Everyone knows their wrong from right, so when people are being racist, they know they're being ignorant.

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Wrong Being People Right

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For a long time, men weren't respecting women. They weren't understanding Mother Earth, Mother Nature, the Motherland, all the motherly stuff. And now we are.

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Earth Long Long Time Men

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I am for feminism. I stand up for women standing up for themselves in the same way I stand up for being black.

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Am Being Black Feminism

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Now, I think you'll find a lot of rappers and artists are getting girl managers. It just makes sense. The guys in my team have learnt a lot from bringing girls in.

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Artists Bringing Find Getting

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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?'

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About Day Enemy Every

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All the other rappers around me aren't saying anything worthwhile. They're lost in rap: all they do is tell you they're a sick MC and they're better than you. I don't want to look like all these other little punk, dress-up, fake, manufactured artists. I'm not a rapper. I'm an activist.

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Activist Anything Around Artists

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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.

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Art Boy Considered Dog

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You have to understand, that's all I've ever wanted: for London to have a credible musical voice. I will honestly, honestly die happy knowing that I saw it happen.

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Credible Die Ever Happen

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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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Definitely Direction Doing End

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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.

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Abroad Always Crazy Dark

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A lot of us who've made grime might be in the chart, but that is because of the country we are in.

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Because Chart Country Lot

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Britain is just a melting pot for every culture. Like a pot for every culture around the world mixed into one. Artists over here understand that more.

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Around Artists Britain Culture

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Becoming a commercial scene? I don't think people in grime would be happy about that.

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About Be Happy Becoming Commercial

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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.

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Again Album Allow Almost

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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 who do this because they want to have money or want to be famous.

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Artists Because Differences Famous

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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.

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All My Life Both Him Known

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'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.

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Because Classic Did Everyone

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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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America Go Japan Make

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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 for yourself.

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Album Always Music Out

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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.

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Ability Ages Been Come

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A good diss track needs to have some facts in it and definitely tell some truth.

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Definitely Facts Good Needs

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I definitely think that my vibe has rubbed off on Drake a bit.

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Bit Definitely Drake Off

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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.

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Cause Dress Everyone Everything

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Pirate radio is like street art.

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Art Like Pirate Radio

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Radio 1 doesn't exist to me. I don't judge my success by anything they say.

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Anything Exist Judge 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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Account Bank Bank Account Because

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Getting in touch with your life purpose is important.

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Getting Important Life Purpose

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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.

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Clothes Cool Cool Guy Felt

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England is so black and white, so plain, like a burger with nothing on it. No salad, nothing. That's why it's so real.

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Black Black And White Burger England

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All my early lyrics were about confidence.

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About Confidence Early Lyrics

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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.

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Accent Again America Blocking

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Bullying is bullying, man. Even the biggest of the bullies got bullied. And what was happening in school comes from the media, innit? It comes from TV and society.

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Biggest Bullied Bullies Bullying

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I don't watch the news because I understand that I'm like a science lab. Whatever I take in is how I feel.

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Because Feel How I Feel

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Adele texts me all the time and keeps me in check.

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Adele Check Keeps Me

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If you don't put your crew on your album, you're a snake.

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Album Crew Put Snake

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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.

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Better Everybody Good I Think

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I'm from the street, but I'm not a street head. I'm not one of those guys who believe that life is about the street. I'm nerdy at heart, man.

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About Believe Guys Head

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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.

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Acting Acting School Anything Been

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When I do music videos, I like to do a take, then see how it looks, so I can correct it.

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Correct How I Can Like

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I think 'Inception' was a sick idea, but they didn't do it correctly.

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Correctly I Think Idea Inception

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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 can work, too.

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Different Different Places Different Things Dress

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

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About Beats Different Making

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I feel like the Earth is a re-print of a re-print of a print of a re-print.

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Earth Feel I Feel I Feel Like

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There are people who take on different objectives and missions in life. When you grow older, there's a a void - and right now, I'm filling a space where a lot of old rock, grime, hip-hop, punk artists left a vacant space.

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Artists Different Filling Grow

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The star, the person who's on the mic, always gets seen.

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Always Gets Mic Person

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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 these songs, we've travelled the world - no record label, nothing. We just did this for us, but the love is very appreciated.

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Appreciated Been Did Just

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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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Hard Industry Me Music

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I know that I'm in grime, but I had to separate myself and do things myself.

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Had Know Myself Separate

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I go to award ceremonies, but I always like to be in my world. That's the only place I can control where I won't get upset.

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Always Award Ceremonies Control

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Songwriting has really allowed me to enjoy life and look at it from an objective place.

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Allowed Enjoy Enjoy Life Life

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Everyone knows their wrong from right, so when people are being racist, they know they're being ignorant.

Skepta

For a long time, men weren't respecting women. They weren't understanding Mother Earth, Mother Nature, the Motherland, all the motherly stuff. And now we are.

Skepta

Skepta

Now, I think you'll find a lot of rappers and artists are getting girl managers. It just makes sense. The guys in my team have learnt a lot from bringing girls in.

Skepta

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

All the other rappers around me aren't saying anything worthwhile. They're lost in rap: all they do is tell you they're a sick MC and they're better than you. I don't want to look like all these other little punk, dress-up, fake, manufactured artists. I'm not a rapper. I'm an activist.

Skepta

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

You have to understand, that's all I've ever wanted: for London to have a credible musical voice. I will honestly, honestly die happy knowing that I saw it happen.

Skepta

Skepta

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

A lot of us who've made grime might be in the chart, but that is because of the country we are in.

Skepta

Britain is just a melting pot for every culture. Like a pot for every culture around the world mixed into one. Artists over here understand that more.

Skepta

Becoming a commercial scene? I don't think people in grime would be happy about that.

Skepta

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

In this music industry, you'll find the differences with artists. You get some people who really love music... and you get people who do this because they want to have money or want to be famous.

Skepta

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

'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

Skepta

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

Skepta

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

A good diss track needs to have some facts in it and definitely tell some truth.

Skepta

I definitely think that my vibe has rubbed off on Drake a bit.

Skepta

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

Pirate radio is like street art.

Skepta

Radio 1 doesn't exist to me. I don't judge my success by anything they say.

Skepta

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

Skepta

Skepta

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

England is so black and white, so plain, like a burger with nothing on it. No salad, nothing. That's why it's so real.

Skepta

All my early lyrics were about confidence.

Skepta

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

Bullying is bullying, man. Even the biggest of the bullies got bullied. And what was happening in school comes from the media, innit? It comes from TV and society.

Skepta

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

Adele texts me all the time and keeps me in check.

Skepta

Skepta

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

I'm from the street, but I'm not a street head. I'm not one of those guys who believe that life is about the street. I'm nerdy at heart, man.

Skepta

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

When I do music videos, I like to do a take, then see how it looks, so I can correct it.

Skepta

Skepta

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 can work, too.