tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21843748112908972242024-03-12T18:09:52.514-07:00The Name You KnowHard work seems to be the trending ethic and epithet of our generation. But what people seldom remember
is that work minus brilliance and sacrifice equals… well simply just “work”. Enter Jeff Johnson. On the
surface, it seems as if he is only a Mid-West emcee.
Hestarted putting out his
own rap CD’s while in High School every year of his matriculation, and till this day he hasn’t stop making
the music he lovesJeff Johnsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15672456747490829957noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2184374811290897224.post-15714639093564316452011-04-25T10:24:00.000-07:002011-04-25T10:24:52.292-07:00FlipperRecently Jeff has released a new single entitled "Flipper" The video is shortly following check him out on Facebook.com/makingmyname<br />
or go to the website www.makingmyname.com<br />
i will keep you posted!<br />
until this enjoy "Notice Me"<br />
Lemme know what you think!<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.youtube.com/embed/F6ElyUzebZU?feature=player_embedded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div>Jeff Johnsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15672456747490829957noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2184374811290897224.post-69158302726641073942011-04-25T09:35:00.001-07:002011-04-25T09:35:19.192-07:00performing<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqFf3M-Rg-h-Mrc_RfdE23qj4-9mE9ScSOQMC_f1Oij9AUf48jhceZB3fvJPeARs1CXtmjkdGY2sYO4_O7KtrEcdOgcSFxpnj4z2AIJHnqoVJdpb9sUhZmBHkPPzdp95fTyP7qBctByAg/s1600/21049_270369163068_502683068_3242380_959125_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqFf3M-Rg-h-Mrc_RfdE23qj4-9mE9ScSOQMC_f1Oij9AUf48jhceZB3fvJPeARs1CXtmjkdGY2sYO4_O7KtrEcdOgcSFxpnj4z2AIJHnqoVJdpb9sUhZmBHkPPzdp95fTyP7qBctByAg/s320/21049_270369163068_502683068_3242380_959125_n.jpg" width="246" /></a></div>Jeff Johnsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15672456747490829957noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2184374811290897224.post-25196953750760200742011-04-24T22:00:00.000-07:002011-04-24T22:00:30.552-07:00I Run This Town<div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">BIO</div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br />
</div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Hard work seems to be the trending ethic and epithet of our generation. But what people seldom remember </div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">is that work minus brilliance and sacrifice equals… well simply just “work”. Enter Jeff Johnson. On the </div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">surface, it seems as if he is only a Mid-West emcee. Moved to Kentucky from St. Croix in 1989 when </div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">his father was diagnosed with brain cancer; fell in love with hip-hop in California, started putting out his </div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">own rap CD’s while in High School every year of his matriculation, and till this day he hasn’t stop making </div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">the music he loves; boasting a catalogue of songs that perhaps will eventually need its own publishing </div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">company to nurture and protect them.</div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br />
</div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">But Jeff Johnson aka the “Southpaw Outlaw”, whose voice passionately grabs a listener through his </div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">versatile flow and clever lyrics has recognized that nothing comes to you easily or passively. So for several </div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">years he has been bringing us the music we love through the virtue of sacrifice; not to mention he has an </div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">ingenious way of doing it too.</div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br />
</div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Fused with a passion to vibe with some of the top creative minds of our era and make original music, Jeff</div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Johnson has worked with such producers as DJ Montay, Joe Traxx, and Los Vegas. In 2009, Jeff released</div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">his debut project entitled “Making My Name” and has been literally doing just that ever since. Believing that</div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">“hip-hop will die without the real DJ”, Jeff has also teamed up with DJ’s around the world to give us several</div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">mixtapes, with 50,000 of them printed and promoted in the southeast. Described as a rapper that can get a</div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">crowd going, Jeff has also performed on the same stages as Akon, Lloyd, Mike Jones, Nappy Roots, Paul</div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Wall, 112, and Mannie Fresh. It is easy to see that music is Jeff’s Passion. Starting with what he considers</div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">“zero chances” and lack of people believing in him, Jeff is focused on showing the world his sonic art by any</div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">means necessary.</div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br />
</div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">But reaching the masses is no easy feat. However, through his marketing prowess and his unique branding</div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">ability, Jeff Johnson has managed to be heard on over 40 urban/rhythmic stations around the country with</div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">over 1100 MediaBase/BDS Detections. He has graced the covers of magazines and obtained features in</div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">such media outlets as Ozone Magazine to Allhiphop.com. If you get on the Internet and visit his Myspace</div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">page, you will be counted as one of the millions that have entered his Internet space. What is surprising is</div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">that Jeff was able to accomplish most of these things while at the same time studying for a degree at Full</div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Sail University in Florida.</div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br />
</div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">With today’s technology, making music seems to be the easy part of this business, but getting people to</div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">hear it has always been the artist’s struggle. Jeff has the uncanny ability to find innovate ways and use savvy</div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">business approaches to make sure we all get the chance to hear this “Southpaw Outlaw”. Recently, Jeff</div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">decided to move to Los Angeles to continue on his journey of realizing his full potential as a superstar.</div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">While in the City of Dreams, he is building a fan base through mixtape distribution, performing, building a</div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">street team, and consistently giving us great music and videos that can be viewed on his online publication</div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><a avglsprocessed="1" href="http://www.makingmyname.com/" style="color: black;" target="_blank">www.makingmyname.com</a></div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br />
</div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Jeff not only works hard. He thinks hard and sacrifices big. And it’s the merger of the three that is allowing</div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">him to not only make his name, but make us listen, make us relate, and make us bop our heads in the</div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">process.</div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br />
</div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Myisha Cherry</div>Jeff Johnsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15672456747490829957noreply@blogger.com0