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Craig David

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“That was the first learning curve of defining of product and defining of you being a commodity that has to achieve something now that you've set up here. Whereas I thought it got fun when you start to do it. I thought it got more playful. No, no, it got more serious and there's more cooks in the kitchen and everyone's got an opinion of the song you should be releasing.”
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“Right, only 3.5. And I'm impressionable. I'm a young kid. I've just got into this, the music business. And you're telling me that that's not a good thing. Because last time I checked, the feeling I'm getting is I just saw 3.5 million albums. Give 3.5 million to any artist now. We're good. So I'd already started to buy into there was there was a trajectory was starting to go in a different place that I wouldn't even know about figures. I didn't really care about the album's sales. I was just like, I'm just happy to be here and I'm making music and I'm doing what I love my dream.”
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“And when you said about the Wembley Arena three times sold out, I'm standing outside the sign I've got it in my mum's house, like there's a picture of, and I'm like, Just can't make it up. It was so beautiful, and I'm so grateful for those times I started to see from the slick in your average time where the record label would already start to quote, I was going to do 10, 11 million, obviously slick in your average, because now the trajectory is going to be, it has to go higher than this. So then when the album ended up coming out, it ended up selling 3.5 million albums. three point five million albums yet at the time I remember that there was this feeling in the company of”
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“You know what I mean? It's a rip, rip curl. It's going crazy. You're through the middle of the eye of it. You're on it. You're not coming off. But then there was a point when the next album slicker than your average dropped, which was only like a year or so later, 2002. Great success with what's your flavor and the songs were hitting, but there was this born to do it had now done seven million albums.”
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“You know, like NJ. He said it even more coded. He's like, yeah. It was like M he said. It's like M's got your album. It's just like vibing. I said, oh, M. Yeah, you know MJ and Michael. Michael's got like he's got the album he loves born to do. He's been listening to gave it to his friends. I was like, stop this. If we can, if this is the thing, we've arrived. We're good. I've got my fix. There's not much more I could ask for. But it was literally the start of an incredible roller coaster ride, which the later years, I think, which we get into, it harps back to that. And I can see where the cracks were starting because when to answer your question about the other side of it, it was so euphoric and I was so swept up on it. It was like getting on a surfboard and actually being on the wave and you're doing, I never use this word, but like the most gnarliest, like you're the gnarly wave.”
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“What do you say at that point? I felt emotional. I felt because it was Stevie Wonder from the record collection from my mum's stuff. Beyonce, I've got Destiny's child on my wall, I had Jennifer Lopez on my wall, Missy Elliot. I don't even listen to before I come out. It was just like, you can't make this up. It was almost like, yes, you're behind the scenes and bam, here it is. And then I got to meet him at the end and he'd come with Quincy Jones, who we all know is the producer of all of the huge hits for Michael Jackson. And then Quincy said,”
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“I can't stand the rain and I just miss yell at the hot. Next night I'm there, I look up in the same balcony, Jennifer Lopez is there. I'm like, wow. And I want to sound like I'm name dropping, but I wanted to be to give context. It's just these facts, yeah? The following night. Sorry, how am I missing this? It was Missy and Beyonce. Fuck off. Then it was Jennifer Lopez. Then on the last night, I look out into the crowd and there's a lot of kind of attention on one in particular gentleman that's in the crowd who's singing. I couldn't quite work out because the lights were too dark. So I got the front house to turn the lights up. And I look in the crowd and I'm singing walking away and I look over and I see Stevie Wonder. Walking away, and I'm just like.”
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“I'd say channeling in of how I or tuning into how I was at that time. I say it was euphoric. I was like, whoa, everything's new. You're doing new places and going to the best restaurants and your eyes are wide open. You're on a plane to this country. I went, was that the House of Blues in America doing, we had three nights there. And the first night, and I tell this because it kind of just to give context to how bizarre it was. So remember, I've come from your flash. I think that girl actually over there. Let me do a little mix for you over here, get a little half an hour in the set. Jump fast forward a few years later, House of Blues, three nights in a row, first night, Missy Elliott has come to watch the show. I'm looking up thinking, this is crazy.”
