Urthboy

Urthboy
Background information
Birth name	Tim Levinson
Also known as	Urthboy
Origin	Sydney, Australia
Genres	Hip hop
Years active	1998–present
Labels	Elefant Traks
Associated acts	The Herd
Website	Official webpage

Tim Levinson, better known by the stage name Urthboy, is an Australian hip-hop MC and producer from New South Wales. He is widely known for his solo music under the moniker Urthboy, as a founding member of the hip-hop group The Herd, and for co-founding and managing the Elefant Traks record label. Levinson has released five solo albums: Distant Sense of Random Menace (2004), The Signal (2007), Spitshine (2009), Smokey's Haunt (2012) and The Past Beats Inside Me Like a Second Heartbeat (2016); as well as five studio albums with The Herd.

With origins in Wentworth Falls, a town in the Blue Mountains area of New South Wales, Levinson's interest in music began at an early age, when he was exposed to a broad range of musical styles, many of which were introduced to him by his older brother, Matthew. The Run DMC album Tougher Than Leather was the first influential hip-hop record for Levinson, who sought escape in music to cope with a difficult domestic situation—Levinson's father left the family home due to domestic violence and alcohol use when Levinson was nine-years-old—and depressive symptoms caused by severe acne.

In mid-2013, Levinson explained that, during his early adolescence, he would join friends from Wentworth Falls to engage in petty criminal activities, such as stealing cars, graffiti and shoplifting. The group of teenagers eventually came into contact with law enforcement and dispensing of juvenile detention sentences by magistrates was one of the more serious consequences. However, Levinson further explained, "Those graffiti artists and crims were the sharpest thinkers and quickest responders to nerve-wracking situations". Inspired by the music of Run DMC, Levinson began writing his own rhymes while still attending high school in Wentworth Falls.

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