Isaiah Rivera (born March 20th, 1997), better known by his stage name wifisfuneral, was eight or nine years old when he saw the “Mo Money Mo Problems” music video on TV and had a revelation. The young Isaiah looked at his mother and “This is what I want to do, like, for the rest of my life.”
His father, who wasn’t in his life, had been a freestyle battle rapper in the Bronx. “I used to be mad when he used to call my mom,” Wifi recalls, “cause we wouldn’t have shit to talk about.”
He wrote his first sixteen as a kid and rapped it to his father over the phone. “I tried to use it as a gateway to get closer to him,” Wifi says. “But it didn’t work.”