![]() Since signing to TDE in 2013 - joining SZA, Kendrick Lamar, Jay Rock, Ab-Soul, and ScHoolboy Q - Isaiah Rashad, known colloquially as Zay, has lived in Los Angeles, near the label’s home base. “It feels refreshing to be here,” he says, less of Calvin Donaldson and more of Chattanooga as a whole. It’s an overcast day in early June when we meet at Calvin Donaldson Elementary, where Rashad, now 30, spent his first- and second-grade years. ![]() In reality, Isaiah’s rise may have been hard to miss - while Memphis, five hours west of Chattanooga, has hip-hop claims to fame like Three 6 Mafia, Young Dolph, Pooh Sheisty, and others, Isaiah and his rap collective The House may be Chattanooga’s most successful figures in the genre. The Top Dawg Entertainment rapper was so introverted as he bounced around schools in the city as a child that he’s not convinced his old elementary classmates would even remember him. He got on stage and did his little gallop, but went on to live a big life. Isaiah had no lines or memorable moments. ![]() Isaiah Rashad got one of his first tastes of the spotlight in the fourth grade, as a horse in a school play in his native Chattanooga, Tennessee.
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