00:03What's going on? It's your boy Tiny Tempo.
00:06Basically, I'm a 21-year-old South Londoner.
00:08I first got into music when I was about 12, when I first heard So Solid Crew and Dizzy Rascal.
00:14Those are the two artists that kind of made me want to get into it.
00:17So I sort of started stealing some of their lyrics and writing mine in between.
00:21So I'd put one line out of theirs, one line out of mine, and so on and so on.
00:25And as the years progressed, I just started doing it myself.
00:28Eventually, I wrote this track called Wifey, which I ended up spending £800 for an independent music video around 2006.
00:36I was 16 then.
00:38And I put that on the one station that would only play it, which was Channel U.
00:41And it kind of blew up, and it was like number one on their station for like 10 weeks.
00:45And then after that, I hooked up with my management, and we set up a label called Disturbing London.
00:50My management is my cousin, basically.
00:52And we set up Disturbing London, and so we started to carry on with that format.
00:55We carried on doing videos. We'd done Hood Economics after that, and we'd done Tears.
01:00And then we sort of realized that we had kind of hit a glass ceiling, and we wasn't really getting
01:05anywhere else.
01:05So I decided to set up a blog in 2009 called Milk and Two Sugars, where I bought a red
01:11camera, a shiny red JVC camera from the January sale.
01:15And I would literally just film myself on the day-to-day, because I was doing gigs, you know, off
01:19of the success of Tears and Hood Economics and Wifey.
01:22So I'd film myself, and I'd go to like behind the scenes and video shoots and do little exclusive things.
01:26And then the blog interest started to grow rapidly from about 2,000 hits in the first month to about
01:3215,000 hits by like the third month and so on and so on.
01:36But now about a million views are over that now, to be fair.
01:39And yeah, 2009 Wireless Festival, I'd done a performance, I opened up the second stage, and it was packed out
01:47to the rim.
01:47And when I left, everybody else in the crowd left for the second act, and that got all the labels
01:53kind of curious as to who I was and what I was about.
01:55And so yeah, all the labels started calling. I signed with EMI October the 8th, 2009, made Pass Out, which
02:01is the first single off of my first debut album ever.
02:04And it went to number one, and now we're in Brighton.
02:08My debut album, The Discovery, is out end of July, early August. And basically, yeah, it's the first full LP
02:15that I've actually made ever.
02:16And I put a lot of like blood, sweat and tears into it, from experiences of like doing it independently
02:22with like the last tenor in my back pocket, trying to get to a gig, which is like so far
02:26out of London, you wouldn't believe.
02:28And not getting paid to be in here now, Post Pass Out, you know, where I'm gigging a lot, going
02:35all over the world, meeting a lot of people, collaborating with some of my most favourite artists.
02:40You know, you can kind of hear that whole journey on the album from track one all the way down
02:44to track twelve. It's very fun. It's very eclectic. It's very honest.
02:48I'm trying to break a lot of boundaries and a lot of conventions as to what an actual song is
02:52supposed to sound like.
02:53Like, it's not going to be your stereotypical like three minutes of like two verses and a bridge. Sometimes I'm
02:58just trying to push the boundaries.
03:00Sometimes I could be rapping on the track and just stop halfway and just say, I don't want to do
03:04it anyway, just put the chorus. Do you get what I mean?
03:06So I'm really just trying to push the boundaries as to how we define a song. Do you get what
03:10I mean?
03:10So expect a lot of that on the Discovery and of course expect to discover something.
03:15Being number one with my debut single is kind of a big deal. It does feel like something because something
03:21heavy has landed on your shoulders, of course.
03:23But I'm just very grateful that, you know, so many people went out and supported it and bought it and
03:28got it to where it finally ended up at.
03:31And I just hope that those people will follow me on this journey and support me with all my forthcoming
03:36single releases and the album.
03:39If I had a motto for my career, I would just simply say, live your dream, because sometimes you kind
03:44of have dreams and they seem a little bit far fetched.
03:47And so you don't try and live them out. But this is exactly what I'm trying to do.
03:50Like, I really did wake up as a 12 year old and say, you know what, when I'm older, I
03:54want to be a musician, a successful one at that.
03:57And I'm just trying to do exactly that. So live your dream.
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