Nafe Smallz

UK rapper Nafe Smalls has built an international audience with his unique mix of grime, hip-hop, dancehall and other sounds. • Hailing from Luton—30 miles northwest on London—Smallz first began to garner attention in the underground UK hip-hop scene when he partnered with fellow rapper Young Delz for the 2013 mixtape New Year’s Eve Special. • By 2016, Smallz had released his first two solo projects—Ozone Music and Project O—and earned national attention with a “Fire In The Booth” freestyle on BBC Radio 1Xtra’s Rap Show with Charlie Sloth. • His 2018 project Movie Music features UK rap heavyweights like Chip, Stefflon Don and Yung Fume. • Smallz guests on Skepta’s “Greaze Mode”, a Top 20 hit off the grime rap veteran’s 2019 Ignorance Is Bliss. • Later that year, Smallz offered “Riding on E” and “8 Missed Calls” to the soundtrack of British drama series Top Boy. • In early 2020, his Goat World project hit No. 12 on the UK charts. Toward the end of the year, he broke into the Top 10 with DNA, a collaborative album with rapper M Huncho.