Nice interview with Jarred by Symms over on ESPN. Check it out!
Source: http://espn.go.com/action/freeskiing/news/story?id=4662200
The AllStar Interview
http://myespn.go.com/conversation/story?id=4662200
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By John Symms
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Salomon Freeski TV: Season Finale
23-year-old Jarred "AllStar" Haynes hails from the town of Wyandanch
in Long Island, NY. The aspiring hip-hop artist first appeared on
skiers' radar screens after he composed an original hip song for an
episode of Salomon Freeski TV. This year, a skiing-related mixtape
complete with a controversial courtroom-inspired song has made AllStar
into a significant musical figure throughout freestyle skiing.
The first time that I heard of you was when you did
the song for the season wrap up of Salomon Freeski TV last
year. It stuck out to me because it was a rap song made
specifically for a ski video, and yet it sounded like a real
rapper, as opposed to somebody pretending to be one. How did
that collaboration come about?
[Laughs] I appreciate that.
Photo: Matt StaubleJarred "AllStar" Haynes
Basically, Mike Rogge and I went
to college together. We both went to the College of Saint
Rose, and we lived on the same floor of our dormitory. He's
a skier from upstate Lake George and I'm from downstate in
the city — two totally opposite people. But for some
reason, he really dug what I did musically to the point
where he came out with me to this freestyle battle — I
have to tell this story real quick:I did this freestyle battle in college — that's how
I made money in college — I went to all these freestyle
battles. We'd go to the University of Albany, and there'd be
nothing but black people in the room. And here's Mike, with
his little camera, and everybody's all dissing at me like,
"Haha, you brought a white boy with you!" and all this yadda
yadda. But then I would win, and after that we'd have to run
out of the school like there was a fire, because we'd be
scared for Mike's life. It was hilarious.
Mike was always down with what I was doing musically from
way back then, this was 2004. So he showed me a ski edit
that had a Dipset song in the background. He said to me,
"one day you should do this. See, skiing and hip hop go
together." And I was like, "Whatever" [laughs]. I just kind
of blew it off.
We went our separate ways, but we stayed in touch. He'd
call me all the time, whenever he was with friends, or with
a girl that he wanted to impress, like "I know a rapper"
[laughs]. He'd call me like, "Yo AllStar, I'm in Lake Placid
with three girls, Tiffany, Andrea, and Lindsay, and there's
a dog in the room, his name is Shea, and they want to hear
you freestyle about all that stuff." So I would do it.
But this one phone call, he calls me and says, "I'm in a
room with a bunch of skiers, and I want you to freestyle for
them." So he gave me their names and I did a freestyle for
them, and Steve Horton [who works for Salomon Freeski TV]
liked it, and got my contact information from Rogge. And
later Steve came to me with this idea, "What if we do an
original song for the recap of last year's season?"
He sent me the idea, and I sent him back a track, and he
was like "that's hot." And he sent me back kind of a script
— I didn't know any ski lingo, I knew no skiers
[laughs]. So I just kind of did my thing, and they were like
"this is ridiculous."
So you're a pro at rapping about skiing. Have you
ever skied yourself?
No! And I've gotten so many invites. I'm still waiting for
somebody to call me and say, "Come on, Jarred, come to
Whistler." I was supposed to be going to Whistler at the end
of the year. But I still haven't had a chance to jump on
some skis yet. But I'm willing to. I'm willing to
do it. I'm not casually unwilling. I hope I don't get
unwilling, or get scared, but that's another story.
I listened to your mixtape
"The Urban Segment" though, and it's nearly all skiing.
How much non-skiing-related music do you make, compared to
the amount of stuff about skiing?
Well, to be honest with you, I made that mixtape in three
days. I had been telling myself, "I wanna do a ski mixtape,"
because after I attended IF3, I felt like I had learned
enough about skiing to do it. Especially the Simon Dumont
movie, the Transitions movie, that was really like a
beginner's guide to skiing for me. So I watched that, and I
started picking up some of the lingo. When I got back, I
felt an obligation to this new culture that I'd met, to do
something for them. So I came back and put everything on
hold to finish the mixtape over the weekend.
photo wide photo
Photo: Matt StaubleJarred "AllStar" Haynes
Do you have another job? Or have you made it to
where you can make a living off of your music?
