Travas Alan Feneley is nineteen and from Croydon, which is a sentence the UK rap scene has been waiting on for about three years without realising it. He produces everything himself. He raps over it. He calls the project Feng and the whole thing has the feel of a kid who never stopped to wonder whether he was allowed to do this.
His debut mixtape WHAT THE FENG dropped in February 2025. The track everyone latched onto was "who do u wanna be" — a piece of self-produced, self-rapped, self-everything writing that addresses an entire generation of bedroom-rotting teenagers and dares them to do something about it. The FADER put it on their best-of-2025. COMPLEX wrote about him. The clips made the rounds. None of that made him slow down.
The sound
What he is doing is not exactly UK rap and not exactly indie. "New grime" pulls the title genre into a brighter register. "Primrose Hill" sounds like a London afternoon you nearly missed. "Damn phone" is the kind of track where the production is doing something specific the lyrics already know about. "Devil horns and a halo" is the most punk thing on streaming services right now made by someone who has never picked up a guitar.
What's coming
The debut album, WEEKEND ROCKSTAR, is cued up. "Cali Crazy" was the first single and it sounds like it. It was written by a teenager landing in Los Angeles for the first time, which it is, with all the disorientation and hunger that implies. "Coming of age" hints at where the album might land emotionally. The bigger picture is becoming visible.
Feng is making a strong case for the proposition that the most interesting UK rap right now is being self-produced by people too young to have learned what they're not supposed to do. Listen to "who do u wanna be" first. Then everything else.
Allastair Voss
