R-EZ was born Aurrie Banks on July 24, 1985 in Bridgeport, CT. He was born on the east side, and then moved to the north end. After being evicted him and his mother moved back to the east side and lived with his grandmother. R-EZ started listening to rap seriously back in 5th grade. He was always put on punishment by his mother for bad grades. So one day when he was grounded he started listening to his clock radio and he would put it on Hot 97. From that day on he listened to hip hop all the time. R-EZ then started rapping when he was 12 years old, but used to play around with the words. He didn’t start to take a look at his abilities until he was about 16 going by the name of Majestiq. He then used to battle other mc's online in AOL chat rooms. He used to write every night and would recite his lyrics in front of his friends at school. After a year he then brought together a group called of 3 other mc's and named themselves 187. They would record every other day on a computer. After recording 10-20 songs they would put out albums and handed them out. R-EZ then stepped aside and stopped rapping for a while and then started back again to form MSP aka Maple Street Productions, named after the street he lived on. From that he then got in contact with Big Duke of Dis-tilled Entertainment and signed to the label. He is currently working on his debut album entitled It Aint EZ. If u can compare R-EZ to any style that is out in the industry now, it is stated that he sounds like a mixture between Fabolous and Ma$e.
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