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Jay B of Got7 joins Jay Park’s hip-hop label H1ghr Music and will release new solo single on Friday
- Jay B is the latest of Got7’s members to announce his future plans after the seven members of the boy band left JYP Entertainment earlier this year
- Got7 assured fans that although they parted ways with JYP, they will stay together as a group
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Jay B of K-pop group Got7 has signed with South Korean hip-hop label H1ghr Music, which is headed by Jay Park, the Korean-American rapper, songwriter, producer and entrepreneur.
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Jay B (Lim Jae-beom), also known as JB, is the latest of Got7’s members to announce his future plans after the seven members of the boy band left long-term company JYP Entertainment earlier this year. Jay B plans to release a new solo single on Friday.
Both Park and Jay B, who coincidentally share the first given name in Korean, were formerly managed by JYP. Park is said to have reached out to Jay B and invited him to join H1ghr Music as he takes the next step in his career.
“As I’m starting as a solo artist, I wanted to be free in the musical spectrum,” Jay B said of why he decided to join H1ghr Music. “So I had to spend a lot of time thinking of what kind of music I should pursue and other factors outside of the music.”
The two Jays comically interacted and performed together briefly in a video Jay B shared on his Instagram soon after H1ghr Music announced that he had joined the label.
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