J-Zone writes: “I took some time off from music (4 years to be exact), but recently returned to it and started working on some stuff for fun. thebeeshine.com caught me in my element (aka my basement studio) making a beat, fishing through black and white TV soundclips, playing drums and continuing down the road to [cont.]

It’s been a while since we’ve heard new material from J-Zone. In the above clip, DJ Sheep previews new tracks from the upcoming new 7″ single. For more info, stay tuned to http://www.facebook.com/fresheep.

J-Zone speaks with Complex about his new autobiography, Root For The Villain: Rap, Bullshit, and a Celebration of Failure, which is available now.

We miss J-Zone beats: Has-Lo’s new project Conversation B is officially in-stores everywhere today on CD, Limited Edition Magenta Vinyl, and Digitally. The new album is a complete re-envisioning of his March debut In Case I Don’t Make It. To celebrate we’re giving away a free download of Has-Lo Light Years (J-Zone Remix). Light Years [cont.]

J-ZONE is a connoisseur of humbling reality checks, lesser-known rap albums from the early ‘90s, self-deprecation, and full-fledged lampoonery. His primary hobby is assailing our daily acts of bullshit. Throughout his decade and change in the music business, he’s worked with the likes of Gnarls Barkley, The Lonely Island, Biz Markie, E-40, and Prince Paul, [cont.]

Here is another one from the HipHopSite.Com promotional CD series. This dates back to 2004, given away free here on HHS with J’s A Job Ain’t Nothin’ But Work album pre-orders – only 1000 copies were pressed. J writes: After years of legend and fable, the GO-RILLA PIMP$ album I$ here! This album was recorded [cont.]

Fuck all this LOL, OMG, emoticon, all day text-a-thon shit. 25 cents, 4 minutes, straight to the point, no bullshit. J-Zone explores the beauty of communication via pay phone. J-Zone’s book, Root for the Villain: Rap, Bullshit, and a Celebration of Failure, coming Fall 2011. Superman didn’t text; he changed outfits in a phone booth. [cont.]

J-Zone has recently launched his new website, www.govillaingo.com, which is the launching spot for his upcoming book, Root For The Villain: Rap, Bullshit, And A Celebration Of Failure. J-Zone writes: I miss MySpace. It was a free website for people who didn’t want to build websites, and if you really knew how to cyber-pimp, it [cont.]

Ego Trip by-way-of J-Zone diggs (heh) up this vintage interview from New York public access TV of a pre-Wu-Tang era GZA, RZA, and Ol’ Dirty Bastard speaking on the “Word From The Genius” LP. ODB “I give it to you raw, you know?”

Taken from CunninLynguists’ newest CD, ‘Strange Journey Volume Two’. Produced by J-Zone // Directed by Kno & Matt Hobbs // Videography & Editing by Matt Hobbs for Vital Films. ©2010 APOS Music / QN5 Music. Credits — Alexandra Lee (Guard #1), Bill “Barefoot Bill” Pacer (Judge), Toiya Dean (Guard #2), Robert Anthony (Warden), Rickey Goldsmith [cont.]

   By now, we all know that J-Zone has a pretty ill sense of humor.  From album to album, J-Zone has lit up our lives with witty and offbeat tales about everything from masturbating to sexing up underage girls. But even aside from his undeniable sense of humor lies a certain penchant for creating these [cont.]

What in the hell made you two hook up for this Boss Hog Barbarians album? Explain how you two cooked up the concept for this album. Celph: J-Zone and I have known each other since around ’99 and we’ve always been homeboys. We’ve been working on songs with each other for years now, some of [cont.]

    The third album. If you have gotten this far as an artist, it means that you have won over enough fans with your debut and debunked the so-called “sophomore jinx.” Now is the time to deliver. Many third albums have found artists in their “comfort zone,” thus delivering albums full of incredible music. Outkast [cont.]

Remix project; no rating given.       If you are J-Zone, critically acclaimed asshole of hip-hop, what do you do after you have released four solid albums and are taking a year off before the fifth? Well, if you are J-Zone you sure the hell aren’t doing anything considered normal. Many would think that Zone would [cont.]

HHS: Didn’t you retire as a rapper a while back? Are you going to be like Too Short and keep coming back to the game? J-Zone: Yeah, I retired in 2001 after Pimps Don’t Pay Taxes. I wanted to stick to production, but the beat selling game ain’t shit nowadays unless you got major label [cont.]

    Music Tu Madre, Bottle of Whoop Ass, Pimps Don’t Pay Taxes, Sick of Being Rich, and now A Job Ain’t Nuthin But Work, have more than given purpose to J-Zone’s lengthy stay in the independent hip hop game. These releases have also proven another thing, Zone is one ignorant dude. Whether you want to look at [cont.]

With his debut, Music For Tu Madre, J-Zone conducted interviews with various New Yorkers asking them, “where do you see hip-hop in five years”. Their answers were bleak, pretty much delivering a dark forecast for the future of hip-hop. J-Zone himself was a struggling backpack rapper doing his best to save hip-hop from self-destruction, and ironically, [cont.]

On the heels of two-critically acclaimed EP’s Music Tu Madre, and A Bottle Of Whup Ass, J-Zone’s first  full-length release, Pimps Don’t Pay Taxes, is a more maturated continuation of the brazen lyricism, and off-kilter samples Zone supplied on previous endeavors.  While Pimps Don’t Pay Taxes is almost like an interview in itself, J-Zone was gracious [cont.]

Following the success of two critically acclaimed, backpack bestseller EP’s, J-Zone and his crew of Old Maid Billionaires look to make their names known in the world of hip-hop music with their official debut, Pimps Don’t Pay Taxes. Still sleeping on J-Zone and his crew? Time to play catch up – and while the name [cont.]

J-Zone came straight outta college with a surprising 1998 debut. Part of a senior project at a NY institute of higher learning, Music For Tu Madre introduced J-Zone as a superb beat architect with a penchant for grabbing his grandmoms in outrageous poses for album cover art. Grandmoms and the Queens based J-Zone return with [cont.]