Real name: William G. Shields

Effective period / Period of releases: 1999 - 2023

Prolific english MC, born in Kent in the summer of '79, Jehst spent his childhood in Sussex before moving to Huddersfield, West Yorkshire as a teenager. Fueled by the bleak reality of the smack infested post-industrial North he re-located to London, making his vinyl debut in 1999 with the highly acclaimed "Premonitions" EP, launching the self-financed YNR (Young ‘n’ Restless) Productions label from his University halls of residence.