Johnny Jackson, a.k.a. “Johnny J,” was a multi-platinum songwriter, music producer, & rapper who was perhaps best known for his production on Tupac Shakur’s albums All Eyez on Me and Me Against the World (the former of which included Shakur’s only Billboard Hot 100 hit, “How Do U Want It,” which J also produced.) According to his own MySpace page, J died on October 3, 2008 at the age of 39. While serving a sentence for DWI in the Twin Towers Correctional Facility located in Los Angeles, California, he allegedly jumped off an upper tier of the prison in an apparent suicide. He was born in Juárez, Mexico, in 1969 and raised in South Central Los Angeles. Johnny J was owner and CEO of Klock Work Entertainment. (more…)