To say that Professor Greene has faced an overcome adversity in his life is such a gross understatement.

He's self-aware, he's honest, he's critical of himself where he feels he needs to be.

I've got to do some work on myself here, things need to change.

As you push things down they come each sideways.

I can't keep projecting my problems onto other people and blaming them.

You know what, if you ever see you again when I knock you out and people are like,

wow do you wish you could go back in time and change what your last words to him were?

No of course not, because that angle was just, it was that constant, it was him being

in and out my life, him being such a kind, generous, gorgeous man, but being such a shit-farting.

I felt like he was threatening me and I felt like I was right to stand my ground,

I didn't expect that five minutes after that, it woke up behind me and put a broken bottle in my neck.

I got my phone, I called my name and I just apologise for all the work she'd put into me,

that this was how it was going to end.

To say that Professor Green, aka Stephen Manderson has faced an overcome adversity in his life

is such a gross understatement. There's moments in this podcast today where

you realise how unfortunate his life has been at certain moments and how much of a seemingly

unfair start he had, that it almost doesn't seem like it can be true.

And we know Professor Green, we know his music, I grew up listening to Professor Green's music,

we know his documentaries more recently and how inspiring and vulnerable those documentaries

have been and most of us will know about the tragedy that met him in his early years when his

dad decided to commit suicide. But it's interesting to see how all of these events came to shape

this man, a man that is empathetic, a man that refuses to be bitter, and a man that has overcome

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