Top 18 Quotes & Sayings by Jme

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a British musician Jme.

Last updated on November 17, 2024.

Jamie Adenuga, known professionally as Jme, is a British grime MC, songwriter, record producer and DJ who was born in Hackney, and raised in Tottenham. He is the co-founder of the crew and label Boy Better Know. He also serves as a sole owner and director of an associated company, Boy Better Know Limited, which he incorporated in 2008. He was previously part of the grime collective Meridian Crew and later Roll Deep alongside his older brother, Skepta.

British - Musician | Born: May 4, 1985

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The fabric of our community, our culture, is MCing.

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Music videos are like tools that young artists use to earn respect from their peers, to 'represent.'

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I've grown up making the best out of what I've got.

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We lived together until Skepta was 30-something. We've been together so long, it's impossible for us to have any differences, no matter how long we're apart.

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'New Slaves' is too real to me. It's like a freestyle of real talk, with the sickest beat. It's like the beat was made for the verses themselves.

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My dad had records, but only one deck, so Skep used to try and play a song on one deck - the Music Centre we used to call it, a cabinet with a glass door - he would play one tune on the record and then mix the tape to it, that's what he used to like doing. He became a DJ.

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We're a really close family, we've only ever been in three-bedroom houses, so we were always sharing bedrooms, two of us, or three of us at times.

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I didn't understand how to make it in the music industry, I just wanted to make music.

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When you grow up in a council flat, sometimes living on top of members of your crew, the feeling of community is intense.

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MCs want to represent how it is on their streets. But many of the younger ones are closed-minded: they think about the image more than the music. But as they grow older they realize the music matters more than their image.

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I'm all right if the NHS gets privatized. I'll just spit two bars, get a bit of money and go fix my ribs.

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When I'm making music... or writing a bar... I'm not thinking, 'Ah, I can't wait to put this on Spotify! I can't wait to put this on Apple Music!' I don't make music for that. I make music so I can see it - I need to see the reaction. I need to feel it.

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Everyone feels like there's something you should do: you should make a song, do a YouTube video, get your views, put it on Spotify, tweet it, Instagram it, do it again and again and again. And I think, that's not what I'm living for. I ain't living for that.

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I will eventually grow into a businessman.

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Graffiti is art, but you don't see graffiti in the National Gallery. Graffiti is on the street - that's where it belongs.

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Sometimes I feel like we don't need to vote - like it doesn't matter.

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A lot of young artists think that by looking tough in a homemade video they're worth something. In time they'll realize getting respected for your talent is what counts.

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My dad used to DJ too, so we used to hear music all the time.

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Top 18 Quotes & Sayings by Jme

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