AJ Tracey Quotes

AJ Tracey

Profession : Musician

Birth : March 4, 1994

As a kid, I loved Air Force Ones - but they were so expensive. I always had to save up for ages to get them. Now I can call the Nike guy and be like 'can you send me ten pairs?' and they'll be here the same day.

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But everyone asks me who my dad is and I will never reveal it. It's too much ammunition for the internet.

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

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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.

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I wasn't super emo when I was younger but I'm very neurotic, my mood swings really heavily so when I'm upset I go away from everyone.

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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.

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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.

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The first thing I ever wanted to be was a lawyer, because I love arguing. But I'm very lazy. I'm intelligent, but I'm very lazy, so it seemed like a bit too much.

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Good on all the youths that are trying to do something different and do something positive.

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Everyone asks me about why I care about anime and football so much, but that's because anything dark that happened in my life, those two things would make me feel better. I just used to sit in front of the TV and watch football and breathe a sigh of relief. You know what I mean? It's another world. An escape.

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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.

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I have a personal relationship with Dizzee Rascal - I know him, he's cool - so this is no disrespect to him or any other British rappers who tried to make it in America, like Wiley and Tinie Tempah, but the type of music they were making to be accepted over there - it doesn't translate.

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A lot of my fans want easily digestible music, which I'm not really prepared to give anyone, ever. That's just trash. That's boring.

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

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Everyone around me does music, so I just kind of knew. It wasn't some magical moment. There were loads of other things I wanted to do. I wanted to be a lawyer, for example, because I just love arguing, but it wasn't on the cards.

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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.

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When I was in secondary school, I cared about nothing but music.

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People love to be U.K. music advocates but they don't wanna give other types of music a chance so it can be as popular as this one sound.

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I never really do anything show-off-y, I keep it humble.

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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.

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