STARKIDS is a music collective based in Japan that started in around April … Read Full Bio ↴STARKIDS is a music collective based in Japan that started in around April of 2020. Consisting of 6 members: Space Boy, Espeon , levi, TAHITI, ROAR and BENXNI. The meaning behind the name is "Forever stars, Forever kids" that they will forever live like stars, and that they are above the rest. While also living like kids. Their main inspiration is the swedish collective drain gang but also artists such as Hella Sketchy, capoxxo, Soulja Boy and Yung Bruh. All the members of the collective are half or fully japanese though most of them have some connection to the US.

Though the group has only been active for a couple years the individual history of the members go back much farther. Space Boy's musical history dates, at least, as far back as 2018, dropping music under both the moniker 'Space Boy' and recently under the username 'french cries' on SoundCloud. In 2021 he dropped his first mixtape titled "Breakout". He also frequently does the editing for STARKIDS music videos.

Espeon and Space Boy's musical history go hand in hand as they are close childhood friends, growing up together in the city of Honolulu. Her name comes from her interest in Pokémon when she was younger as Espeon was their favourite. Her history as a solo artist is not very well documented though she has been making songs with Space Boy since 2018.

levi and TAHITI are both rappers and were, before STARKIDS, together in a group called 2A, short for double aces. They started working with Space Boy and Espeon after Space Boy reached out to TAHITI on SoundCloud. When Space Boy and Espeon eventually came to Japan they started making music together with 2A. levi sometimes does the filming for STARKIDS music videos.

BENXNI is a rapper and producer, responsible for a lot of the production on STARKIDS songs he was a solo artist before joining STARKIDS dropping a few songs, though some have been deleted. He joined STARKIDS after 2A came together with Espeon and Space Boy. He has multiple EPs like hyperspeed, which was released in April of 2020. sleepwalking which released in June the same year and BLUE releasing a month after, after which the Apollo EP released in september of that year.

ROAR (fka Lil Roar) is a rapper from Ishigaki Island in Okinawa, though almost all of his work before joining STARKIDS has been deleted off SoundCloud he has both contributed to many song and dropped new singles such as dawn and star everlasting. He met STARKIDS at the startrip concert in November of 2019.