J French - Jaguar Jesus [CD]

2016 release. Jaguar Jesus is all J French's production, with some of the tracks produced by J French and Mike Payton aka C.R.E.W., his longtime producer protégé. Six out of the 14 tracks were mastered by ex-Color Me Badd and Grammy nominated producer and engineer Hamza Lee, with five more tracks mastered by Kurt Dogg. J French says, "I wanted to produce this album from my hometown, " and produced the record and beats in Oklahoma City as well as Dallas, Texas, using his own studio and equipment, while using the legendary studio "Diamond Sound" for mastering. J French is lead vocalist on all of the songs and he mixed the entire record. Notable guest features on this album are rappers Original Flow and Los the Great, and soul singers Ivy Whitten and Nicole Alyse. Of the album's title Jaguar Jesus, J French says it is like a "new Marvel character, but the humblest and beautiful one."