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🗓️ 2 September 2021
⏱️ 8 minutes
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0:00.0 | I remember listening to your music when I was in secondary school a lot, and I remember |
0:08.5 | listening to a lot of your records more recently as well, and even, you know, like, as |
0:12.8 | when I knew what you were coming in today, I started, like, going back through my whole |
0:15.1 | back catalogue of your music. At the time when you made it, as you said then, in the UK, |
0:23.0 | hip hop scene, as a white male, as a fucking stagger and accomplishment. Like, do you |
0:31.5 | know, genuinely it is. I'm like, I know a lot because you might not know this, but you're |
0:35.4 | from the jump off days. Yep. And I'm all the don't flock boys that all best friends are |
0:40.4 | mind like, I don't know if you know, you know, you know, you know, I don't know if you |
0:42.4 | know, you know, you know, you'll be offended. But like, you know, I've got a jump to it. |
0:46.9 | You're course, I'm not sure. So these are all my boys. Yeah, yeah. |
0:49.1 | They're Manchester and like, they used to come to my house sometimes for five days in a row |
0:52.6 | and like, stay at my house and dead wrap and stuff. I used to write music back in those |
0:56.0 | days as well. But watching how talented a lot of these people are at what they do and |
1:01.6 | still a lot of them haven't made it like you did makes me big the question. It's like, |
1:05.5 | what were the factors that came to play to make sure that you as a white rapper in the |
1:09.8 | UK scene got through? You know what? Just persistence, persistence, persistence. I just didn't |
1:16.9 | stop. You know, there were so many full starts as well. I was signing to my skin as record |
1:20.5 | label me and him, me being lazy, not working as hard as I should have. During the period |
1:27.9 | when I signed to his label, and I can put my hands up and say that, but I also biting |
1:33.0 | heads and not agreeing on music up until a point. And then just as we did, and he sent |
1:37.0 | a really kind email and he was like, look, I've been spending too long trying to make |
1:40.1 | you into something that you're not rather than focusing on what you're good at. Let's |
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