Best known for creating and fronting popular freestyle rap format Fire in the Booth , Camden’s Charlie Sloth has shared his experience rough sleeping in his local park when he was aged just 16.

In a new interview exclusive to this week’s Big Issue, Sloth reveals he found himself “sleeping on park benches” after leaving home following a family fallout.

“I was homeless at 16. I struggled with rules and discipline and order. I was a very chaotic youth,” Sloth tells us in the new Big Issue, on sale now. “My parents didn’t want me in the house. For the first few weeks I was couch surfing, but that can only last so long.

“Stubbornness kicked in. I was like, I’m not going home, and started sleeping on park benches. I never told anyone that’s what I was doing. There was a park in Camden cal

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