Q: How did you end up using “Jayy Reall” as your stage name?
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My dad was the first person to call me “Jayy Reall” when I was way younger, like a little kid. The name didn’t come back into my life until high school. Shout out to my friends Hunter and Ciara; they were the first people in my school to call me Jayy Reall. That was my nickname. So then I started making music and I’m like, “man what am I gonna call myself?” My friend was like, “why don’t you just call yourself Jayy Reall?”. I went with it for a minute and I guess it’s stuck since.
Q: What’s a misconception about creatives that bothers you the most?
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That we don’t really be busy. A lot of girls used to piss me off like “Oh you don’t really be busy, you don’t be doing stuff all the time!” Not only do I rap; I produce, make videos and do photography. I’m even working on some fashion right now. There’s a lot of stuff people don’t know. I try to spend a lot of my time locked in. I learned that from [a friend]. People really think we don’t put in work nut I really be focused.
Q: When did you realize a typical 9-5 job wasn’t your path?
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I wanna say my freshman year of college. I always felt pressure because my mom has a PhD in Psychology. So my whole family’s like, “Oh you gotta follow your mom”. So I always focused on school and getting a degree. Then my first year of college a lot of things didn’t go as planned. It just kinda opened my eyes to the real world and see how things are. Plus a lot of people were supporting my musical crafts more so to treat it like a professional. I was always making music in high school, but I never thought my life could change off of it.
Q: Who was the first person/people you shared your talent with?
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Music wise I wanna say my two friends Jared and Justin. Back then in high school we had a Kik message and we used to rap in them. But my friends noticed I was for real about it. So they introduced me to these other people that I’m friends with to this day. Basically they kinda just threw me in this group and said, “Rap!” That was one of my first times when I would say somebody looked at me in a more serious artist note. Jared and Justin are the two people that encouraged me to take myself serious as an artist. Without them I would have never stepped into the studio.
Q: What do you want people to know and understand about both you and your craft?
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It’s as real as it gets. I’m pretty genuine. Everything about me is just pure. It’s just me. I can’t really make anything artificial for people. I can’t make anything that I feel like is not me. I feel like words mean a lot more when I can listen to an artist and know that they mean their words. That’s what I want people to take away when they listen to my music — it’s an experience. Most of my music from when I first started is still up; you can hear that I’m progressing. Not at the rate I wish I was, but still.
Q: Would you like to plug any new content we should be looking out for?
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Oh most definitely! You can expect some more music soon. June is gonna be like an overload of music I can’t even tell you how much. I’ve just been waiting for the right time and it’s starting to seem like the right time. Photography, I’m trying to get this website popping soon but if you wanna check out my work you can go to my Instagram [@jarelamari]. Videography you can follow me on YouTube [Jayy Reall].
Big shout out to JAYY REALL for interviewing with Nefarious Supply you should definitely check out his music which can be found on SoundCloud and to stay up to date you can find him on Instagram here. To stay up to date with content coming out of Nefarious Supply you can follow us on Instagram, Apple News, as well as Twitter, like our Facebook Page, and to hear new music constantly from underground and emerging artists be sure to subscribe to our YouTube channel.
