This Australian hip-hop star looks incredibly unrecognisable in a throwback picture taken on the playground.
He went viral with his song Stay, which featured none other than Justin Bieber, and has since become the youngest solo artist to top the Australian album charts.
The star is the one and only The Kid Laroi, real name Charlton Kenneth Jeffrey Howard, who is still young at 18 years old.
In the photo, Laroi beams for the camera as he holds onto a trophy while stood in a school playground.
He was also wearing his school uniform, which includes grey trousers, a blue button-up shirt and a navy blue vest.
Laroi's light blonde hair was also slicked to the side to keep it neat for school.
Another snap shows him surrounded by his classmates on the same playground.
The musician recently became the youngest songwriter to win Song of the Year at the APRA Awards.
The famous teen started becoming known when he was a finalist in the Australian radio station Triple J's Unearthed High competition.
His real breakthrough then came when he was signed as international rap sensation Juice Wrld's labelmate at Grade A Productions in 2019.
Laroi even called the late rapper his 'big brother' after supporting him on Juice Wrld's Sydney and Melbourne tour dates in November of the same year.
Before Juice Wrld tragically died, he recorded a verse for Kid Laroi's song GO, the lead single from his debut mixtape.
Its release in June 2020 threw the Australian musician into the spotlight and got him a single on the US Billboard Hot 100.
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Laroi had been nominated for two awards at the American Music Awards in 2021, seven awards at the ARIA Music Awards (in which he won two for his song with Justin), and even won five awards at the Billboard Music Awards.
He was even nominated for Best New Artist and Album of the Year at the 2021 Grammy Awards.
Laroi's fame even landed him a McDonald's limited-edition meal in Australia, named 'the Kid LAROI Meal', which consisted of 6 McNuggets, Medium Fries with barbecue sauce, a cheeseburger and a frozen coke.
Laroi's father is a music producer and sound engineer while his mother was a talent manager and record label founder.
As his father was not really in his life, his uncle became a father figure for him. However, he was tragically murdered in 2015.
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