Nadia Rose (born 11 June 1993) is a British rapper and songwriter from Croydon, London.[1]
Born
(1993-06-11) 11 June 1993 (age 31)
Croydon, London, England
Genres
Occupation(s)
Years active
2015–present
Rose studied Music and Music Management at university.[2]
Rose released her debut EP Highly Flammable on 13 January 2017 following the successful singles "Station", "BOOM", and "D.F.W.T".[1] Rose is represented by Sony Music Group under the subsidiary Relentless Records.[3] She came fifth in the BBC's 'Sound of 2017' shortlist.[4] In 2018 she released the track WUT2 and appeared in a Stella McCartney catwalk show in Milan.[5]
In 2020, Rose revealed that she had been unable to release new music because of her label.[6] Rose collaborated with Melanie C on the track "Fearless" for Melanie C's self-titled album, Melanie C.[7] The music video had a world premiere on 16 September 2020. Of the collaboration, Rose stated: "“It’s no secret that I’m a super Spice Girls fan so this whole experience has been very surreal."[7]
Rose is a cousin of Stormzy.[8]
In 2019, Rose took part in an Operation Black Vote campaign to encourage people from ethnic minority communities to register to vote in the 2019 UK General Election.[9] Rose also took part in the 2019 Grime4Corbyn campaign in support of the Labour Party and its leader Jeremy Corbyn.[10][11] Rose wrote an article for Metro encouraging people to vote Labour in the election.[12]
Title
Details
Highly Flammable[13]
First Class
Year
Title
Album
2016
"Skwod"[14]
Highly Flammable
2017
"Tight Up"
(featuring Red Rat)
"Puddycat"
"Breathe Slow"
(featuring Junglepussy)
Non-album singles
"Wat Up"
(with 67)
"Big Woman"
2018
"WUT2"
"On Top"
"Make It Happen"
2019
"Airplane Mode"
2020
"Sugar Zaddy"
First Class
"Too Bad"
"Bad N Boujee"
"Higher"
(featuring Leon Jean Marie)
"Fearless"
(with Melanie C)
2021
"Bad Habits"
(with TiZ EAST and Moelogo)
Non-album singles
"Look At Her (L.A.H)"
(with Nqobilé and Dancegod Lloyd)
"WOAH"
"Light"
(with JY MNTL and La Swave)
2022
"Lyrical Assassin"
"Recipe"
"Rooftop"