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With his breakout bop, Milton Keynes-born rapper Niko B gave the locked-down suburbs a soundtrack to remember. Now, he's back with a first album full of ‘happy songs for headfuck times’

ETHAN HERLOCK

Grooming TAKUYA UCHIYAMA using BUMBLE AND BUMBLE., photographic assistants RORY COLE, styling assistants STOYAN CHUCHURANOV, ALVARO MERINO DE MENDOZA, ELOISE COLLET, production assistant GRACE CUTHBERTSON Tom Austin was your average happy-go-lucky suburban teen in 2020 when he was featured in a Milton Keynes local newspaper, following the chart-hitting success of his lockdown anthem, “Who's That What's That”. Since then, under the musical alias of Niko B, he has opened for NSG, performed at Reading and Leeds festivals, and blown up our phones with the meme-rap freestyle “Love Island”, packed with quotables about being picked last around the firepit and crying in the back of the tour bus. “I was watching a ton of cyphers at the time and my mate [Joe McDermott] who runs Victory Lap let me go crazy…

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Dazed & Confused (Digital) - 1 Issue, Summer 2024

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