John reuben biography

John Reuben Zappin (born January 14, 1979 in Columbus, Ohio) is a Dove award nominated Christian rapper and singer signed to TobyMac's Gotee Records. He released his debut album, Are We There Yet? in 2000 and has since released 2002's Hindsight, 2003's Professional Rapper, 2005's The Boy vs. The Cynic, 2007's Word of Mouth and 2009's Sex, Drug and Self-Control. He has also released a remix album of tracks off his first three albums, titled So In Hindsight the Professional Rapper Isn't There Yet.

John Reuben Zappin, was born in Columbus, Ohio. He is of Jewish heritage and according to his MySpace, his mother is the owner of a Christian Death Metal record label. Raised in Pataskala, Ohio, a suburb of Columbus, Reuben got his start in rapping in 1994 by taking the bus into the city to rap on open mic nights and participate in rap battles at the age of fifteen. Reuben later released Monuments, an independent EP, which caught the attention of Gotee Records. They took a chance, signing him to the label and releasing his first project, Are We There Yet

John Reuben

John Reuben

John Reuben on LifeLight tours in Huron, South Dakota, in April 2009

Birth nameJohn Reuben Zappin
Born (1979-01-14) January 14, 1979 (age 46)
Columbus, Ohio, U.S.
OriginPataskala, Ohio, U.S.
GenresHip hop, alternative hip hop, Christian hip hop
OccupationRecording artist
Years active1994–present
LabelsGotee
Websitewww.johnreuben.com

Musical artist

John Reuben (born John Reuben Zappin; January 14, 1979) is an American Christian hip hop artist signed to Gotee Records until late 2010. Reuben has sold over 200,000 copies of his first four albums.[1][2][3] He released his sixth album, Sex, Drugs and Self-Control on December 22, 2009. The album was nominated for a Dove Award for Rap/Hip-Hop Album of the Year at the 42nd GMA Dove Awards, while the song "No Be Nah" was nominated for Rap/Hip-Hop Recorded Song of the Year.[4][better source needed]

Reuben continues to tour, and has played and recorded music with many popular Christian mus

From A Rap Career To A $500m Production Company – With Grammy Nominated Badass John Reuben

[00:00:00] Chris: [00:00:00] Welcome to another episode of the six figure home studio podcast. I'm your lonely co-host Chris Graham. Brian Hood is in Thailand with his lovely wife. Gallivanting around the world having lots of fun. And I'm hanging out here in Westerville, Ohio with one of my homeboys, one of my best buds, mr John Ruben, who is going to tell us his story is insane.

[00:00:42] So I'm gonna just really briefly tell you why you should listen to this episode because John has a lot of nuggets of wisdom for us to process here. John, at one point. Well, 1520 years ago was like, Hey, I'm going to make Christian rap songs. And in the whole world was like, yeah, you're the best Christian rapper ever.

[00:01:02] And you sold a humongous amount of records. And then at some point you started producing artists that also went well. And then at one point you moved out to LA two I run a company called maker with your brother and maker's essentially like a label for YouTube. ERs.

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