THERE'S no escape for Fugative. It looks like the 15-year-old Essex rapper is destined for success.

After his debut offering, It's Summertime, shot to number two in the urban music charts last year, life has never been the same for the face behind the name – teen prodigy Harry Byart.

"It's all been a bit crazy," said the youngster, who is still getting used to screaming fans and girls queuing for his autograph at the stage door.

"It's quite weird. I'm thinking 'who are they screaming for?' But I can't complain."

After a UK tour supporting Basshunter, Harry is back home studying for his GCSEs before embarking on a 40-date solo trek.

He said: " It's quite hard fitting in the tutoring. The way things are going, I probably don't need to take my GCSEs but I just want them for my own knowledge. I write all my own songs and they're all about word play, similes and metaphors, so the English is useful."

The maths will also come in handy when he tots up his record sales.

Jimmy Shoe, his follow-up to Summertime, has already had more than a million hits on Youtube.

Of course it helps to have a mum who, at one time, was Marvin Gaye's manager and who now manages her son on this side of the Atlantic.

After his overnight success and an airing on Radio 1 DJ Nick Grimshaw's show, US record moguls Kirk Burrowes, founder of Bad Boy Records with Puff Daddy, struck a deal with the teenager and, over the past year, he has been fitting schoolwork around trips to Atlanta, Georgia.

"I've been working in a studio, recording tracks for my album, which is due out around March," he said."

So why did a US record company single him out?

"I think it's because my whole image is different. I'm 15. I'm doing a different kind of music," he said. "I want to be an international artist that everyone can relate to."

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