Skepta Quotes

Skepta

Profession : Musician

Birth : September 19, 1982

I was working so hard at music and trying to do this whole 'industry' thing and realised that it wasn't for me.

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I know that I'm in grime, but I had to separate myself and do things myself.

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There is so much good music from our scene in the U.K., and I'm happy I'm part of that movement. For a long time, we were trying to do what the Americans were doing, we were trying to do what the pop stars from England were doing, and we just didn't understand.

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I go to award ceremonies, but I always like to be in my world. That's the only place I can control where I won't get upset.

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Songs like 'One Love' by Bob Marley - they stand the test of time - it doesn't matter - so anytime I write music, I try to write in tune with an emotion, and I hope there are more times like that for everyone.

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I'm paranoid of people hating on me.

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I can't make hard street music for the rest of my life. Your references change.

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I hear all the big department stores like Macy's and Bloomingdale's in the U.S. playing hard hip-hop records to the shoppers, like Rick Ross at his gnarliest. That's amazing. It makes me think grime can do a similar thing.

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It took a long time for hip-hop to become commercial. Now there's all these big black icons that came from nowhere to somewhere. Look at Jay-Z! People stopped being threatened by the music and just started to appreciate that it's good.

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I want to show the young generation that success is not something you search for externally: it is from within.

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When I finally got there, to where I thought was the top, I wasn't doing what I was doing in the beginning. I was not happy.

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Even though I played this role in 'Anti-Social,' you can see by the poster it's not concentrating on some black rudeboy thing. This is a smash-and-grab movie!

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I've been into clothes since I was a kid, going to garage raves and seeing all the Tottenham gangsters wearing Moschino and Versace; I just always had a passion for it.

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'That's Not Me' video cost me 80 English pounds.

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I have been wearing Air Max for so long, since I was seven playing around in the estate; I feel like I know my Air Max well.

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Air Max is from when we were running the streets. It was comfortable to wear in London, whether you were going out to a club or kicking a ball in the streets. Those kinds of things stick in my mind from the young, magical, fantasy years of my life.

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Being in an industry where money talks, everybody involved in the 'Dare To Dream' project came to a conclusion to sign it to Interscope.

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It's almost a blessing for a new generation to say somebody like myself went to their school. It helps kids dream, and now they're getting into acting, football, whatever.

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It's important for anybody who finds success to show other people where to find it.

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I put three productions of my youngest brother Jason on my album, on 'Konnichiwa,' and that made me happy, to be able to do that for him.

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