Monday, November 2, 2009

JIn


Cantonese American rapper Jin was born on June 4th 1982 in Miami, Florida.

When Jin was 19 he and his family moved to Queens, New York. There Jin started to try to get his hip-hop career going. Jin entered as many freestyle competitions and selling his own mix-tapes.




in 2001 Jin entered BET's 106 and Park weekly freestyle competition Freestyle Fridays. Jin became that show reigning champion and in 2002 Jin was placed in there Freestyle hall of fame.

Being on 106 and Park lead to Jin getting a record deal with the Ruff Ryders record label (then a part of Virgin records) in 2002 under the name MC Jin, this made Jin the first Asian-Americans to sign to a major record label in the states.

In 2003 Jin released his first single "Learn Chinese" The video for the song was the first music video to be played on MTV Chi. That year Jin also appeared in the film 2 fast 2 furious. Jin also lost a friend, Christopher Louie aka LS, to gang violence that year due to a beef he had with a wannabe rapper that was involved with a gang called the Ghost Shadows.

also in 2003 Jin was the focus of a documentary Jin: Making of a Rap Star.

in 2004 Jin released his debut studio album The Rest is History.

In 2005 Jin publicly stated that he was quiting rap and even released the song I Quit in May of that year. But his retirement didn't last that long because later that year Jin signed with indy label CraftyPlugz/Draft Records under tbe new alias The Emcee. Jin was the first artist to sign up with CrafyPlugz. That October Jin released his 2nd album Jin Presents: The Emcee's Properganda.

With CraftyPlugz/Draft Records Jin released the mixtape 100 grand Jin in 2006 and the albums I promise (release in 2006 as an internet only album but released as cd in 2007) and ABC in 2007.


In 2007 Jin released a song on my space called "Open Letter to Obama" and because he was such an earlier support of the man who is now are president Jin was the first person on Obama's myspace page's top 8 list and he also released a song in honor of the victims of the Virginia Tech massacre titled rain rain go away.

also 2007 Jin was featured in another documentary called No Sleep til Shanghai. Which was not just about Jin but the growing popularity of hip-hop in Asia.

In 2008 Jin signed to Universal Music Group Hong Kong and was part of there "8-Figures on 2008 Newcomers" campaign along with 8 other artist. With Universal he released his album ABC and in 2009 he released the mixtape Free Rap Mixtape.

Sunday, June 28, 2009

John Cho


John Cho is a Korean American Actor.

John Cho was born June 16th 1972 in Seoul, South Korea.

around the age of 6 John and the Cho family moved to LA.

John Cho started out as a print model and appeared in a number of Korean magazines.



after John Cho graduated from the University of California he joined an Asian American acting theater origination, East West Players. at this time John Cho's day job was being an English teacher at Pacific Hills School.





John Cho's filmed acting career started like most other actors, working small roles in a number movies and tv shows such as tomorrow never dies, charmed, bowfinger, Down to earth as well a few others.


John Cho's small role in American Pie where the character he played introduced to term MILF into the American lexicon may be where John Cho first started to get noticed by people.

from American Pie he got a role on the short lived WB show Off Center.

in 2002 John Cho was inthe film Better Luck Tommorrow.


in 04 John Cho played Harold Lee in Harold and Kumar go to White Castle. This was the first stoner film to star Asian actors. John Cho reprised his role in Harold and Kumar Espape from Guantanamo Bay in 08.

John Cho appeared in the show Kitchen Confidential. John Cho was to be a regular on the show but his roles was reduced to only being a recurring guess star.

in 07 John Cho starred in the film West 32nd.

John Cho played Sulu in the updated Star Trek film and is one of the stars in the show Flash Forward.

Tuesday, May 12, 2009

Bruce Lee


Bruce Lee was born Bruce Jun-Fan Lee (but just called Jun-Fan by his family) on November 27 1940 in San Fransisco, CA but grew up in Hong Kong.

Bruce Lee's mother Grace Ho was a member of one of China's richest families he Ho Tungs and Bruce Lee's father was also an actor as well as Cantonese opera singer and was a pretty big star before and after WW II.


Bruce Lee started out as a child actor in a number of black and white short films.

as a teenager growing up Bruce Lee got into caught a bit of trouble, he was known to get into a number of fights and was even kicked out of one school (La Salle College) and had to go to another (St. Francis Xavier) where he got into boxing.

it was due to a fight Bruce Lee had around the age of 18 when Bruce Lee's parents sent him to live in America with his sister because they feared that one of the people Bruce Lee got into a fight with was a criminal that hired a hit out on Bruce Lee.



He only lived with his older sister for 7 months and then Bruce Lee moved to Settle where he finished high school and worked at restaurant owned by councilwoman Ruby Chow (and friend of Bruce Lee's parents)

after high school Bruce Lee attended University of Washington where he majored in philosophy (Bruce Lee also studied Drama) It was at college that Bruce Lee meet the women who would be his wife, Linda Emery

Bruce Lee would drop out of college with only a year left to go and work with martial artist James Yimm Lee. The two them would found schools based on a style of Martial arts Bruce Lee Created called Jan Fun Gung Fu.

Bruce Lee would make his Hollywood break when he was seen by producer William Dozier who saw Bruce Lee in the International Karate Championships wanted him for the role of Kato in the TV show Green Hornet.

in 1969 Bruce Lee appeared in his first American film Marlowe.

Bruce Lee pitched a show called the Warrior that he hoped to star but that didn't happened instead the show was renamed Kung Fu and they gave David Carradine the lead role of a Chinese monk because they thought America wouldn't accept an Asian lead.

Feed up with his treatment in Hollywood decided it was best to return to Hong Kong to futher his acting career. Bruce Lee teamed up with Director Raymond Chow for the film The Big Boss which was Bruce Lee's leading role.



the next year Bruce Lee will star in the film Fist of Fury and that same year Bruce Lee took full control of his acting career and write, directed, choregraphed and starred in the movie Way of the Dragon.

in 1973 Bruce Lee starred in the film Enter the Dragon, this movie was the first time Golden Harvest and Warner Brothers teamed up to make a move and was the film that is credit to starting the martial art's crazy of the 70's earlier 80's.

Enter the Dragan was Bruce Lee's last finished film. Bruce Lee died a few months later as he was finisihing up his movie Game of Death. The film was to be away for Bruce Lee to show the world his new fighting style Jeet Kune Do. the film may aslo be know for the battle scene with NBA star Kareem Adbul Jabbar.

The film was released in 1979 by Richarad Chow and Robert Clouse who took the unfinished film and mixed it with look a likes and footage of Bruce Lee in his other movies. They would even release a sequel in 1981 via the same metheads

until then unseen footage from Game of Death was used in the 1995 documentry Bruce Lee: A Warrior's Journy.

Bruce Lee has two childern that also went to acting Brandon Lee (who also died while he was making a movie) and Shannon Lee.

Saturday, May 9, 2009

azn links

Links are what link us together.

so I decided to make a little space for some here. so we can get connected

cool right