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They respect rappers in the U.S., but in England, it's the Queen's country. She'll forever be putting out the message on these BBC networks that there's no hood: it's tea and red phoneboxes.
- Skepta
#Country
#Hood
#Queen
#Respect
#Tea
When I was a youth, to be called 'African' was a diss. At school, the African kids used to lie and say they were Jamaican. So when I first came in the game, and I'm saying lyrics like, 'I make Nigerians proud of their tribal scars/ My bars make you push up your chest like bras,' that was a big deal for me.
- Skepta
#Game
#Lie
#Me
#School
#Youth
You won't feel inferior in my sportswear!
- Skepta
#Feel
#Inferior
#You
In school, I wasn't like the cool guy who had all the new clothes and had all the girls. I felt like the world saw me as an idiot.
- Skepta
#Cool
#Idiot
#Me
#School
#World
It's almost a blessing for a new generation to say somebody like myself went to their school. It helps kids dream, and now they're getting into acting, football, whatever.
- Skepta
#Football
#Generation
#Myself
#School
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.
- Skepta
#Feel
#Looking
#Peace
#Perfect
#Touring
I am blessed to have been able to travel the world doing what I do.
- Skepta
#Blessed
#Doing
#I Am
#Travel
#World
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.
- Skepta
#Believe
#Create
#I Believe
#Legacy
#Live
I think about this every day. I wonder, 'Is today the day where everybody stops lying to themselves and realises that the government is the enemy?'
- Skepta
#Day
#Enemy
#Every Day
#Government
#Today
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.
- Skepta
#Black
#Good
#Long
#Music
#Time
The star, the person who's on the mic, always gets seen.
- Skepta
#Always
#Mic
#Person
#Seen
#Star
I don't know what I'm going to end up doing, but its definitely in the right direction for freedom and truth.
- Skepta
#Direction
#Doing
#Freedom
#Know
#Truth
Getting in touch with your life purpose is important.
- Skepta
#Important
#Life
#Purpose
#Touch
#Your
If you don't put your crew on your album, you're a snake.
- Skepta
#Album
#Crew
#Put
#Snake
#Your
Don't compare me to Stormzy. Me and Stormzy are both legends in our own right.
- Skepta
#Compare
#Legends
#Me
#Own
#Right
Even with the 'Top Boy' series with Ashley Walters... I've been talking like on the creative direction wave with Drake about the series. Making greatness with it. The whole style of what's going on in London, the sound, is real. It's an actual thing that actually happened. So it deserves to be on the telly.
- Skepta
#Direction
#Greatness
#Real
#Sound
#Style
For a long time, men weren't respecting women. They weren't understanding Mother Earth, Mother Nature, the Motherland, all the motherly stuff. And now we are.
- Skepta
#Long
#Men
#Nature
#Time
#Women
I'm winning even if I have zero pence in my bank account, because my mind's free.
- Skepta
#Bank
#Free
#Mind
#Winning
#Zero
I feel like I'm the chosen one, but I chose myself.
- Skepta
#Chosen
#Feel
#I Feel Like
#Like
#Myself
'No fear' is a mindset that I stand for. It's the reason why I've got to where I am today.
- Skepta
#Fear
#I Am
#Reason
#Stand
#Today
In this music industry, you'll find the differences with artists. You get some people who really love music... and you get people who do this because they want to have money or want to be famous.
- Skepta
#Differences
#Famous
#Love
#Money
#Music
There are people who take on different objectives and missions in life. When you grow older, there's a a void - and right now, I'm filling a space where a lot of old rock, grime, hip-hop, punk artists left a vacant space.
- Skepta
#Grow
#Hip-Hop
#Life
#People
#Space
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