How did you first hear about Jin?

[blazindragon]

back in the day on the station 99jamz they used to have people call up on the phone and battle live on air.some people were horrible.then i heard him spit....i started to hear a buzz about some chinese kid that rapped...then i see him on 106....found out that my cousins went to high school with him.i think what he had done and is doing for asians is great spread the word....i think im the oldest jin fan in here 27.i will buy my first cd in 6 years on 10-19.

[Guy Scissorhands]

damn that was some time ago i was watching TV in L.A. one night and there was this freestyle friday commercial or something for a few seconds and they featured Jin " the chinese kid tha raps" lol... since then i was hooked...

[Michael Bolton]

he battled a kid who went to my high school on 106 and park..

[Toilet]

Got hooked when my cousin sent me a video of Jin rapping on 106 and park week 3 I was like yooo wtf hes yellow LOL, anyways ive got my cousin to record all the 106 and park freestyle shows from weeks 1 - 7 and from there on The Rest is History.

[Mr_Chopsticks]

The first time I saw him on 106 and Park...

[JiN Da EmCeE]

yup first i heard of JIN was @ 106 & Park

[dR_yAy0]

yeh i 1st caught him on 106 & park....i was like damn this kid is HOT..oh and he can flow too

[Maklo]

when I heard learn chinese lmao! just kiddin, saw him at 106 park

[Khmer Playa]

Azn Raps, and 106 and park, and thru his 98 demo (oh yea, sober thoughts. ect.)

Basically caught my attention the 1st couple of weeks when he smashed every single competitor like it was a practice drill for him. 106 and park, also lead me to Holla Front. That lil plug, jin would shout out when he wins a battle.

[Changy6933]

i heard about him like a few months after 106..

i typed in freestyle in kazaa and jinvshason 106 came up

i d/led it and got the rest of em...

after that i went on a d/l frenzy on jin

[Geeorge]

106, week 2

[KhmerBoi21]

my cuzin had a mix cd, and it had Jin's song Holla-Front and Eeny Meeny...

[Mista604]

i was watchin BET at a friends house and freestyle friday came on

[Chadalack]

this site.

[poon]

first time was my brothers friend send him a video of week 7...
then at the end he talked about holla-front.com

i checked it out...
and been here since

[BDaly]

hmm damn i dont even remember...but it has something to do with my sister's bf Hung, he has this CD wit Jin, Eminem, and some old Ruff Ryders songs

[Boys Co.]

gr6...friends were like theres some chinese guy that sounds like EMINEM on bet..and im like i gota see this and then ive been hooked?

[Chris Tha MC]

on 106...

[BoneThugAzn]

like probably eveyone else that knows of jin, i first heard him on his 1st week of freestyle friday, i was doing my homework and i was like yo, did they just say jin? and i heard him rap and i was like.. this kid is ill.. hooked since week one.

[-=SerG=-™]

I remember callin in to 99 Jamz to battle and I remember callin all my friends at school (high school at the time) to listen in, cause I was sure I was takin it..Then I spit, and then Lady Lyrik Spit...then boom JIN killed it..
It was the week he spit
"I'll even battle online, with one line, I'll blow you outta Windows 99"
or something like that...
BUt his verse was sick...Since I was the nigga holdin it down at my school and everyone heard me get beat, they was like, damn Serg who was that..
Then I dont remember how I actually met the nigga..but we met some how...

Anyways..yea, I heard him on the radio years ago..

And..."The Rest is History"...

OCT. 19th....

(shameless plug..lol)

-easy

[MzBebyDee]

people came up to me and was like..yooooo u heard that chinese kid on BET?? and i was like no coz i don't have cable. i didn't care at first. then this guy has a cd with all his freestyle battles and stuff and i listened to it and i was like wow...

[Summer Mornings]

I have my cuz to thank for this..he was like you need to check this chinese kid out..he was on Freestyle Friday killing it..so I searched online..and hollafront became my home lol..it was just madd wierd since he didn't know who 50 cent was but he knew who Jin was hahah

[YellaPerilGirl]

my brother would be online in yahoo chinese chat room while i was doing my homework; he had audio turned up real loud. ppl would be talking on the mic, singing, sometimes they played music. once they play something that caught my ear and i asked my bro who it was he said it was a clip from jin from freestyle friday. i said that name sounds chinese and my bro showed me a pic. my cousins in queens said he lived near them and the word was out that he was releasing a CD. that summer i hound the music store did jins cd come out yet every week; finally they would just roll their eyes when i came in, no jin aint out yet. one guy said and it aint coming out. haha. well that was a couple of years ago, it finally did.

