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CJ Fly Biography

Chaine Downer Jr. (born July 6, 1993), better known by his stage name CJ Fly, is an American rapper from Brooklyn, New York City. He is a founding member and the oldest member of the hip-hop collective group Pro Era. Throughout 2012 and 2013, he was featured on many of the collective's projects and towards the end of 2013, he released his critically acclaimed mixtape Thee Way Eye See It.

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I wouldn't compare my sound on the mixtape to anything, but my influences are like - the minimal amount of hip-hop that I actually do know - because I didn't grow up listening to hip-hop like that. No one really put me on to hip-hop like that. . . My dad's from Jamaica and my mom is from Barbados, so that's really the stuff I grew up listening to.

Actually, Growing Up, Listening, Minimal, Mixtape, Mom

I used to like smoking before I recorded, but, now it's just kind of like thinking about executing it. . . I just want it to be the best and all that. That's what really gets me in the zone nowadays. I want to put my best foot forward and make a statement.

Kind, Like, Make, Smoking, Thinking, Zone

There are three people's careers I'd like to meld together into my own. . . Jay Z's for his business mindset, Macklemore's hustle as an independent artist, and Bob Marley's impact on the world and how refined and genuine his music is to this day.

Independent, Artist, Hustle, Genuine, Business

I'd say my sound's really rooted in Jamaica and Barbados heritage , infused with just me growing up in Brooklyn, really, and being an American kid.

Barbados, Brooklyn, Growing Up, Infused, Jamaica, Kids

Sometimes I write it down, sometimes I freestyle. I get lines coming to me randomly throughout the day and I'll jot it down and build on that. If I get a line that's about love, it starts up a whole love verse. . . And if a beat speaks to me, it's like I already know what to write.

Beat, Build, Sometimes, Speak, Write, Writing

My mind corrupted but my heart is still pure

Heart, Mind, My Heart, Pure, Corrupted

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Edith Hamilton

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Caravaggio

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Baron Munchhausen

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Sidney Sheldon

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John of Capistrano

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Simon Wiesenthal