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David Cameron? He's not my guy.
I know how important imagery is.
Hip-hop is the art of story-telling.
I'm a thinker as much as I'm a talker.
I hate PCs, and I hate using the mouse.
Sometimes I feel like distance helps observation.
There's an energy in people coming together and singing.
I'm not into releasing throwaway music for the sake of it.
I do feel that it's very important to see positive imagery.
For me, writing and creating music can be quite a solitary thing.
The first song I did was when I was 15 it was called 'Party Mode.'
I like Jay-Z for his lyrics, his flow; he's always forward thinking.
We don't need Kanye to spit on grime instrumentals to show grime is great.
My first bars were about wrestling! That was basically all I knew back then.
People think I can't go shopping - that's their perception of how famous I am.
Jermaine Defoe was from my area. Rio Ferdinand used to come into my barbershop.
I'm a big fan of D Double E who always used MCing styles that other people weren't.
I'm just trying to humanise situations and represent voices that aren't being represented.
I can clearly hear a lot of grime influence on Timbaland's stuff, on some of Drake's flows.
I'm always working out how people perceive me, and that's a hard thing to navigate sometimes.
I don't agree with any form of butler, so definitely not a robot one. It's lazy, so a bad idea.
There were eras of English music where people tried to rap in American accents and we lost our way.
I feel a lot of hip-hop videos are all about portraying a lifestyle that the artist doesn't even live.
American racism seems to be a lot more in the open. The U.K. is different but it obviously still exists.
I need to make the album that deserves attention. Everyone's busy. I need to really be saying something.
I would be extremely surprised if David Cameron watched 'Top Boy.' But maybe he should. Maybe he should.
You fight for your character in the script. It's part of our job to evolve them, show all sides of them.
If I looked back on 2019, in ten years' time, and I'd only made club tune after club tune, what's the purpose?
I just have no interest in the industry of acting, I don't want anything to do with it. But I respect the craft.
We're always going for it and trying to raise the bar and achieve more and more and just be as creative as we can.
I think music is great at posing a question. It doesn't always have to give the answer, but it can open the dialogue.
I usually hate the whole process of pitching and making videos. I've had so many made and I only like about two of them.
I think great art poses questions and doesn't necessarily give answers and solutions - that's not what I'm trying to do.
Music changes every year, but some people are great at riding waves and then they're doing something different next year.
There's so much talent around here, east London in particular is full of talent. Whether that be boxing or football or music.
You may think it's weird working with a cartoon band but there are a lot of characters in grime, especially since the early days.
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.
When you come out, and if you're saying something worth taking note of, then people will give you their ears. If you're not, it's whatever.
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.
New Banger' is a statement, but it is more about giving the DJs something for the clubs. I think it should have a lot of club longevity as a tune.
Most raves used to end by getting CS gassed. It wouldn't be like: 'Last orders! We've gotta go!' It'd be: 'Sigh, it's been CS gassed, we've gotta leave.'
It's fine to keep releasing tune after tune if you can keep up with that pace but I can't. I'm not the guy that will have the hot tune every month. That's not me!
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.
When we started out we didn't expect anything would come from it, definitely not money. We'd pay to go on pirate radio: twenty quid a month just to go on and spit for an hour.
I started writing lyrics to clash with other people in the playground. Now I've developed my own voice and my own style. There's no one out there that does the same thing as me.
Starting out, when I was on pirate radio, or even around 2005 when I was supporting Mike Skinner at Brixton Academy, I never really saw myself being able to play my own show there.
Everybody has flaws, and every country has flaws. But you can still love something even though you know it's been so wrong before, and sometimes is now, and probably will be again.
If my way of connecting with the younger generation was to do what they do, they would see through it straight away. I have to keep it real to be who I am, and I think they see that.
I love the building and the history. I understand not many people like me have played there. But the aim is not to conform to that building. It's to bring the Albert Hall into my world.
See, I'm not a very open person, face-to-face. I'm no good at sharing my feelings with others, good or bad. I kind of close up. Music is the only time I can open up and actually say things.