Underground hip hop music producer, artist and songwriter, Jair Dynast, a.k.a. Keir, switched gears after he was diagnosed with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy and could no longer play basketball as a student-athlete at South Plains College in west Texas.
As a basketball player, Dynast had spent years honing his skills and working to earn a scholarship to pursue studies in engineering. Not getting support from his high school coach, he became his own recruiter and coach. He showcased his skills at basketball camps across the United States, ranking in the top 60, and attended Prep School at Milford Academy in Conn. He achieved his goal; he got the elusive scholarship.
Only weeks into his athletic scholarship, he was running a mile for time and suddenly he could not breathe. As the events unfolded, he could not understand what was happening - he had worked so hard, overcame so many obstacles to get there. He wondered who was trying to play God and turn his life upside down. He left Texas for Toronto with a canvas bag from Methodist Hospital in Lubbock filled with asthma drugs, EKGs and chest X-rays in search of a concrete answer to his many questions. He wondered what would happen to him now - who would pay for his university education. He wondered if he would even have the drive or the courage to be an engineer now. He wondered if this was divine intervention, and how he could cope with this "no look pass." After all, he's a basketball point guard.
Dynast was determined to make an impact by using underground hip hop to tell his very personal story to coaches and athletes everywhere. Athletes with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy usually drop dead suddenly - Dynast was spared that fate for a reason, and he was determined to find it.
Through underground hip hop and his single, "Struggle," Dynast narrates his story and seeks to expose it to a larger audience. He wants to use hip hop to be the "voice crying out in the wilderness."
Dynast is set to release a new rap CD, "Curriculum Vitae" featuring the introspective "Struggle," written, composed and produced by him, on December 7 at Kim's Mondo in New York, Tower Records, Virgin Mega Stores and many more fine retailers worldwide. Currently number seven on the "All Time Best Production" list in hip hop at GarageBand.com, this song tells the story of a born fighter who is willing to go up against the odds to achieve success. "Niggaz like, 'wake up dawg that's all a dream'/I looked the Devil in the face and called his fire steam," spits Dynast as he describes his days struggling to hone his skills and be a standout high-school basketball player. This led him to attain the athletic scholarship to play at South Plains, a Nationally Ranked Division I Junior College in Texas.
Dynast's lyrical imagery engulfs and, at the same time, carries listeners along with him to his current spot as one of the underground's elite up-and-coming recording artists - he weaves his deep baritone effortlessly through his mastery of production to let listeners into his world. In his world, filled with nay-sayers, drugs and violence, he stands supreme even when dealt the ultimate, crushing blow - Dynast learns he has to give up his scholarship due to an unforeseen heart ailment. "Here comes the real stress, no more scholarship/heart ailment put it to rest lucky I ain't follow it." When asked why he chose to write the song Dynast said, "As with all my music, it was just something I had to get off my chest. A story I had to tell. Anyone listening who has that dream or aspires for greatness can take something positive from the song because I'm still here. I'm still struggling to achieve - no matter what the obstacle, success is attainable."
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