With a gold-toothed grin and underdog charm, AntsLive are poised to be an iridescent force in the UK rap game. The surreal video of his piece, number one candidate, shows the 23-year-old galloping elegantly on a horse through the Dolomite Alps while rapping triumphantly over epic horns and booming 808s, before charming the daughter of his rural Airbnb host.
After being shared on Insta by KSI and Mia Khalifa (whom Ants recently met IRL in Paris), the clips from the number one candidate The videos have spread like wildfire on social media.
A rude boy with an entrepreneurial attitude, on number one candidate AntsLive chests hit cocky bars like “I’m a young CEO, gotta do what you’re told”. This confidence transpires throughout his new EP, It’s a question of time.
“It was my upbringing in London that made me,” the rapper said on Zoom from Paris, where he performed at a Fashion Week party last night. “There’s so much competition and if you didn’t do anything, you were a slob. Competition only generates growth for me.
With the intention of doing number one candidate his “self-contained moment,” Ants trusted video director Tom Emmerson’s (who also happens to be his manager) suggestion to ride the horses through the idyllic fields of northeastern Italy. This required Ants to learn to ride horses six days before filming. “If you break it down, I did it in six hours. I had to walk to Warwick and learn the basics quickly,” he says. “Shoutout Knights of Middle England for teaching me.
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