From 1994 Album: "The Sun Rises In The East"..... Get Jeru The Damaja's Music: www.amazon.com & itunes.apple.com About JERU THE DAMAJA Jeru the Damaja (born Jeru Davis) aka D. Original Dirty Rotten Scoundrel hails from Brooklyn, New York where he was born and raised. Jeru was first introduced to hip-hop in the local parks of his neighborhood at age seven and started writing his own lyrics at age ten. Hip-hop has been a part of his life for as long as he can remember. Jeru created and took on the persona of the Damaja (because he damages the mic) that is part conscious truth teller and part true to the streets Brooklyn hard rock. Jeru the Damaja then hooked up with DJ Premiere and Guru, collectively known as Gangstarr, shortly after they moved to New York on the late 1980s. Jeru first introduced his unique hardcore conscious style to hip-hop audiences on Im the Man a track on Gangstarrs 1992 Daily Operations album. The East New York native then cemented his place in the hip-h! op world by releasing the 1993 classic single Come Clean from his legendary album, The Sun Rises in the East. After a two year hiatus, Jeru released The Wrath of the Math that included the hit singles Ya Playin Yaself and Me or the Papes and was proclaimed the savior of hip-hop due to his honest and straight forward critique of the state of hip-hop music. In 2000 Jeru released Heroz 4 Hire completely autonomously, from the production of the album to its release on his independent label KnowSavage
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