ArrDee

From a young age, Brighton-born ArrDee took to penning his own rhymes at eight, absorbing influences that ranged from 50 Cent to Bon Jovi amid a household steeped in music. Although he issued early tracks while still in his teens, the MC waited until 2021 to pursue music with real intent; a car freestyle posted online quickly gained traction, prompting the release of his first official single, “Cheeky Bars,” through Mixtape Madness. The self-styled “cheeky chappy” brought cocky wordplay and nimble delivery to the track and its follow-up, “6AM in Brighton,” both of which amassed hundreds of thousands of streams and established his outlandish persona as one of the U.K.’s fastest-rising rap prospects.

That momentum surged when ArrDee joined Russ Millions and Tion Wayne on the “Body [Remix],” delivering the instantly recognizable lines “Have you seen the state of her body? (Mad) If beat it I ain't wearin' a johnny.” The appearance propelled the drill cut to the top of the U.K. singles chart—marking the first time a U.K. drill song had achieved that feat—and placed the Brighton rapper in the history books after only three releases. Capitalizing at once, he featured on Fumez the Engineer’s Plugged In freestyle series and issued the swaggering singles “Oliver Twist” and “Wasted,” both of which appeared on his 2022 debut mixtape, Pier Pressure.