For Jaimoe, music was never part of the original plan. Before the streams, the tapes, and the growing catalog spread across SoundCloud and Spotify, life revolved around skating.
For Jaimoe, music was never part of the original plan. Before the streams, the tapes, and the growing catalog spread across SoundCloud and Spotify, life revolved around skating. Growing up in Manassas, Virginia, skating was not just a hobby. It was routine, identity, and community all wrapped into one. Then everything stopped.
After tearing his ACL in late 2017, Jaimoe suddenly faced nine months away from the thing he was committed to every day. The doctor told him it would take nine months to heal. That led him to find a new hobby, which was music production.
While recovering, he became obsessed with watching beat-making breakdowns online, especially producer livestreams from Internet Money and Nick Mira. What started as curiosity quickly became an everyday practice. “I’d just go on YouTube and watch people make beats,” he explains. “Sometimes they’d do shortcuts or little tricks, and I’d be like, ‘How do you do that?’”
For someone already wired toward repetition and discipline through skating, producing became another cycle of practice. Learn something. Repeat it. Improve it. By the summer of 2018, his ACL had healed, and skating returned to his life, but music never left. The two naturally began existing side-by-side. “If I wanna skate, I go skate,” he says casually. “If I feel like making beats, I make beats.”
That same organic approach eventually led him to rap, even though he never planned to become an artist himself. “If you asked me two years ago if I’d start rapping, I would’ve said hell no,” he laughs. Ironically, it happened because he bought a microphone for other people.
At the time, artists he produced for would occasionally travel through Washington, D.C., looking for studio space. Jaimoe figured having recording equipment at home could help. But after buying a mic, he realized he needed someone to practice recording with. So he recorded himself instead. From there, consistency took over.
Projects like me, myself, and i and popular track “Moscow” showed a more personal and experimental side of Jaimoe. Unlike earlier producer-focused work, the tape placed him fully at the center. He created the beats, designed the cover art, mixed the tracks, and handled the rollout himself. He explained that he wasn’t even planning on dropping a tape, but after hearing artists talk about the importance of consistency, he stopped overthinking and simply released the music.
That mindset defines almost everything about him now.
Whether it is skating, music, visuals, or experimenting with melodies, Jaimoe operates instinctively. There is no grand formula behind it or forced branding strategy. It’s simply about repetition and staying productive. “I’m just trying not to be a bum,” he says jokingly. But beneath the humor is someone deeply locked into growth.
Even his creative process reflects that same persistence. Halfway through making a beat, he might suddenly start mumbling flows over it, realize the idea sounds good, and immediately pivot into recording. Other times, skating naturally inspires the pace and energy of his music.
And while he still dreams about producing for artists like Lucki and Lil Tecca one day, Jaimoe seems less focused on chasing moments and more focused on continuing to build.
