The single became an underground sensation and led to his contract with Payday Records.
Jeru toured with the group during 1993 and released his solo debut, Come Clean, for Gang Starr's Illkids label. At high school, he met Guru and DJ Premier of Gang Starr, and first guested on Gang Starr's "I'm the Man," from the 1992 album Daily Operation. Raised Kendrick Jeru Davis in Brooklyn, the Damaja began writing rhymes at the age of ten. Though he made few friends in the rap world - given his outspoken criticism of such popular figures as the Fugees and Sean "Puffy" Combs - he proved a vital force in the emergence of the new rap consciousness of the late '90s.
Jeru first appeared as a guest on Gang Starr's Daily Operation album, and his own deal with Payday/ffrr appeared soon after, resulting in 1994's The Sun Rises in the East. Speaking out against what he saw as a decline in rap during the mid-'90s, Jeru the Damaja came to the fore as a self-proclaimed prophet and the savior of hip-hop, much as KRS-One had done almost ten years before.
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