Skepta

Getting in touch with your life purpose is important.

— Skepta

Now, I think you'll find a lot of rappers and artists are getting girl managers. It just makes sense. The guys in…

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'Konnichiwa' was made because I don't like the industry. I really had to remove myself from it to understand myself.

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Even with the 'Top Boy' series with Ashley Walters... I've been talking like on the creative direction wave with Drake about the…

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I was working so hard at music and trying to do this whole 'industry' thing and realised that it wasn't for me.

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I'm winning even if I have zero pence in my bank account, because my mind's free.

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Air Max is from when we were running the streets. It was comfortable to wear in London, whether you were going out…

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When I was younger, I was very wild, and I didn't really have my head screwed on properly.

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In this music industry, you'll find the differences with artists. You get some people who really love music... and you get people…

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I was about 18 when I started making music, making beats. My mindset was totally different.

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I hear all the big department stores like Macy's and Bloomingdale's in the U.S. playing hard hip-hop records to the shoppers, like…

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I want to show the young generation that success is not something you search for externally: it is from within.

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All my early lyrics were about confidence.

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Beyonce's 'Bow Down,' to me, that could be a grime tune. If it's electronic and 140-ish bpm, and people go crazy to…

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When I was younger, I was an aggressive fighter but I'm growing into someone who understands we don't have to answer things…

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When I got 'forever' tattooed on my throat, it meant that my legacy was going to live forever. So anything that I…

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It's almost a blessing for a new generation to say somebody like myself went to their school. It helps kids dream, and…

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It took a long time for hip-hop to become commercial. Now there's all these big black icons that came from nowhere to…

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When I was trying to make songs to go to America, to go to Japan, they'd never work.

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I am blessed to have been able to travel the world doing what I do.

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Being in an industry where money talks, everybody involved in the 'Dare To Dream' project came to a conclusion to sign it…

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With the music that I've put out, I realized that putting pressure on an album isn't always the right thing to do…

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I think the grime scene is one of the sickest, most diverse scenes ever.

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There's a lot of oppressed people in Tottenham, but people in Tottenham also know how to turn pain into triumph.

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I don't know what I'm going to end up doing, but its definitely in the right direction for freedom and truth.

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