This is not a story about hardship. It is a story about a standard that got passed down and a family that constructed a launchpad. That distinction is what makes it publishable rather than pitiable, and it is what will make editors write about it.
Houston, TX (PRUnderground) July 24th, 2026
THE STORY
Jodieous’s father spent ten years in confinement, starting in juvenile detention. When he came home, he did not just rebuild. He went to Stanford.
That is the part his son watched.
“My dad was really adamant about studying and learning new stuff and new skills, and wanted to do it at the highest level, which is why he chose to go to Stanford and study there.” What a 13-year-old took from that was not the loss. It was the standard. He moved to Silicon Valley to be with his father and saw, up close, what it looks like to want something badly enough to build it from nothing.
One of the dreams his father was fighting for was his son’s: music.
So Jodieous applied the same method. “I wanted to do the same thing. I wanted to do music at the highest levels.”
But wanting it was not enough, and Jodieous did not do this alone. His uncle, Kelson “Rawk” Miller, built the runway.
Rawk had the relationships, and he spent them. He took his nephew to his first major studio session at the Record Plant in Los Angeles, the room where the Eagles cut Hotel California, Fleetwood Mac cut Rumours, and Kanye West cut The College Dropout. The studio ran 55 years and closed in 2024. Jodieous got in before the lights went out.
From there Rawk opened his entire book: the major studios, the videographers, the label executives he had worked with over the years. He put up the money. He put up the social capital. He founded Million Crowns Music, the label Jodieous is signed to, and he has been doing the management and the A&R work of an entire team by himself to get his nephew off the ground.
So for years Jodieous sat in professional studios across Los Angeles, Atlanta, and Houston with his father and his uncle, watching how the work actually gets done. He was not there to be seen. He was there to study. In his words, it was “just to get a feel for how the best of the best do it and what it takes to create and make generational music that influences the culture.”
Two brothers pooled everything they had into one kid. One supplied the standard. The other supplied the machine.
And here is the part that matters. Access is not rare in that world. Everyone around Jodieous’s father and his uncle has the same doors, the same phone numbers, the same rooms available to them. Nobody else walked through and did this.
Doors do not make records. A door will not teach you to mix. It will not sit you in a session for years and make you study instead of posture. It will not make a Grammy winner keep taking your calls. Jodieous watched and learned for years, decided this was the thing, and then went and did it. The access was there for everyone. The work was not.
Then Jodieous went and did the work. Last year he started engineering in earnest, teaching himself mixing, mastering, songwriting, and structure.
And then, on July 22, 2025, Ozzy Osbourne died.
Jodieous was staying in Hollywood that summer, splitting time between Los Angeles and San Diego. He walked outside and found the neighborhood full of vigils. Strangers, all over the city, grieving a man most of them had never met.
He had spent years studying what it takes to make generational music that influences the culture. Standing in the street that week, he was looking at the answer.
“I realized my own admiration for him was shared by so many people’s lives that he had touched during his time on earth. I want to do the same.”
He picked up a guitar for the first time that summer. “Ozzy was a legend and has influenced music in so many ways, that I felt I had to start playing the guitar out of homage, and to keep the legend alive in my own way.”
Everything happened in that same year. He started engineering. He started playing guitar. And a Grammy winner and two platinum producers signed on to his debut EP.
The craft is what opened those doors. “That led to me capturing the interest of other people from the same places I am from taking an interest in my talent.” Those people were not amateurs. Donn Robb, whose credits run through The Kid LAROI, Juice WRLD, and G Herbo. Oz On The Track, whose work appears on records by Juice WRLD, Polo G, and Lil Durk. CBMIX (Christopher Barnett), the Grammy-winning, multi-platinum producer and engineer behind Chance the Rapper’s Coloring Book and Juice WRLD’s “Wasted,” and the man who helped break Lil Pump as a teenager on “ESSKEETIT,” the Top 10 Kanye West single “I Love It,” and “Arms Around You” with XXXTENTACION. Chicago producer Malcolm Flex, of Malcolm Flex Productions.
That CBMIX name matters more than it looks. He does not just make hits. He has a track record of taking teenagers and breaking them globally. He is now in the room with a 19-year-old.
“What You Been Missing,” produced by Donn Robb and out July 17, is the record that came out of it.
On the surface it is addressed to a girl. Someone who has moved through relationships and situationships and never met anyone on the trajectory he is on, and who cannot yet see what he actually is: what he means to his collaborators, his network, the cities that made him.
Underneath, it is about weight.
“Everyone is counting on me to not get distracted and to deliver on all of the hopes and ambitions and hard work and sacrifice that they have poured into me, and that I have poured into the mission personally and financially.”
He carries that into every room, including the ones with someone who likes him. It does not land the way people expect. “It gets overwhelming to them, or is confusing, because I always have to stay on mission and make sure I live out my life in the way that it was destined to. Sometimes that conflicts with what people have been used to or expect to happen when they experience me for the first time.”
He is not writing about temptation. He is writing about obligation, and about what it costs to be unavailable in the ordinary ways when you are carrying everyone who bet on you.
The title cuts both ways. What she has been missing, and what she is missing about him.