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“Yeah, so yeah, so with the album dropped the same year. So 2001 was when I went over to the States. So it would have been like 19, like.”
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“Then the next songs, I think, kind of reinforced that it wasn't just Garage. And then from seven days, and then to get to walking away. Because walking away, it gone clear at that point. Really had gone clear. Like we were, I was in France nearly every other week in Paris doing radio interviews and I'd be in doing the whole of Scandinavia. Then I'd be in Germany. Then we'd be getting a flight over to America and it just started the whole”
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“Clever move from at the time, my record label was half-owned by my now manager, Colin Lester, Telstar and Capital were involved. And it was just like, we want to find ways that it just didn't. Exclude me from other radio stations and make it feel like it wasn't just this radio thing. So we did performances like on TFI Fridays and on Jules Holland, which were acoustic. And all of a sudden I went from the rise and garage star to wow, it's actually a song here. It's writing songs.”
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“When I do the performance and then film me and was building up to be my first number one, and it was my first solo single that went to number one and it was a song that was released the same day as Destiny's child saying my name. So to have a number one in the charts with a group that I've grown up with posters on my wall and like thinking this is crazy. Saint Many is one of my favorite R&B songs of all time. So just fulfill me in to do what it did I knew something had changed. I just knew, well, it was quite obvious. And I was on this wave. It was euphoric. There was nothing I can put my finger on. It was like it was everything but more. It went from everything I touched was turning into gold because everyone wanted a piece of me and I was doing acoustic performances, which was to give a different feel for filming and which I think was a really...”
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“I knew something had really changed when the security, there was a security guard and he had to put me up. I went there with it just being calm. I went into the capital, did the interview. The security guard had to put me up on his shoulders to get me across Leicester Square to sound because there were fans going crazy. For a moment in that period of time the Justin Bieber thing, even before the Drakes, I mean, it was like it was that fever pitch where it was just like, whoa, BTS flexor. It was like madness, like pandemonia. I was like, whoa, ripping, pulling. Like, it was, whoa, I was thinking something's changed.”
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“There was a club called Sound, I think it was, on Leicester Square. And at this time now, we wind up being released. It's gone to number two. People didn't really know who I was. They knew the name, which was, you know what I mean? That was always using the name was always like a tag, a DJ tag thing. You put your name DJ Khalid would do it. It would be like, I'd be like, Greg, David. So you knew who was on the record just in case you were confused, yeah? And then that then became sort of my intrinsic trademark thing that I did throughout that board to do it album. So just be like, Craig David, it's another one. All that kind of stuff. But yeah, I remember doing this performance. I'd had an interview in Capital FM and I had to get across Leicester Square to go and do this performance of it in sound, which capital were doing like radio performances from there.”
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“It's crazy. It went like from zero to 100. Literally. That's why it was kind of like. Behind the scenes, funny enough, even though I've said 0 to 100, there was a lot of learning curve that I was learning, so doing the DJing, doing performances in front of a club PA, or even before that when I was doing my DJing stuff as an MC, when the vinyl skipping and the crowd are looking at you like, yo, and you've got to improvise quickly. So man's going into some kind of MC like some of them are laughing, some of them hold a mic, I hope. They're trying to find another bit of vinyl to put on because this one's going to keep skipping. Hopeless, hopeless. Jump around him, I do this. And then I get it to mix somehow perfectly, yeah, and I'm sweating, yeah, because I'm thinking I nearly mashed the whole thing out. And after people come up saying, Greg, I was sick when you did that thing. How did you do that? Why are you sweating so much? So it's not even hot. Air condition is blasting. I was like, if only you knew, but it teared me up for performances going forward. So when we got to filming in, I can just remember something happening when I was doing...”
