Skepta Quotes

Skepta

Profession : Musician

Birth : September 19, 1982

For a long time, men weren't respecting women. They weren't understanding Mother Earth, Mother Nature, the Motherland, all the motherly stuff. And now we are.

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I am blessed to have been able to travel the world doing what I do.

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I feel like I'm the chosen one, but I chose myself.

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Songwriting has really allowed me to enjoy life and look at it from an objective place.

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The star, the person who's on the mic, always gets seen.

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I am for feminism. I stand up for women standing up for themselves in the same way I stand up for being black.

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There's a lot of oppressed people in Tottenham, but people in Tottenham also know how to turn pain into triumph.

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Adele texts me all the time and keeps me in check.

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If you don't put your crew on your album, you're a snake.

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I was like, 'I can't do grime. That's for kids.' - I was 20 at the time, and I thought I was a gangsta, a proper rude boy.

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Beyonce's 'Bow Down,' to me, that could be a grime tune. If it's electronic and 140-ish bpm, and people go crazy to it, to me, that's grime.

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We've been ahead for so long in the U.K., we're so multicultural, and that's the beauty. That's why grime was formed, from this mix, this understanding of different people.

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All my early lyrics were about confidence.

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There are people who take on different objectives and missions in life. When you grow older, there's a a void - and right now, I'm filling a space where a lot of old rock, grime, hip-hop, punk artists left a vacant space.

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When I was a youth, to be called 'African' was a diss. At school, the African kids used to lie and say they were Jamaican. So when I first came in the game, and I'm saying lyrics like, 'I make Nigerians proud of their tribal scars/ My bars make you push up your chest like bras,' that was a big deal for me.

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England is so black and white, so plain, like a burger with nothing on it. No salad, nothing. That's why it's so real.

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When I got 'forever' tattooed on my throat, it meant that my legacy was going to live forever. So anything that I create, I do it because I believe it will live on, forever.

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I don't think grime has ever been respected; it's not seen as a nice sound.

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I'm winning even if I have zero pence in my bank account, because my mind's free.

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Everyone knows their wrong from right, so when people are being racist, they know they're being ignorant.

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