Anything he liked, I liked, because that’s what you got. Anything he heard he liked, he would usually buy it, and if he couldn’t, he’d record it off radio onto tape. music, we had So Solid, Oxide & Neutrino, it was a mix of things. So a lot of Missy Elliott CDs, stuff like that. I remember him buying a lot of things produced by Timbaland. He was the one that was really on with it. He was the one– he would go out and buy CDs early, record songs off radio onto tape. We’re all into music now, but it started from him, to be honest. My older brother would collect CDs and play them all day. I have four siblings, so there’s five of us altogether. and made waves across the states.Over the phone from his studio in North London, Jae5 chatted with us about the learning process that came with executive producing J Hus’s debut album, Common Sense, how being sent to Ghana for three years to “learn discipline” changed his life, and how dubstep plays a surprisingly large role in inspiring and influencing his heavily afrobeats-based sound.Not from my parents, but my older brother, so it was literally garage, hip-hop, and house music 24/7. “It stopped being a job and more of something fun.” Since first meeting almost three years ago through Hus’s DJ, the two have been unstoppable - most recently, the duo’s summer-summoning, Afrobeats-based smash “Did You See” has taken over the U.K. “I think that’s what kind of what has kept us ,” he said. rapper and new FADER cover star J Hus, he seems to have found his similarly multi-musical match. This is why after 24 years on Earth, his sound is the perfect synthesis of his past - an upbringing that swirled hiplife, hip-hop, house, dubstep, bashment, Afrobeats into one pot (including the ballads of Celine Dion). The producer talks his pre-teen disciplinary period in Ghana, finding professional footing in London’s APE Media program, and working with J Hus.Jonathan Mensah, better known as producer Jae5, lives life ears first.

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