AntsLive
{{Short description|British rapper}}
{{Infobox musical artist
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| birth_date = 2000
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| origin = London, England
| years_active = 2020–present
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AntsLive (born 2000) is a British rapper and record producer.{{cite web |last1=Kazandjian |first1=Robert |title=Meet the MC: AntsLive |url=https://djmag.com/features/meet-mc-antslive |website=DJ Mag |access-date=11 July 2024 |date=11 April 2023}}
Biography
Ants was born in North London to a Romanian father, who would play Latin-American music around the house, and a Sierra Leone mother, who loved MoTown classics. When Ants turned seven, he got his first CD player and a copy of 50 Cent's 2007 album Curtis, sparking his passion for hip-hop and spurring him to download torrents of rap through LimeWire. At the wish of his grandma, he started to write poetry aged just eight.{{Cite web|url=https://theface.com/music/ants-live-number-one-candidate-video-interview-mia-khalifa-ksi-lyrics-london-tiktok|title=AntsLive is the horse-riding rapper who's blowing up on socials|date=January 20, 2023|website=The Face}}
Before he became devoted to music, Ants also had a passion for sport. He was scouted for Chelsea's U16 when he was six-years-old, and he practised football six days a week until he turned 16.
Before going solo when Covid hit, AntsLive and his friends Tejy, an R&B singer from North West London and producer Jay Blu formed the trio Trademark.
Awards
The video for "Number One Candidate" won the award for the best hip hop/grime/rap video at the 2023 UK Music Video Awards.{{cite web |title=Introducing the winners of the UK Music Video Awards 2023 |url=https://www.creativereview.co.uk/uk-mvas-2023-winners/ |website=Creative Review |access-date=11 July 2024 |date=2023}} AntsLive was nominated in the best newcomer category at the 2024 MOBO Awards.{{cite news |last1=Hunt |first1=El |title=MOBO Awards 2024: 'they’ve been representing Black culture for years' |url=https://www.standard.co.uk/culture/music/mobo-awards-2024-event-shygirl-antslive-representing-black-culture-b1137602.html |access-date=11 July 2024 |work=Evening Standard |date=7 February 2024}}
Discography
All of Ants' songs are published on spotify these include:{{Cite web|url=https://open.spotify.com/artist/3JYp3dC5wTBWagBRR5fjpk?si=TC6e_1CVQwuhIaI6Ny_lNg|title=AntsLive|website=open.spotify.com}}
=Mixtapes=
- Just A Matter Of Time (2023)
- Real Life (2024)
=Singles + EP=
- Brown Liquor (2020)
- Tokyo Freestyle (2020)
- Shenanigans (2021)
- HBK (2021)
- Tweakin (2022)
- Bite The Bullet (2022)
- Glow Up (2022)
- Skeet (2022)
- Ooh La La (2023)
- Captain Ants (2023)
- C'est La Vie (2023)
- Cutlery (2024)
- Estelle (2024)
- Toxic Minds (feat. AntsLive & joe unknown) (2024) EP
- Frostbite (2024)
- Perfect Timing (with Len) (2024)
- Richer (2024)
- UK Baddie (with SL) (2024)
- Alexa (with Kairo Keyz) (2024)
- Sex On The Beach (2024)
- V (with Sainté) (2024)
References
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