Great question. And I really wish I could quit my other job
[laughs]. But I do marketing for Sears, oddly enough, as my
part-time job. They offer a tuition discount for my master's
program.What are you getting your master's in?
I'm getting my master's in higher education. Like college
administration, or something like that to fall back on. I
guess I consider myself an educating artist. I'm
graduating from that program in January, and I hope to leave
that job in January as well, and officially dedicate my
living to music. You know, you skiers, you make me mad at my
nine-to-five job. Why can't I just live in a one-bedroom
apartment and hit the slopes all day?
There's this anti-WME rap by you floating around on
the Internet. What inspired you to do that?
Uh oh [laughs]. That's like the most controversial song I've
ever done [laughs].
Well, it's the most controversial thing that's ever
happened in skiing, too.
Well, I met Decker and Coty at IF3. And Decker showed me the
B-Side of the movie Refresh and it was based off
the movie Belly. And I thought it was hot. It stuck
in my head more than some of the movies I saw. When I got
back home, and I'm listening to The Ski
Show and Rogge is talking about the legal dispute going on between Level 1 and Warren Miller
Entertainment and it kind of made me upset. So I decided
to do this song. I sat down and read some of the news
articles, and the blogs, seeing people's reactions to it.
I put names in the song. I probably shouldn't have done
that, but I did. I just felt like I met those people [from
Level 1 Productions] and they were cool. And as far as the
culture goes, if you say you're a part of something, trying
to make the sport as great as it can be, you can't try to
hold me back when we have the same goal. I felt like WME was
being hypocritical about the whole situation. You can't tell
me that you love making ski movies, and then another company
is doing the same thing and you're going to hit them with
some litigations. It's like a little kid, you gotta spank
them sometimes. So that's what I did.
Photo: Matt StaubleJarred "AllStar" Haynes
A source of constant debate in skiing is that the
kids love to dress like the dudes in the rap videos. One
side says that they're just doing what they like to do,
while the other side contends they're a bunch of wannabes.
But it's not clear how qualified any of the participants are
to make those arguments in the first place. As a young,
aspiring hip-hop artist from Long Island, NY, would you be
so kind as to give us your stance on this issue?
Two things: First, on Newschoolers there
was this blog, and it was like a black versus white
debate.Oh yeah. They happen all the time. But there's never
a black person involved.
[Laughs] I'm reading this, and I'm like, "what's going on?"
Every ski movie I've ever watched has a hip hop song in it.
So I'm reading this like "what are you talking about?" It
just doesn't make sense.
I actually sat down, not because I was confused about it
myself, but I was just wondering, you know, what the signs
were, that all these ski cliques were throwing up. I sat
down with Mike Douglas, and he kind of explained to me that
everybody's young, they just kind of form into cliques. And
that made sense to me.
I don't feel like these guys are pretending, or posing, or
none of that nonsense. I simply think it's like any sport.
When you're involved in something and you want to be the
best, you have to have a personality that goes along with
it. Something that people can gravitate towards, and grab
hold of.
If you're in a profession where every day, you're doing
your passion — if I'm 40, thousand, however many feet
in the air, and I land, and I stick that? I'm not gonna be
like, "Yeah, that was cool." I'm gonna be
like, "Listen" [laughs]. You know what I'm
saying? "You see what the hell I just did?" I'm not
listening to Mozart while I'm flying through the air. I'm
listening to something that's gonna pump me up and make me
fly through the air. When I land, I'm not gonna put the
thumbs up. No, I'm going to want to land, and put a gun in
the air like I shot something.
It's the thrill of the game. It's the thrill of the hunt.
Hunters don't shoot a deer and then say "that was
cool." They scream and shout and throw their hands
in the air and they act stupid. It's not about trying to be
black or trying to be white. It's about a love for what
you're doing.
You've got a new album, Genre, coming out
soon. What can people expect to hear on that?
The album is called Genre because I don't like to
classify myself. Even if I'm rapping on most of the tracks,
none of the songs is going to sound like your typical radio
hip hop song. One song has like a punk vibe to it. Another
song has a soul vibe to it. Another song has kind of a
reggae bass tone to it. It's like a melting pot of music.
