00:00Marcelo, congratulations on being shortlisted for the Mercury Prize 2025. How do you feel?
00:04I feel ecstatic.
00:07So, African aliens connected with a lot of people. What can you tell us about the place where the album came from?
00:12It came from a disturbed place in my life.
00:17We still got up because what's written is written.
00:21That's another thing of an alien. What's written is written.
00:26What happens, you cannot let this world take the love from you.
00:31Life after prison, how does that sense of freedom impact you as an artist?
00:36Freedom is responsibility.
00:41I'm more grateful for life. When you fly out of a country, that's something else I realised.
00:48You come back and see the beauty of your home even more.
00:53How does it feel to be the only rap album on the shortlist this year?
00:56Rapper? I'm not a rapper though. I'm an artist.
00:59My voice is an instrument. I don't just rap.
01:02My genre is freedom of sound.
01:07If you're a gambling man, who's he money on to win?
01:09I'm not a gambling man. I can't do that.
01:15Amazing.
01:16You want me to carry on?
01:17Whoever wins. Everyone deserves to win anyway.
01:20Amazing. Thank you very much. Congratulations man.
01:23Thank you so much.
01:25Congratulations man.
01:27You
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