Today we’d like to introduce you to Jorden Tolbert.
Jorden, we appreciate you taking the time to share your story with us today. Where does your story begin?
I always wanted to make music since I was a little boy honestly. Coming up in a musical household with my mother, I guess it was only right. I started making music at the age of eight with simple songwriting. By the time I was 13, I made my first beat. By 16, I made my first few projects fully produced and engineered by myself. And since then, it’s only been up. Being 23 and have essentially done everything musically by myself, I take this art form seriously because who else can I run to? But I like it that way. I’m “The best artist you haven’t heard yet” for a reason. But everyone will know my name soon.
I’m sure you wouldn’t say it’s been obstacle free, but so far would you say the journey have been a fairly smooth road?
No road is smooth. At first, I only wanted to be a singer/rapper. But when I tried reaching out to producers in my area/ high school, I either got disrespected or ignored. So I became the hardest producer out of Marietta. After graduating from Marietta I found myself in college and a year and a half later being on a different path. I’ll open up about that time one day but looking back I needed to go through that to grow as a man. You need to go thru a little something to humble you and show you the world in true colors. That was when I transitioned from childhood.
Alright, so let’s switch gears a bit and talk business. What should we know about your work?
I’m an artist and I’m sensitive about my sh**. But all jokes aside I sing, rap, produce and engineer my music as well as a few acts. I make all kinds of music but I feel like the best way to describe my music is “dark”. Some days I don’t even know what genre to consider my music. At one point I called it “Alternative Trap”. It made the most sense. If you hear my music you can tell I pull inspiration from a lot of different individuals, but The Weeknd, Travis Scott, T-Pain and Eminem are my greatest influences. My proudest moment musically was being able to honor my late cousin with 15 tracks (her basketball jersey number is #15) “Dee Lashawn” was released a couple of weeks after her passing this past April and I hope she looking down proud. What separates me from other artists especially ones similar in position is that I am more hands-on and I am more versatile. I am not always lit, I don’t lie in my lyrics and you get a piece of me in every track I put out. I want to be more than a one-hit wonder or someone here now gone tomorrow. I wanna grow with my fans for decades. When you hear “Uno!” You know it’s finna be a journey.
Are there any books, apps, podcasts or blogs that help you do your best?
Social media gives me a lot of inspiration for my music. I’ll go on pages like shade room, baller alert, etc. and just go look in the comments and absorb the energy. A lot of times I don’t agree with some stuff but life is life and I want my music to spark a convo. I really hate the cancel culture though because I feel like it halts true creativity. And if enough people believe some dumb ish then it becomes law.
Drinkchamps is a podcast I really like. It gives artists in my opinion to tap in with the ogs in the game and be able to pull gems out. I’m here for the long run and you can’t get far being lost in the sauce.
Contact Info:
- Website: https://tapd.co/unordenary
- Instagram: Instagram.com/unordenary
- Twitter: http://twitter.com/unordenary
- Youtube: https://youtube.com/channel/UCDk8x-QypGc-zZOct7gxNmg
- SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.app.goo.gl/yBoTFeDgP6pKVRNa9
