{"id":51,"date":"2020-03-04T22:10:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-04T22:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marmoset-journal.flywheelsites.com\/rap-artist-kayelaj-joins-infinite-companion\/"},"modified":"2020-12-16T02:32:12","modified_gmt":"2020-12-16T10:32:12","slug":"rap-artist-kayelaj-joins-infinite-companion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marmosetmusic.com\/journal\/rap-artist-kayelaj-joins-infinite-companion\/","title":{"rendered":"Infinite Companion Welcomes Artist KayelaJ"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"\n          image-block-outer-wrapper\n          layout-caption-below\n          design-layout-inline\n          combination-animation-none\n          individual-animation-none\n          individual-text-animation-none\n        \" data-test=\"image-block-inline-outer-wrapper\"><\/p>\n<figure class=\"\n              sqs-block-image-figure\n              intrinsic\n            \" style=\"max-width: 1000.0px;\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"\n                image-block-wrapper\n                has-aspect-ratio\n              \" style=\"padding-bottom: 100.0%;\" data-animation-role=\"image\"><br \/>\n<noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.marmosetmusic.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/KayelaJ-marmoset-infinite-companion-roster.jpg\" alt=\"Marmoset artist, KayelaJ on the cover of her album  D.Y.K.E  (Don't Yield, Keep Enduring)\"><\/noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"thumb-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.marmosetmusic.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/KayelaJ-marmoset-infinite-companion-roster.jpg\" alt=\"Marmoset artist, KayelaJ on the cover of her album  D.Y.K.E  (Don't Yield, Keep Enduring)\" data-image=\"https:\/\/marmosetmusic.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/KayelaJ-marmoset-infinite-companion-roster.jpg\" data-image-dimensions=\"1000x1000\" data-image-focal-point=\"0.5,0.5\" data-load=\"false\" data-image-id=\"5e596525f00b237c86d8e729\" data-type=\"image\" \/><\/div><figcaption class=\"image-caption-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"image-caption\">\n<p class=\"\">Marmoset artist, KayelaJ on the cover of her album <em>D.Y.K.E <\/em>(Don&#8217;t Yield, Keep Enduring)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marmosetmusic.com\/artists\/kayelaj\">KayelaJ<\/a> isn\u2019t stepping into the limelight, she\u2019s already been there. Joining Marmoset\u2019s record label <a href=\"https:\/\/www.icrecords.com\">Infinite Companion<\/a>, the artist embraces new opportunities while refusing to veer from her personal truth.<\/p>\n<p style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\">Performing at an Umbrellaslang event under Marmoset\u2019s roof, KayelaJ performed her usual set. It was a night of making strong first impressions that would lead to an unexpected creative partnership. In January, she became the newest artist on the Infinite Companion roster.<\/p>\n<p style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\">But the decision didn\u2019t come easy for KayelaJ. Armed with the natural charisma and talents of a musical performer, she\u2019s always thinking on her feet with a keen eye for seizing opportunities\u2014just not without running through the scenario top to bottom. Wrapping up a collaboration with fellow rap artist Wynne, who\u2019s touring with EARTHGANG\u2014a group signed to J. Cole\u2019s Dreamville Records\u2014KayelaJ arrived at a fork in the road.<\/p>\n<p style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\">\u201cI knew she [Wynne] had a really good team behind her, so I knew it [the song] was going to be very well promoted,\u201d KayelaJ\u00a0says. \u201cI knew it was probably going to be my most heard verse of today. So I was thinking, well, there might be opportunities that could come from that, so maybe I should wait. Maybe I should hold out and wait.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\">No matter the next step, there was one thing KayelaJ knew she needed to be sure of\u2014wherever she would go next, her team would need to accept her work wholeheartedly, embrace who she was without the intention of altering her message.<\/p>\n<p style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\">\u201cIt\u2019s about finding people who won&#8217;t try to censor you,\u201d KayelaJ says. \u201cFinding people that aren\u2019t going to try to tone you down.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\">Lyrics radiating first-perspective accounts from her own personal experiences, KayelaJ incorporates everything from struggling with mental health to past sexual abuse in her music. But everything is rooted in truth\u2014these are the moments that made her who she is, moments that made her a stronger person and enduring artist.<\/p>\n<p style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\">In her partnership with Infinite Companion, KayelaJ ventures into new territory, setting her sights on creating an complete work that shifts toward a different horizon.<\/p>\n<p style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\">\u201cSometimes you feel really high, sometimes you feel really low,\u201d KayelaJ says. \u201cFocusing on this next project, I want to focus on love and higher vibrations. Just something to make me feel love, feel happiness, something to make me focus on all those things.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\">You can listen to and license KayelaJ\u2019s album, <em>D.Y.K.E\u00a0<\/em>(Don&#8217;t Yield, Keep Enduring) on Marmoset\u2019s roster <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marmosetmusic.com\/artists\/kayelaj\">here<\/a>. Stay tuned for more of her new work to be released in partnership with Infinite Companion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marmoset artist, KayelaJ on the cover of her album D.Y.K.E (Don&#8217;t Yield, Keep Enduring) KayelaJ&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":52,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3760,36,3773,16],"tags":[3762],"class_list":["post-51","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists","category-community","category-interviews-highlights","category-music","tag-artist-highlights","has-excerpt"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.marmosetmusic.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/kayelaj-marmoset-infinite-companion-artist.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marmosetmusic.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marmosetmusic.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marmosetmusic.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marmosetmusic.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marmosetmusic.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.marmosetmusic.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8169,"href":"https:\/\/www.marmosetmusic.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51\/revisions\/8169"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marmosetmusic.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marmosetmusic.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marmosetmusic.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marmosetmusic.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}