Born Ben Joseph Wheeler in Sheffield (England) on the 17th February 1987, Nem moved to Kingston-Upon-Thames (Surrey) at the age of 12 after his parents divorced to then move to Italy.
In July 2006 he released his first mixtape “Delivery Guaranteed” on the streets of the steel city, featuring MC's such as Yezza, a Rotherham/Sheffield rapper, who would reveal himself to be very important for Nem. He stepped up his advertising and rapping capabilities and spent the summer of 2006 recording and performing to eventually meet Vex One, a University student at Sheffield Hallam university, who had a home studio where he recorded and made beats.
Nem, Yezza & Vex One formed a sort of team (later to be known as Dirty Diamonds), working together on songs but didn’t officially give birth to a rap crew. Yezza already had a foothold in the local rap scene which he used to help Nem & Vex One…
Nem & Vex One recorded a mixtape with Joe Davies called “Beat Thieves Vol.1” using famous beats which was released in October 2006…
Yezza, Vex One & Nem then went on to form the Dirty Diamonds which would later include rappers such as Joe Davies among others.
"Compliments Of The Sheff" Nem's new online PROMO EP "Compliments Of The Sheff" was available for FREE download from April 2007 just to give a taster of things to come.... you can now expect a mixtape by the name of "The Sheff Man" to be released around the end of september, featuring names such as Bungle, Joe Davies and Suga Dugi among others.