Kayode was born on 2nd November 1993 in the Elephant and Castle district of London, the middle child in an Anglo-Nigerian family. He read drama and theatre studies amongst other subjects at the City and Islington College before going on to Coventry University - initially to take the journalism course but switched to drama, graduating in 2015 with first class honours. Whilst at school he had met Tyrell Williams who, in 2015, pitched to him the idea of the spoof documentary 'Hood Drama' in which he plays would-be rapper Reece Simpson, aka R.S. In 2016 he joined the ensemble cast of the remake of sitcom 'Are You Being Served?'