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🗓️ 2 December 2019
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Ashley Walters is the British Musician, Actor, and Producer.
He is best known for playing the lead role in ‘Top Boy’, the Netflix show and modern cultural phenomenon, that was revived after a 6-year hiatus with help from the Canadian rapper Drake.
He first entered the British music scene in 2001 as Asher D from ‘So Solid Crew,’ with the number one single ‘21 seconds’ at the age of just 19.
And after an extended break, he has just dropped his new single titled “Top Boy.”
This year Ashley earned his first producer credit on his TV show Bulletproof, and hosted the inaugural ‘Top Boy Academy’, which aims to give back to the community and pioneer a rise in new talent across London and the rest of the UK.
ASHLEY WALTERS:
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0:00.0 | I know London people pay a lot of money to get high out there and I've got a |
0:05.3 | gang support in a gun to my head telling him he's going to kill my cousin if I |
0:08.4 | don't come up with the ten bags. Do you get me? Just I mean Top Boy alone was amazing, but it's what the show has done. |
0:18.0 | It ended as a brilliant show and everyone had been talking about it. |
0:21.0 | I think now it's kind of, it's gone further than that. If we do this we're back broke back on top. |
0:27.0 | And I think everyone's idea including Jake was just like don't try and fix it. |
0:32.0 | You want to sell food, you sell my food. |
0:35.0 | It just feels like everyone's watching it. |
0:37.0 | It's in weird ways it is a bit like a documentary. |
0:39.0 | I mean, is that ultimately a name of what you guys are trying to do with this show. |
0:43.0 | What you're trying to do is give that environment |
0:45.2 | in this realist form, and it's an everyday battle |
0:48.0 | for a lot of these kids to get up and not know |
0:50.1 | if someone looks at them wrong, |
0:51.3 | are they gonna be starved, is it gonna be this, it going to be that? |
0:54.1 | That mind mess can make you do some really crazy shit. |
0:57.9 | And I know because I went and got my gun. |
1:07.0 | It just came became a real intense hostile environment for me where I lived. I became a recluse. I didn't want to leave my house without a gun. |
1:14.0 | Like looking back now is mental health, |
1:16.0 | there's all sorts of stuff mixing to that. |
1:18.0 | I didn't really have the, I didn't tell my mom about it. |
1:20.0 | She didn't know about all that stuff was going on until I was arrested. |
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