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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.'

From Stormzy

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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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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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 was doing without for so long, not knowing the things that are normal for musicians. I was getting bookings regardless, people phoning or emailing me direct, and journalists were writing about me anyway.

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Grime is still quite new. You can't expect national radio and national media to get it straight away.

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Wiley has given me wise words a few times.

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Most middle-aged white men probably don't know about little old Stormzy from London.

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Bands like Little Mix do represent youth culture because loads of 16 year old girls listen to them.

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