This is song for everyone who needs a recharge. The load has been heavy. I wrote this song to remind myself to not overcomplicate things. Enjoy the beauty that is around you, and remember that it's okay to pause and have fun.

Back To The Basics single

Back To The Basics

Preview of my new beat tape Stay Right Here, releasing Friday September 3 on all streaming services. Also available on Bandcamp for download or purchase.

Stay Right Here Preview

Track 6 from the beat tape Stay Right Here. Features Earlybird on vocals.

Purchase at https://joncorbin.bandcamp.com/album/stay-right-here-a-jon-corbin-beat-tape

Stay Right Here (A Jon Corbin Beat Tape)

Heart Check Feat. Earlybird

Track 11 from the beat tape Stay Right Here. Features David Solimon on guitar and keys. 

Purchase at https://joncorbin.bandcamp.com/album/stay-right-here-a-jon-corbin-beat-tape

An Everpresent Help Feat. David Soliman

Track 5 from the beat tape Stay Right Here. Features Farnell Newton on trumpet. Tim Ball on bass. 

Purchase at https://joncorbin.bandcamp.com/album/stay-right-here-a-jon-corbin-beat-tape

A Temporary Stay feat. Farnell Newton

Track 2 from the beat tape Stay Right Here. 

Purchase at https://joncorbin.bandcamp.com/album/stay-right-here-a-jon-corbin-beat-tape

What Do You See When You Close Your Eyes?

Posse cut featuring 8 outstanding Canadian emcees. Track appears on The Runaway x Brett Klassen's mixtape "A Few Words More." 

Spit Hot Fire remix featuring Orijin, Creo, Crisis, ILL Seer, Mark Danger, Scribe & Brett Klassen

Without You is the new single off of Jon Corbin's new album "A New Direction." Available at all digital stores May 10th. 

Pre-order A New Direction on iTunes: https://itun.es/ca/jb06bb

Produced by Tony Stone. Featuring Eternia, ILL Seer and Relic. 

Music video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZZBOsDPXJY




Without You (with Eternia, ILL Seer And Relic)

Jon Corbin (formerly known as The Runaway) and Travis Harmon (also known as reSEARCH) have teamed up to bring you a refreshing dose of hip-hop! Bridging the divide from Milton, Ontario, Canada all the way to East Tennessee, they have crafted an EP that rejuvenates the classic boom bap sound while bringing encouraging words to the listener.
 
The first release is a track called "Real Thugs" produced by DJ Sean P (Move Merchants/Gold Tips) that celebrates authentic hip-hop in a game filled with image makers.

Check out the EP releasing on September 30th, "Travis Harmon & Jon Corbin are r&R."

Travis Harmon & Jon Corbin are r&R

Real Thugs (prod. DJ Sean P)

A lofi remix of Jon Corbin's standout 2018 track You Care. This new version reflects the vulnerability that comes from the anxiety of living through a global pandemic. Produced while in quarantine, the track is taken to a new level by guest vocalists The Apologette, Rachelle Luk, d.rich smith and Earlybird.

You Care (Night Drive remix)

You Care (Night Drive Remix) Feat. Rodney, The Apologette, Rachelle Luk, D.rich Smith & Earlybird

Outcry is a plea to listen to the voices of the marginalized and oppressed. In a season of notable anti-black racism, many voices are rising up around the world to testify to their experiences with oppression. The same voices are being vulnerable about their pain. Outcry is a song to encourage listening and lament as the way forward in bringing healing and connection to a fractured society.

Outcry

Jon Corbin’s new single “Amplify” is a soulful appeal to hear the voices of Black, Indigenous and People of Colour now -- and always.

After the deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and many others at the hands of police this year, there has been a growing acknowledgement of the need to amplify voices in the Black community and other marginalized groups. 

Our present conversations about systemic racism and police brutality aren’t new; they are topics Black artists, activists and academics have been speaking and writing about for decades. What’s changed is the degree to which the rest of the culture is willing to listen, and to move forward. 

“I’m encouraged by some of the progress we’ve seen, but this openness is the beginning of a very long journey,” said Jon Corbin, a respected Canadian hip-hop emcee, essayist and spoken word artist from Milton, Ont.

“It’s important to keep the conversation going. Meaningful change can happen on an individual level; it begins in our hearts. And we can only change our hearts if we’re willing to listen to one another and attempt to understand other perspectives. It’s time to amplify Black voices, because we have so often been muffled, muted and ignored.” 

This is the message of Corbin’s new single “Amplify” (featuring veteran Canadian R&B singer Aubrey Noronha and Portland trumpeter Farnell Newton), releasing Sept. 4, 2020. 

“Amplify” is a soulful, smouldering appeal for Black voices to be heard, now and always. 

In its first verse, Corbin brings the same earnest, meticulous wordplay and intelligent  cultural references that have made him a respected collaborator of Juno- and Polaris Music Prize-winning artists like Shad, Eternia and the Good Lovelies.

Noronha underlines the message in the chorus and second verse, emphasizing a need for immediate change and uses the circumstances of Floyd’s death as a metaphor for systemic racism in North America: “System’s on our neck/We can barely make a sound.” 

The quiet, subtle vocal deliveries of both Corbin and Noronha, along with Newton’s literally muted trumpeting, form an apt and thoroughly sincere call for non-marginalized groups to hear the cries Black, Indigenous and People of Colour have always made in the face of racism, brutality and other forms of oppression. 

“It’s more important now than ever to listen to one another,” said Corbin. “It’s time to amplify marginalized voices so we can move toward the justice and equality BIPOC have always asked for, and have frequently been denied.”

Amplify feat. Aubrey Noronha & Farnell Newton

Summer Sunset is the closing track on Jon Corbin's latest beat tape "Keep Moving Forward." Perfect for a drive on a summer evening.

Keep Moving Forward is a summer themed beat tape for those who are wrestling with themselves in the midst of several global challenges. The music inspires reflection and an urging to enjoy the summer weather. Hopefully it lifts your spirits.

Keep Moving Forward (A Beat Tape)

Summer Sunset

Produced by Symbolyc One (@SymbolycOne)
From The Runaway's upcoming EP Saturday Sonrise
Releases Friday May 24

www.therunaway.ca 
@therunawaymusic

Tonight's the Night feat. Relic, Die-Rek & Sean Prominent

Jon Corbin is a Canadian hip-hop artist, spoken word poet, speaker, band leader, writer and DJ based in Milton, ON. Since 2001, first under the name The Runaway, Jon has blessed stages big and small with lyrical themes of faith, love, family, social justice, and personal growth.

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