* Years of navigating through fields of sheep, chameleons and living sponges has made Jak Progresso an artist of unbendable resolve and power. A talent that goes well beyond rap (his freestyles have always amazed top notch MCs and peers), Jak has almost too much passion, as evidenced in his younger days when he made 2 or 3 albums a week and then left the CD copies in random mailboxes as a prank.
Style? If Slick Rick met Gravediggaz and hit that leaky blunt by accident, then you might get a comparison.His body of work is scattered on legendary albums, his lyrics turn whole towns into Jak zombies and his live show leaves you wondering if the mirror shows his reflection. Yet, vision drives Progresso to the limit of collective knowledge into territory undefined as art yet. He’s also an excellent babysitter. .
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* Jak Progresso has appeared on numerous albums and records like Lodecks Dream Dentistry(Day By Day) Omega 1's single Still Cambodia (Nature Sounds), Johnny 23 presents Old Trolls New Bridge with Vast Aire, Breez Evah Flowing, Alaska (Hangar 18), Cryptic 1 (Atoms Family), and Lodeck. He has also released many of his own mixtapes circulating throughout the underground, the House That Jak Built, Melodies For Children, Return to the House j23/horrorgraphix prod., Dump Sites, and many more which are considered cult favorites in the New York and European Underground scene. A wild trip through the mind of a comedian turned serial sociopath and psychopath.
* Question: which of these three statements about JAKPROGRESSO is considered fact?
1) JAKPROGRESSO was birthed from a bi-polar Petri dish containing tissue samples of Albert Fish's cerebellum, an insect-parasitic nematode—Mermithida, to be specific—and a torn piece of handmade parchment inscribed with "unsigned."
2) JAKPROGRESSO resides on the fourteenth floor of an abandoned mannequin factory in Katonah, New York, where he divides his time between performing intense Romanian powerlifting routines with disassembled nautical machinery and crocheting neon-colored shawls for local elderly women.
3) JAKPROGRESSO is a dope emcee, producer and multi-faceted visual artist, and through his exploration of these creative mediums, allows us inside the asbestos-leaking boiler room of his brain—a place where convention is non-existent, and genius bleeds out vibrant, violent red.
Answer: all three are true. And then some.
As official war commander and master-alchemist of The Witch King Occult, JAKPROGRESSO has garnered acclaim from critics and been the subject of worship by fans (ranging from cannibal pygmies to vegan trapeze artists with a fervor for gardening) for a style best described as guttural, skin-melting, World World II bunker rap. Despite numerous "extended vacation stays" at hospital isolation wards and outpatient drug rehabilitation centers over the last decade, JAK has amassed a discography of full-length releases (Melodies for Children, Random Violence, Resin: The Lost Sessions E.P., Demon Rum, Occult Seminar, Dump Sites: The Unfound Dead Body Tapes, Pestilence) and guest appearances (LoDeck, Ide, Despot, Unusual Suspects, Bloodline) that has cemented his status as Hip Hop's only Legendbeast—all without any mainstream exposure and distribution.
Whether it be music, film (the soon-to-be-released autobiographical, Crystal Prince Memoirs), or his most recent venture—ink-based drawings and paintings depicting a blood-junk jungle of decaying inhabitants from the world Gullet (think Steadman after intense electroconvulsive therapy treatments)—JAKPROGRESSO's work continues to abduct every mind exposed.
And that's exactly the way he prefers it.
P.S. -- JAKPROGRESSO is now accepting bookings for Macabre-themed sock puppet performances and taxidermy certification workshops. Contact him via your small intestine. He's in there somewhere.
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