Jay Griffin

Jay Griffin’s one of those rare industry folks who can walk into any room—TV, film, music, you name it—and just get things moving. Straight outta New York, he’s got that built-in radar for what’s next in culture, and he’s been flexing those storytelling muscles for over thirty years. Dude’s not just clocking time, either—he’s racked up more than 100 hours of actual programming, and people know him for being sharp, gutsy at the negotiation table, and just relentlessly creative. He jumped into TV with a bang back in 2006, co-producing Hip Hop Hold’em (yeah, the first hip-hop poker show that hit syndication nationwide—kind of wild, right?). Then he kept leveling up: Executive Producer for VH1’s Luke’s Parental Advisory (remember Luther Campbell?), plus The Gossip Game—Angela Yee showed up here before she blew up with The Breakfast Club. But honestly, the real jaw-dropper was in 2017, when Jay helmed Who Shot Biggie & Tupac on FOX. That thing mixed raw authenticity with deep-dive journalism, and people couldn’t stop talking about it. Now, Jay runs Kyko Media, still pushing out bold unscripted series. He produced back-to-back seasons of Real Murders of Atlanta and kicked off Sin City Murders for Oxygen/44 Blue—both in the last couple years, so he’s not slowing down. For 2025, he’s cooking up a true crime docuseries in Atlanta, plus a scripted project about Dr. Guy Fisher—the Harlem legend who went from kingpin to Apollo Theater owner to prison scholar. Jay Griffin? Still all gas, no brakes.