Background
Raeen Roes Wilson was born on July 10, 1992, in Detroit, Michigan to a military family.
Raeen Roes Wilson was born on July 10, 1992, in Detroit, Michigan to a military family.
In 2012, Haze released the European Parliament Reservation for online and later signed a record deal with Universal Republic Records before they converted to Republic Records. On December 31, 2013, Haze released the debut album Dirty Gold, which features the singles "Echelon (lieutenant"s My Way)" and "Battle Cry". In 2015, the project Back to the Woods was made available as a free download.
Wilson is a mix of African and Native American ancestry and a self-taught speaker of Tsalagi.
Haze was raised in the Greater Apostolic Faith, but is no longer practicing. In an interview with The Guardian, Haze stated: "we all lived in the same community, within 10 minutes of each other.
You weren"t allowed to talk to anyone outside of that, you weren"t allowed to wear jewelry, listen to music, to eat certain things, to date people..you weren"t allowed to do pretty much anything." However, after a pastor threatened Wilson"s mother, the family left the church and moved to Brooklyn, New York when Haze was 16 years old. Haze soon began delving into the world of secular music
In 2012, Haze recounted the experience of being raped as a child in "Cleaning Out My Closet", a song from the mixtape Classick, which borrows the beat from Eminem"s song of the same name.
From 2009 to 2012, Haze released a series of mixtapes for free download on the Internet: New Moon, Altered Ego, King, and Voice. In July 2012, Haze released the free mixtape Reservation to critical acclaim, receiving an 88/100 score from Metacritic. On December 9, the British Broadcasting Corporation announced that Haze had been nominated for the Sound of 2013 poll.
On August 28, 2013, Haze released "Echelon (lieutenant"s My Way)" as the lead single from the debut album, Dirty Gold, and leaked the entire album on December 18, 2013.
The album was supposedly scheduled for a March 2014 release. Dirty Gold was finally released through Island Records and Republic Records on December 30, 2013, to positive reviews but low first-week sales of 857 copies in the United Kingdom and less than 1,000 copies in the United States.
On September 14, 2015, Haze released the mixtape Back to the Woods announcing that the project was just "something to share before a sophomore". Haze identifies as pansexual and as agender.
In an interview with The Guardian, Haze stated that, "Love is boundary-less.
If you can make me feel, if you can make me laugh – and that"s hard – then I can be with you. I don"t care if you have a vagina or if you"re a hermaphrodite or whatever."
In 2014, Haze indicated a romantic involvement with Ireland Baldwin, while Baldwin posted an Instagram image of herself and Haze captioned, "eah it"s national girlfriend day.. so of course.".
Quotations:
"we all lived in the same community, within 10 minutes of each other. You weren"t allowed to talk to anyone outside of that, you weren"t allowed to wear jewelry, listen to music, to eat certain things, to date people..you weren"t allowed to do pretty much anything." However, after a pastor threatened Wilson"s mother, the family left the church and moved to Brooklyn, New York when Haze was 16 years old. Haze soon began delving into the world of secular music
In 2012, Haze recounted the experience of being raped as a child in "Cleaning Out My Closet".