[the return of smigg]

106 & park

[Frozen FlameZ]

AznRaps. Then, I stumbled on this site.

[King Jafi III]

i used to beat jin up for his lunch money


jk 106 and park like the 6th battle. fukk BET

[Version One]

106 and Park. my bro told me to check him out.

[Balut Boy]

kazaa



lol and

"The Rest is History"

[Zhuo Wei]

i coped source magazine, and was flickin through the pages when i saw this pic of a chinese dude. it was an artical on artist to look out for in 2004, and it was sayin bout learn chinese n shit. searched him on kazaa then stumbled on freestyle friday, which is how i found holla-front!

[hierohead]

106 and park

[jpinoy203]

some mixtapes i randomly found on kazaa//irc and when he battled hassan and hassan blew it rofl

[filokid04]

my cousin was like..
you heard there's a chinese guy on ruff ryders?.. and he's a mad freestyler and shit.. we dl'd the battles.. and it was funny crap.. and you know the rest

[aznboykillabeez]

sum random guy from some p2p downloading program asked me "you heard of jin"? .im like who the fuck?. He told me to check out jin and said hes the chinese eminem and then i checked his music out n 106 n came across this site and finally now can't wait 4 da album. The reason i frequented this site was they got free mp3 songs by jin like every week.Not that often anymor. Where else can you listen n watch good music/videos/battles/mixtapes besides hf.com... Jin i owe you at least 1 cd after providin all the free music . haha. He should be thankful cuz the only album i got this year is badboy mason betha album but im thinkin jin got alot of hot songs in the album so gotta get that shit.

[Barry]

who's jin?

[ChAn...]

my friend told me if i knew this azn rapper... i didnt knho him so then i went on kazaa and downloaded his music and ever since i hve been hooked.

[Mzrestless]

freestyle friday's thats how i found out about jin

[SzEcHaUn]

friend showed me his old site and then i forgot about him for a bit lol then a friend was talking about him so i searched for him on google and it led me to this site and i dled all the 106 park vids when they used to have all of that in the old layout of this site

[MDMA]

first saw him on 106 , then i started to download couple of his songs , and got "hooked".

and then i remmeberd him saying holla-front.com or something against hasan week 1 correct me if im wrong..but yeaaaaa thats why im here! haha

[Harry]

106 and park

[dragonfist]

mtv trl wannabees, learn chinese video. i was like wtf a chinese kid, then saw the video lol, then found this site on google and been here ever since then like 7 months later, decided to sign up. learn chineseeeee

[huyzer]

my brother had jin mp3 links in his profile so i asked him whats up with this guy?

listened to it and then checked out the 106 and park battles...

and you know


the rest is history.

[JiN Da EmCeE]

I WAS WONDERIN IF JIN NEVER MADE IT ON 106 & PARK DO YOU THINK HE STILL WOULD OF GOT A RECORD DEAL?

[[krayzi wun]]

my frend showd me his 106npark/ff clips
den i followed up by chekn aznraps
n saw the actual xxl article on the "golden child"... at the newsagency
n been followin up on da ruff ryder eva since of H-F...
thus...the rest is history 8)

[cHiNo8]

2 fast 2 furious....europe no bet...............

[Phame]

People were talking about this chinese rapper who was going to flop like ja rule.. I don't know the resemblence but oh well.. yeah I typed in his name and got my hooked on the videos.. played 1-7 weeks like 5 times that day..


True story

[technique™]

106 and park

[tsung]

i first heard it from my friend, whom told me about this chinese kid that spits mad verses in this "BET" freestyle friday thingie (there's no BET in the philippines, so, i was ignorant of that fact). then about a year later (2 years ago), i went on kazaa and downloaded jin's battles (106).. saw the battles and pissed in my pants.. ever since then, the rest is history!

[Young Boss]

he battled my brother.

[PranKstA]

saw him in Florida

[fiji]

the 7th week, 106 and pizzark.
saw it on internet, then searched all 7 weeks. still keeping in my pc.

[Niggorea]

why does this question pop up every 2 months?

