With a pack-a-day rasp and the untouchable cockiness of a kid all too aware of his charms, his verse is littered with darlin’s and sweetheart’s, getting away with being an English boy “white boy wasted” all because of that secret sauce – his smile. And so, he spat the immortal words: “Have you seen the state of her body? (Mad) / If I beat it, I ain’t wearing a Johnny”, and foundations of UK rap might as well have split wide open. Here, Manchester grime saviour Bugzy Malone could share a beat with stateside rapper Fivio Foreign, who went on to deliver an incendiary verse of Kanye West’s Donda single “Off the Grid”.īut right there, shouldering his way to the front with a Burberry scarf draped around his neck, lighting up a straight with a glint in his eye, was a then-unknown teenage rapper from Brighton standing at five-foot-six. A seat at that table of nine rappers, wrestling with the impossible decision between Keisha or Becky Fiona or Adeola, was a portent of meteoric success. The track is a Renaissance depiction of drill’s Last Supper, painted by the Michelangelos of the genre. He crashed the party in 2021 with his now-infamous verse in the remix of Russ Millions and Tion Wayne’s “Body”, a platinum-certified masterclass in TikTok virality, boasting almost a quarter of a billion Spotify streams and counting. The best tricks up his sleeve are the ones you don’t realise he’s playing. But behind the curtain, Riley Davis plays his cards with an entrepreneur’s acuity.
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