Professionally known by his stage name J57, is an American rapper and record producer. He began his music career doing underground freestyle battles in 1998 before he produced and record his first recordings with his crew in 2003. In 2012, he released two solo EPs titled 2057 and The Ports EP which did well to gain him grounds and further led him to being ranked #20 in AllHipHop’s list of “Top 50 in Underground Hip-Hop”. He is a member of the Brown Bag All-star’s, a group of emcees he joined while working at Fat Beats in 2004, as well as Jamo Gang, a hip-hop group which consists of Ras Kass and El Gant. J57 was also part of DJ Eclipse’s SIRIUS/XM Radio Show Rap is Outta Control.