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- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
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- Nov 07, 2020
On the microphone, I'm not scared to step up and say, 'This is my ability, this is how good I am.' In other areas of life, I'm not so confident; I'm still adjusting to the photo shoots, all that stuff. But behind the mic, I'm fully confident.
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mum was born and raised in Ghana and has a lot of Ghanaian values and traditions and morals. All that rubbed off on me, and that's why I have a lot of love and good energy in me - that universal energy is a Ghanaian thing.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up as a British kid - I went to school in London, roamed the streets of London - but having these interactions with my roots and going back to Ghana, I'm like, 'Yeah this is sick.' I love my country and my people, and the energy and vibes that they bring back. So I want to rep that and be a part of it.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a bit crazy, so sometimes I just get these mad ideas that, on paper, aren't even possible.
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- Nov 07, 2020
In school, all my teachers and my mum were super routing for me to study at Oxford. I picked music as a career choice, and this didn't sit too well with them!
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm on the rise and whatnot, but I'm not the man to say, 'All right, world, here's grime.' It's gonna take me, Skepta, JME, Novelist and Lethal Bizzle, to say, 'I'm sick, he's sick, he's sick, he's sick'. Not one man can do it.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Engineering was the safe and sensible choice, but music was what I loved and wanted to do.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was doing without for so long, not knowing the things that are normal for musicians. I was getting bookings regardless, people phoning or emailing me direct, and journalists were writing about me anyway.
- Nov 07, 2020
Wiley has given me wise words a few times.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't even think of it as a strategy. It's me in my element; it's my forte. Me being with all the mandem on the ends, spitting to an old school grime riddim, is me in my element; that's when I feel I'm at my best.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I need to just make as much noise and bang on as many doors as possible 'til men are, like, giving you the recognition.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was a very naughty child, on the verge of getting expelled, but I wasn't a bad child; everything I did was for my own entertainment. But when I went into an exam, I did really well.
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's not always about convincing your parents of what you want to do, but just saying, 'This is what I'm doing; this is what I love.'
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- Nov 07, 2020
People always meet me and go, 'You're so much cooler than I thought you'd be,' and I'm like, 'What did you expect me to be like?'
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our parents don't always know what's right. It's a new age.
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mum's always had big aspirations because I'm an academic. I always got good grades at school. GCSEs were just a breeze for me.
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- Nov 07, 2020
You read a book, write a detailed review as proof you've read it, and they give you a badge. That's where my competitive nature came out. Give me the badges! I would sit in the library all day, not 'cos I loved reading, just because I needed those badges.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I read so many books when I was a kid that I didn't even know were shaping me up.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I just feel like there is nothing I cannot do.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was good at most subjects at school. Looking back, I was a proper boffin! Now, the thing I'm really good at is poker.
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's mad to think I was just a kid from south London, rapping in parks with friends.
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I know a lot of grime artists started off on pirate radio, but I missed that era; I was way too young.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was MCing in the playground, spitting lyrics over mobile phones - Sony Ericsson, Walkmans, W810s, the Teardrop Nokia phones, all of that. Vital equipment! I never even had a DJ set where a DJ's playing vinyl, and I'm spitting.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Britain is not just One Direction, Little Mix, and James Bay. There's Skepta killing it, there's Krept and Konan killing it.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Grime is still quite new. You can't expect national radio and national media to get it straight away.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most middle-aged white men probably don't know about little old Stormzy from London.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Bands like Little Mix do represent youth culture because loads of 16 year old girls listen to them.
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are thousands of people outside the O2 queuing up to see people like Skepta and JME.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't care if it's a white millionaire kid from Oxfordshire who comes to my show, buys my record, supports me and rates me. It's cool.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like flipping Coldplay. And I like Jessie Ware. But I'm sure how we grew up was totally different.
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- Nov 07, 2020
In British music, you have indie, rock... Grime is now one of those pillars. It's a foundation of British music.
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- Nov 07, 2020
What I'm doing is British. It stems from the same culture as U.S. hip-hop, but the way we dress, the way we speak, the way we perform is so different. It's U.K. street culture.
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