Rene Cortez, aka Jay, was born December 17th 1986 in El Paso, Tx. Growing up was hard for him due to his parents divorcing at the age of 4. Seeing the abuse going on between his parents, he lived in pain. As a teen, he had made choices that would lead him down the wrong path. Being held at the juvenile detention for nearly all of his teen years, he learned to put his pain and heartaches into poetry. While being detained, his mother submitted one of his poems to a Poetry Contest. He won. With that happening, his motivation for poetry had just started. At the age of 17, he met a group who introduced him to hip hop. At that time, Jay wasn’t ready to take that commitment to music. At the age of 18, Jay was giving the greatest gift (at that time). A baby girl named, Ava Patricia. Being a young father. Jay knew what he had to do. Work a full time job, go to school and of course. Being a Dad. In 2007, his daughter was taken by her mother without a goodbye and since then, there has been no