He was born and raised in the neighbourhood that is both his artistic surname and the title of his debut album (It’s a Tensta Thing). Tensta is a neighbourhood on the outskirts of Stockholm that suffers the consequences of the Housing Million Programme, a public-housing programme implemented by the Swedish Government between 1965 and 1974: a literal translation of modernist urbanism ideals into social housing. At present, it is described as a troubled ghetto that few inhabitants from the city centre would visit. In Tensta, the young people who are marginalised by the system have created their own “neighbourhood aesthetics” where all small narratives are recognised.