YouTube has named rapper Aitch as their new Artist On The Rise, as he follows in the footsteps of the likes of Freya Ridings and Mabel.
The 19-year-old rapper and songwriter is best known for featuring on Ed Sheeran’s Take Me Back To London alongside Stormzy and Jaykae but has seen incredible success of his own.
Recently having three tracks in the UK’s top 10 – Take Me Back To London, his own track Taste It (Make It Shake), and Young T & Bugsey’s Strike A Pose – it’s safe to say he’s not doing too badly.
The Manchester-born star has just released his debut album AITCH20, recently dropping the music video for his track Buss Down.
Stormzy and Ed are just a few of the rapper’s celeb fans, with ‘Godfather of Grime’ Wiley also being impressed by the young star as he skyrockets to fame and up through the charts.
Meanwhile, Aitch – real name Harrison Armstrong – previously spoke out about working alongside global star Ed, revealing that the singer gave him some sound advice.
Speaking to Julie Adenuga on her Beats 1 show on Apple Music, he said: ‘I’m not even baiting him out.
‘But Ed Sheeran told me the sickest thing ever the other day.
‘He was like… When he goes to shows and he feels like getting in a crowd he just puts a Spider-Man costume on. Gone in the crowd.’
He added: ‘And he said something… He went to go take a picture with two people he walked by “Ed Sheeran” on a t-shirt, obviously not knowing that Spider-Man was Ed Sheeran and he went over, asked him for a picture, and he told him to move.’
We’ll definitely have our eyes peeled for any superhero costumes at Aitch shows then.
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