[aZnBlaDe]

I'm ashamed to say...Learn Chinese.
Some idiots was playin the shit at school an someone said hes chinese...
And I neva heard an actually good chinese rapper so I looked up jin in kazaa an found hf eventually...

[Oregonian]

who's jin?

LMFAO. AZNRAPS.

[Prodigy]

my friend and i were talking about asian rappers like that dude that did got rice... and then he said do you know jin from ruff ryders, i'm like nope, so he said look him up on google, i did, and it come up with holla-front... the old site, and if i remember properly it was jin and landy on the front page giving us their middle fingers

[Gfresh]

i saw this clip on kazaa. Asian Kid on BET Freestyling.mpg (well sumthin like that) and downloaded it.. i think it had something holla-front.com on it.. so i went there

[CrumbBum]

Late african booty scratchers.

Emceebattles.com, word of mouth, against RK:

"Put lipstick on your forehead, make up your mind"

"What you think? I still beat him even though I spilled your drink"

2 years before 106 and park.

I know his father, Data from the Goonies.

[g1ang$tuh]

man, it was like about a year ago. found out about him while cruisin through tv. lol at the time i found the mtv music video channel. i leave it on while doing my homework and then a line goes "Y'ALL GONE LEARN CHINESE!" i was like wtf at first, then noticed that he had a music video, while i was like i was like "hey its that dude from 2fast 2furious! i didnt know that cat can rap!" after the music video i took a deeper look and i checked up on things about him. lol im ashamed to say it, but im sad to have known about jin so late. shouldve looked up on him earlier.

[KLEP ONE]

...GRAYS PAPAYAS...NUFF SAID.
REAL NYC HEADS WILL KNOW WHAT IM TALKING ABOUT.
:boo:

[Mist-One]

Back in the days at emceebattles.com and Aznraps.com.

[2real]

I saw Jin on 2fast 2furious and was like um... maybe he won't last, but then my friend had some mp3's of this kid so I was doing some research on him and found out more and more and became such a fan now i can't wait until his album comes out.

[braveheart_star]

in January 2003, my man who I went Football training with told me about him on the way to an away game. He said he was tremendous and to search kazaa for him. I instead did a google search and found Holla-Front (it was the yellow and green format)...lol and I heard gimmick and then listened to other songs and thought it was great...I then found the freestyle friday vids and played them every where I went...or atleast where a cpu was available! Since then been spreading the word at college and the whole of London and the United Kingdom all by myself...hard work but someones gotta do it!

[playboysdreamgr]

...GRAYS PAPAYAS...NUFF SAID.
REAL NYC HEADS WILL KNOW WHAT IM TALKING ABOUT.
:boo:
Gray's Papaya...man I miss those. Hey Klep lets go...lol

[-=SerG=-™]

...GRAYS PAPAYAS...NUFF SAID.
REAL NYC HEADS WILL KNOW WHAT IM TALKING ABOUT.
:boo:


Hot dogs...word, I heard them shits are off the chain...you met Jin there ?

[KLEP ONE]

Gray's Papaya...man I miss those. Hey Klep lets go...lol
LOL AIGHT..."GET THE CONSESSION SPECIAL, YEA YOU LESS THAN SPECIAL" LOL NAH J/P LETS GO ITS MAD CHEAP ANYWAYS AND I'M BALLIN ON A BUDGET!

Hot dogs...word, I heard them shits are off the chain...you met Jin there ?
YEP, RIGHT INFRONT OF GRAYS ON 8TH STREET AND 6TH AVE, NEXT TO FATBEATS. IT WAS LIKE 30 DEGREES OUTSIDE NO JOKE AND HE WAS OUT THERE SELLING HIS BATTLE CD, THATS THE FIRST TIME I WENT DOWN TO FATBEATS EVER, I HADN'T BEEN DOWN THERE BUT I HEARD ABOUT IT AND MY EX TOOK ME CUZ SHE KNEW WHERE IT WAS AT, SO WE HEAD DOWN THERE AND THERES ALWAYS DUDES OUTSIDE TRYING TO SELL THEIR DEMO'S AND MIXTAPES AND WHAT NOT OUT THERE AND TO NO AVAIL, MR. JINJERBREAD MAN WAS OUTSIDE THAT DAY, 30 DEGREE'S IN A SNORKEL AND TIMBS (THATS PROBABLY WHY HE LOOKED SO TALL THAT DAY LOL) SELLING HIS CD.

