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JHawk

musical artist

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 11, 2026
Entity authorityQ21621591
Source-derived summary

Jeremy Hawkins (born August 8, 1991) known professionally as JHawk or JHawk Productions, is an American record producer and songwriter from Los Angeles, California. He is known for pioneering the Jerkin' Movement, accumulating tens of millions of views and streams, contributing heavily to the success of a number of Los Angeles-based artists. Hawkins is perhaps best known for producing The Rej3ctz's breakout hit "Cat Daddy" in 2011 which reached Number 77 on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs and achieved Platinum certification independently.

Early life

JHawk grew up in Leimert Park, Los Angeles. His parents are musicians, mother being a local vocalist and father being a multi-instrumentalist. He is a great nephew to The Chambers Brothers, and he often observed the band rehearse and play live shows for his great-grandmother. Shortly after his father gave him his first music sequencer software, Hip Hop eJay, he started making beats at the age of 11 and desired to become a music producer. Stating to Killerhiphophop's Quez, "I put out my 1st song on the internet when I was about 15-16, and I've just been going hard ever since".

Music career

2008–present

After 3 years and a junior at Daniel Murphy High School, the Archdiocese decided to shut the school's doors. Jeremy, who'd been building a name for himself on campus by recording students in his bedroom studio at his grandmother's was forced to relocate senior year.

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“JHawk” enters the record as musical artist. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what JHawk, musical and artist can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA useful biographical orientation record, particularly for establishing names, roles and a first chronology. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1991, 2011, 2008—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1991-08-08. Its strongest next move is a source search built around JHawk, musical and artist.
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Why this record matters

“JHawk” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, JHawk, musical and artist provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Chronology provides the most reliable spine for this subject; interpretation should follow only after identities and dates are secure. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 11, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q21621591. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1991, 2011 and 2008.

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This entry incorporates text from JHawk” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.