American - Musician | January 4, 1989 -
I have learned that while your putting your record together you can get so caught up in making what you want that you forget what you wanted in the first place.
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I'm a musical geek. It's like there's this big, wild universe in my head, and I love to express it.
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My mother brought up nine children, in Hackney, and none of us are criminals, none of us in jail. Her strength made me who I am today.
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English urban artists were very used to making secondhand American music, and I thought that was boring.
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Branding your song is the worst thing you can ever do. That's turning your song into a product.
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I'm from Hackney, and it's an area that is not so pretty, and we have a different way of expressing ourselves than somebody from uptown that has lots of money.
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I actually tried to learn the dictionary at one point. It didn't work; I only got through the first few pages.
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I never called myself an urban artist, but that's what I was classed as, and I almost tried to live up to the name instead of who I really was.
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You get so close to your own music that you can't see the beauty in it. I had to learn to let go. It's good to be less precious.
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My brothers came home with country, jazz, everything... it was always very normal to me to make any type of music. It was possible to fuse all the sounds, so it never sounded confusing to me to mix jazz and dubstep.
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I remember my brother came home with a bass and played a blues solo on it. I just went insane for days afterwards learning that.
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My grandad's a gospel singer, and his children were singers, too. But I don't believe in God in the same way... not religion; it breaks us up too much. The same with musical styles - it breaks people up. I believe they are all one thing - why not put them together?
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