Zaay, hails from Lawrence, Massachusetts — a miniscule town to the north of Boston. Its proximity to one of the nation’s premiere areas for eclectic hip- hop talent accounts for Zaay’s willingness to innovate in his music. He’s been close to the hip-hop scene his entire life, studying it to learn where it breaks down at the seams so that he could one day reconstruct it in his own image. He began freestyling when he was an adolescent to understand the ebb and flow of the genre, also to give breath to the complex mess of rap-inspired ideas tumbling around in his brain. He first began to further organize these verses into cohesive songs with hooks in February of 2016. Now, with years of experience under his belt, he’s transforming into a fearsome presence that commands attention whenever he breathes on a track.