The Eminem influence shows in Jez’s work, but it’s definitely not front and center. I mean, my dad influenced my life in many ways, but first hearing Eminem and relating to his lyrics is what made me fall in love with hip-hop.”
I went back and listened to his whole discography, and that’s when I fell in love with hip-hop. “It was around the same time that my dad left that I heard Eminem for the first time, which is actually kind of late- The Eminem Show was the first hip-hop album that I heard. It took one massive rap artist to light Jez’s fire: “I didn’t have any passion for doing until I heard Eminem,” he says. Growing up, I was constantly listening to the Stones or Oasis or the shit that my mom and dad were listening to.” “My dad definitely influenced me, musically, but it wasn’t until I was 12 years old that I really fell in love with hip-hop. After we did that, he and I knew we had something together creatively.”īut what turned the son of a punk-rocker into the next big thing in hip-hop? Although Jez was surrounded by the sights and sounds of his father’s rock lifestyle from an early age, the attendant tunes didn’t exactly thrill him.
That song sort of unlocked something for us it set everything off for us in creating the rest of my album. “Another reason why ‘Sober’ is so special for me is it’s one of the first songs that I wrote with this dude, Chris Wallace, that I work with pretty much every day now. Thankfully, the song also represents a turning point for Jez’s musicality and the start of a fruitful artist-producer relationship. It’s really about my struggle with that, to be completely honest.” I was going out every night, meeting new people and sort of having to pick my friend group out here. The first year that I lived here, I had tons of problems just trying to stay sober, literally. “I’m from Southern California, but moving into Hollywood was just a whirlwind for me. “‘Sober’ is about the first year that I moved to Hollywood,” says the 25-year-old.
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