![]() ![]() “From young I knew I would get money,” he tells me, and remembers making thousands of pounds in his early teens. Nines pushed his American-dream rap fantasies through a London filter. “Everyone used to go party, and I stood on the corner and stayed trapping, because I was like: ‘Blud, I need to get out of this shit one day.’” “I just cared about financial freedom,” he says. He hustled to try to outrun his surroundings, and started selling weed aged 13. “My house got shot up and shit like that as a kid. ![]() “I grew up way too fast,” he tells me of his early years. On Handle It (from his second mixtape, Gone Till November), it’s “fiends in staircases”, no electricity in his home, and the “saddest night” after the murder of an older brother. On Lights, he shares early memories of women selling themselves by traffic lights. The real-life fallout from those statistics is told in Nines’ music. ![]()
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