. By age 13, he was in a band. Eventually, he took up producing and rhyming, and released his first two albums, Odyssey of a Corporate Looney Tune and Something Else: Music for the Color Blind, respectively, in 2006 and 2007. A few years later, the second album's "WOP" (as in "without prejudice") — a club-rap track driven by bright synthesizer sounds — gained some traction and prompted him to re-tool the song. He released this new version on his third album, Tabloid Truth, in 2012. In 2013, the reach of "WOP" extended — propelled by a popular official video and many unofficial videos, the single entered Billboard's Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart a second time and reached the Top 15. It even managed to cross into the mainstream Hot 100. All the while, the University of Florida graduate kept his birth name a secret and remained employed as a computer engineer.
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![Transformer Remix (Big City) [feat. Lara Johnston] - Single, J. Dash](http://a5.mzstatic.com/us/r30/Music/dd/c2/c6/mzi.dfftgzig.100x100-75.jpg)
![WOP (EURO Mix) (feat. Flo Rida) [Radio Edit], J. Dash & Flo Rida](http://a1.mzstatic.com/us/r30/Video/v4/6d/d6/63/6dd663d1-7bbe-6627-49c6-bde3b74189a2/USTCV1207730.100x100-75.jpg)
![Transformer (Big City Remix) [feat. Lara Johnston], J. Dash & Lara Johnston](http://a2.mzstatic.com/us/r30/Video/v4/c4/36/9c/c4369c15-6e7b-77fb-17c7-13b3b8587aa9/USTCV1207261.100x100-75.jpg)
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