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The most expensive thing you bought with your first big check from music…
The first thing I bought was my laptop because I used FL Studio a lot. It was when I signed my deal with Island Records. When I compare it to now, it wasn’t that much, but at the time, it was a big amount. The diamond chains, the rings and stuff, that’s not really me. I like to look good, but it’s more just clothes, fashion. I’m really into what Corteiz, Billionaire Boys Club and A-COLD-WALL * are doing right now … Saying that, though, I’ve always wanted a gold Rolex. I grew up seeing the olders on the block with them and I thought they looked nice, so that’s something I would want to get.
The first time you felt your family was proud of your chosen career path…
I think it might have been when I signed to Iceland, or maybe a bit before the deal. Growing up, I never really heard “I’m proud of you” that much. But I vividly remember my parents – especially my dad – saying they were proud when I went to Nigeria, and was maybe halfway through my trip. My dad was saying how he was proud of the fact that I stuck with it because I know a few people who got sent to Nigeria, went to the High Commission and ended up back in London a few weeks later. So for me to actually make it through, he was proud of me for that. That experience really helped me mature a lot. Other than Nigeria, my parents were proud of me when I signed the deal. They tell me they’re proud all the time now, but it was especially crazy to hear it from my dad; he’s a very moral person but I feel like, subconsciously, he respects what I do for a living.
The first UK rap project that influenced you in a major way…
It was definitely a Youngs Teflon project. I always say Youngs Teflon was the first artist who made me start listening to projects in their entirety – I used to just listen to songs, but I think it might have been GMT 2with all the dope samples, that made me look at rap in a different light.
The first time you realized your song with DC, “Bobby & Rowdy”, Was one of the best UK rap collabs of all time…
[Laughs] Love that. People have been asking for this song for a long time. It felt, like, maybe a week after I dropped my video for “Home”, DC dropped a tune and it had a similar vibe to it. The storytelling was similar, and there was something that made people put those two songs in the same vein. And because of that, they kept saying our names together, but they didn’t know we’d already been in the studio together. Years before that, I had maybe a couple of tunes with DC. There was one tune, produced by Nastylgia, that he was trying to put on his project – and this was two years before “Bobby & Rowdy”. I think it’s the fact that everyone was talking about us that made us decide to get in a session with TSB. We definitely created something special.
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