We’re excited to introduce you to the always interesting and insightful J-Law. We hope you’ll enjoy our conversation with J-Law below.

Hi J-Law, thanks for joining us today. Can you talk to us about a project that’s meant a lot to you?

The most meaningful project I’ve worked on is my H.I.M. Ep. This ep is a body of work that I feel really dives into a reality that we sometimes don’t always want to admit to ourselves. 1. That we need help. 2. That sometimes we make the wrong mistakes. 3. That we all can be taken for granted, and most importantly that we all have to be healed. We have to find healing, not in other things, but in ourselves.

Each individual song was created and crafted with the mindset that WE, you and me, are HIM. This project was created during the pandemic. Where the world was beginning to shut down and people were scared. It was a release for me as well. This project IS some of my best work vocally as well as lyrically.

I wanted the lyrics to be thought provoking. I wanted the songs to be catchy yet relatable. To talk about the back story is to really kind of talk about how I went about creating the project.
Some songs were written while I was walking. Some songs came from the shower. It was kind of a soul search project.

When we are hurting we normally try to find a way to cope with that pain. We look for the release of the stress in several ways. Smoking. Drinking. Sex. People.

The track list follows this moment of “self-reflected sabotage” so to speak. When we are in these moments of just trying to release the pain of life, we start allowing ourselves to develop a persona that isn’t truly who we are. It’s dangerous to meet people when they meet a false perception of who you are. This led to the “I’m not who you think I am” moment in mistaken.

The project finishes up with the title track H.I.M (healing in myself) because at the end of it all, YOU have to find the healing in you. Not in everything else

Great, appreciate you sharing that with us. Before we ask you to share more of your insights, can you take a moment to introduce yourself and how you got to where you are today to our readers

My name is J-Law! I am the free-man himself. I love freedom. I breathe freedom. I live for freedom. My artistry, I hope, is always received as an honest truthful and open person. Born in raised in Southwest Ga, I grew up in church and got my start singing in church. I was a band geek and playing in the band (clarinet and tenor sax) began to really open my eyes to how much I truly loved music.

I got my start as an artist in 2016 when I met my mentor, recording artist Timothy Léon. He showed me that being an independent artist was not just a pipe dream but that it was a dream that I can grab with my own hands. It takes work and as long as you are willing to do the work nothing is impossible.

He helped me to release and work on my first project “Collateral Damage” and from there I established myself as a recording artist.

Though a little rough around the edges I had a message and something I wanted to say. Now my second project the “H.I.M” ep is out and doing awesome.

Things haven’t been easy but this journey is one that I’ve THOROUGHLY enjoyed and I wouldn’t change any of it for the world.

For you, what’s the most rewarding aspect of being a creative?

The most rewarding part of being an artist is hearing my peers and even people I’ve never met tell me they connect to my music. It’s hearing someone hear “mistaken” and they say, “this song sounds like he said they got me all the way f&$@‘d up.”

These responses tell me that they HEAR the music and they aren’t just LISTENING to the music. Sometimes we can listen to music but we aren’t making connections to what’s being said in the music. I want timeless music that touches the hearts of those who listen.

They should feel good. They should be able to see faith in the lyrics. It’s so beautiful to see people walk up to me and say, I love that song because of this or it made me feel like that. Nothing is more rewarding than KNOWING that my music is being impactful in some way.

How can we best help foster a strong, supportive environment for artists and creatives?

I believe that society could do better about promoting what’s good. Not what’s a gimmick. We hear everyone quote Erykah Badu’s statement, “I’m an artist and I’m sensitive about my shh.” But I really wonder how people really perceive that statement.

Erykah has a song that says, “what good do your words do if they can’t understand you?”

This quote in and of itself really changes the pace of the first statement. A lot of artists don’t really have something to say, and what they are putting out is just “click bait”. What happened to the quality of their work?

I feel that a thriving creative ecosystem is one that runs off of CONSISTENTLY pushing QUALITY CONTENT to the for front. We always hear, it’s not what you know, but who you know. I feel that it’s a bit of both though. What I know might be more detrimental to the game than The Who. Sometimes The Who can be more important than the what. However, we need both. Who do I know that can push what I know?
As an artist though, the things we SHOULD KNOW is that EVERYTHING WE CREATE IS GOOD AND NEEDED.
That’s the very first thing that has to be learned. As a creative, your creation is just as good as the next persons even if it isn’t in its final “polished” form. Everything has potential to go somewhere.

Society can help boost the “what’s hot” but they never push the “what’s relevant” and “what’s got longevity”.
If society can push the longevity of a creatives brand and was more open to the diversity of creatives we would have a thriving creative ecosystem. I feel like collaboration comes into play as well.

Effectively collaborating with our fellow peers and WORKING our own individual and specific NETWORKS.

Contact Info:

• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/justbeingjlaw/
• Facebook: https://m.facebook.com/justbeingjlaw
• Youtube: https://youtube.com/channel/UCAReN-8XyEzmNu-e4oA0vAQ

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