ACHIS — BIOS & FACT SHEET
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SHORT BIO (40 words)
ACHIS is Jhay & Tai Pan — hip-hop with soul about Black male grace, legacy and the walk. Their debut album, Black Man Swag, is twelve tracks in three movements: The Walk, The Roots, The Heart. Got it or ya don't.

MEDIUM BIO (90 words)
ACHIS is Jhay & Tai Pan — hip-hop with soul about Black male grace, legacy and the walk. Off the mic, the duo have spent decades as energy-policy and government executives; on the record, they tell the story of how they carried themselves there. Their debut album, Black Man Swag, opens with a strut down a sunset boulevard, cuts back to a childhood eviction, and closes in the London rain — Ohio funk, Afrobeat, boom-bap and soul along the way. One thread runs through it: grace under pressure, legacy in motion.

LONG BIO
ACHIS is Jhay & Tai Pan — hip-hop with soul about Black male grace, legacy and the walk.

Every lyric is their own. Their debut album, Black Man Swag, is a twelve-track journey in three movements. The Walk is arrival and hunger, from the title track's "got it or ya don't" to the boardroom bravado of "Corporate America (From the Hood)." The Roots cuts back to where it started — an eviction notice taped to the door, life lived between the margins, and a grandfather in Stacy Adams who taught them to stand tall. The Heart lets the armor down: a world on fire, time slipping away, a love that refuses to be a fashion, and a closing ballad in the London rain.

Musically the record moves from Ohio funk and Afrobeat to boom-bap, Rhodes-keys soul and piano. Lyrically it stays on one subject: what it means for a Black man to carry himself with grace when the room expects him to shrink.

Off the mic, Jhay (John Haysbert) is a government and institutional relations executive whose career spans Hitachi Energy, Duke Energy and a Senior Energy Legislative Fellowship at Brookings. Tai Pan (David Haines) is a strategy and sustainability executive who has served at the Clean Energy Buyers Alliance, BakerRipley and Shell, and as a Deputy Assistant Secretary at the U.S. Department of the Interior.

HOW IT'S MADE
Every word on Black Man Swag is written by Jhay & Tai Pan — every verse, every hook, every story. The music was produced with AI assistance, then shaped, sequenced and released by the duo, and the album carries AI disclosure on every platform. The tools helped build the beat. The words are theirs.

FACTS
Artist ........ ACHIS (Jhay & Tai Pan)
Album ......... Black Man Swag
Release ....... October 31, 2026
Label ......... Tai Pan Publishing
Written by .... Jhay & Tai Pan (John Haysbert, David Haines) — all lyrics
Production .... Achis, with AI-assisted production
Genre ......... Hip-hop / soul
Length ........ 12 tracks · 45:32
Focus tracks .. Black Man Swag · Eviction Day · Corporate America (From the Hood) · Da Grandpappy
UPC ........... 700173518660
Stream ........ https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/achis/black-man-swag
Spotify ....... https://open.spotify.com/album/7mb7eVrL8tntTrxXfdLRsz
YouTube ....... https://www.youtube.com/@realachis
