Smash Fiction, 19, residing in Nottingham, he recalls as a young teen visiting art museums, finding elusive paintings and being exposed to a lot of punk and rock music, regularly blasting it out in his bedroom.

However, growing up his interests shifted into hip hop with rappers such as Beast-coast and much newer rappers such as Fauni and Lucki. Smash Fiction is part of UK arts collective, Lostboys, being their main standing rapper and also designing some of the groups merch.

His first few soundcloud tracks is distinctively British with his own twist, his first single release is Heathens.