JamOne Interview

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1.  How old are you?

Freshly 21 as of august

2.  Where are you from?

Chicago born and raised

3.  How long have you've been Beatboxing for?

3 years now

4.  When and how did you first become interested in Beatboxing?

I've been into the Chicago hiphop scene ever since I was a kid thanks to my uncle who used to B-Boy around town, so I was lucky enough to have an early impact on hiphop. I started off going to B-Boy battles and eventually to emcee shows and a few times I'd stay out late after a show in my early teens, and I'd see people kicking cyphers outside, and there would always be the typical "kick a beat" kinda guy for them to rap to. I thought it was cool and such but never thought anything of it, till one day I'm watching FOX on tv, I'm watching 30 seconds to fame, and a beatboxer by the name of.. KENNY MUHUMMAD .. is on there, totally blew my mind away with the insane technical patterns and sounds he was making, I went from seeing a small piece of the pie to the whole thing once I seen him, so I decided to learn everything I can and try myself at this thing called Beatboxing!

5.  What type of equipment do you have?

In general I have 2 computers, 2 turntables, mixer, amp, speakers, Shure SM-57 Mic, a few other crappy mics, looking to get a studio mic soon

6.  What are your musical influences?

Mostly underground hiphop, mainly chicago stuff, lots of friends, my cousin who is a guitarist, Chicago style house music, jazz, old funk and breaks (I'm a B-Boy at heart even though I can't dance haha)

7.  How do you feel about the Beatboxing Movement?

Its definitely on the rise at an incredible rate, in Chicago last year there were only a handful of us who did this on an upper level, now each of us have started mentoring a few people and they are getting sick and its spreading

8.  Does anyone else in your family beatbox?

I'm trying to teach my 8 year old sister, she can do some basics but the real test will be teaching her some harder snares and patterns
 

9.  Who is your favorite Beatboxer?

Wow that's a hard one to say, I'd say a mixture of Kenny Muhummad, Killa Kela, Generik, Vocal Wax, Yasson, Yuri Lane, Lianheart, and my girl Faze 89.

10.  What are your future Beatboxing Goals?

Pretty much to push myself to the limits and try to redefine my body purely into a music machine

11.  Is there anyone you would love to work with?

Yuri Lane, The Vowel Movement, Generik and Potterywheel Productions

12.  Why did you go into this field? Is Beatboxing a passion for you?

You tell me, I can't go 5 minutes without making some sort of sound! its as natural to me as breathing, if I'm not beatboxing even in my head I go crazy

13.  Describe what Beatbox means to you?

You've got this rhythm inside you, that's begging to come out, in one way shape or form, and you just have a yerning to get it out and shout it out around the world, this is something unique, something wild, something just insane, and I find myself to fit right in it

14.  Where did your name (Jam One) come from?

J.A.M are my initials, and the obligatory number, rok, ski or oner.. jam rok was bleh, jam ski haha no, jam oner no.. jam 9, no.. Jam One.. I liked, so there it goes

15.  What's the best Beatboxing memory that you have?

Freestyling with DJ Q-bert, Showing off some stuff for Slug (atmosphere), Performing at the Van's Warped Tour 3 years in a row (and counting!), Freestyling with Mr. Dibbs (1200 hobos), freestyling and battling Adeem at the Hot House(glue), so many to mention I love them all
 

16.  What other stuff (beside beatboxing) are you involved in?

I'm a turntablist, mainly into skratching and juggling, photography, video work, graphic arts, hitting up every show I can and such.
 

17.  What the best collaboration you've done with Beatboxing?

Past and future DJ Q-bert projects coming soon, both live and recorded tracks with my active band THE CANKLES (dot com), Mr. Dibbs @ Code of the Cutz in Michigan, UIC showcase with my man Ill Noize, and live beatbox / skratch showcases with DJ Once-A-Month
 

18.  Any Shout-Outs?

wow where do I begin, of course Kid Lucky and the whole beatboxing.com team, my good man Generik and Potterywheel Productions from San Diego, my home town support of friends such as PoR, Jose S., TNA crew, Chapped Lipz Crew, all the Galapagos 4 heads, Killa Kela and Duncan for being so cool with me during the chicago visit, Mz. Elementz for being by my side through thick and thin during my last summer full of ups and downs, Hopey from australia, Vocal Wax, Each, Trish, GLUE, Muff 7, Tom of myspace for letting me and my crew rock it out at the myspace party tour, Jamie of Code of the Cutz, Daisy for being there for me and keeping me motivated to do everything I can and want, Faze 89, Local Kats, Quadraphonics, TeCk-nological Productions, and so many more