Gospel undertones, street hip hop, but it's all my voice. If
you liked "The Urban
Segment," you'll like Genre. And if you like
listening to lyrics, Genre will not let you down.
Source: http://espn.go.com/action/freeskiing/news/story?id=4662200
The AllStar Interview
http://myespn.go.com/conversation/story?id=4662200
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Salomon Freeski TV: Season Finale
23-year-old Jarred "AllStar" Haynes hails from the town of Wyandanch
in Long Island, NY. The aspiring hip-hop artist first appeared on
skiers' radar screens after he composed an original hip song for an
episode of Salomon Freeski TV. This year, a skiing-related mixtape
complete with a controversial courtroom-inspired song has made AllStar
into a significant musical figure throughout freestyle skiing.
The first time that I heard of you was when you did
the song for the season wrap up of Salomon Freeski TV last
year. It stuck out to me because it was a rap song made
specifically for a ski video, and yet it sounded like a real
rapper, as opposed to somebody pretending to be one. How did
that collaboration come about?
[Laughs] I appreciate that.
Basically, Mike Rogge and I went
to college together. We both went to the College of Saint
Rose, and we lived on the same floor of our dormitory. He's
a skier from upstate Lake George and I'm from downstate in
the city — two totally opposite people. But for some
reason, he really dug what I did musically to the point
where he came out with me to this freestyle battle — I
have to tell this story real quick:I did this freestyle battle in college — that's how
I made money in college — I went to all these freestyle
battles. We'd go to the University of Albany, and there'd be
nothing but black people in the room. And here's Mike, with
his little camera, and everybody's all dissing at me like,
"Haha, you brought a white boy with you!" and all this yadda
yadda. But then I would win, and after that we'd have to run
out of the school like there was a fire, because we'd be
scared for Mike's life. It was hilarious.
Mike was always down with what I was doing musically from
way back then, this was 2004. So he showed me a ski edit
that had a Dipset song in the background. He said to me,
"one day you should do this. See, skiing and hip hop go
together." And I was like, "Whatever" [laughs]. I just kind
of blew it off.
We went our separate ways, but we stayed in touch. He'd
call me all the time, whenever he was with friends, or with
a girl that he wanted to impress, like "I know a rapper"
[laughs]. He'd call me like, "Yo AllStar, I'm in Lake Placid
with three girls, Tiffany, Andrea, and Lindsay, and there's
a dog in the room, his name is Shea, and they want to hear
you freestyle about all that stuff." So I would do it.
But this one phone call, he calls me and says, "I'm in a
room with a bunch of skiers, and I want you to freestyle for
them." So he gave me their names and I did a freestyle for
them, and Steve Horton [who works for Salomon Freeski TV]
liked it, and got my contact information from Rogge. And
later Steve came to me with this idea, "What if we do an
original song for the recap of last year's season?"
He sent me the idea, and I sent him back a track, and he
was like "that's hot." And he sent me back kind of a script
— I didn't know any ski lingo, I knew no skiers
[laughs]. So I just kind of did my thing, and they were like
"this is ridiculous."
So you're a pro at rapping about skiing. Have you
ever skied yourself?
No! And I've gotten so many invites. I'm still waiting for
somebody to call me and say, "Come on, Jarred, come to
Whistler." I was supposed to be going to Whistler at the end
of the year. But I still haven't had a chance to jump on
some skis yet. But I'm willing to. I'm willing to
do it. I'm not casually unwilling. I hope I don't get
unwilling, or get scared, but that's another story.
I listened to your mixtape
"The Urban Segment" though, and it's nearly all skiing.
How much non-skiing-related music do you make, compared to
the amount of stuff about skiing?
Well, to be honest with you, I made that mixtape in three
days. I had been telling myself, "I wanna do a ski mixtape,"
because after I attended IF3, I felt like I had learned
enough about skiing to do it. Especially the Simon Dumont
movie, the Transitions movie, that was really like a
beginner's guide to skiing for me. So I watched that, and I
started picking up some of the lingo. When I got back, I
felt an obligation to this new culture that I'd met, to do
something for them. So I came back and put everything on
hold to finish the mixtape over the weekend.
photo wide photo
Do you have another job? Or have you made it to
where you can make a living off of your music?
