00:00 When I first started doing music, there weren't like no mainstream UK gangsters, like street
00:06 rappers. It used to be more like grime based 140 BPM or like House and Garage or like drum and bass.
00:13 So when I came with like hip hop and with a UK accent in the mainstream, I was like,
00:18 "Oh, what is this? This is whack." Started smashing up the game. Then they was looking
00:22 for new UK rappers. Then it was like, "Oh, gigs is whack. It's over for him." Then I came back
00:28 again, took the game to another level. I ain't going nowhere.
00:30 The beat's kind of wavy, but it's got like some emotional shit inside it too. And I think
00:42 because I started talking about my daughter, the guard was let down and then it just started
00:46 getting emotional.
00:48 "It's kind of mad. Got 'em hot, I'm chilling. Spider-fan, and they can't believe that. I'm
00:56 the man. Up in stockies like I'm Spider-Man." At that time, I was just watching Spider-Man
01:02 with my son the day before. I think it was the first Spider-verse. Little man loves Spider-Man.
01:06 So that was probably fresh in my head. It's hard.
01:10 "On the ocean with you. Bitch by the sand. I can say it wasn't, but it was kind of planned.
01:16 Let me take it back to where I began. A lot of niggas tried to bite my hand."
01:22 At the beginning of my career, hip hop didn't exist in UK like that. Even then, it was kind
01:29 of embarrassing to say you rap. I would be like, "Oh, what do you do?" Just this little
01:34 music thing. Even to this day now, if someone says, "Oh, what do you do?" I'll be hesitant
01:39 to say I rap. And then I think, "No, that's the shit now." But yeah, I rap.
01:42 Accolades. The main thing is just getting off the street. How do you measure success
02:00 for a man like me to get off the streets? How heavy I was in the streets. That's the biggest
02:06 success. I've never really cared about plaques like that. They're nice to look at and all,
02:10 but that Jada says, "My son can't eat those plaques."
02:12 I always have new bangers. And even if I ain't got a new banger,
02:29 the old bangers become the new bangers. Because with my music, I'm always in the future.
02:33 I drop a song like 2007, it's lit in 2024. Every summer I'm going to be lit.
02:39 Silent lamb, build a house off the rock.
02:42 By the land, that looks tasty, boys.
02:45 Kind of bland, you look tough if we go.
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