I FRONTED ON HIM AT FIRST AND WAS LIKE "NAH MAN I'M GOOD"...HE KEPT TRYING BUT I FRONTED AND LEFT, I GOT DOWN THE BLOCK AND RIGHT BEFORE I SWIPED MY METROCARD I STOPPED, TURNED BACK AND COPPED ONE FROM HIM AND ON MY WHOLE TRAIN RIDE BACK TO MY EX'S HOUSE I WAS BUGGIN OUT ON THE TRAIN CUZ DUDE WAS NAAAAAAAAASTY! I WAS IMPRESSED BUT I WAS ALREADY ON THE TRAIN SO I COULDN'T TURN BACK AROUND AND GO BACK I WAS ALREADY HALF WAY TO QUEENS.

SO TIME PASSES...I GET A CALL FROM MY COUSIN I LET HEAR HIS CD THAT HE'S ON 106 AND IM BUGGIN OUT, CUZ I JUST MET DUDE ABOUT A WEEK 2 WEEKS BEFORE IT SO OF COURSE I ALREADY KNOW HE'S GONNA TEAR THESE KIDS A NEW ASSHOLE OFF OF WHAT I HEARD ON MY CD. SO NEED LESS TO SAY I WAS ROOTING FOR HIM TO WIN ALL 7 WEEKS AND HE DID TO NO SURPRISE.

...LOL THE STORY DOESNT END THERE THO LOL, A COUPLE MONTHS PASS (8 OR 9 I WOULD SAY) I'M UP @ MY BOYS HOUSE, HE OWNS A STUDIO IN IT AND I ASKED "SO WHO BE UP HERE RECORDING WITH YOU" AND HE SAID JIN, I WAS LIKE SAY WORD...I KNOW THAT KID, SO WE MEET UP AGAIN @ A BATTLE HE WAS HOSTING AND GO BACK TO CHILL ON 176 AFTERWARDS AND CHILL, BUGGIN OUT INFRONT OF THE BUILDING EATING PASTELITOS AND WHAT NOT. JUST HAVIN A BLAST.

... AND LIKE THE NAME OF THE ALBUM...THE REST IS HISTORY.
:boo:

[-.monkichi.-]

On Much Music with Baby Yu in Toronto.. they said he was the first Asian Ruff Ryder.. so i looked him up on the net and found 106 & Park battles.. and I was amazed...

[ning]

heard bout jin when i was in hs. i was talkin to this other chinese dude and he told me there was this cat on freestyle friday and he was crazy. i was like whatever...aint no good asian rappers...and then i saw him flow...and the rest is history lol

[DMarc]

Like a true believer, I believed before seeing. I didn't have BET when Jin was blowing up, but all of my friends who were into hip-hop (of all races) were telling me about this kid Jin and how sick he was. I searched online for info and found one of his first websites... jinthamc.org or something. That site didn't have much so I looked some more and I found good ol' H-F. I learned more about him, got to conversate with some interesting people, and FINALLY I downloaded the battles and heard/saw him for myself. That was almost three years ago and I am proud to say that I'm still a Jinaholik.

The Fight Klub battles was like the icing on the cake. When The Rest is History comes out, it'll be the cherry on top.

[Niggorea]

grays papayas' hotdogs are 75cents now =[ lol

[Rank Refugee]

I think it was 3 years ago..my boyz was like..was talkin abt a sick asian emcee in freestyle friday. I didnt really care becuz i never watched freestyle friday. Afta watchin a couple of freestyle fridays, I jus downloaded tha jin battles.

[Jae Dave]

i was scanning through hip-hop sites as you do. then i came across Jin, i was like "i'm a check this dude" and i searched him on google.com found h-f and poof "the rest is history"

Serg...i hate you you beat me to it! :)

[Freddy]

Someone told me there was an asian guy rapping so of course i had to RIDE ON HIS NUTS.

[D-Shine]

:spam: on the back of a cookie crisp box

[Guy Scissorhands]

I know his father, Data from the Goonies.

lol thats not his dad jins dad is Joe Au Yeung not Johnatan Ke Huy Quan lol ill give u a marble for making me laugh though! :congrats:

[GuYaNa]

From gray's gurl :banana:

[awu]

like most of ya'll 106.
[EDIT] From gray's gurl :banana:
^just noticed post above me.. and LOL.. nice.

