biographical info
Mubarik Gyenne Adams (born December 18, 1991 in Montreal, Quebec), better known as Emay, is a music producer and rapper. Mubarik currently lives in Hamilton, ON, Canada. He started rapping and producing in 2006, and hasn’t stopped since.
Emay first approached the music world with his remix project entitled A.D.D. (Altered Dynamic Dimensions) in 2008, which created some buzz throughout blogs and forums on the internet.
In late 2009 he released his first official single Child (Refugee) which received a lot of positive critique.
On February 23rd, 2010, Emay released an EP entitled Sounds Like with dutch producer Ivan Ice. Sounds Like received positive critique while circulating the internet on various websites.
On April 26th 2010, Emay released his most notable release entitled Emay, Karen O, and the Kids. Emay, Karen O, and the Kids is an instrumental album based off of the book ‘Where The Wild Things Are’. That instrumental project was unique from the rest of his releases because he only used samples from the soundtrack of the movie based off of the book. The release of this project allowed him to experiment, and expand his fan base to a wider range of listeners.
On July 2010, Emay, EOM, and remot released a remix project under the name RockPaperScissors in order to introduce themselves as a group.
Emay is also part of the group Seeing Suge with Star Slinger and Blackbird Blackbird.
influences
Jay-Z
Shad
K-Os
K'naan
Wax and EOM
Remot
Blu
Sene
MF DOOM
O.C.
AZ
Nas
Metric
The Flaming Lips
Slowdive
The Autumns
The Beatles
King Crimson
Cream
RZA
Raekwon
J Dilla
Pink Floyd
InI
Star Slinger
Sonic Youth
Wild Beasts
Moka Only
Flying Lotus
Kev Brown
Ghostface Killah
Dinosaur Jr.