It's not just my music. Not everyone just listens to grime now 'cause of Skepta. They like how we speak. They like the slang. They like how we dress. They listen to the music. It's everything. — Skepta Copy Share Image
There are different things to wear in different places, and if you want to fit in and show respect, you can dress to do that, or you can dress to show that you are foreign and not from there. That… — Skepta Copy Share Image
They respect rappers in the U.S., but in England, it's the Queen's country. She'll forever be putting out the message on these BBC networks… — Skepta Copy Share Image
There would be weeks when I'd just go to Paris on a cheap ticket, sleep on my friend's floor, and just do a show… — Skepta Copy Share Image
A good diss track needs to have some facts in it and definitely tell some truth. — Skepta Copy Share Image
'No fear' is a mindset that I stand for. It's the reason why I've got to where I am today. — Skepta Copy Share Image
I've been trying to do this music stuff and work it out for so long... I was like, 'Let's do it for ourselves.' All… — Skepta Copy Share Image
The worst thing that happened to me at a gig was when the microphone wasn't on one time, and for the three lines of… — Skepta Copy Share Image
Radio 1 doesn't exist to me. I don't judge my success by anything they say. — Skepta Copy Share Image
When I was a youth, to be called 'African' was a diss. At school, the African kids used to lie and say they were… — Skepta Copy Share Image
I don't think grime has ever been respected; it's not seen as a nice sound. — Skepta Copy Share Image
Bullying is bullying, man. Even the biggest of the bullies got bullied. And what was happening in school comes from the media, innit? It… — Skepta Copy Share Image
I've realised that there's art in everything we do in London. Suddenly, a photo of two boys sitting on a wall in tracksuits with… — Skepta Copy Share Image
