INSTITUTION RESEARCH

HOW LONG THEY'VE BEEN AN ARTIST FOR?Research in to artist/song/video

• Full name Darryl Kent Jones, he is an american artist his genre speciality is Hip hop.

• His debut single is ‘Don't mind’ which reached number 8 on billboard hot 100.

• The single contains lyrics that include French Spanish and Japanese

• His first ever mixtape ‘Tours’ was released in the summer 2015

• Daryl Jones born in Tallahassee florida, first began getting in to music at his local church. Then his interest turned jazz, which then lead to Hip-hop.

• Kent Jones first worked with record producers and songwriters Cool & Dre which resulted in a record signing from Epidemic Records in which he collaborated with artists such as Queen Latifa. He was then introduced to DJ Khaled in 2015, who then also signed him to a joint venture record deal to his own label ‘We the best

music group & Epic records’

Cool & Dre

Queen Latifa

• The singer, who stresses he has "just one lady" in real life, says the song was inspired by his adopted home of Miami, Florida.

• "I was just in the studio making music and it came out”

• He went from being inspired to creating a whole song

• The song used the lyrics ‘Telling me this’ form the song ‘Practise what you preach’ by Barry White

BACKGROUND INFOReason behind the song, how was it created?

When creating the song there was large collabortion of artists to help this included:Kent Jones, Marcello Valenzo, Andre Lyon, DJ Khaled, Gerald Lever, Edwin Nicholas and inspired by Barry White, wrote the track lyrics in collaboration. But the song itself was

produced by Jones, Cool & Dre and Khaled.

Marcello Valenzo Adre Lyon

DJ Khaled

Gerald Lever

Kent Jones

SONG DISTRIBUTIONThe songs acompanying music video premiered on march 10, 2016, on Kent Jones Youtube

account. It features an appearance from DJ Khaled. The song is also available on Apple music, spotify and album is available to buy in most shops.

It’s a every radio station in the tri-county area. Everywhere in the country right now! It’s playing everywhere in the country right now. So it’s

just a blessing. We give thanks. The first mixtape has a hit record on it.

How are audiences hearing the song?