Jake Paul featuring reggae singer, The Urban Empress (Kristin Urban) Milwaukee singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Jake Paul refuses to rest. He’s released two albums of original material in three years, fronts a Sublime tribute band called Solar and recently joined forces with friend and Milwaukee-based reggae-roots vocalist Kristin Urban to record Urbanize It: A Compilation of Music by Jake Paul & The Urban Empress. The new album consists of reworked songs from the Jake Paul Band’s first two records, The Jailbreak and The Providence EP — reggae-fied with Urban on vocals and renowned horn player John Criston Widule (also from Milwaukee) on trumpet. “All of my music has been an experiment, but you can’t just release songs and hope they’ll take off,” Paul says, explaining how the versions on Urbanize It have been honed and polished so that they now appear as he originally envisioned them. “I wasn’t willing to give up on these songs. I’ve always known there was something to them.” Urbanize It • Includes a live version of “Road Trip” recorded in Chicago during Summer 2014 — plus two brand-new songs: the moody ballad “Reap” and "Illuminate." • Features a new version of Jake Paul’s signature song, “Hollow,” which was written about Jake’s mother, whose 1988 murder at the age of 33 remains unsolved more than 25 years later. • File under “Pop/Rock” and call it “Reggae Jam.” • Available in physical and digital versions. • Emotional music that proves you should never give up on something you believe in. Track Listing: 1. Indstructible 2. Illuminate 3. Stripe Night 4. Hollow 5. Reap 6. Road Trip (The Providence EP; recorded live in Chicago, 2014) 7. Inhale Cover art by Kay Lum and Jake Paul