Dominic Fike @dominicfike by @sebastianmader for the June metaverse issue of @gq, with styling by @henson and profile by @samuelhine. "Fike’s story goes something like this: He’s of Filipino and African American heritage, and was raised in Naples, Florida. Growing up, his mom was in and out of jail, but she introduced him to Lil’ Kim and Biggie, and bought him his first guitar. His dad was out of the picture till Fike was 9 or 10, when he showed up unannounced at their house. He crashed there for about a week, Fike says, before riding off into the sunset on Fike’s tiny electric Razor scooter. He’d taught his son a few chords on the guitar first; Fike learned the rest on YouTube. In high school, Fike fell in with a local hip-hop crew and started uploading music to SoundCloud. He started booking gigs, stealing bikes and selling them on Craigslist for gas money as he drove from city to city. “It was crazy, how I was living,” Fike says. But even then, he was betting on himself. “I was like, ‘This is it. Imma blow up off this rap shit.’ Which I did not, at all.” Fike’s nascent rap career was derailed in 2016 when he was charged with battery of a police officer following an altercation that has been described as an attempt to defuse a situation between the police and his younger brother. After pleading guilty, he was sentenced to six months of house arrest."