Featured Artist: Johh

OMM Johh (pronounced as Joe), which is the only artist on the team, started this music journey in the early 90’s with his twin brother and childhood friend. The group was named Young n Heartless: Chrome Capone (Getti), Flip the Hollowtip (Baby Slimm), and Blaqsteel (Johh).

It started from recording shitty demos on a double tape deck layered over most of Top Authority’s Something to Blaze To album. To crafting underground tracks in any studio they could find themselves in. Big Bodies, which was a hometown anthem in the 90’s in Biloxi, MS, almost landing the twins on that song but both brothers had warrants were sent to prison.

Eventually, Johh (Blaq Steel) would get his chance to craft a solo album named The World is a Customer with the label Big Sipp Records in August of 2004. The album wasn’t a success so he pivoted to what he knew at the time: the streets. Of course, that landed him into prison again, but when he paroled on July 9, 2009 his mother passed on that same day.

Now, music is an act of creativity and a way to explain life using rhymes and crafted instrumentals. It is also the catalyst for change as he vows to honor his late mother and hope to inspire other felons who chose a route (the street), that didn’t quite pan out, to use those same street techniques and turn it into a legit business/storefront.