Nathan Rarere was voicing the midnight to dawn shift at Hastings radio station 93FM while he was still at high school. Television fame followed in the 1990s, as one of the trio of presenters on madcap youth show Ice TV.

Since then, many of his screen appearances have been in tandem with Oscar Kightley — from a run of TV3 sports shows, to bro'Town (Rarere provided voices for 12 characters), to co-hosting origins documentary Made in Taiwan. In 2015 Rarere hosted Māori Television's satirical news show Brown Eye. The following year he produced Māori TV sports show Play, and joined the breakfast crew on Radio Sport.