Skepta Quotes

Skepta

Profession : Musician

Birth : September 19, 1982

Even with the 'Top Boy' series with Ashley Walters... I've been talking like on the creative direction wave with Drake about the series. Making greatness with it. The whole style of what's going on in London, the sound, is real. It's an actual thing that actually happened. So it deserves to be on the telly.

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It's not just my music. Not everyone just listens to grime now 'cause of Skepta. They like how we speak. They like the slang. They like how we dress. They listen to the music. It's everything.

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Pirate radio is like street art.

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Radio 1 doesn't exist to me. I don't judge my success by anything they say.

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Getting in touch with your life purpose is important.

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In school, I wasn't like the cool guy who had all the new clothes and had all the girls. I felt like the world saw me as an idiot.

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I used to think my accent was blocking me, and I hated it. Then I went to America, and every time someone said, 'What? Can you say that again?' I started liking it.

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Bullying is bullying, man. Even the biggest of the bullies got bullied. And what was happening in school comes from the media, innit? It comes from TV and society.

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I don't watch the news because I understand that I'm like a science lab. Whatever I take in is how I feel.

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I think some things that are better for me are not good for other people, innit. They need to run theirself. Everybody should run theirself.

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I'm from the street, but I'm not a street head. I'm not one of those guys who believe that life is about the street. I'm nerdy at heart, man.

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I did drama at school, as a kid, but I ain't been to, like, acting school or anything. I was in a couple of school plays.

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When I do music videos, I like to do a take, then see how it looks, so I can correct it.

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I think 'Inception' was a sick idea, but they didn't do it correctly.

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I suppose when I was growing up, it was all about fitting into a box or fitting into a category. You know, looking like I listened to hip-hop, or looking like I listened to grime. You'd see someone and go, 'Oh, look at that person. He's wearing that or that; he listens to punk rock.'

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There are different things to wear in different places, and if you want to fit in and show respect, you can dress to do that, or you can dress to show that you are foreign and not from there. That can work, too.

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There would be weeks when I'd just go to Paris on a cheap ticket, sleep on my friend's floor, and just do a show because I knew I was going to do a show. Do it, get home, see it on my timeline, and be happy that I was just working.

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I was about 18 when I started making music, making beats. My mindset was totally different.

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I feel like the Earth is a re-print of a re-print of a print of a re-print.

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I've been trying to do this music stuff and work it out for so long... I was like, 'Let's do it for ourselves.' All these songs, we've travelled the world - no record label, nothing. We just did this for us, but the love is very appreciated.

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