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“I appreciate you. You know what I mean? Hundreds. It was a cultural record. I did a show the other day, yes, last night, and I drop it in, the millennials are getting crazy for it, the day ones are there going like crazy.”
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“People were like, there's that tune that does that half time. I don't know, a baseline thing, but it goes slow and it set the tone for the whole thing. That song right there, still, it's like my baby. Because I felt it when I walked home with my Sony Walkman with my headphones on, on my Jack Stones, I was like walking back, like just listening to it, thinking, I don't need, there's certain songs where I don't need any feedback. I don't need someone tell me what they think about it, how they feel. I know in my soul this here is the one and it wasn't the one from it's going to go off in the club. It's just going to go off when I go back to my flat at a huge sub speaker that was probably bigger than me that I had in the corner, bigger than most of my room. I had to squeeze my bed out almost to get it in. When I press play on that and it came through that speaker, I was like this, I'm good. I got the full feeling that I needed. So from then, I was like, if this is the same.”
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“That was the phrase as a cultural reference for that music. And I think that that's where it kind of just was exponential after that. It just went from what you're going to do, then rewinds with starting to go do its thing. And people were just losing their minds to that song. I remember my first personal from PA of that song. I wasn't sure if the crowd were feeling it because it goes into this baseline in the chorus, which is very, it feels like a halftime R&B record. So it's like So it's like re-e. It wasn't like we're not feeding it. It's like we don't know what to do here. Like, because the verse is making moves, yeah, on a dance floor. You got the Garris things. Cool. And then it goes, And people like, and then when it, and that was this USB in the end.”
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“Twice as nice was the big name at the time. And I got out there and seen what you're going to do. And I'd go on stage and I was this young 15-year-old kid. I was 16 at the time, walked out and the DJ, even more like a, any DJ could play because the artful dodger, we had this sort of agreement that if Artful Dodger were with me performing, we're doing a set together. We sort of half the amount for the fee. And if I was going off doing a performance, then I would just take the money. And if they did a DJ set somewhere, they'd take it. So we just had a nice little agreement going on. So I'd go up there and the DJ would say, you ready, ready? Okay, yeah, I'm ready, ready. And they'd be like, drop the drop the bass. And that's for the first time walking out, seeing it go off. I was just like, this is mad. And before I even got to sing, the guy, they're spinning it up and everyone's going, bo, bo, boa, which is where led to both selector with rewinds. Why I was saying that in the song. It's like, bolect.”
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“Next thing you know, I got a call from public demand who were the label that had got invested in that record. They'd done a licensing deal for that song. They said, do you want to come up to London and start doing some PAs and some performances for this song? I said, I'd love to. So I call up my mate Clinton in his yellow fiesta. Remember clearly. But the Jamaican flag in the back, yeah, just like he had it proudly there. He had like the sub-speaker in the boot going crazy. The thing was tuned up like he was coming going to Nottinghill Carnival. Yeah, the sound system was way more than the car, right? Sounded Chris. So up there slipping like 50 pound to get me up there, get me back. And literally, I go up. I was getting like 250, 300 pound for a PA, which was good money. I'm like, wow, this is real money now from selling chocolates to this kind of money. I can buy this record. I can buy that. And I go to the Coliseum in Vauxhall, the end.”
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“I was like, just happy to be on the record, but then all of a sudden I was getting people saying who they've come back down from London saying, I'm hearing your tune getting played on pirate radio stations, you know. I'm like, what? I'm hearing it's going off. Drop the funk, drop the bass, hit it. And I'm like, what? But then random people saying, I was coming back from London, it's getting played. I went to a club, it went off, the DJ span it like four times back to back. Something was bubbling”
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“I was like, you can't even make this up. It was my flat, the old Orientals place that we met, the studio was literally within a 10 minute walk. It was like all perfectly planned. And then from that, the next thing I did was record a song called What You Gonna Do, which was the first release from Artful Dodger. And I remember it being printed up on Vinyl. They did their own thing, boxed it all up. I felt sweet. When you're on a vinyl, I thought I'd made it at that point. I was on vinyl, yeah. And they got up in a van and they took you out to London, they go into the record stores and they say, look, we got them to take two boxes here at this record store and so in Derby Street and Soho records there in Brixton. I was like, and something started to build my man.”
