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" Most middle-aged white men probably don't know about little old Stormzy from London. "

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" I'm a completely fearless musician. "

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

" 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 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. "

" 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! "

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

" 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.' "

" People always meet me and go, 'You're so much cooler than I thought you'd be,' and I'm like, 'What did you expect me to be like?' "

" I don't even think of it as a strategy. It's me in my element; it's my forte. Me being with all the mandem on the ends, spitting to an old school grime riddim, is me in my element; that's when I feel I'm at my best. "

" 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 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. "

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

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

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

" It's mad to think I was just a kid from south London, rapping in parks with friends. "

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

" I love Frank Ocean. For me, 'Channel Orange' is the best LP ever. I love his voice, the songwriting, everything. "

" If I'm not working on music, I'm usually with my friends playing FIFA. We just kick back - I'm proper chilled. "

" I know a lot of grime artists started off on pirate radio, but I missed that era; I was way too young. "

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

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

" Grime is still quite new. You can't expect national radio and national media to get it straight away. "

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

" My mum was born and raised in Ghana and has a lot of Ghanaian values and traditions and morals. All that rubbed off on me, and that's why I have a lot of love and good energy in me - that universal energy is a Ghanaian thing. "

" 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.' "

" 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. "

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

" I went to pick up my nephew from primary school, and one of the teachers there stopped me and said, 'My son listens to you.' That's quite an awkward thing. "

" 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. "