Twenty-year-old Nafets says he came to Earth on an asteroid—or at least that’s what it felt like. As the son of Trinidadian parents, he grew up in a Black suburb, but attended a mostly white school in Fort Washington, Maryland, which he details in his new single, the aptly titled “Asteroid.”

“I felt like I was always torn between several worlds and cultures and it would often make me feel very excluded and alone,” he explained in the press release. “I felt I didn’t fit in with friends or society in neither Trinidad nor America.” That experience of feeling alien was the catalyst for “Asteroid.” 

“For me, rapping began as a way to combat depression, which I’ve suffered from since high school,” Nafets said. “It was a way for me to explore that side of myself that wasn’t really appropriate to just casually talk about. It helped me separate myself from my depression by creating a little box to put it all into – music.”