JP ONE
JP ONE, born Alvin C. Hill IV in Detroit, Michigan on October 3rd, 1984, is a hip-hop artist and the CEO of Gifted & Talented, LLC., a Sports and Entertainment Management company. He has released music with some of Detroit most talented lyricists, including Boldy James, Elzhi (of Slum Village), Black Milk, and Guilty Simpson. JP ONE’s discography includes over a dozen independently released projects, including the Fire & Brimstone trilogy released in 2015, which won numerous awards and made him a household name amongst Detroit’s elite hip-hop community. JP ONE’s personal life has seen its highs and lows. After losing his father to a drug overdose, JP ONE’s mother relocated to Benton Harbor, Michigan, where she gave birth to another son soon after.
JP ONE and his brother were both taken into juvenile and foster car homes until they returned to Detroit to live with older siblings. Life in Detroit started strong, but proved to be difficult as JP ONE would land in juvenile twice between a record deal with Motown Records legend, Barrett Strong’s Blarritt Records. After leaving the label for good, JP ONE took to the streets to find his own dreams and would soon catch a case for for Armed Robbery and Home Invasion, which landed him in the Michigan Department of Corrections (MDOC) for nine years. Upon his release in 2011, JP ONE started his own label and released consistent music beginning with 2013’s Gifted & Talented, 2015’s Fire & Brimstone, Fire & Brimstone 2[2] and Fire & Brimstone 3[3] then working with Nep Jennings in The EP and Real Motown Music[4] before releasing Atonement[5] in 2017 before he was sentenced to five years in the Federal Bureau of Prisons for a drug conspiracy. Recently released from prison, JP ONE has vowed to get back in the studio and work on new music as well as build his roster at Gifted & Talented, LLC.
References[edit]
- Underground HipHop interviews Detroit's Own JP One for a Q&A interview
- Exclusive Premier -- Premier: JP ONE ft Boldy James -- City Under Siege
- JP One talks about his beef with Big Gov, Detroit, and his new project
- Detroit's JP ONE Shreds The Trap & Thug Music. Tags: "Biggie wasn't just a Gangsta Rapper he made 'Juicy'"
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- ↑ "Chosen 1 Jackpot". 2016-12-09. Retrieved 2021-04-20.
- ↑ officialdon (2015-07-31). "The Source |Listen To JP ONE's New EP "Fire & Brimstone 2"". The Source. Retrieved 2021-04-20.
- ↑ "JP ONE -- "Fire & Brimstone 3"". undergroundhiphopblog.com. Retrieved 2021-04-20. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "Real Motown Music by Nep Jennings & JP ONE". album.link. Retrieved 2021-04-20. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "JP ONE's Atonement". album.link. Retrieved 2021-04-20. Unknown parameter
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