Stormzy Quotes:
People often link grime with other things, like street culture, and clashing, and MC battles and whatnot. But no one’s ever talked in misogyny in grime. That’s often linked to hip-hop, I know people talk about that is a problem in hip-hop. But not grime.
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When I’m good at something, I always try to be the best at it and claim that throne. Even in school, I never let anyone say anything to me; I would always be the smartest.
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On the microphone, I’m not scared to step up and say, ‘This is my ability, this is how good I am.’ In other areas of life, I’m not so confident; I’m still adjusting to the photo shoots, all that stuff. But behind the mic, I’m fully confident.
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My mum was born and raised in Ghana and has a lot of Ghanaian values and traditions and morals. All that rubbed off on me, and that’s why I have a lot of love and good energy in me – that universal energy is a Ghanaian thing.
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My approach is just fearless. I’m not afraid to try anything.
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The Americans have their way of talking, their way of dressing, their way of doing things, and we have ours. That’s why this whole U.K. underground thing has become sick, because everyone has finally said, ‘Yeah, yeah, Drake is sick – but hang on, we are too.’
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I’m a bit crazy, so sometimes I just get these mad ideas that, on paper, aren’t even possible.
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In school, all my teachers and my mum were super routing for me to study at Oxford. I picked music as a career choice, and this didn’t sit too well with them!
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I’m on the rise and whatnot, but I’m not the man to say, ‘All right, world, here’s grime.’ It’s gonna take me, Skepta, JME, Novelist and Lethal Bizzle, to say, ‘I’m sick, he’s sick, he’s sick, he’s sick’. Not one man can do it.
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Engineering was the safe and sensible choice, but music was what I loved and wanted to do.
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I grew up as a British kid – I went to school in London, roamed the streets of London – but having these interactions with my roots and going back to Ghana, I’m like, ‘Yeah this is sick.’ I love my country and my people, and the energy and vibes that they bring back. So I want to rep that and be a part of it.
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I know a lot of grime artists started off on pirate radio, but I missed that era; I was way too young.
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I was MCing in the playground, spitting lyrics over mobile phones – Sony Ericsson, Walkmans, W810s, the Teardrop Nokia phones, all of that. Vital equipment! I never even had a DJ set where a DJ’s playing vinyl, and I’m spitting.
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It’s mad to think I was just a kid from south London, rapping in parks with friends.
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Britain is not just One Direction, Little Mix, and James Bay. There’s Skepta killing it, there’s Krept and Konan killing it.
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