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Musical artist
Ricky Doherty (born April 17, 2010), known professionally as Tyze Nitro, is a British rapper, record producer, singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and graphic designer from the London Borough of Barnet.[1]
He has released his debut album, Nitro Euphoria* and his sophomore self titled album independently through his label, Tixplosive, after releasing mixtapes through various aliases.
He is up and coming but has received some critical acclaim for his experimental style, his complex and technical style of producing and sampling and his wordplay and youthful lyricism.[2][3]
Doherty was born in Barnet, North London and was raised by a Jamaican mother and a Irish father.[4] His childhood would occur in various places between London and Luton[5]. He is the oldest out of 2 siblings.[5] Doherty has openly opened up on his move to foster care at the age of 9 and the death of his father.[6][7]
2017-2023: Early work and career beginnings
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Doherty started music at the age of 7 and was dropping music on SoundCloud. He would eventually quit music due to losing interest due to his ongoing personal situation and struggle to combat his mental health[8]. In 2021, Doherty met close friend and rapper-producer Huey Evergreen in Doherty’s new secondary school as he moved from London to Hertfordshire. Evergreen would inspire Doherty to continue music when they met. Doherty would return in 2021 and continue dropping tapes under different aliases on BandLab, Bandcamp and SoundCloud. He changed his name to Tyze Nitro in 2024, to peruse in making music seriously and to the level he wanted it to be.[9] He dropped his first mixtape under the name Tyze Nitro, Bloody October, in October 2024. In May 2025, he would release the mixtape on all streaming services excluding some songs, dubbing the version on Bandcamp, the og version.[10]In November 2024, Doherty was involved in a feud between Louisana-based rapper RayyJayy. Doherty dropped a diss track titled “No Self Control”, in response to RayyJayy’s diss track, Dragon Fists.[11]
2024-2025: Nitro Euphoria*, Tyze Nitro* and ZEUS NITROGREEN
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Doherty immediately starting working on his debut album, Nitro Euphoria* during the process of Bloody October and his fourth mixtape under the alias, Trinitezy, Kendrick’s Fiver: Side B. He wanted to make a project that found himself through music and memory and produce a album with every beat sounding like a memory. [12] On April 17th, 2025, on his 15th birthday, Doherty announced a debut album that was coming soon. [13] In late April 2025, he stated he was in the mixing and mastering stage.[14] On May 21st, 2025, Doherty announced the name for the single titled “Quadrant”.[15] He said he would drop the single but would like to get the music video done beforehand, causing some delay to the project. He betted if Tottenham Hotspur, a team Doherty has openly shown support to, won the Europa League final against Manchester United, He would drop a snippet.[16] As Tottenham won, Doherty dropped the snippet later as he didn’t have it on his phone.[17]Doherty would drop the snippet on May 23rd.[18] Quadrant would drop in full as a single on July 4th with a music video. On June 17th, Doherty announced the title as Nitro Euphoria* and dropped the cover, features and the release date as July 12th.[19] He dropped the tracklist on July 5th.[20] A documentary followed the release.[21] Doherty partnered with Twitch TV station MINX, to premiere the Pilot video and promo Nitro Euphoria*.[22] On the premiere date, Doherty postponed the date due to “personal family issues” and may have announced a hiatus.[23] This hiatus has not been debunked by any source and is yet to and is likely resolved due to the active status of Doherty’s career. The video dropped on YouTube on July 19th. [24] 2 months after, Doherty surprised released his sophomore and self titled album with no prior announcement. The lead single “Apocalypse in the North” dropped at 6am then the whole album dropped at 6:35am BST. Tyze Nitro* was self produced and experimenting with industrial hip hop. Doherty would drop the video for “Apocalypse in the North” on the same day along with the video for “Nitro Euphoria* Digipack” a day later.[25][26] The physicals would drop on October 3rd. [27]On October 5th, Doherty announced the long anticipated collaborative album with Huey Evergreen, ZEUS NITROGREEN, was coming out in October. [28] The date was later announced as October 17th.[29] The promo single, Blonde Black Friday Vinyl, named after the special edition vinyl of American singer Frank Ocean‘s second album, Blonde, dropped on October 10th.[30] The lead single “Wasabi Hustle” dropped on October 14th[31]. The music video dropped on October 26th.[32]
Tyze’s music is predominantly hip hop drawing from various rap sub genres such as grime, trap, drill, boom bap, industrial rap and experimental rap, practically seen on Nitro Euphoria*.[5] Tyze has experimented with UK garage, jungle, drum and bass, dubstep, afroswing, kwaito, dancehall, breakbeat hardcore and house.[5] Tyze’s production style is said to be incorporating elements from funk, garage, grime, acid, breakbeat hardcore, trap, soul, reggae, punk, ambient pop and dancehall.[5] This is usually based on sample choices.
He has cited Danny Brown, Lancey Foux, The Prodigy, Daft Punk, Dizzee Rascal, Jme, Jim Legxacy, Skepta, JPEGMafia, El-P, Death Grips and Kanye West as his influences.[33][34]
Tyze has a low voice which is seen when he raps. He has quite a squeaky mid to high voice when he sings. Tyze has used Auto-Tune before in his music.
On his self titled album, Tyze uses a very raspy, scratch and quasi punk inspired vocals which describe the album to be described as punk rap,[3] which may link to the Christian anarchist lyricism and links he has in his songs.
Doherty has opened up about mental health countless times on songs and generally speaking, particularly on Fear where he mentions the traumatic effect that losing his father at a young age and being separated from his mother had.[7] His father wasn’t that much around in his life.[7]
Doherty is a Anarcho-Christian and has mentioned it in his songs and generally.[35][36]
Studio albums
- Nitro Euphoria* (2025)
- Tyze Nitro* (2025)
Collaborative albums
- ZEUS NITROGREEN (with Huey Evergreen as 4Negative) (2025)




