Labrinth: The Musical Genius Behind Euphoria!

Labrinth’s childhood was dominated by church, strict religiosity, and a huge, intensely musical family. Sundays were about worship and watching people ‘connect with an energy’ through sound, which taught him how music moves souls. At the same time, shaming around his mother having kids out of wedlock and colorism in his Jamaican family created deep insecurity and a lifelong drive to prove his worth, especially to authority figures and ‘gatekeepers’.

He admits he never truly asked what he wanted; he “accommodated what everyone else wanted” — managers, labels, audiences. That led to signing with Syco for a bigger check and image‑driven moves (staged relationships, paparazzi parties, entourage culture) that felt alien to him. The short‑term payoff reinforced the lie: success told him the fake version of himself ‘worked,’ which delayed the reckoning and intensified the eventual crash.

Diagnosed with ADHD later, he recognized lifelong patterns: blackouts in conversations, inability to finish projects, forgetting to reply or deliver work, even when huge artists wanted albums from him. Combined with suppressed anger from a violent family history and an absent father, that manifested as social anxiety, rage episodes, and self‑sabotage in business — all while he was seen publicly as a rising star and musical genius.

He describes being a chronic people‑pleaser who one night snapped on stage: furious at his manager, feeling trapped performing for an audience he didn’t resonate with, and triggered by one disapproving fan, he hurled a guitar in the air, nearly killing a camerawoman. His tour manager’s “you almost killed someone” was a shock that forced him to see how decades of swallowed anger and compliance had turned into a volcanic, uncontrolled outburst.

He’s blunt that when artists finally make the project that means everything to them, they often expect the same numbers: “You did it for you, just do it for you… you got ten views on this one.” Euphoria was the first time the world heard “the rawest form of Lab,” but he stresses that being you must be intrinsically motivated; you have to accept the consequences — including less money, smaller audiences, or rebuilding from scratch.