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" 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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Stormzy

Bad

My Own

Well

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

" 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. "

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

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

Stormzy

See

Outside

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

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

Stormzy

Would

Beatles

" 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. "

Stormzy

Love

Good

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" I'm a bit crazy, so sometimes I just get these mad ideas that, on paper, aren't even possible. "

" 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 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. "

Stormzy

Feel

Cannot

" 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. "

Stormzy

Kid

White

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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! "

Stormzy

Choice

Music

" 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'm a completely fearless musician. "

Stormzy

Musician

Fearless

" 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 doing without for so long, not knowing the things that are normal for musicians. I was getting bookings regardless, people phoning or emailing me direct, and journalists were writing about me anyway. "

Stormzy

Long

Writing

" 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. "

" Our parents don't always know what's right. It's a new age. "

" 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?' "