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“All of a sudden we got into conversation. I was talking about all these songs that I've been recording at home where I didn't have a producer or someone who could create the music for me. I was using instrumentals and stuff to just sing over like you'd hear a freestyle. And then literally, I mean, this is where it's so divine, like the serendipity of it was so beautiful. Mark Hill, who ended up producing the whole of Born to do it album, said, I've been looking for someone who writes songs. Like I do music. I've got the music thing like that. I need someone who writes songs who can sing. And I was like, oh, this is a perfect marriage. And he says, I've got a studio. It's like five minutes from here at a place called Ocean Village.”
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“So, in one club, it was called Old Orientals. Minutes around the corner from where I was living with my mum. DJing downstairs RB hip hop set. Upstairs was house and garage night. Mark Hill and Pete Devereux, who the original Artford Dodger, were playing upstairs. Now, these are early doors for garage music. So you're hearing like, it's a London thing was playing, Scott Garcia, which was like a classic garage tune from them days. And even the lessons in love was coming through Robbie Craig and there were just tunes put in place. And I always got to pop my head up and be like, it wasn't packed up there, but I was just like, this is a vibe. It's got like, it's like the layering R&B stuff now. It felt over this skippy, what do you call it? I don't know what two-step was. It was like it was a speed garage. It was with some eclectic thing that's not house, but it feels UK.”
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“Richard Sounds was around the corner, had some wicked equipment in there. I thought, even if I got a job working there, it would be great. I'd be near decks. I'd be near tape cassette decks, and maybe I can get a little discount. So that was my road. I was going down DJing, MCing there. Never thought it would necessarily mean Mark Hill and Pete Devro from the Artford Dodger, which is where it really then transcended.”
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“You've got to find your ways, yeah. But I learn from between that 14 to really to 16 was a period of DJ and intensely then. I started to go off and do my own DJing sets with MC Alistair, who was part of the Artful Dodger, who goes and does MC sets now. And then it was kind of moving, I was at college. I'd gone from secondary school now. I was at college, a city college. I was doing an MVQ level two in electronics. It was like the closest thing I could get to music because there wasn't production courses like they do now, which would have been great. Back then it was like, how do you forge a trumpet out of metal? And how do you make a guitar from scratch with wood? And I'm like, you know, I just want to know how timberland makes that or Rondy Jerkins makes the vocal sound so good because someone show me that. And there wasn't a chorus. So I thought, let me do electronics because at least that gets me closer to circuit boards.”
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“I'd always do this thing with him where I'd be like actually that girl over there. I was always trying to find a girl who had his eyes on. He'd be watching all through the night. I'd be like, I think she keeps looking at you, man. You need to go. You need to go and speak to her. He goes, yeah, but don't worry. I got you. You go and speak to her, man. She's going to go and it's all going to go. Okay, cool. Handle the four. I'll handle the fort, don't you worry? So I play like a little half an hour thing. Yeah, he's skirting around. Should I go and speak to her? And he's just standing next to her. He goes over for the move. She blows him out completely because you're never looking at him at all for the whole thing, right? I've got a 30-minute DJ set in there. He's coming back like crazy. It's like she did even. I goes, I know. She was looking at you all the time. I'm not sure.”
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“The kind of big clubs there, and he introduced me to the Cajun Zoo in Bournemouth. We do a couple shows in Portsmouth. So I was like his MC and also his box boy as well, because trust me, the back was getting like smashed picking up those heavy boxes. Yeah, it's different. When you're wearing the chain with the MP3 on it, it's different when you're picking up those boxes, right? Your squat game's got to be really on the point. Your glutes will be fired up.”
