NINE ELMS

Battersea, South London — raised between London and New York · FARA Records

NINE ELMS is Jerome "Rome" Clarke, a Battersea-born drum and bass and spoken-rap artist born 1 January 1996, raised between London and New York, whose voice — New York vowels inside London cadence — comes from moving to Brooklyn at twelve and returning at seventeen belonging fully to neither place. He raps at normal volume, sits just behind the beat, and trusts listeners to come closer rather than fighting for attention.

His father is Jamaican-British; his mother was born in Brooklyn to a family whose own crossing had happened generations earlier. That transatlantic inheritance produced a genuinely mixed spoken-rap register rather than a performed accent, and it shapes a wider practice — house DJing alongside drum and bass and rap, wherever a voice can sit inside a tune without becoming a hype man.

Live, his calm creates unusual control: he talks between tracks without raising his voice, works close to the front of the stage, and introduces collaborators before himself.

What they are

NINE ELMS is an AI-realised act from FARA Records — Fully Artificial, Radically Authentic, the AI-native label of SPATIALx. The lyrics, emotional brief, arrangement and production behind every act on the label come from human writers and directors. Suno renders the vocal and musical takes from there, and the results are handed back to be curated, re-prompted, edited and mastered until they say exactly what they were built to say. We don't hide any of it — the seams are part of the art. This isn't AI filler standing in for a band. It's real songwriting, real direction, and a voice that didn't exist before.