Courtney Freckleton (born January 17, 1990), known by most as Nines or Nina wid da Nina, is a British rapper hailing from the North-West London Church Road housing estate of Church End in Harlesden. He is a member of Church Road Soldiers, Crime Scene Boyz and Ice City Boyz alongside Skrapz, Fundz, MIG, longtime friend Likkle T, Fatz and more. Nines made his debut into the scene with his mixtape From Church Road To Hollywood in 2011 under the promotion of Link Up TV.

It was with this mixtape that Nines amassed a reputation as one of UK’s most promising rappers. However, his association with Link Up TV ended when they tried to mug him off and thus began his relationship with SBTV, Jamal Edwards’ channel, began.

Before the release of his second mixtape though, he got arrested (sometime in July of 2013) for “possession of cannabis with intent to supply” and was sentenced to 18 months in jail; this is why the mixtape was titled Gone Till November. During his time in jail he encouraged his fans to write him to keep his head up.

His 3rd release Loyal To The Soil includes arguably his most popular track “Money On My Mind” which has amassed over 8 million views on YouTube since its release.

A year later after releasing his mixtape One Foot In, the release of its counterpart One Foot Out was announced as “coming soon” when the visuals to the “Intro” were dropped. However much to the public’s pleas it wasn’t released until 10 February 2017 under his current label XL Recordings (which he signed to on 6 December 2016).

In 2018, Nines released a short film entitled Crop Circle which was the prelude to the release of his latest album Crop Circle which came out on April 20. The album contains features from Dave, Skrapz, Haile, Tee Supreme and others.

Since 2018, he’s been busy with his tour, his last release was a remix of his last single “I See You Shining” which featured 3 Dutch rappers: Dopebwoy, Vic9 & Hef. By around 2019, he’s had a stabbing incident (some believe his rival K Koke was involved) in the face and was in the hospital for a short time, but later on by the end of the year, he returns in the music world with his new single “Pride”“ where he shot the video at Dubai.

In 2020, Nines dropped his highly anticipated third studio album Crabs in a Bucket which, like Crop Circles, came with a short-movie of the same name. The album was led by two singles: “Clout” and “Airplane Mode” featuring NSG. A week after it’s release, the album went Number 1 in the UK Charts.