Great question. And I really wish I could quit my other job
[laughs]. But I do marketing for Sears, oddly enough, as my
part-time job. They offer a tuition discount for my master's
program.What are you getting your master's in?
I'm getting my master's in higher education. Like college
administration, or something like that to fall back on. I
guess I consider myself an educating artist. I'm
graduating from that program in January, and I hope to leave
that job in January as well, and officially dedicate my
living to music. You know, you skiers, you make me mad at my
nine-to-five job. Why can't I just live in a one-bedroom
apartment and hit the slopes all day?
There's this anti-WME rap by you floating around on
the Internet. What inspired you to do that?
Uh oh [laughs]. That's like the most controversial song I've
ever done [laughs].
Well, it's the most controversial thing that's ever
happened in skiing, too.
Well, I met Decker and Coty at IF3. And Decker showed me the
B-Side of the movie Refresh and it was based off
the movie Belly. And I thought it was hot. It stuck
in my head more than some of the movies I saw. When I got
back home, and I'm listening to The Ski
Show and Rogge is talking about the legal dispute going on between Level 1 and Warren Miller
Entertainment and it kind of made me upset. So I decided
to do this song. I sat down and read some of the news
articles, and the blogs, seeing people's reactions to it.
I put names in the song. I probably shouldn't have done
that, but I did. I just felt like I met those people [from
Level 1 Productions] and they were cool. And as far as the
culture goes, if you say you're a part of something, trying
to make the sport as great as it can be, you can't try to
hold me back when we have the same goal. I felt like WME was
being hypocritical about the whole situation. You can't tell
me that you love making ski movies, and then another company
is doing the same thing and you're going to hit them with
some litigations. It's like a little kid, you gotta spank
them sometimes. So that's what I did.
A source of constant debate in skiing is that the
kids love to dress like the dudes in the rap videos. One
side says that they're just doing what they like to do,
while the other side contends they're a bunch of wannabes.
But it's not clear how qualified any of the participants are
to make those arguments in the first place. As a young,
aspiring hip-hop artist from Long Island, NY, would you be
so kind as to give us your stance on this issue?
Two things: First, on Newschoolers there
was this blog, and it was like a black versus white
debate.Oh yeah. They happen all the time. But there's never
a black person involved.
[Laughs] I'm reading this, and I'm like, "what's going on?"
Every ski movie I've ever watched has a hip hop song in it.
So I'm reading this like "what are you talking about?" It
just doesn't make sense.
I actually sat down, not because I was confused about it
myself, but I was just wondering, you know, what the signs
were, that all these ski cliques were throwing up. I sat
down with Mike Douglas, and he kind of explained to me that
everybody's young, they just kind of form into cliques. And
that made sense to me.
I don't feel like these guys are pretending, or posing, or
none of that nonsense. I simply think it's like any sport.
When you're involved in something and you want to be the
best, you have to have a personality that goes along with
it. Something that people can gravitate towards, and grab
hold of.
If you're in a profession where every day, you're doing
your passion — if I'm 40, thousand, however many feet
in the air, and I land, and I stick that? I'm not gonna be
like, "Yeah, that was cool." I'm gonna be
like, "Listen" [laughs]. You know what I'm
saying? "You see what the hell I just did?" I'm not
listening to Mozart while I'm flying through the air. I'm
listening to something that's gonna pump me up and make me
fly through the air. When I land, I'm not gonna put the
thumbs up. No, I'm going to want to land, and put a gun in
the air like I shot something.
It's the thrill of the game. It's the thrill of the hunt.
Hunters don't shoot a deer and then say "that was
cool." They scream and shout and throw their hands
in the air and they act stupid. It's not about trying to be
black or trying to be white. It's about a love for what
you're doing.
You've got a new album, Genre, coming out
soon. What can people expect to hear on that?
The album is called Genre because I don't like to
classify myself. Even if I'm rapping on most of the tracks,
none of the songs is going to sound like your typical radio
hip hop song. One song has like a punk vibe to it. Another
song has a soul vibe to it. Another song has kind of a
reggae bass tone to it. It's like a melting pot of music.
Gospel undertones, street hip hop, but it's all my voice. If
you liked "The Urban
Segment," you'll like Genre. And if you like
listening to lyrics, Genre will not let you down.
