CJ Fly

CJ Fly
CJ Fly (left) with Joey Badass at the Under the Influence Tour in Toronto, Canada on August 10, 2013
Background information
Birth name	Chaine Downer, Jr.
Also known as	The Storyteller The Painter Rap Game Tarantino Master Roshe
Born	(1993-07-06) July 6, 1993 (age 23) Bedford–Stuyvesant, New York City, U.S.
Genres	Hip hop
Occupation(s)	Rapper
Years active	2011–present
Labels	Cinematic Pro Era Records
Associated acts	Pro Era Ab-Soul A$AP Mob Chance the Rapper Flatbush Zombies Mick Jenkins Statik Selektah Stro The Underachievers Chelsea Reject

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 Pro Era and is signed to Cinematic. 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.

CJ Fly was born on July 6, 1993 in Brooklyn, New York City. He is the only child of a Bajan mother and Jamaican father. He began writing poetry by the fourth grade and by the seventh grade he began rapping. He attended Edward R. Murrow High School for communication arts where he met Joey Bada$$, Powers Pleasant and Capital STEEZ. The four of them would spend their school days cyphering in the auditorium. In 2011, Capital STEEZ and Powers Pleasant formed Pro Era, with CJ Fly and Joey Bada$$ brought in as its founding members.

In 2012, Pro Era released their debut mixtape The Secc$ Tape, with other members of Pro Era. He later made a breakthrough feature on Joey Bada$$'s debut mixtape 1999, "Hardknock", "Don't Front", and "Suspect" featuring the rest of Pro Era. December 23, 2012, he and Pro Era released their second mixtape PEEP: The Aprocalypse. With production from Pro Era members Chuck Strangers, Kirk Knight, Statik Selektah and others from Brandun DeShay, Thelonious Martin and more, the mixtape received critical acclaims from fans and music critics alike. CJ, along with Joey Bada$$ and Capital STEEZ, were featured on "Swank Sinatra" by close friend and Brooklyn rapper Dyme-A-Duzin. The song was released around the time of the untimely death of Pro Era cofounder, Capital STEEZ, who committed suicide on Christmas Eve of 2012.