# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jam-master-jay
# Generated: 2026-08-13T05:55:34.629Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jam-master-jay"
name: "Jam Master Jay"
slug: "jam-master-jay"
description: "Jason William Mizell, better known by his stage name Jam Master Jay, was an American musician, record producer and DJ. He was the DJ of the influential hip hop group Run-DMC. During the 1980s, Run-DMC became one of the biggest hip hop groups, credited with breaking hip hop into mainstream music. Mizell was inducted posthumously into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Run-DMC in 2009."
tagline: "American hip hop musician (1965–2002)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Jam_Master_Jay.png?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
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profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1965-01-21"
deathDate: "2002-10-30"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0.00756048387096774
  historical:           21.664776
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "nm0594575"
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    title: "Джем Майстер Джей"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump