TJay Johnson on Clubhouse

Bio

🔊 • I Make Music For The Underdog
🌍 • OTMMG Label Owner
🎹 • Recording Artist - Producer
📺 • Youtuber
📖 • Author - Fake Blues: Creating in the Face of Anxiety
💿 • Stream My Music Below

http://wordplaytjay.com

The first album in the series — “Job Application” — was released in 2016 and includes his first feature, including Futuristic in a “Bubble.” It was his biggest hit yet, not garnering a ton of commercial appeal but bringing in a solid amount of royalties. For T. Jay, it felt like the work over the past three years after the Ari Herstand consultation was finally starting to pay off.

After “Bubble,” T. Jay started dishing out weekly releases, building up to the second album in the series — “Orientation Day.” The track “Tony Robbins” was the star of that album, his second-biggest track to date that helped solidify On The Map’s income.

It further pushed T. Jay to start Music Advice by WordPlay T. Jay on YouTube, as he was looking to establish another source of growth. Using YouTube’s search algorithm to his advantage, T. Jay began making videos with key words he thought people would search for. He planned to release the videos as a full course for sale, but ultimately decided they would make a larger impact if he released them for free. The 25-video coursed ended up becoming a weekly topical video on music marketing, production, planning, and more.

One year after starting it, the channel gained a following, enough that T. Jay was bringing in 200-330 subscribers per month and starting to generate revenue from YouTube.

In 2019, T. Jay also wrote a book, “Fake Blues: Creating in the Face of Anxiety,” which delves into how T. Jay has dealt with his anxiety over the years, his insecurity about putting out music and how to work through those mental issues.

Money from those projects was invested back into T. Jay’s music, and he continues to release monthly tracks as part of the build-up to his final album in the work-related series — “Over:Time” — set for release in June 2020 and chronicling the focus on his hustle and patience while working on his ultimate dream — to work on his music full-time.

Currently, T. Jay lives in Tacoma, Wash., with his wife. He teaches middle school computer science.