Some of white middle America haven't seen a black gay guy in a music video before. — MNEK Copy Share Image
One of my best friends is quite into rap, and I'm always being introduced to music by him. — MNEK Copy Share Image
I naturally make commercial music: it's never been a calculated decision to make pop music. I'm a genuine pop music fan. — MNEK Copy Share Image
I myself identify as British-Nigerian, and I'm also gay, and I'm also a young adult in London making music. All of things… — MNEK Copy Share Image
I am empowered by my friends in the music industry who are other fellow black men because I see them as my… — MNEK Copy Share Image
I want more people to know who I am and I want to have the chance to tease my music a bit… — MNEK Copy Share Image
I'm touching people, helping people, and I'm making music I love. I like to think a lot of other black queer artists… — MNEK Copy Share Image
I'm very conscious that a music video is beyond just a promotional tool for a song. It takes a song to the… — MNEK Copy Share Image
I was someone who knew what they wanted to do for so long. I was always fascinated by music, always a student… — MNEK Copy Share Image
I often make a joke of my parents, because I come from a Nigerian background and there's a stereotype in the Nigerian… — MNEK Copy Share Image
There are so many amazing out, gay, black artists who are really great in their own fields, but they aren't necessarily trying… — MNEK Copy Share Image
I make pop music. I make music that is pretty commercial. But, at the same time, I'm a minority within a minority… — MNEK Copy Share Image
It's not that some songs are for radio and some songs aren't, I'm just making whatever I feel. — MNEK Copy Share Image
That's the cool thing that music can do: make you feel this or that way. That's all I've ever wanted to achieve… — MNEK Copy Share Image
In reality, my parents knew that I was a vegetable outside of music. They have fears, they know how tough and competitive… — MNEK Copy Share Image
The Big Music Project gives young people access to producers, managers, set designers, artists and a load of other industry insiders who… — MNEK Copy Share Image
When I wrote 'Paradise,' it was going to be an interlude - like a segue from the song before. Then I just added more… — MNEK Copy Share Image
I almost get quite scared talking about it. It's happened, obviously. I did meet Madonna and I did work with her. — MNEK Copy Share Image
The way Beyonce works, the song is a jigsaw piece and then she will piece various elements. — MNEK Copy Share Image
If I'm writing a song for Karen Harding, I know I can't impose what I want to say onto her. I literally have to… — MNEK Copy Share Image
There's an underlying sense with 'Tongue' that... it's really... it's real. I mean that in the sense that now I'm not afraid to touch… — MNEK Copy Share Image
I'm very thankful that I'm in a position where I'll never be without a session. I'll always have someone who will want to get… — MNEK Copy Share Image
I think 'Girlfriend' in particular is definitely one of the songs that is angled towards early 2000s, late '90s, R&B pop and those kinds… — MNEK Copy Share Image
Having the opportunity to work with someone like Beyonce is definitely going to hopefully open a few doors. — MNEK Copy Share Image
We have a lot of black British men who are killing it: John Boyega, Stormzy, Anthony Joshua, Tinie Tempah, and Idris Elba, of course.… — MNEK Copy Share Image