And then there is the floor beneath that.
His father was a teenager chasing material prosperity to provide for his family. He lost ten years. What he lost was not the money.
“What he was missing was how special his son was destined to become.”
Jodieous does not say this bitterly. He says it with something closer to grace. “Now I think it is pretty clear to my dad as well how talented I was as a child, if I would have had him there the whole time. But I understand that life happens to people all the time.”
And then the turn that explains everything else in this kit: “My father really made sure that whatever he could do to make my own dreams come true, he was going to do that, and not miss another chance ever again in my life.”
That is why his father books his shows. That is why he sat in those studios with him for years. That is why his uncle built a record label. The amends is the infrastructure.
A song called “What You Been Missing,” from a son to a father who missed it, and who came home and made sure he never would again.
The single leads a debut EP co-produced by Donn Robb and Oz On The Track, recorded entirely in Chicago. It arrives with a five-city tour, July 15 to 19, opening in Chicago where the record was born and landing in Atlanta on release night.
At 19, Jodieous Writes, Produces, Engineers, and Plays Guitar on His Own Music. Grammy and Platinum Producers Are Backing His Debut.
“What You Been Missing,” produced by Donn Robb, arrives July 17 alongside a five-city tour
Jodieous, a 19-year-old writer, producer, engineer, and guitarist, releases his debut single “What You Been Missing” on July 17 via Million Crowns Music. The record is produced by Donn Robb, the platinum Chicago producer known for his work with The Kid LAROI (“WITHOUT YOU,” “GO”), Juice WRLD, and G Herbo.
The single leads a debut EP co-produced by Donn Robb and Oz On The Track (Juice WRLD, Polo G, Lil Durk), recorded entirely in Chicago. Jodieous has also worked with CBMIX (Christopher Barnett), the Grammy-winning, multi-platinum producer and engineer whose credits include Chance the Rapper’s Coloring Book and Juice WRLD’s “Wasted,” and who was instrumental in breaking Lil Pump as a teenage artist, co-producing “ESSKEETIT,” the Top 10 Kanye West collaboration “I Love It,” and “Arms Around You” with XXXTENTACION. Additional collaborators include Chicago producer Malcolm Flex of Malcolm Flex Productions.
Jodieous credits his approach to his father, who spent ten years in confinement beginning in juvenile detention and, upon release, enrolled at Stanford University. Jodieous moved to Silicon Valley at 13 to be with him.
“My dad was really adamant about studying and learning new stuff and new skills, and wanted to do it at the highest level, which is why he chose to go to Stanford and study there,” Jodieous said. “I wanted to do the same thing. I wanted to do music at the highest levels.”
Before he made records, he studied them. Jodieous spent years in studios across Los Angeles, Atlanta, and Houston with his father and his uncle, Kelson “Rawk” Miller, observing professional sessions “just to get a feel for how the best of the best do it and what it takes to create and make generational music that influences the culture.”
Miller, who founded Million Crowns Music, built the network and collaborations behind the project and signed Jodieous to the label. Jodieous’s father co-manages him.
Jodieous began engineering in earnest last year, teaching himself mixing, mastering, songwriting, and structure. He took up the guitar in the summer of 2025, after Ozzy Osbourne died on July 22. Jodieous was staying in Hollywood at the time and found the neighborhood filled with vigils.
“Ozzy was a legend and has influenced music in so many ways, that I felt I had to start playing the guitar out of homage, and to keep the legend alive in my own way,” Jodieous said. “I realized my own admiration for him was shared by so many people’s lives that he had touched during his time on earth. I want to do the same.”
All of it happened inside a single year: he began engineering, took up the guitar, and landed a Grammy winner and two platinum producers on his debut EP.
“What You Been Missing” is autobiographical. On its surface it addresses a girl who cannot yet see the trajectory he is on. Underneath it is about the weight of expectation, and what it costs to stay on mission when everyone who sacrificed for you is counting on you.
“Everyone is counting on me to not get distracted and to deliver on all of the hopes and ambitions and hard work and sacrifice that they have poured into me,” Jodieous said. “Sometimes that conflicts with what people have been used to or expect to happen when they experience me for the first time.”
The title carries a second meaning. Jodieous’s father, a teenager chasing money to provide for his family, spent ten years in confinement and missed his son growing up.
“What he was missing was how special his son was destined to become,” Jodieous said. “But I understand that life happens to people all the time. My father really made sure that whatever he could do to make my own dreams come true, he was going to do that, and not miss another chance ever again in my life.”
His father now manages him and books his shows. His uncle founded the label that signed him.
The release arrives with a five-city debut tour:
- July 15: Chicago, Bookclub
- July 16: New York, CHOWK
- July 17: Atlanta, Square Globe Studios (release day)
- July 18: Houston, LFTP Studios
- July 19: Los Angeles, The Virgil
“What You Been Missing” will be available on all major platforms July 17. Pre-save: https://vyd.co/WhatYouBeenMising
Press: Kelson “Rawk” Miller, Million Crowns Music, miller@millioncrownsmusic.com Booking: Jodi Anderson Jr., booking@jodieous.com Web: jodieous.com
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