[AznSouja]

weeks after 106, on an mtv2 show and aznraps.com

[profecy]

I first heard of his my sophmore year in high school when a couple of my friends man did you hear that asian guy slaughter those guys in a freestyle. I was like a Asian guy what the hell so they told me to look up his stuff in kazaa than i found holla front than the rest is history

[Sir_Knightmare]

From one of my Asian brothers way in the back.

[coke1987]

I saw my friend's CD and force her to borrow me . I was interest about the song name "learn chinese " and i thought is was sang by a black . hahaha......... after that i go to internet and search his photo , then i know i was wrong ...hahaha

[Kat]

i first heard about him through aznraps.com. wayyyyy back lol. when he battled slydue or someshit...is that his name? o.O oh well jin is hot. :D

[ny914]

heard him on 106 & park..

[tsgrimey]

A friend from school told me about it. At first I didn't care, but then after I downloaded this 2nd battle, I was crackin up! After a while, I stopped listening to him. Then when he came out with an album, I started listening to him again.

[MrDontot]

like most people, a few kids in my middle school kept on saying, "yo, this chinese dude is killing 'em on 106 and park!" i ignored it, but when i tuned into 106 and park, jin had already been crowned champ (1 week late) i checked his battles online, and shit, he was fire. he made that song "hey jin" which i thought was cool, "asian girls", "holla front" and he disappeared. learn chinese came out, he disapeared again, TRIH dropped, and he disappeared again, my friend got me TRIH (around march 05), and ive been a fan ever since.

[Poony]

first time i heard about Jin was on "Video Hits" (music clip show) and they were about to play Learn Chinese and the presenter was like "...and at the age of 16, he was considered one of the illest lyricist" and i was picturing some black guy with a gangster rap. Then I see this chinese guy up on the screen delivering chicken wings to the RR guys or something (haven't seen the clip since October last year) and I thought "ohhh ok" and he starts rapping and I thought the lines were quite witty.
I hop on an Asian Australian community website and hear that he's visiting Melbourne in a week to do a show at a nightclub- shame i wasn't 18 :(

then i downloaded the 106 & Park battles and it's pretty much the same as everyone from this point - even got my friends interested in Jin

[Lambo]

106 & Park Freestyle

[AzN-and-Proud]

I was with a friend a school and he lends me his earphones, and I hear "Ya gon' learn chinese..."

I didnt like the music he had at first cuz I thought it was by someone black, making fun of chinese people.... Then he explained me everything... Later I checked Jin's battles.... ill

[ivanson86]

friedn told me about it, told me to look at kazaa. he was like telling me about all the battles, didnt know how he heard abot it since he lives in brisbane but eventually i somehow found aznraps.com and then went to holla front

[eXtra]

On bet, he gave a shout out to www.holla-front.net or was ir .cjb.net, cant remember but I liked him and checked him out even more on here, and of course signed up to the forums back in 02 I think, maybe 03, it was when I was in 7th grade

[MizTEcK]

anyone remember the "asian rapper on BET.avi" from kazza? hahah enough said :)

downloaded as joke though... it wus vsing sean nicolas, the ms cleo line got me chained forever

[dblock354rr]

Ruff RYders

[Gio]

Sister told me about an asian guy freestyling on BET so I just decided to check him out.

[Death_Dealer19]

My friend told me about his "Learn Chinese' video , so I checked it out

[Brand]

hmm lets see...I was basically channel surfing, and came across BET where I noticed this asian looking kid being interviewed. I remember seein fat joe giving big ups to this asian kid ripping cats on freestyle friday so I did some searches online and ended up on H-F.

[bboy916]

I was in a hip-hop forum and there was a video of jin battlin. it was the 7th week. I watched that shit and I was like damn, that fool got killed by Jin.

[NocKz]

106 and park..then battleemcee.com remember dat?

[krillic]

back in the day my sis was watching bet and was like omg u gotta check this asian mc out hes wrecking ppl... and then i became a fan just like that.

[randomguy]

frnds told me bout Freestyle Friday

[MikeZ]

Not that this is a bad thread, but damn...this thread started a year ago...who's treasure hunting?

[TwistedE140]

I 1st heard about Jin when he was on 106 and Park. But I started listening to him cuz I'm Asian and I wanted to support my Asian chigga and cuz I noticed that he can actually make serious songs along no just spit HOT Freestyles.

[BZ-B]

Jin? whose that..dunno, never heard of him... :lol: