When ArrDee performed at Wembley Stadium in front of 80,000 people, there was a moment where he looked pretty emotional.
He joined his hands together after finishing his hit Home For My Heart, and looked out at the Capital Summertime Ball crowd.
"I had my family, my little cousins, my auntie and uncle in the crowd and dedicated [it] to them," he says.
"Sometimes I struggle with genuinely soaking in the moment because I'm so focused on the performance.
"So moments like that, where the beat of the music stops and I get a second to take a deep breath and take it in, it can be surreal."
With five top 10 hits in the UK, it's easy to forget that ArrDee, real name Riley Jason Davies, only really hit the big time two years ago.
"That trajectory was steep. And I was young when I first came in," he tells BBC Newsbeat.
Manifesting success
Now 20, the rapper celebrated turning 18 while the country was dealing with the Covid pandemic.
"By the time the world got back to normal, I was a teenager thrown into adulthood.
"But the trajectory of fame [is something] that I couldn't have possibly imagined, even though it was manifested."
And it turns out manifesting is something ArrDee is big on.
While it might be something that's seen as a cool trend now, ArrDee was already a believer when he was 14.
"But by the time I grasped the concept of it, I'd already been doing that from quite a young age and that's probably props to my mum.
"My mum's always been heavily into that, being in touch with your spiritual self as well as your physical self."
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