Otto Bohon has captured the attention of the music industry and is poised for his newest underground hip-hop album to propel him into mainstream music.

Otto Bohon, a UA Sophomore and southwest Tucson native, stumbled into music as a way to escape from the turmoil surrounding his adolescence. “I went into a really bad point in my life,” Otto candidly explains. “My parents had been divorced for awhile, and I used to have an anger problem, a really bad anger problem, actually. I used to have to go to the counselor at school every time I needed to calm down. Then I started writing my emotions down, and it spawned better creativity and better words. That’s when I started a group called Hidden Intent.”

While Otto was still in high school, he and the four members of Hidden Intent made their first album and headlined at The Rock in December 2001. The group disbanded shortly thereafter, but Otto continued on to pursue a solo project as Jade Wing. After graduating from Catalina Foothills High School, Otto set up makeshift equipment in his UofA dorm room and recorded his first album as a solo rap artist, called ‘First Intention.’

Within months of the release, Jade Wing was snatched up by Corbin Grimes, CEO of Capital Imaging Group, a demo listening company that has worked with some of the industry’s top labels. Grimes was drawn to Jade Wing’s original sound. “He said that I sounded so different, he absolutely loved it,” said Otto. Grimes has been acting as Jade Wing’s agent and, with his guidance, the young talent has already grabbed the attention of major labels and has been shopped by Shady, Bad Boy, Universal and Interscope to name a few. With the upcoming release of his new album, “patience,” Jade Wing seems poised for an arrival into mainstream music.

“Patience,” has been a massive undertaking; the impassioned lyricist/producer/artist has converted his bedroom into a studio and has already written and produced over 50 songs for the 15+ track album. When asked when he works, Otto doesn’t hesitate to answer, “All the time. I always carry a little notebook with me. If I don’t have a notebook; I write on my hand, on a napkin, anything.”

Otto’s Skillful turns at rapping and mixing, as well as his innovative sound is the driving force behind the predicted success of “Patience.” Even in pre-release, it has already been slated as an edgy compilation that confronts sex, girls, politics, and the music industry. With this album, Otto feels confident that he has grown as an artist to a place where he is poised for success. “I’m at the level now that I can ‘make it.’ I have the knowledge and skill level that many people entering [the music industry] don’t. My lyrics are smarter, more creative and I have better rhyme schemes than I did before.”

While Otto sites the influences of many major rap artists on his own music, his sounds is all his own, and his is not shy about differentiating himself from mainstream icons of rap music. “People say, ‘Are you trying to be the next Eminem?’ and I say, ‘No. I’m trying to be the first Jade Wing.’”