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Skepta
English
Musician
Born:
Sep 19
,
1982
Life
Me
Music
People
Think
You
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I was like, 'I can't do grime. That's for kids.' - I was 20 at the time, and I thought I was a gangsta, a proper rude boy.
Skepta
Time
Rude
Thought
Gangsta
Kids
Proper
Like
Boy
I am blessed to have been able to travel the world doing what I do.
Skepta
Travel
World
Blessed
Able
Am
Doing
Been
Getting in touch with your life purpose is important.
Skepta
Life
Important
Touch
Purpose
Getting
Your
After touring so much, I was looking for some peace. I found Morocco, and it was perfect. Everything I wanted to feel about peace, I found it there.
Skepta
Peace
Looking
Everything
Some
About
Perfect
Morocco
Touring
Feel
Wanted
After
Much
Found
I'm winning even if I have zero pence in my bank account, because my mind's free.
Skepta
Mind
Free
Winning
Because
Account
Bank
Bank Account
Even
Zero
If you don't put your crew on your album, you're a snake.
Skepta
You
Snake
Crew
Put
Your
Album
The star, the person who's on the mic, always gets seen.
Skepta
Seen
Always
Mic
Person
Gets
Star
In school, I wasn't like the cool guy who had all the new clothes and had all the girls. I felt like the world saw me as an idiot.
Skepta
Me
World
School
Girl
Idiot
Clothes
Saw
Guy
Had
New
Like
New Clothes
Felt
Who
Cool
Cool Guy
I used to think my accent was blocking me, and I hated it. Then I went to America, and every time someone said, 'What? Can you say that again?' I started liking it.
Skepta
Time
Me
You
Every
Think
Every Time
Say
Hated
Someone
Liking
Accent
Said
Blocking
America
Again
Then
Used
Started
Everyone knows their wrong from right, so when people are being racist, they know they're being ignorant.
Skepta
People
Everyone
Wrong
Know
Knows
Being
Ignorant
Right
I think about this every day. I wonder, 'Is today the day where everybody stops lying to themselves and realises that the government is the enemy?'
Skepta
Today
Government
Day
Every Day
Enemy
Every
Think
Lying
Everybody
About
Wonder
Stops
Where
Themselves
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 a dog can go online and be considered a sick photo. That's what we've done to London.
Skepta
Art
Dog
Sick
Everything
Considered
Photo
London
Online
Boy
Go
Wall
Sitting
Done
Realised
Suddenly
Two
Every year, I always go abroad with dark music, and I'm going to these places, and I feel like I want a party rep - I want something that everyone is going to go crazy to and enjoy and have a good feeling.
Skepta
Music
Good
Crazy
Dark
Feeling
Party
Year
Enjoy
Every
Everyone
Something
Abroad
Feel
Like
Always
Rep
Go
Going
Want
Places
Good Feeling
Becoming a commercial scene? I don't think people in grime would be happy about that.
Skepta
Be Happy
Happy
People
Think
Would
Would-Be
About
Scene
Becoming
Commercial
I'm not gonna ever announce that I'm going to do an album again. Waking up with that on your head almost doesn't allow you to make the best album you can.
Skepta
Best
You
Allow
Head
Almost
Announce
Make
Up
Waking
Waking Up
Going
Again
Gonna
Your
Ever
Album
Pharrell loves music. When I'm with him, it's like I'm working with someone that I've known all my life, and we're both there to make the sickest track we can.
Skepta
Life
Music
My Life
All My Life
Someone
Both
Like
Make
Him
Track
Known
Loves
Working
'Konnichiwa,' to me, is a classic because I don't make music for today where everyone is going to judge what I did in two years; they're gonna tell me today.
Skepta
Today
Music
Me
Judge
Everyone
Tell
Classic
Make
Because
Years
Did
Going
Where
Gonna
Two
I haven't just come up with a hit - I'm not like a one-hit-wonder - I've been here for ages. No one is questioning my ability, so just enjoy the wave, spread the wave.
Skepta
Enjoy
Wave
Ability
No-One
Come
Like
Spread
Been
Questioning
Up
Hit
Just
Ages
Here
I definitely think that my vibe has rubbed off on Drake a bit.
Skepta
Think
Drake
Bit
Definitely
Off
Vibe
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
Music
Speak
Cause
Everyone
Everything
Dress
Like
How
Listen
Just
Listens
Now
Slang
Pirate radio is like street art.
Skepta
Art
Like
Pirate
Radio
Street
Radio 1 doesn't exist to me. I don't judge my success by anything they say.
Skepta
Success
Me
Judge
Say
Exist
Anything
Radio
They Say
I don't watch the news because I understand that I'm like a science lab. Whatever I take in is how I feel.
Skepta
News
Science
Whatever
Take
Feel
Like
Because
Understand
How
Lab
Watch
I think some things that are better for me are not good for other people, innit. They need to run theirself. Everybody should run theirself.
Skepta
Good
Me
People
Better
Think
Other
Everybody
Run
Some
Some Things
Should
Things
Need
I did drama at school, as a kid, but I ain't been to, like, acting school or anything. I was in a couple of school plays.
Skepta
School
Drama
Kid
School Plays
Like
Couple
Been
Did
Anything
Acting
Acting School
Plays
I suppose when I was growing up, it was all about fitting into a box or fitting into a category. You know, looking like I listened to hip-hop, or looking like I listened to grime. You'd see someone and go, 'Oh, look at that person. He's wearing that or that; he listens to punk rock.'
Skepta
You
Punk
Looking
Punk Rock
See
Wearing
About
Someone
He
Suppose
Like
Category
Know
Look
Box
Rock
Hip-Hop
Go
Up
Fitting
Person
Listened
Oh
Listens
Growing
Growing Up
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