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- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
Reggae was always playing at home in East Ham when I was growing up. Loud music would be coming from the bedroom, and downstairs all you'd hear was the bass. My uncles had sound systems and we used to go to Jamaica a lot as a family.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a boy, I was known for reciting whole songs after one listen. I've always had a good memory for lyrics. It's weird because I don't have a good memory for other things. I remember lyrics easier than the shopping list.
- Circle
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- Nov 07, 2020
I recorded my first song at 15. But I started rhyming a few years before that. At first it was trading lyrics at school. We'd get in a circle in the playground with a beat-boxer and spit rhymes. Then it would turn into a big gathering after school.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Lyrics came quite easy early on in my career. But I always wanted to push it further and stand out a bit more. We were coming from the garage era when lyrics were simplified, purposefully, to work in the club environment. They were about hyping up a crowd or bigging up a DJ. Moving into grime, our lyrics became more in-depth.
- Gatekeepers
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- Nov 07, 2020
Initially we were spitting lyrics over garage beats, in that eight-bar gap where there wasn't a vocal. But we were rebellious towards garage because they were rebellious towards us; a lot of their gatekeepers said grime was too violent.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
At some of my earliest shows, we used to roll up 20 deep - if my mates can't come in, I can't come in. My record label couldn't understand it: plus-19 on the guestlist?! But that was how it was. Over the years - as it is with everyone, but amplified from being in the public - it's got smaller and smaller.
- Girl
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mum and dad weren't together when I was born. When I was a teenager, dad brought this girl round: here's your sister. She was only two years old, and I never saw her again from that day.
- Hard Thing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm always working out how people perceive me, and that's a hard thing to navigate sometimes.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've got a friend who went to jail in 2004 just before my first album came out. I'm on TV, and they're inside, looking at me like I'm 50 Cent. They think I'm killing it, earning mad dough every day. I'm sending him trainers and that, but it's not enough, because he thinks I should be doing more.
- Eyes
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are too many kids who don't think they can make it to the top. They give up before they have even started, but in my eyes everyone can succeed and it's really important that young people believe in themselves.
- Busy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Personally, I enjoyed school as much as the next kid. I was into art and every sport going from football to table tennis, so I kept busy. I never bunked a day off and left with 9 GCSEs, if I remember correctly.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
My favourite lessons in college were when we would have a professional teach us, or when we went out of the classroom for the day. You take in so much more when someone who's been there and done it is telling you.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe in education, but I think the balance has to be right between theory and practical experience. I think from secondary school onwards it should be more about preparing you for life and work in the real world.
- Legend
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- Nov 07, 2020
He will go down as a legend along with Elvis and the Beatles and Michael Jackson. Bob Marley is right up there. He was a leader for reggae music - he really made it appeal to a world audience.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Garage has been the big influence in my life. It was the first music that I started MCing to and I really used to look up to Heartless Crew.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think Mighty Moe really got me into a whole different style of MCing. There were a lot of people with simple lyrics and simple word play- he really pushed out the boat.
- Bad
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't agree with any form of butler, so definitely not a robot one. It's lazy, so a bad idea.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm definitely not a nerd... but maybe I'm a bit of a nerd when it comes to music and lyrics and things like that. Other than that, I'm definitley not a nerd. I wish I was, though.
- Mouse
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- Nov 07, 2020
I hate PCs, and I hate using the mouse.
- Boy
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Wire' was from a police perspective - in terms of the streets and that, it was probably like, thirty per cent. 'Top Boy' is really from the perspective of the quote-unquote criminal. It's getting into the mind of these people and why they do what they do. It's bigger than just 'Woke up and wanted to be bad one day.'
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
Grime don't mean nothing, we never called it grime. It's just a word someone associated with us. I wouldn't say all my music's grimy.
- Grow
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would continue to try to make songs how I did at the start. Wherever that be, like in your bedroom or coming up with ideas on the bus, as you grow that's gonna change. Sometimes it can get forced.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have to go into the studio to make my second album knowing I'm making an album. When I first started making songs I didn't have an album in mind, that's why a lot of them I like - I'm talking about how I haven't got a deal, how I'm living, you can never really top the first time, but we'll see how it goes.
- Hip-Hop
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- Nov 07, 2020
Hip-hop is the art of story-telling.
- Nov 07, 2020
I don't want to be a preachy person.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm just trying to humanise situations and represent voices that aren't being represented.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think great art poses questions and doesn't necessarily give answers and solutions - that's not what I'm trying to do.
- Big
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a big fan of D Double E who always used MCing styles that other people weren't.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like table-tennis and I'm good at it.
- Involved
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- Nov 07, 2020