[8] Riko has performed as an MC since the age of fifteen, when he would rap over hardcore at house parties and later jungle on pirate radio.
[2] He was released from jail in December 2002 and joined the group in summer 2003, once its sound had shifted from garage to grime and members Wiley, Flowdan and Maxwell D had left to form their own crews.
[14] After becoming a father, he "put [music] on the backburner for a year", before featuring on the title track of Terror Danjah's 2012 album Dark Crawler[15] and releasing a 2013 mixtape, Rise of the Farda, via Logan Sama's Adamantium label.
[22] Other notable appearances in 2024 included a feature on K Motionz and ArrDee's "Heavyweight", which was released via Universal and reached number 30 on the New Zealand Hot Songs Chart.
[1][9] He founded the short-lived crew Cemetery Warriors alongside fellow Caribbean-British MCs Flowdan, Killa P and God's Gift, known for their similar vocal delivery.
[24] Riko has credited MC Buckie as the first artist he looked up to in the London pirate radio scene[5] and has cited Bounty Killer, Capleton, The Notorious B.I.G., Mobb Deep, and the Wu-Tang Clan among his formative musical influences.
[1][4] He has served time in jail, including a sentence for commercial burglary between 1999 and December 2002[10][5] and an eight-month spell in 2006 for an offence where the charges were dropped.
[9][25] He is an avid Manchester United fan and presented the NTS Radio football talk show Verbal Volley between 2015 and 2016, latterly joined by DJ Karnage and Discarda.