Jay Sean Talking About His Love For Hip-Hop Says, “It Got Me Into Writing, Mimicking Raps & Beatboxing” (Pic credit – Jay Sean/ Instagram )
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Indian origin British singer Jay Sean, born Kamaljit Singh Jhooti, is a singer-songwriter known for songs like Down, Do You Remember and 2012 (It Ain’t the End), recently opened up about hi slove for Hip-Hop music and more. Read about it below.
Sean revealed that he was fascinated with hip-hop from an early age and recalls being obsessed with the genre from when he was 10 or 11.
Jay Sean said, while on JioSaavn Podcasts’ Talking Music, “My avenue into music was actually MTV. In England we only had four channels. When cable came about, we suddenly got access to American networks, which is how I started listening to a lot of American music, especially rap music,” he said.
Jay Sean added, “There was a show called ‘Yo MTV Raps’, I used to watch that religiously. That’s how I got my knowledge of hip-hop, so a lot of that hip-hop which came from America was never played in England, and so I was fascinated with hip-hop from the very early age, from about 10 or 11, I was obsessed with hip-hop, which is then what got me into writing raps, mimicking raps, beatboxing.”
His single ‘Down’ put him on the global map, scaling number one on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 2009. Talking about he said, “Apart from the desis, apart from the NRI community, a majority of America hadn’t heard of me as Jay Sean. So ‘Down’ was the first song they ever got and it was straight to no.1 and I remember going back home saying that ‘hey man I didn’t even think how I was gonna get a chance to even make a small dent in America.”
He recalled, “You know it’s so hard out here. Underneath me there was Rihanna, Kanye West, Jay Z, Taylor Swift, Miley Cyrus, and there’s this little Indian voice staying right there. It was an amazing, amazing moment.”
Jay Sean is also known for hits like “Eyes on you”, “Stolen” and “Dance with you”.
