Ren, a.k.a. Playa Azian, has always had passion for music. "I can't remember exactly how old I was, approximately five years old, I used to listen to Rock & Roll like Guns & Roses, Metallica, and Kiss. Then when Run DMC came to the game, I was on it." Ever since then he's been listening to Hip-Hop but still keeps in touch with his rock side.

P.A. started spittin' lyrics when he was about fifteen years old with a classmate. "For some reason he got me rappin', then we both started rappin' together and writing rhymes using the dictionary." Since then he kept writing and going to studios flowing with different people on occasion.

Just when P.A. seemed to be on his way to being noticed, he was incarcerated for eighteen months which he likes to call his "vacation". During his incarceration, he was still writing and flowing. "I was never really into freestyling or freestyle battles. I was always into writing songs with hooks and content." Playa started writing out his life experiences like in this rhyme, "I'm out now free as a bird/ eighteen months in a box and this is all I heard/ Playa dot Azian/ affiliated Franklins/out to get money and out to take money." That rhyme is off his debut album "The One" from the song titled "You Can't Touch This.

After spending eighteen months in confinement, he returned to Cali. When he knew being involved in Hip-Hop is what he wanted to do, he managed to spark the interest of Bigshot Music top producer and Vice President Andre J. Clarke a.k.a Big Dre the Decepticon. Dre and P.A. recorded a song called "Bounce Trick" and brought it to the attention of Bigshot's exec Michael Oronde Wright. "I first heard P.A.'s song over the phone and was like, "who's that?" I finally went to the studio to hear the song in person and also to meet P.A. When I heard the song for the second time in person and saw Playa, I new right off the bat that he was a star and could be a powerful force to the Bigshot family."