Skepta

“A good diss track needs to have some facts in it and definitely tell some truth.”

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

“I was like, 'I can't do grime. That's for kids.' - I was 20 at the time, and I thought I was a gangsta, a proper rude boy.”

“'No fear' is a mindset that I stand for. It's the reason why I've got to where I am today.”

“We've been ahead for so long in the U.K., we're so multicultural, and that's the beauty. That's why grime was formed, from this mix, this understanding of different people.”

“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.”

“I am for feminism. I stand up for women standing up for themselves in the same way I stand up for being black.”

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

“I feel like I'm the chosen one, but I chose myself.”

“Now, I think you'll find a lot of rappers and artists are getting girl managers. It just makes sense. The guys in my team have learnt a lot from bringing girls in.”

“After touring so much, I was looking for some peace. I found Morocco, and it was perfect. Everything I wanted to feel about peace, I found it there.”

“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.”

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

“The star, the person who's on the mic, always gets seen.”

“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.”

“A lot of us who've made grime might be in the chart, but that is because of the country we are in.”

“Thank you to everybody who was there for me when I was going through depressed times.”

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

“With the music that I've put out, I realized that putting pressure on an album isn't always the right thing to do for yourself.”

“When I got 'forever' tattooed on my throat, it meant that my legacy was going to live forever. So anything that I create, I do it because I believe it will live on, forever.”