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“gone from the songwriting competition a moment where it was like okay this is the this is the this is the thing but then it can carry on where okay this wasn't necessarily at the big breakthrough heavily into the into collecting records i started to dj early on i was emcee at first for another dj called dj flash who i respect so much because he brought a lot into my life to be able to be a chaperone for me really he knew my dad and He was 10 years older than me. And at 14, I looked a little older as well. So I couldn't kind of get, I could style it to get into clubs with him. And he let me be his MC. So I'd be called MC Fade. And I was just like, you know what I mean? The fade was Chris. And I just thought that was the. And then he gave me like a little slot to play maybe a little 15 minutes at the end of his DJ set. So in Southampton, he was playing most of the...”
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“I said, yeah, you know, I'll swap you a Faith Evans. I just can't. And a jade for the tune that you got. And I said, maybe give me a little £10 extra for that. It was all vibes, man. It was such a fun time because things were slower. And I love it now, but it's just a lot to get into. There's a lot of music being.”
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“I got to London to get records, bring them back. Those days, DJs were the go-to. Like he wasn't like, you know, new music Friday and you get a thousand songs to kind of look through. It was like if the DJ played in the club, you better go speak to the DJ, find out where he got it from because he's got this 10 copies maybe and this promo that's not going to come out for six months. Literally, songs were like, you had time because it was physical. Where are you going to go? You can't copy this unless you've got a lathe and you're going to start to print acetates in your house. So you have to wait. So when you went out to London especially, because this was like a hub for where everything was being made and printed out, I come back sometimes from Southampton with some record. DJs.”
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“Yeah, of course. It did feel that My obsession with music, like when I look back, and it's different now because I have the same kid in me that wants to do the same thing that I may have done in those periods of time, especially when I start collecting vinyl. I knew every producer. I knew where the snare was on this track was taken from a changing faces song over there. And this record over here uses the kick drum from there. The bass is I was in it. Like I had everything in alphabetical order with the plastic sleeves that they all went in. Room was getting to the point where I couldn't fit in my room for records. So I was really living it to the point where I'd swap shop with records. I'd be like other DJs would say.”
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“Yeah, it was, and again, the support of my mum and dad in ways that now I'm just like so thankful for of bringing that studio 100 piece of equipment that for me to record my first record deck all those things now I was the kid looking through the music store like oh wish I could have that wish I did that one if I could get that one equalizer it would I could mix it I was just that I'm nerdy with it And they would always somehow have a ten pound and a 20 pound ready for me to help me out. And I had my chocolate thing again or so.”
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“You know what it's like. It gave me the first taste of reinforcing that I could actually do this. I thought it was by break, like I was going to, we've done it here. I've written the song, I'm ready, it's on the back side of Wonderful Tonight. The Eric Clapton Cover, which was the lead single. I'm telling everyone, it went into number two in the charts. I'm telling all my friends that it's because of obviously by song I'm ready. Not the classic wonderful tonight that they've covered, right? But I thought it was off the back. And I actually sang vocals on that, did BVs on the song. They let me come up to London, met the guys. I was just like, wow, this is like a dream come true. But I didn't, off the back of it, was like, okay, it was in the shops for a few weeks, but nothing. It went quiet after that.”
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“But there, that kind of led into a world very nourished with R&B, reggae, but also the pop soul element, Tritch and Derby was the first show I ever went to at the Guild Hall in Southampton. It blew my mind. I saw this guy on his front row. I just saw him was moving like a prince with Marvin Gabe. He had the voice like a Stevie Wonder with Michael Jackson. The hardline, according to album, was like, it was like seven, eight million albums. It was a huge record for him with the breakout songs, Sign Your Name Across My Heart. Again, look at the messages, sign your name across my heart. I'm like, finally, we're getting the message now. I need to let someone sign it fully. You know what I mean? And capital to hold that. But changed my life. I was like, if I can, I'd love to do what that guy does.”
