Jay Lewis

Southern rapper Jay Lewis used the Internet to his advantage for his mixtape series, Dreams of Getting Rich, released between 2016 and 2018. Years later, two songs from the mixtapes -- "I Hope" and "Bag Season" -- went viral on TikTok and their popularity inspired him to start making music again. Steven Jay Lewis was born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, in 1994 started rapping around 2013, when he uploaded his first song, "DJ Mix," to SoundCloud. Like many mid-2010s hopefuls, he took advantage of various social media apps, earning a following for various six-second loops on the sh...