On 9 July 2016, Oddisee was a guest on NTS X Carhartt WIP Radio Tour. Oddisee has been played on NTS over 50 times, featured on 49 episodes and was first played on 13 January 2013.

The son of Sudanese and American parents, Amir Mohamed was born and raised in the United States capital city of Washington, D.C., spending hot summers in Khartoum learning Arabic and swimming in the Nile. Growing up amidst the sounds of New York hip hop, his father playing Oud, Go-Go, and gospel, Amir took his first steps as an MC producer in the analog basement studio of his legendary neighbor,…