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" I was good at most subjects at school. Looking back, I was a proper boffin! Now, the thing I'm really good at is poker. "

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" In British music, you have indie, rock... Grime is now one of those pillars. It's a foundation of British music. "

" In school, all my teachers and my mum were super routing for me to study at Oxford. I picked music as a career choice, and this didn't sit too well with them! "

" What I'm doing is British. It stems from the same culture as U.S. hip-hop, but the way we dress, the way we speak, the way we perform is so different. It's U.K. street culture. "

" I don't care if it's a white millionaire kid from Oxfordshire who comes to my show, buys my record, supports me and rates me. It's cool. "

" Even if you don't like me, you know me because I'm just in your face. "

" I would love to say I grew up on 2Pac and The Beatles, but I didn't. "

" I grew up in south London, and I remember watching the scene pop off in East and think, 'Ahhhh, I would love to be in Bow E3 right now spitting wid Wiley and Dizzee.' "

" Bands like Little Mix do represent youth culture because loads of 16 year old girls listen to them. "

" I like flipping Coldplay. And I like Jessie Ware. But I'm sure how we grew up was totally different. "

" Engineering was the safe and sensible choice, but music was what I loved and wanted to do. "

" I'm on the rise and whatnot, but I'm not the man to say, 'All right, world, here's grime.' It's gonna take me, Skepta, JME, Novelist and Lethal Bizzle, to say, 'I'm sick, he's sick, he's sick, he's sick'. Not one man can do it. "

" The Americans have their way of talking, their way of dressing, their way of doing things, and we have ours. That's why this whole U.K. underground thing has become sick, because everyone has finally said, 'Yeah, yeah, Drake is sick - but hang on, we are too.' "

" You read a book, write a detailed review as proof you've read it, and they give you a badge. That's where my competitive nature came out. Give me the badges! I would sit in the library all day, not 'cos I loved reading, just because I needed those badges. "

" Wiley has given me wise words a few times. "

" I need to just make as much noise and bang on as many doors as possible 'til men are, like, giving you the recognition. "

" I was MCing in the playground, spitting lyrics over mobile phones - Sony Ericsson, Walkmans, W810s, the Teardrop Nokia phones, all of that. Vital equipment! I never even had a DJ set where a DJ's playing vinyl, and I'm spitting. "

" There are thousands of people outside the O2 queuing up to see people like Skepta and JME. "

" It's not always about convincing your parents of what you want to do, but just saying, 'This is what I'm doing; this is what I love.' "

" I'm not mad into raving, to be honest. If it's not music, I'm chilling. But most of the time, it's music. "

" People often link grime with other things, like street culture, and clashing, and MC battles and whatnot. But no one's ever talked in misogyny in grime. That's often linked to hip-hop, I know people talk about that is a problem in hip-hop. But not grime. "

" I just feel like there is nothing I cannot do. "

" When I'm good at something, I always try to be the best at it and claim that throne. Even in school, I never let anyone say anything to me; I would always be the smartest. "

" My mum's always had big aspirations because I'm an academic. I always got good grades at school. GCSEs were just a breeze for me. "

" Britain is not just One Direction, Little Mix, and James Bay. There's Skepta killing it, there's Krept and Konan killing it. "

" I was a very naughty child, on the verge of getting expelled, but I wasn't a bad child; everything I did was for my own entertainment. But when I went into an exam, I did really well. "

" Every single thing that I was told that I couldn't do without a label - get in the charts, get on to the Radio 1 playlist - I've done. "

" My older sister was into grime, so she got me into it. When I was ten, I begged her to take me to my first house party, where there were decks and a mic. I ended up falling asleep standing up in the corner. "

" I read so many books when I was a kid that I didn't even know were shaping me up. "

" It was my dream to come to Oxford and study political science. "

" My approach is just fearless. I'm not afraid to try anything. "