Rene Brown

Rene Brown is an American rapper. She was born in Jackson, Mississippi. She recorded her first song “Home” on a headset while deployed in Afghanistan.

Rene Brown was born Rene Brown, in Jackson, Mississippi. She was born to a Caucasian mother and African-American father.

Rene Brown recorded her very first song while being deployed in Afghanistan. At the time, her stage name was "Halfbreed", a name she had been called growing up. When Rene came home from her 15 month deployment, she decided to put more of her focus into music. She recorded “Cruel Intentions”, and “Down in Mississippi” and put them on her Myspace music page and got a lot of positive feedback. Rene was stationed at Fort Bragg and performed her first shows at local spots in the Fayetteville, North Carolina. In 2011, Rene attended the Los Angeles Recording School engineering program. She utilized SoundCloud, putting up one song at a time, which she tracked and mixed herself. She decided to switch her stage name to her birth name "Rene Brown". In December 2013, Rene's song "Bliss" was randomly tweeted out by the CEO of Top Dawg Entertainment, which began the start of her involvement with TDE.

She was personally offered an opening slot on the Oxymoron Tour by Top Dawg. She went on to do the West Coast leg of the tour alongside Schoolboy Q, Isaiah Rashad, Vince Staples and Audio Push, up through California and into Seattle. Rene Brown continued on with the tour overseas throughout all of Europe with Schoolboy Q and Isaiah Rashad, including stops in France, Switzerland, Denmark, and the United Kingdom. On July 22, 2014, Rene Brown released her debut EP Keep To Myself which was produced by Tommy Ross and featured R&B singers Malia and Tion Phipps. The very first video for the EP was released on August 26, 2014 for the song Chasing Dreams, which was Rene’s very first single.

Since the release of her EP, Rene has been releasing constant content. She did her own rendition to Drake's "6 God" freestyle.

In August 2015, Rene releases her song titled Millions, produced by Ducko McFli.