AJ Tracey

Parklife is one of the festivals I most look forward to. The crowds are wild; I love seeing that energy, those sweaty…

— AJ Tracey

My dad used to be a rapper, he had a rap group. They did proper old school, boom-bap music. He had a…

— AJ Tracey

Even if it's a song I know isn't gonna do that well, I'm dropping it as a piece of art, so I…

— AJ Tracey

Some things you never really fully understand unless you are actually black and you experience how it feels when someone treats you…

— AJ Tracey

Everyone asks me about why I care about anime and football so much, but that's because anything dark that happened in my…

— AJ Tracey

I've never been in love, ever. I feel like I would know if I'd been in love.

— AJ Tracey

I feel like the type of music I'm making and who I am, people expect me to do well, but not be…

— AJ Tracey

I'm the least animated person I know. Even on stage, I just walk across it.

— AJ Tracey

I want to showcase my talent, I'm not just a grime MC, I'm an artist.

— AJ Tracey

I like wearing the things from Japan, because they usually get a different collection than we do.

— AJ Tracey

In America, they don't need to look outside their country for anything, so they definitely don't need to look elsewhere for rappers…

— AJ Tracey

Everyone around me does music, so I just kind of knew. It wasn't some magical moment. There were loads of other things…

— AJ Tracey

I wasn't super emo when I was younger but I'm very neurotic, my mood swings really heavily so when I'm upset I…

— AJ Tracey

It's a bit cheeky as a rapper to make a singing album.

— AJ Tracey

But just because I hate the Conservatives doesn't mean I'm gonna tell people to vote for the party I want. Inform yourself…

— AJ Tracey

When I put my first project out ages ago, I didn't want to show anyone my emotions. Now I think it's better…

— AJ Tracey

For me, being independent is about being able to express myself exactly how I want to, instead of maximising profits.

— AJ Tracey

I'm half-white and half-black. No-one will ever say I'm white, but all the road men think because I'm mixed race that I…

— AJ Tracey

As a kid, I loved Air Force Ones - but they were so expensive. I always had to save up for ages…

— AJ Tracey

American artists, Americans in general, don't take the U.K. rap scene too seriously, yeah, but thing is though, they wasn't taking Canadian…

— AJ Tracey

When I was in secondary school, I cared about nothing but music.

— AJ Tracey

If I had a label, everything would have been easier. But it wouldn't have been the same album, from the cover art…

— AJ Tracey

People ask me, how was university; I say it was boring and it wasn't for me. But if you wanna go, that's…

— AJ Tracey

I don't love collabs just for the sake of collaborating. It has to be purposeful and it needs to sonically make sense.

— AJ Tracey

I have a personal relationship with Dizzee Rascal - I know him, he's cool - so this is no disrespect to him…

— AJ Tracey