Raykeea Raeen-Roes Wilson (born July 10, 1991)[1][2][3] known professionally as ROES (fka Angel Haze),[4] is an American rapper and singer.

[5] On December 31, 2013, Wilson released their debut album Dirty Gold, which featured the singles "Echelon (It's My Way)" and "Battle Cry".

Their father, who died from a gunshot wound before their birth, was African American and their mother is of Cherokee descent.

"[13] After a pastor threatened Wilson's mother, the family left the church, moving to Brooklyn, New York,[14] when they were 15 years old.

[15] The pastor told Haze's family that God was going to kill them, and they lived in fear for years afterward.

[8] From 2009 to 2012, Wilson put out a number of mixtapes for free download on the Internet: New Moon, Altered Ego, King, and Voice.

In July 2012, they released the free mixtape Reservation to critical acclaim, receiving an 88/100 score from Metacritic.

[2] On August 28, 2013, Wilson released "Echelon (It's My Way)" as the lead single from the debut album Dirty Gold.

[25][26] On September 14, 2015, Wilson released the mixtape Back to the Woods announcing that the project was just "something to share before a sophomore".

[28][29] After Wilson moved to New York and began listening to secular music, they became inspired by artists such as Eminem, Kanye West, Nicki Minaj, Drake and Lil Wayne.

[21] Wilson has also been open about their experience with mental illnesses such as addiction, posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), depression and anorexia[30] in their music and in interviews and social media.

"[31] In a 2014 Vice column, Wilson discussed cultural appropriation and white artists making hip hop, saying "There seems to be this hypocrisy because people want to appropriate black culture but only when it's cool or beneficial to them … And that's the reason that people don't have a right, to some extent, to use black music to their own gains.

'"[34] In 2015, Wilson noted that in an interview with BuzzFeed that they identify as neither male nor female and explained, "I feel like my agenderness and my gender identity have evolved".

[33] In 2016, they told the Evening Standard that they preferred he/him or she/her pronouns, expressing their feeling that, when reading articles about themself, "I sound like four people when I get written about as 'they.'