Matthew Hayes

**Matthew Hayes** (born June 8, 2000) is an American music producer and technology enthusiast, aspiring content creator, podcast host, singer-songwriter and streamer, and former text-to-speech enthusiast. He is known online as **RenegadeHayes**, and is commonly nicknamed the "Renegade".

Hayes is the founder and CEO of Renegade Media, the leader of Team Renegade and the founder, president and creative executive of the **Renegade Content Creation Network**. He is considering a job in content creation, but currently plans are stalled due to the lack of a job that pays him money. He is very interested in auto detailing as he mainly watches The Detail Geek and M.A.D. DETAILING's videos on YouTube, so he is working on making auto detailing his job while he works on saving up on equipment for content creation, however he would prefer to remain in New England rather than move out west for bigger opportunities at the moment. He is interested in moving his primary operations to either Los Angeles, Santa Monica or San Francisco, while having his secondary operations located in southern New England, primarily during the summer and winter seasons to remain in contact with his siblings.

Hayes is known to be very private and does not want to reveal too much about his personal life as he fears a privacy breach.

## **Trivia**

* Hayes is a huge fan of the National Football League; his all-time favorite players are Patrick Mahomes, Josh Allen, Jalen Hurts, Joe Burrow, Justin Jefferson, Davante Adams and Christian McCaffrey. He originally was a big fan of Tom Brady during most of his Patriots tenure, but turned against him after he continued playing into his 40s. He has a lot of favorite teams in the NFL, but his primary favorite teams from each division are the Buffalo Bills (because of Allen), Cincinnati Bengals (because of Burrow), Kansas City Chiefs (because of Mahomes and Kelce) and New England Patriots (because he's from New England) in the AFC, and the San Francisco 49ers (because of McCaffrey), Tampa Bay Buccaneers (originally because of their defense and current uniforms) and Philadelphia Eagles (because of Hurts) in the NFC. He also manages a fantasy football team in his family league, and is entering his sixth season. He watches a lot of NFL Network, including RedZone, during the regular season.
* Hayes loves superhero movies from both DC and Marvel. His favorite DC character is the Flash, and his favorite Marvel character is Rocket Raccoon.
* Hayes' favorite video game characters are Yoshi from the Mario and Yoshi franchises, and Red from Angry Birds.
* Hayes’ dream cars, if he ever decides to drive in real life, are a red Lexus RX 350L AWD SUV as his primary vehicle during the fall, winter and spring, a red Cadillac Escalade V-Series as his primary family vehicle, and a red Mazda MX-5 Miata Grand Touring as a summer vehicle. He would like to start off with a blue Nissan Altima or Honda Civic but he currently prefers having others transport him due to his fear of crashing the car and getting mad at dumb drivers on the road. He only likes driving in video games that involve vehicles, such as Euro Truck Simulator 2, GMod and Grand Theft Auto V.
* Hayes' favorite music genres are EDM, hip-hop, pop, R&B and rock, although he does like classical, country, film score, jazz and Latin.
* Hayes said that he wants to do a side gig of content creation (which is the main reason why he founded the RCCN as his personal content creation service), but he would personally prefer to use a Mac over a PC for video editing, photo manipulation and music production with Final Cut Pro, Motion, Photoshop and Logic Pro. He prefers PCs for gaming and recording his game consoles using a capture card.
* Hayes used an iPhone 11 Pro as his main smartphone from March 2020 to May 2023. He replaced it with a Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra on May 27.
* As he is autistic, Hayes was heavily involved in unified sports in the mid to late 2010s, playing basketball.
* On July 14, 2023, Hayes underwent surgery to remove one of his wisdom teeth. It was the first surgical procedure in his lifetime.
* Although his series the Renegade Animals features edited versions of the anthropomorphic animals from his favorite movies and video games, Hayes does ***not*** consider himself to be a furry.

## **Discography**

### **DJ Simbz**

* *We Like to Party Hard (2023, single)*
* *Hazy Skies (2023, single)*