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“But yes, I started to bounce the vocals down. So you sing onto one cassette, you put that in the bottom tape cassette, you then put a fresh one in the top, and you let that play and you record on top. So you were dubbing on top of your vocal. The quality was diminishing every time you did that, yeah, because this is old school stuff. I was starting to finish a song. I was feeling very, very proud of myself that I could actually write a song I would have been like, yeah, like 11, 12 years”
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“If you are feeling kind of saucy with it, you have like a chrome or a metal, the £2.49, those ones. But if you went for normal D9, it was like a little 69p one. I buy two of them. You record into one tape. So I put the first lead line of something. A lot of my early songs were just sounding like I was literally just lifting the vocals from every other song that I was listening to. I didn't quite get the memo of oh, what we have to change the melody that much for it to not be sound like I'm singing Jodice freaking you or Boise to men. Why does it sound like you literally just changed the road to street on end of the road? You have to do a bit more than that, which I kind of...”
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“First time I made music was my dad got me a hi-fi system called Studio 100 for anyone who knows that it was like a big box like huge like box with loads of faders on the front he came home one day like he came to the house like Greg I got you the studio 100 like whoa what am I supposed to do with this I have no idea so it had loads of faders loads of microphones with different colored foam capsules on the top It looked the business with a record deck on top two twin cassette decks and lots of switches that I didn't understand was going on, but I was excited because I was like, wow, this is the first time I might be able to record something. So I was just fully investing. And when you're a kid, you learn all the things. You know all that. So I started to record. I would have said I was 11, 11, 12 years old when that came through. And you put a TDK cassette tape. There was a D90 was like the basic one.”
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“Me sitting up and posted up a little bit of rice and chicken, a little budweiser by a speaker, and I'm good. So, yeah, man, that music started off early and then I just felt like it just was gravitating towards it.”
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“Terror fabulous Buja Banton, Beanie Man, Bounty, like I'm a sound man at heart. I think when I'm in the studio, people like, you literally are Bujabanta, but no one's actually hearing you do this. Because I go into this reggae killer manjaro, David Rodigan, black cat sound system in me. So when I hear see carnivore, I'm just like...”
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“Yeah, because it was on a seven inch. There was a small little box next to the 12 inch. It's the first one I bought. That's one. Let me tell you right. It was the first one I bought, first song I ever bought. So that's why, and let me look at the lyric of the song. You couldn't be any more perfect as a song of being conscious and understanding the world. So, yeah, so there was a bit of Donnie Osmond in there because my mom was a big fan of the Osmonds, which was a big group back in the day, mixed with the Stevies and the Michaels, and then also having my dad's reggae, deep reggae from Beres Hammond to Sanchez.”
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“I was like, yes, dad. Because you are a musician in your heart, bass guitar player. The group we're talking about social issues that were going on in the 70s, 80s, and being able to put that on record and talk about injustices that were going on in their lives in Southampton and have it on record, but now you're getting recognized for that. Amen. Like, I just love, love my dad for that. It's like, I'm just so happy for him. So I was looking at records and I pulled out his record and I'd be like, Ebony Rockers and my mom would say, yeah, that's your dad's group. And I'd be like, well, my dad's like early though. I'm talking like five, six years old looking, well, my dad's in a group. So I know that's definitely there's some lineage there. There's DNA that's coming through musically. My mum was always into Stevie Wonder and Michael Jackson. My first ever seven inch I ever bought was it was human nature.”
