Jacksun.

When I was 15 years-old I began writing hip-hop music in the basement of my Minnesota home. The original songs were mostly "joke raps" about friends, but when I quit basketball later that year and opened up some more free time, I started to take the craft a bit more seriously.

I began under the pen name "J-Yak" and wrote and recorded 9 different mixtapes between 2010 and 2014. In the summer of 2014, I wrote the last of my albums under that name, with a project called "Valleys." Then launched Jacksun.

Jacksun. became the stage name that I've been using ever since my senior year of college. The bulk of my music from this era, prior to Fargone EP (in 2020), can be found on SoundCloud. In December 2019, I left my highly intensive job and vowed to stop separating the music self from the professional self. I also committed to getting back to making more music as a whole, and investing more time and resources into it (hence the Spotify page for my music now!). I hope you enjoy. If you do, reach out to me on Twitter or Instagram. I'm based out of Fargo, North Dakota, but Minneapolis, MN is still home.