I swear too much.

I'm from east London.

Yeah, I love festivals, man.

I was making grime before anyone else.

There wouldn't be no grime without me.

If you believe, you can achieve, innit.

I like staying in. I'm that kind of guy.

I'm going to be big like Michael Jackson.

I learned to MC over drum 'n' bass music.

People who criticise me are just jealous.

You can never have enough winter jackets.

No one can establish what selling out is.

Hip hop is the way it is because of America.

I pride myself on the energy I put on stage.

My first school is gone - turned into flats.

I come from the underground, from the ground.

To an extent, everyone is jealous of everyone.

You can find out a lot sitting in the barber's.

Yeah, I like Three Six Mafia and stuff like that.

People used to shoot their guns while I was MCing.

That's what the world's about - different perspectives.

I was a drum 'n' bass DJ at first but not any one of note.

When I go Miami, I go deep-sea fishing. I love doing that.

When I was young I used to watch MTV, Nirvana, or Guns N' Roses.

My London is racy. Hyper. Unpredictable. Uncontrollable. Er. Intense.

I don't like to be picked on. Growing up where I did you learn to fight.

Barack Obama embraced hip-hop, man. That's the way he got through to kids.

People can't look down on grime anymore, it's an established British genre.

In Miami, there's a buzz there, everyone out there's partying - it's crazy.

I go everywhere quiet - like a ninja. Always have done. Think big, move quiet.

NME is normally associated with indie rock. It ain't something I read as a kid.

There's a real gun culture in the U.K., for those who don't know. It's very real.

I liked going to the Caribbean, just having nice holidays, do you know what I mean?

I always want to make people dance so there'll always be an element of dance in my music.

I dominated the underground and then I dominated the overground, and I did that on my own.

My fans are lunatics. I encourage mosh pits, I encourage lunacy, I make music to let go to.

Life is hard enough. Life is always going to be hard, so you need to push for what you want.

I'm the first British artist to have two successive number ones on his own independent label.

There's just something about being English. When you travel the world you feel more grateful.

Rappers and MCs have always had an alias. Building your character, it helps you to get things out.

I like to work with the best artists, full stop, around the world, and just make things happen man.

That's the difference between me and a lot of rappers. So many are unfit, just puffing all the time.

I'd done plenty of dark stuff and edgy stuff and hardcore stuff, and I kind of found that stuff easy.

I think it don't matter what colour you are, it matters what colour your heart is and your intentions.

Kids need to be taught that your dreams aren't just dreams. Whatever they are, it's OK to push for them.

If you want real truth, I'll tell you real truth, even though I know a lot of people aren't gonna like it.

I think a black man, purple man, Martian man can run the country... as long as he does right by the people.

I just go to the gym once every few weeks and go training once or twice a week. But it's all pretty random.

I'm trying to give people the chance to put out their music without the bullshit pressures of other labels.

Some people will never let the grime thing go, but my fifth album is not meant to sound like my first album.

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