RKZ (pronounced ‘Ricks’) released his debut single, Renegades featuring Raxstar, in 2008. Between 2009 and 2012, he gathered prominence with a succession of releases including Defeat Me and Gonna Be That. A remix of the latter featured a host of rappers including Raxstar and Waqas Ali of Outlandish, while the original version featured in the film The Man Inside starring Bashy. He provided feature vocals on tracks including This DJ by DJ Dips and The Other Man by Raxstar, and released a YouTube series called CoverSessions.

Over the next few years, RKZ began splitting his time between music, video, photography, menswear and art direction. The songs Visionaries, They Don’t Know Nothing featuring Chino XL and Notes were standouts in this period, all of which were produced by York-based musician, Handbook. His debut album, Visionaries, was released in July 2019.

Following the global COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent lockdown, in April 2020 RKZ teamed up remotely with Handbook to release an EP called Somewhere In The Afterbeat. All proceeds were donated to the Campaign Against Living Miserably and Cad & The Dandy and Huntsman's fundraiser towards the production of NHS scrubs. His final release for 2020 was the single Careful, which has amassed over four million streams on Spotify. In January 2024, RKZ signed to Aviary Bridge Records / We Are Home and released his first single, All That Smoke, under the label, followed by the EP Somewhere In Between.

Outside of music, RKZ has worked in luxury menswear as a photographer and journalist since 2014. He was a Senior Creative at social media agency Born Social before joining British shirtmaker Turnbull & Asser in 2017, and eventually plying his trade at The Rake magazine. In 2022, he set up RKZUK Limited—a company which houses his published work, photography and writing services—and has worked with clients including Anderson & Sheppard, Budd Shirtmakers, Edward Sexton, EGM Cigars, Fox Brothers, He Spoke Style, Longines, Tempus Magazine, Tusting and more. In 2022 he became Editor of The Accessible Magazine. He has been an ambassador for men’s mental health charity, Campaign Against Living Miserably, since 2012.

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