Musician

Parklife is one of the festivals I most look forward to. The crowds are wild; I love seeing that energy, those sweaty moshpits.

At school, when everyone would sell sweets and chocolate, I'd always take it that step further. I'd hustle as hard as I could to get the new Air Forces, to go and chill with the posh kids and the white girls who were around my area.

You can't dwell on disappointment. You've got to take the positives and keep looking ahead.

It's a bit cheeky as a rapper to make a singing album.

I'm not afraid to use my platform. I don't want to preach to people; I just want to put my opinions across about things I feel strongly about.

People ask me, how was university; I say it was boring and it wasn't for me. But if you wanna go, that's cool. I'm not out to lead people astray, but everyone has their vices.

I used to send out emails to producers to collaborate and they'd give me nothing, not even a response. As soon as I started popping off, out they came!

Yes, I'm having World Cup withdrawals; but no, this is sneaky of me to say, but I actually care about Tottenham more than I care about the England team.

I'm the least animated person I know. Even on stage, I just walk across it.

My dad used to be a rapper, he had a rap group. They did proper old school, boom-bap music. He had a high top and everything.

But my mum told me it's not good to be jealous, just work hard and keep your head down. Wait your turn.

I'm a very vengeful person - if someone didn't wanna get on board with me and I'm doing it well I'm gonna rub it in their face.

At the end of the day, the only way that I was able to thrive was by people giving me a chance, not being close-minded.

But for me it's loads of pressure. Like, my mum is a strong independent woman, but obviously she relies on me a little bit. My little brother has his own job but he relies on me.

When it comes to politics, unless it's an issue that's really close to home and you feel strongly about, I just don't think you should really talk about it.

As long as everyone around me is comfortable and we have a roof over our heads and we're eating, then it's fine and I can go off and do whatever I want.

I don't love collabs just for the sake of collaborating. It has to be purposeful and it needs to sonically make sense.

Once upon a time Americans didn't want to listen to Canadian rap and now Drake's the biggest rapper in the world.

I like to draw from experiences in my past, but that alone is quite hard and complicated, because I don't want to say anything incriminating or too offensive, but I want to give people an insight into my life and how it was.

Some things you never really fully understand unless you are actually black and you experience how it feels when someone treats you differently based on your skin colour.