Jay Spaulding is inspired by Chicago's Notorious West Side, Humboldt Park. I was born & raised in a war zone. This area was infested with violence, drugs & gangs. Chicago in the late 80's & all through the 90's was basically hell on earth. I overcame all these obstacles and stood to my neighborhood's name. I kept a Humboldt Mind all thru Grammar School & High School but wasn't strange to all the activities going on around me, I was blessed with a pass on both sides since rival hood wars were always going on. The people saw my vision and knew I needed to stay focused on music, videography & photography .....

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Native Chicagoan J. Ivy is a Peabody, Clio, and Image Award Winning Performance Poet, Artist, Musician, Author, Voice-Over Talent, Motivational Speaker, and Actor. His own-authored motto is, “Dreams Don't Come True, They Are True.” That mindset and his patented breath taking performances have led him to appearances on HBO’s Russell Simmons’ Def Poetry (3 Seasons), NBC’s Sunday Night Football (2 Seasons), ESPN’s National Spelling Bee, B.E.T.’s Ali: The People’s Champ, and more, to musical creations with The RZA, Estelle, Slum Village, BJ the Chicago Kid, Bun B, Ski Beatz, Sean C & LV, Miri Ben-Ari, and John Legend. He has shared stages with everyone from Prince to Steve Harvey to Doug E. Fresh to Sia to Dave Chappelle to Jim Carrey to many more. 

J. Ivy is widely known for being the Poet who masterfully delivered one of the most poignant verses in the history of Hip-Hop on Kanye West’s Grammy Winning Album The College Dropout. For more than a decade, the conviction, creativity, and passion that J. Ivy performed with on the classic song “Never Let Me Down,” which also features Hip-Hop Icon Jay-Z, has been held up as one of the greatest verses in the history of Hip-Hop by music lovers all over the world.  

J. Ivy, the man who gave Oscar & Grammy Award-Winning singer-songwriter John Stephens the name John Legend, has MC’d and performed poetry for conferences hosted by Deepak Chopra. In 2015 he penned poetry that he performed for NBA Hall of Famer Michael Jordan during All-Star Weekend in New York. And as a follow up to his latest works "Dear Father: Breaking the Cycle of Pain," a book which was published January 2015 by Beyond Words Publishing, an imprint of Atria Books & Simon and Schuster, J. Ivy is set to release the Dear Father Audio Book and album (“My Daddy’s Records: Songs from Dear Father”) Spring 2016.

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