“Honestly, this is one of the best interviews I’ve ever had.” Wohdee, who hails from the working class city of Birmingham, England, radiates warmth, smiles easily and is intentional with her answers. There’s no indication, at least not on Zoom, that she’s a beast on the mic.
The rapper is on an upward trajectory, having just released a new visual for her DJ Mac collaboration, “No Behaviour (WYFL Riddim),” in January. Originally a casual car set freestyle, the track set TikTok and Instagram ablaze, boosting Wohdee’s visibility in the process and sending her on a path to Jamaica, where she filmed the video. She’s also celebrating a MOBO Award nomination for Best Drill Act alongside several U.K. heavyweights like Little Simz, Olivia Dean, Central Cee, Skepta and PinkPantheress.
The combination of her unmistakable British accent and lower register is captivating and instantly sets her apart from her peers. It’s frankly not surprising she pursued a rap career. As a child, she soaked up her parents’ musical tastes. Her father loved reggae and her mother listened to R&B and dancehall. On her father’s side, she has 12 (yes, twelve) brothers and sisters, and one of her older brothers was into making music. Her moniker comes from the 2000 track “Whodi” by Master P, Mystikal, Silkk the Shocker, C-Murder and Krazy’s now-defunct group, the 504 Boyz. She was still in diapers when she was exposed to that song and would come running whenever it came on, eager to dance.
“Music was cherished in my house,” she tells SPIN. “It was always supported to be creative. My older brother made a song and I thought it was so cool, so I really looked up to him.”
She describes Birmingham as “magical” when she was a kid. Her family’s tight-knit community made it feel like a small town despite its population of 1.2 million, though she says it’s changed since then. Around 8 years old, Wohdee began exploring poetry, which ultimately led to her writing raps. She admits, however, that the first song she wrote was “ass.”
“The first time hearing myself on a song, I didn’t stop playing it,” she says. “I’d be on the train, on the toilet, anywhere. I was obsessed. But actually, that wasn’t the first time I heard myself. That was the second track I made. The first track I thought was so ass.”
The second song she’s referring to, “Vein,” gave her the confidence to keep going. And she’s typically involved in the entire process—from start to finish—but with “No Behaviour,” that particular beat was already done.
“Usually I would pick the beat,” she explains. “Producers will either send me one or when we’re in a session, I’ll just decide which beat I want to hear. We could even make it from scratch and it’s like, ‘Oh, I like that sound that you did there, you should add that or take that out.’ I usually do get involved in the production process, but with the ‘No Behaviour’ track, that’s DJ Mac’s release, and he’s been…”
She pauses and coyly asks, “Can I swear?” With permission granted, she continues, “He’s been fucking it up with that one, so yeah, I just hopped on that beat. I didn’t have any influence into that production, but usually for my other songs, it’s all me.”
Wohdee has been dominating timelines for the past 18 months—from her ambitious two-part Mind Games project to a handful of fiery freestyles and performances that included a viral Red Bull Mic Flex episode, an explosive freestyle on BBC 1Xtra and a “Fire in the Booth” session on Apple Music 1.
Now, she’s poised for a U.S. takeover. As the conversation veers toward the differences between U.K. and U.S. rap—she concurs the beats and lyrical content are “very different” and “the accent is pretty obvious”—she learns fellow Brit Lola Young won a Best Pop Solo Performance trophy for her breakthrough hit, “Messy,” at the 68th Grammy Awards on February 1. She lights up and, just for a moment, nothing seems impossible.
“I’m actually going to manifest that [a Grammy] because that’s hard,” she says. “I didn’t know that at all. I was thinking recently, I was nominated for a MOBO and the category I’m in isn’t the category I make music in. I’m not a drill artist, but I’m up against a lot of drill artists and they’re all big. And I’m thinking, ‘I’m not going to win this,’ so even just to see Lola in a place in America with so many American artists and she has won, it’s amazing. Hats the fuck off.”
Wohdee released Mind Games 2 in October 2025 and simultaneously shined a spotlight on her Jamaican roots (her father is Jamaican). Unbeknownst to her, “No Behaviour” is categorized as reggae on Apple Music, which elicits a chuckle. But it’s her love of the genre that gives her music an emotional edge.
“I feel like it gets in touch with the actual essence,” she explains. “All of this rapping about money, lifestyle, clubbing, and partying, it’s all good and it’s all fun, but I feel like reggae is more for the soul. I feel like when I want to really get into the spiritual bag, that’s what inspires that.”
Though Wohdee has yet to release a full-length album, that’s not her main priority—not yet. For now, she’s focused on keeping the momentum of “No Behaviour (WYFL Riddim)” going.
“I’m just plotting singles,” she notes. “I have a few bangers waiting, a few features. I’m just trying to make it flow. I’m not trying to put any pressure behind it. The Mind Games EP was like a moment where it’s like, ‘OK, we gotta choose wisely.’ But I don’t want to do that this year. I want to go off of vibes because I started off the year with just going off of vibes and it’s gone well, and I want to keep doing that. So yeah, the next track I have will just be a single.”
Wohdee writes whenever inspiration strikes, jotting down bursts of ideas that stem from her life experiences. That could mean partying in Jamaica one night, having a peaceful moment at home, or somehow finding solace in the chaos of traveling from one show to the next. Anger, she says, can also fuel her creativity.
“I could literally be right here and have a thought that’s like, ‘Oh, that would be a sick bar,’ and I have to just start writing the bar,” she says. “Even if I don’t finish the whole thing, I have to just at least write a skeleton or something so that I can come back to it. It just comes when it comes. If I’m angry, I feel like that’s the best time for me to get bars down.”
As for the future, Wohdee has a few goals she’d like to cross off her list. And she’s not satisfied with being just another rapper who, for a fleeting moment, went viral on TikTok.
“I want to have my hand in a few pies,” she says. “I want to win a Grammy, but then I also want to get into acting. I want to be in something like a mad cool film or a show. I want to model. I want to do it all and just have fun with it. But some milestones that I would hope to reach would just be recognition that I see myself having, becoming a household name, because a lot of people know me, but they don’t really, if that makes sense. They’ll be like, ‘Oh, that’s that girl from TikTok.’ But that’s not good enough.”
With more than 248,000 Instagram followers, nearly 100,000 Spotify monthly listeners, and an audience of 460,000 on TikTok, Wohdee has enamored her growing, international fanbase with her effortless swagger, style, and lyrical delivery. But she knows she has a ways to go.
“I don’t really give myself credit a lot,” she admits. “It’s like, ‘Oh I’ve just done this’ or ‘I’ve just dropped that song’ or ‘I’ve just been nominated for this,’ but I never really celebrate or I’m never like, ‘Wow.’ I don’t know why, but maybe it’s because I see the end goal and I’m not at the end goal, because there’s still more work to do. But I’m excited for the journey.”
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