Top 100 Quotes & Sayings by Skepta - Page 2

It took a long time for hip-hop to become commercial. Now there's all these big black icons that came from nowhere to somewhere. Look at Jay-Z! People stopped being threatened by the music and just started to appreciate that it's good.

We've been ahead for so long in the U.K., we're so multicultural, and that's the beauty. That's why grime was formed, from this mix, this understanding of different people.

When I got 'forever' tattooed on my throat, it meant that my legacy was going to live forever. So anything that I create, I do it because I believe it will live on, forever.

There's a lot of oppressed people in Tottenham, but people in Tottenham also know how to turn pain into triumph.

Songwriting has really allowed me to enjoy life and look at it from an objective place.

That's all that life is really about - setting up the party, talking to people who are like-minded, making something happen and keeping it moving, you know.

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.

'Konnichiwa' was made because I don't like the industry. I really had to remove myself from it to understand myself.

I've been into clothes since I was a kid, going to garage raves and seeing all the Tottenham gangsters wearing Moschino and Versace; I just always had a passion for it.

'That's Not Me' video cost me 80 English pounds.

There is so much good music from our scene in the U.K., and I'm happy I'm part of that movement. For a long time, we were trying to do what the Americans were doing, we were trying to do what the pop stars from England were doing, and we just didn't understand.

When I finally got there, to where I thought was the top, I wasn't doing what I was doing in the beginning. I was not happy.

I go to award ceremonies, but I always like to be in my world. That's the only place I can control where I won't get upset.

Even though I played this role in 'Anti-Social,' you can see by the poster it's not concentrating on some black rudeboy thing. This is a smash-and-grab movie!

Everything makes sense to me in Lagos; I even understand myself.

I want to show the young generation that success is not something you search for externally: it is from within.

They respect rappers in the U.S., but in England, it's the Queen's country. She'll forever be putting out the message on these BBC networks that there's no hood: it's tea and red phoneboxes.

When I was younger, I was very wild, and I didn't really have my head screwed on properly.

Songs like 'One Love' by Bob Marley - they stand the test of time - it doesn't matter - so anytime I write music, I try to write in tune with an emotion, and I hope there are more times like that for everyone.

I don't think grime has ever been respected; it's not seen as a nice sound.

I can't make hard street music for the rest of my life. Your references change.

I hear all the big department stores like Macy's and Bloomingdale's in the U.S. playing hard hip-hop records to the shoppers, like Rick Ross at his gnarliest. That's amazing. It makes me think grime can do a similar thing.

When I was a kid, I used to stop bullies. I'd get so angry when I saw people being bullied. I'd be like, 'Stop doing that to him!'

Air Max is from when we were running the streets. It was comfortable to wear in London, whether you were going out to a club or kicking a ball in the streets. Those kinds of things stick in my mind from the young, magical, fantasy years of my life.

When I was younger, I was an aggressive fighter but I'm growing into someone who understands we don't have to answer things with violence.

It's almost a blessing for a new generation to say somebody like myself went to their school. It helps kids dream, and now they're getting into acting, football, whatever.

Some artists are like ready-salted crisps and just do what they are supposed to do. But I'm every flavour in one. I'm one of those variety packs.

I put three productions of my youngest brother Jason on my album, on 'Konnichiwa,' and that made me happy, to be able to do that for him.

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

The worst thing that happened to me at a gig was when the microphone wasn't on one time, and for the three lines of the verse with Chipmunk, you couldn't hear me.

Boy Better Know, when we die, people are going to realise that we are just seven guys who just, like, try to have fun.

Thank you to everybody who was there for me when I was going through depressed times.

I have been wearing Air Max for so long, since I was seven playing around in the estate; I feel like I know my Air Max well.

I'm paranoid of people hating on me.

It's important for anybody who finds success to show other people where to find it.

Basically, a lot of people have asked to jump on 'Shutdown' remix, I'm not gonna front. But 'cause of quality control, we wanted to make it really big: it's all about spreading the British sound and culture.

Being in an industry where money talks, everybody involved in the 'Dare To Dream' project came to a conclusion to sign it to Interscope.

To be able to come back to Nigeria and get so much love for my work is my biggest life blessing. I've always hoped to never get lost in translation with me being British-born.

After touring so much, I was looking for some peace. I found Morocco, and it was perfect. Everything I wanted to feel about peace, I found it there.

At every stage of my life, I've always wanted to do good for Earth.