Skepta Quotes

Grime is a particular style of music. You've got electro, funk and garage; grime is its darker side. It's constantly evolving.

I think the grime scene is one of the sickest, most diverse scenes ever.

There's quite a stigma attached to country music in the UK - but I kind of enjoy that.

I was making grime before anyone else.

It's great to bring urban music to the commercial scene.

I appreciate Drake's music, I appreciate Future's music, I appreciate Lil Durk's music. I appreciate Uzi, Meek Mill, I appreciate Migos.

Grime's always been big at festivals. Grime's always had an underground crew.

People can't look down on grime anymore, it's an established British genre.

The sound of the '90s, to me, is a combination of soul and street - it's a feeling.

I love all sorts of music. I'm really into Damian Rice and Amos Lee.

I'm not making music for people who like Disney shows. I make music for people who like music.

I have a cousin called Flirta D who was big in the grime world, which made me really cool at school. 'Flirta D's your cousin?' 'Yeah, buddy.' 'He must be a millionaire!'

I don't live in this soul music bubble. I love Young Thug, Drake, Kendrick Lamar. I even heard that Kendrick was a fan of my music. Hopefully there's a door open for us to do music together. He's one of my favorite artists. I love Jazmine Sullivan, Lianne la Havas, Usher, Ginuwine. It goes further than classic soul.

It's no longer unusual for real avant-garde composers to have been in a band, and for bands to be interested in a wide range of music. Look at how artists like Aphex Twin are influenced by Nancarrow and Stockhausen.

I see a lot of connections between folk and punk music just because they're both subcorporate music - I mean, traditionally.

The academic area of new music or modern music festivals is not something which attracts me at all.

I have a very pop voice, but there's so much of me I associate mostly with urban music, so I try to blend the two.

I really like the whole urban, hip-hop kind of thing.

You can't argue that hip-hop rots away the moral character of kids or rots their brain and still see middle-class white kids going to college who are listening to hip-hop. Going on to become healthy adults listening to hip-hop.

I've been hugely inspired by Khalid, XXX, Post Malone, and The Weekend. That's the kind of sound that has really inspired me.

Pop music is getting so emo. It's great. Emotional girl for life. I see myself in the centre of that.

Britain is not just One Direction, Little Mix, and James Bay. There's Skepta killing it, there's Krept and Konan killing it.

I just want to put my stamp on all kinds of music. Everything I do is going to be gangsta rap, street-based, street-oriented.

I like a lot of ratchet, trap music. Definitely 21 Savage. We need some music like that. ManMan Savage. A lot of the Atlanta scene. But Philly, too.

I'm happy that grime remains underground. A lot of people talk like it's some underrated or ignored genre, but to me, that's the beauty of it.