Born in Camden, London, Ocean Wisdom (born 1993) is a rapper who gained popularity after unofficially breaking Eminem’s record for being the world’s fastest rapper.

Wizzy’s first ever single sprouted from a chance studio session and flowered as “Walkin'”. Released in 2015 through High Focus Records, listeners quickly picked up that in Eminem’s “Rap God”, Em rapped 4.31 words per second, while in his debut single, Ocean Wisdom managed to fit in 4.45 words per seconds, unofficially breaking Eminem’s record. This caught the eyes of D12, The Game and Akon:

After the release of his debut EP Splitting The Racket in the same year, Ocean Wisdom began to amass followers in an at the time unusual way: through streaming. A lot of his tracks on Soundcloud have over 100,000 listens, and this spurred him on to drop his debut album, Chaos ‘93, a year later, featuring artists such as Lunar C (famed for his appearances on Don’t Flop) and The Four Owls (a rap group esteemed in the UK hip hop scene).

2016 saw him lift the lid on his second studio album Wizville, with the track “Tom & Jerry” receiving a feature on the FIFA 19 Soundtrack.

When speaking to Complex, Wizzy said:

I grew up on grime and US rap more so than UK hip-hop, so as a person from the UK who does hip-hop, you definitely hear the grime and US rap elements coming out. But my whole thing is about being the best rapper, the best musician I can be. I feel like the best thing you can do is create new music, new sounds and new energies. I’m interested in how my music makes someone feel and act, rather than what genre it is. If you consider grime and UK hip-hop as two separate fighting styles. It’s just a question of how good are you at each individual style. The art of rap is like MMA: you can find lots of similarities and differences amongst the many varying styles, and you can be a master of one but a novice at another. In my opinion, if you want to master rap, you have to master all of it.