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Tier 3 · vertical & regional
Jesse Boykins III
Person · male · United States · Chicago · born 1985
American musician
Timeline
1 events◦ Birth 1
1980s
Biography
English biography159 words · 5 sectionssource: wikipedia-en · licence CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1373256945
Biography
Jesse Boykins III (born February 20, 1985) is a Jamaican-American singer, songwriter, and record producer from Chicago, Illinois.
Career
Boykins is a world soul artist originally from Jamaica, later relocating to Miami and finally Brooklyn. His first EP, Dopamine: My Life On My Back EP was released February 14, 2008 and his follow up The Beauty Created LP was released November 25, 2008 through NomaDic MuSic.
In November 2017, Boykins revealed that he was signed to Def Jam Recordings. His first album under his major label deal was a physical release of his mixtape Bartholomew, which was previously released for streaming on SoundCloud in 2016. Boykins received his first Grammy nomination for co-writing Steve Lacy's lead single Playground from his Apollo XXI album.
Studio albums
The Beauty Created (2008)
Zulu Guru (with MeLo-X) (2012)
Love Apparatus (2014)
Bartholomew (2017)
New Growth (2023)
Extended plays
Dopamine: My Life on My Back (2008)
Way of a Wayfarer (2011)
Writing credits
"Playground" from Apollo XXI (2019) - Steve Lacy
Discography & profile
Normalised profile
Percentiles are computed over every artist in the database, so a tier-3 artist can still sit in the 95th percentile on a single axis.
| Metric | Value | Percentile |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia language versions | 4 | 24.3th |
| Spotify monthly listeners | — | no data |
| Release groups in DB | 0 | 0th |
| Studio albums | 0 | 0th |
| Awards recorded | 0 | 0th |
| Timeline events | 1 | 40.6th |
| Recording span (years) | — | no data |
| Genres | 1 | 56th |
Percentiles are computed at render time; missing values mean the artist has no data on that axis.
Discography (0 release groups)
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Stats & PK
Percentile within all 23,672 published artists.Put Jesse Boykins III head-to-head →
| Metric | Value | Percentile |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia language versions | 4 | 24.3th |
| Spotify monthly listeners | — | no data |
| Release groups in DB | 0 | 0th |
| Studio albums | 0 | 0th |
| Awards recorded | 0 | 0th |
| Timeline events | 1 | 40.6th |
| Recording span (years) | — | no data |
| Genres | 1 | 56th |
Awards & honours
Where this record comes from
portrait—Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0 · retrieved 11 October 2026
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jesseboykinsiii_%28300dpi%29.jpgcore—wikidata · CC0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6186173genre—wikidata · CC0 · retrieved 11 October 2026
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6186173seed-list—wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesse_Boykins_IIIbiography—wikipedia-en · CC BY-SA 4.0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesse_Boykins_III
Why this artist is in the database
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Tier rule: curated genre/region list
Image: Seher Sikandar for rehes creative · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Wikidata: Q6186173 · MusicBrainz: 2fbc5d12-d30b-41ab-a5ce-042aa60fed38
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