Smellington Piff began his musical career as a techno DJ (DJ Welly) age 6 on the illegal free party scene. Hailing from his caravan, Piff was Raised as a new age traveller and after gaining the Guiness world record title of The Youngest DJ in the World and after years of touring around the world he retired from the scene age 13, switching his musical interests to hiphop.

The group NLP (OAB, Sean Peng, Eric The Red & Smellington) formed in 2012 and began recording material. After hearing some of these recordings Leaf Dog decided to make an album with Piff which they began work on immediately and he became the first outside signing onto RLD.