Tinie Tempah Quotes

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Tinie Tempah

Profession : Musician

Birth : November 7, 1988

I'm actually going to the gym, working on getting not fatter, just a bit bulkier.

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Grime is a particular style of music. You've got electro, funk and garage; grime is its darker side. It's constantly evolving.

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Artists take on an alias that's suitable for their style of music. Everyone had a nickname when they were younger.

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I feel like I'm indirectly showing people, not that there's another way, but just that if you really have a dream, you should try and give it a go.

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I was well brought up, my parents are still together. I lived in a council estate, but I don't anymore; I saw my parents buy a nice house and move me to a nice area.

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Gone are the days when you'd have to tune in to a mad illegal radio station late at night to be able to hear the rapper of your choice. That's all changed now. That's all gone out of the window. And I feel like I represent that change. I represent the era of iPods and Shuffle and things like that.

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I've definitely done something that's made my mum and dad forever proud.

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I don't want to achieve less than my mum and dad.

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Every generation that comes from this family has to do better than the last.

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Dizzee's just my childhood hero. He's definitely the inspiration. He's got himself to a very good place. He's defied the expectations of what British black urban music was like. He was the first person who made the rest of Britain realise it wasn't just a one-album-type situation. You've got to take your hat off to somebody like that.

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My goal, my aim is to be a superstar, but not in a cheesy way. I want to go to America and do what they do. But better!

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Hopefully, young people will see that you can be young and make the sacrifices to follow your dreams.

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This is the kind of fashion I grew up on - a good pair of trainers, great denim - and I will always love high-end streetwear.

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If I go to an awards ceremony, I wear a suit, of course I do. I am proud to be there. If there are young kids looking at pictures of me, I want them to feel that they should long for the opportunity to go somewhere really smart and wear a beautiful suit, rather than to reject that.

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When I feel like I'm renowned enough, I'd love to do a heritage-type line, but that takes time.

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The way everyone in London is right up against each other makes it very real to you growing up, the fact that people have different lives to you. And that causes problems; of course it does.

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