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Yeah, I was in year seven in secondary school.

It was not a turmoil time.

I was really trying to implement it.

You know, like when you try and give yourself a nickname, it's not that cool.

Everyone's like...

we're not calling you that, do you know what I mean?

Because you're not a rapper, you're just Riley, 11 years old.

And it would kind of be like a little joke in school, like, well, RD, yeah?

And I'd be like, yeah, come on, but I know they're taking liberty, do you know what I mean?

So that's wild, I didn't realise that.

has impacted who you've become looking back now as an adult i look back at me as my mentality as a teenager and how like proud to just be myself always and how comfortable i was really in my own skin from such a young age like i started even making music when i was

11 12 and i don't think this is young but even in a sense of like i was making my own music i bought myself my own usb mic was uploading it myself onto youtube and when people were like what makes you think you can be a rapper i'm like why can't i like i can do anything and part of that is installation from my mom's mentality and how i was raised but i do think part of it was from brighton and i think it also is a huge part of

me and my career and why people drew to me at a time where, like, the typical UK rap story is, like, London or Manchester and was coming up, do you know what I mean?

Yeah.

But there wasn't necessarily that Brighton.

And I was very Brighton.

Obviously, Jordan and Rizzle Kits were from Brighton and they still implemented it, but I was...

I was screaming it from rooftops.

Every video you could see it was like seaside and I was mentioning it a lot.

And yeah, so it plays a massive part and I love it.