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“I mean, it was early. Like I said earlier on, I said a little high five when you come into the world. I feel that you lose the cognitive understanding as to what's going on and why we're here. There's something intuitively that's pulling you in certain directions. And as a child, you very much honor that. You just go in the direction. So I was always intrigued by the little hi-fi setup my mom had in the flat with a big box of records. And I'd just be flicking through them. And there was a vinyl in there. There was Ebony Rockers, which is my dad's reggae group, which more recently there's a mural now in Southampton they put on Ogle Road. Huge mural that says about Ebony Rockers. And I'm thinking, wow, I'm so proud of my dad.”
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“I think she was going deeply into overdrafts just to make my life feel comfortable. You got the Sega Mega Drive, right? With the Sonic the Hedgehog and those games, yeah, so I broke my memory spring. Yeah, you've got the, but when I think back, wherever my money was getting, wherever my mum was getting this money from, she was deeply in debt. So when you look back, you say, mum, the lover have for you, like nine to five, and making me feel like I was getting everything that anyway other kids were getting. You know what I mean? But my dad, you know what I mean? He supported, he would no one could cross me. No one could do anything bad till my dad had me. They'd have to cross my dad and that was the kind of, and that protection is good to a certain degree, but then when you grow up, dad's not there to do the things. So where's that part? So you're having to understand, I've got so much feminine energy in me and that part, but I need to...”
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“I came on my grind. Council estate working class family growing up made me have to make ends meet where secondary school wasn't really setting me up for when I leave here. I was like I was already doing my market stall selling of chocolates at school. Already had that going on. I was already doing mixtapes. So that was my kind of go-to in the barber's selling mixtapes for 10 pounds that I'd be doing at home, which would buy another piece of equipment that I'd get another speak another pair of speakers or another mini disc player to record on. Then I was getting a printer so I could print my own covers. Then I was everything I kind of am doing now weirdly enough. It's no different than what I was doing when I was a kid. I literally had my whole little factory of making tunes, trying to have a little business going on. So I can make ends meet in my own way without having to try and pull money from my mum because she already had her own things going on and she supported me beyond.”
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“Looking out of that window, overlooking that car park, what my grandmother brought to the table in terms of like, I mean the love my mum, just from my family, I'm just very grateful for that upbringing. But my grandma, as grandmas do, and I make sure you get the right food in you. But she had a beautiful little garden in the house that she lived. And it was like five minutes away from where I lived. And I was just like, that for me was enough as an inspiration to say, if I could have a house with a garden in Southampton, we're good here. I mean, little did I know that how it would cascade from the music into... Yeah, that times 10 in terms of just like my eyes being open. But it was that inspiration for my grandma. And I looked at the car park and it was like,”
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“Do you know what? I think to correct the quote even more Yeah, because the jacuzzi won, like, it's funny because I was talking about this only yesterday about when I was speaking about filming in, and I was like, yeah, I was like, jumped in the jacuzzi. And I was thinking, what jacuzzi was actually jumping it? Because last time I checked, you were in a two-bedroom flat with your mum yet. So the only jacuzzi were jumping was your bath. So let's put that on record. And you were in a four by four, yeah? Okay, cool. So which driving license did you have at that point? Because you were only like 15, 16 when you were right. Aspirations”
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“And even then, I don't feel like I open my heart. I really felt that the girl was really trying to get me to break down some walls. And I go on record that as toxic as things can go with a little bit of time and separation, you look at it, book it back and you say, thank you because you taught me so much about how I was moving and how I was going on. And I'm a better man for that because now I can open up my heart like this because a lot of guys don't want to talk like that. They want to keep it cool, clear and different.”
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“It would sound so short for so many people. For me, it felt long two and a half years was probably my longest. Relationship”
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“Me laugh, cry uncontrollably. You've always got half of my heart already, yeah, because that's going to save you when the relationship has its ups and downs. So the down is when you need someone who can bring that. Because trust me, the romantic phase, as we all know, that's intoxicating. Yeah, when you wake up after the hangover and it's real, you still having the same feeling. And love starts then. Hangover right then, that's when you're going to ask yourself, am I really in love? The romantic thing, there's a bit of sweetness.”
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