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Asian Battle extraordinaire JIN Gives Up The MIC For Good!

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Rapper Jin has revealed that he is throwing the towel in on his rap career and is putting his job as an emcee on hold, while he explores other options.

The fate of the rapper’s record deal was the subject of rumors over the past month and while the label never officially dropped the rapper there was no need, as he announced today that he is calling it quits.

“No more studio for me,” Jin said. “Them 2F2F (The “Too Fast, Too Furious” movie which Jin had a major role) checks weren't too bad and going to movie premieres was pretty fun. Maybe I should seriously devote myself to an acting career. The opportunities are definitely there.”

Jin hit big with the novelty song “Learn Chinese” in 2003, but Ruff Ryders failed to capitalize on the single’s success. After several delays, his debut The Rest is History finally saw the light of day, but suffered due to lack of promotion, despite production from Swizz Beats and appearances from Kanye West, Wyclef and double R crew member Styles P.

“Maybe what needs to be focused on is what I have accomplished (which in my heart is a whole lot and I'm damn proud of that) with my time as opposed to what I haven't accomplished yet," Jin stated. "For what it's worth, I know that the 100,000 (give or take, since some of you went and bought like 5 copies) of ya'll that went out and bought T.R.I.H. did it solely because you were supporters of me and my music…and not because the radio or TV brainwashed you into thinking I'm the hottest sh*t out there, being that I was barely on either one.”

Jin signed a deal with Ruff Ryders Records, after consecutively winning BET’s popular Freestyle Friday competitions on the countdown show 106 & Park.

The rapper recently released a song explaining his decision titled “I Quit.”


U CAN EVEN LISTEN TO THE TRACK ON HERE ---> Rapper Jin calls it quits
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Wow, thats a quick one hey.Pity though.I think he still has major potential.He just needs to take some time out and find a good situation.I'm sure its gonna pan out for him eventually.He may face a canibus situation of straying on the underground for a long while.Hope he isnt gonna be acting all embittered though. :lol: Nah, I'm sure he wont.
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He may face a canibus situation of straying on the underground for a long while.


Wow! Canibus. Something about him straying and The Ring parts 1 and 2 have something similar I can't quite put my finger on.


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I think he's smart coz its really tough out there...and most of us ain't learning no chinese...i'd rather watch chinese films dubbed over in english...or with english subtitles these days...i reckon he weighed his options well and made the right choice....

Life's funny like that and all the best to him 8) looking forward to seeing more of him on the big screen
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PLZ :roll:  Aint NO way In Bush's brown and dying US is Jin gonna get a serious carrer in acting.... 1stly.. He CANNOT act, I saw 2fast 2furious...... I dont even remember seeing him... quite possibly a good thing considering the quality of the film.
2ndly........ even if he does manage to get more movie work, he aint neva gonna do better than Ja Rule or DMX, both who were hell ofa  lot bigger stars when they went on screen, but they never get more than "stand around look thugged out" roles.
Mosdef and Ice Cube (technically I dont think of Will Smith as a rapper anymore) are really the only rappers who can demonstrate any serious acting chops....2Pac wasn't bad tho... oh yeah and LL is good for a solid actioner.

On a related issue, I aint suprised by the thunderous downturn in Jin's career, he was neva gonna be more than a novelty.. he was the short NYC gook who can freestyle... he neva got a chance to really prove himself by messin in studios away from the mainstream, in order to develop himself as an artist, He just got darted, crated and put on display for the public, like any other zoo animal.
Now that the US has has enuff.. "Look a lil oriental boy who can rap like a large black man 8O !!!" Cos face it, ya there are quite a few hot Asian American emcees doin unnerground ish, mainstream US media still thinks rap is the product of ghetto-ified black folk, when we all know mainstream hip hop has been based in the boardrooms of corporate America for at least the last 12 years.
Jin just outlived his usefulness, he was too naive in a**uming the industry had a vested interst in him and would have his back... He shud have been watching his own back, poor lad.... lets move on, maybe he'll go back to the drawing board and come back with sum substance.
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quite a rant from jin...

he says nothing gets him excited any more,,, apart from the common album.

golden child was about to charge R2,000 for that beat.

i like the way he says "f*** it, even fabolous is a MC" at the end =)

i saw jin on some english/indian bhangra beat,,, his career is all over the place...

...still, i wouldn't mind selling 100,000 albums.


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Golden Child Dplanet?Who u referring to about that R2000 beat?

I agree with Syn that they should maybe gotten him on a bunch of mixtapes and all and just done some crazy promotion with him.But hey, one thing he can say is he got a nice banger from Kanye.And he got to work with Swizz.So u know its on.
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i'd rather watch chinese films dubbed over in english...


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