YT took two things from a flirtation with the music business: an unwavering faith in his own artistic path and a way of showing his parents it was something he could make money doing.⁠ ⁠ Dressed in a pair of Mowalola LDN joggers and a Palace jacket, @ tolafolaa remembers his days as a Supreme-obsessed kid growing up in Romford, east London. He started rapping as a teenager but only began taking music seriously when he went to university. Thanks to lockdown-era virtual learning, he’d have lectures open in one tab (camera off) and FL Studio in another. People asked him how he balanced studying French and philosophy with music, but “the truth is I didn’t,” he laughs, admitting that he ignored a lot of what he was being taught. He calls himself a “generational crammer” who only finished his degree at the behest of his Nigerian parents.⁠ ⁠ Read our GEN F profile at the link in bio.⁠ ⁠ 📸 nelta.fr⁠ ⁠ #GENF #YT