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

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" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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" 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. "

" 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. "

" On the microphone, I'm not scared to step up and say, 'This is my ability, this is how good I am.' In other areas of life, I'm not so confident; I'm still adjusting to the photo shoots, all that stuff. But behind the mic, I'm fully confident. "

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

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

" 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. "

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" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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" 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. "

" My core is grime. But I make all kinds of music. Take Picasso. He could paint whatever way he liked. He could do a little ting with a felt tip if he wanted to - it's still going to be a bad boy Picasso at the end. "

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" 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. "