“March 15th I blessed the crust of the earth with my birth” – Jax on “Who’s Jax”

Today it’s March 15th which means it’s the big homie Jax’s birthday. Last night at the Hip Hop Trivia event in ATL we did a special toast for the homie, and I’ve been playing his music all day. Jax was a great friend, a fresh emcee, and a true genius who has been missed every day since he passed in Nov. 2008.

We miss you big homie. Keep shining down on us.

Last night Dec 11th, 2009 The Who’s Jax Art show went down at City Of Ink in Castleberry Hill in Atlanta, GA. The event was a family reunion of sorts, with a lot of old friends, colleagues, associates, etc.

Dj’s Mafioso, Rasta Root, and Fudge held down the sounds all night, playing nothing but the finest of Binkis Recs / Jax Classics.

For those unfamiliar Jax was an ATL based emcee who passed away last year. In his memory the Binkis Recs fam (Flux Wonda) put together this art show as a way to keep Jax’s memory alive. Fellow artists were commissioned to create a piece that represented Jax, his music, his personality, his style.

I must say, I knew the art was going to be Fresh, but when I saw these pieces i was like WOW!! You got Samurai Jax, Wolverine Jax, as well as the Shark Skin Suit Sibling Jax. Fresh indeed, check em out for yourself.

Also Never and Won knocked out the mural across the street from the art show. CRAZY!

Rest In Peace Jax. We miss you, and we will never forget you, or let anybody else forget you either.

Mark your calendars now. “Who’s Jax” Art Show going down December 11th at City Of Ink in Atlanta, GA.

This past Wednesday November 4th, marked the one year anniversary of the passing of the homie Jax from Binkis Recs. On Thursday night Nov. 5th the WREKroom Show at WREK 91.1 FM (Georgia Tech University) dedicated the night to Jax. Dj Enchantd played Jax/Binkis classics, and a few unreleased joints.

If you missed it, you can download the show HERE.

Big shouts out to the homie Moon Satellite at Culture King.

Today November 4th, 2009 marks the one year anniversary (bittersweet anniversary) of the passing of my big brother / homie / comrad / and fellow artist Christopher “Jax” Thurston who represented the Binkis Records Crew.

(Artwork from the Jax Matic project Jax was working on. Jax flipped Nas’ classic Illmatic paying homage to his Queens neighborhood of Rochdale Village. Unfortunately the project was never released before his passing. I heard maybe one or two cuts of what he was working on, truly amazing. Nobody I know worked harder than Jax did)

A year ago when he passed, I vowed every so often to keep his memory going thru this Blog with the “Remembering Jax” posts. As you can see in a year, were up too #28. If you missed the other ones click here “Remembering Jax” to play catch up.

Soooo I was typing this message on my Facebook page, but it was too long, so I want to share it here, check it:

Today November 4th marks the one year anniversary of the passing of the big homie Jax (Binkis Recs). Today my thoughts are with his family his Moms and Pops, his big brother Cruen, his wife Lisa, nieces, the Binkis Fam, and everybody else who knew the homie, or even the folks who didn’t know him and loved his music. Today I’m not as sad as I thought I would be, but rather thankful to have been able to meet and know such great people. I knew Jax for 9 years. And out of those 9 years we NEVER once argued. He might be the only person I can say that about. I say all that to say, lets keep the homie Jax alive. Play his music LOUD as you can today. Rock your favorite Binkis T-Shirt, lets always let him know he may be gone in the physical, but his spirit is still right here with us.

We love and miss you homie. Keep smiling down on us, lead us in the right direction.

Peace.

Today October 17th, 2009 marks the one year anniversary of Christopher “Jax” Thurston and Lisa Thurston being married.

My big brother and sister were only able to share a few weeks officially married before Jax suddenly passed on the night of November 3rd, 2008. The official wedding ceremony was to take place November 22nd.

Tonight were going to celebrate, reflect, and rejoice for the couple who always cracked the most jokes on me. Lol. There’s a special private anniversary event planned for tonight in ATL. I’m going to try to take a couple pics, so check back soon.

(photo snapped by Jax’s big brother – Cruen Thurston) – outside Funeral Home in Queens, NY. November 08.

As the one year anniversary of Jax’s passing approaches (Damn… it’s been a year already?) I just want to remind everyone that if you have somebody in your life who’s special, let them know out loud, before the chance passes you by.

This past Friday I attended Art, Beats, and Lyrics in ATL. Would you believe this was my FIRST time attending ABL in Atlanta!! Yep. The very first one they did at Woodruff, I showed up late and couldn’t get in. Then every one they did after that, I was always outta town.

So I def hyped to catch this one. Especially since they had Jay Dee’s (J.Dilla) mother “Ma Dukes” here and were presenting here with some artwork. Jaspects were the featured performer for the evening and as a Surprise, Phife ACTQ hit the stage with them to rock out. Even DMC performed during the evening.

I missed all of that, as I broke out early to catch the De La Soul 20 Years High And Rising Show at the Masquerade.

HOWEVER what I did catch, was this piece below of the homie Jax (R.I.P.) that Goldi Gold (Graphic / Visual Artist / Blogger / Jungle 45 Clothing Line Owner) hooked up. The painting comes from a portrait of Jax, and featured a crown above his head – tilted of course. (J.F.K. – Jax Forever King… Ya Dig). It also features various lines from some of Jax’s verses, including a very heart felt verse from the song “For This” as well as others.

WHEW... looking at this piece gave me goosebumps. Goldi – you did your thing on this one. Salute.

The following pics below were taken by John Crooms

Señor Kaos, Goose, and Sol Messiah

Greetings. Here are some behind the scenes pictures from my video shoot for the song “Automatic Classic” from Sunday morning. We shot the Jax scene, as you can see everybody is rocking their Jax T-Shirts. Jax’s parents Mr. and Mrs. Thurston were in town and came through as well.

Sidebar: Sooo I forgot to bring the clean version of the song for playback for the video. So everytime it got to this one part in the 2nd verse, everybody would have Hyper-Sensitive hearing at the one part where I curse! LOL

All in all though it was a GREAT scene, everything went well. It’s VERY difficult coordinating several folks to show up somewhere on a Sunday morning at 7:45 am, the day after a BBQ, but I managed to pull it off.

Me and Lisa in her super-limited, exclusive Purple Jax Forever King Shirt. I said Lisa “when they make purple?” Lisa – “you know, this that limited joint right here!” LOL

Me and Jax’s parents. Jax gets his laugh from his pops and his sense of humor from moms, It’s crazy!

The video is directed By Mike Moore. We will be shooting the final scene on Saturday July 11th, in Atlanta. Definitely inviting everybody to come through and kick it with us.

This past Saturday we all linked up for the first Binkis BBQ of the summer in Atlanta. Jax’s parents were in town to hang out with us. Flux had the Macaronith and Cheeseth on deck. Shout out to Goldi Gold, Stahhr, Taj, Maf, Killa, Illastrate, Arnold, Mike Moore, Ed Meeks, Kecia, Jae Scott, Angie, Lisa, Mr and Mrs. Thurston and everybody else that came out.

check the pics.

Flux working on the famous Mac N Cheese

Arnold going in on that famous Red Velvet and Key Lime Cake

Illastrate co-signs the Red Velvet and Key Lime Cake.

I spotted Dayo rocking a Vintage Oh.G.Fro Shirt. Even when Nito ain’t here, he’s here!

Binkis Cruise coming in 2010? Wooooooooord.

Remembering Jax.