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Hey ARTIST NAME, how's it going?
I'm all blessed; I’m taking life as it comes.

What have you got on this week, anything exciting?
Yeah as you know I’m on tour with Eliza Doolittle and Joe McElderry at the moment so I’m just concentrating on that

Your new single, Different meanings of love, is released a week), it's the first single from the new album, so tell us a bit about it.
Different meanings of love is about how you people have different interpretations of love, an its a powerful thing. My first line ' 30 meanings of love' explains it all.

Does the new album, Food & a place to lay my head see you taking a different musical direction?
Yeah defiantly, I believe being creative & unique is the key to being a good artist so naturally there was progression in the sound to the new album, in this album I will be focusing on my singing as well as rapping, having music for both the ladies and gents to zone out to.

We understand you have teamed up with Sarah Harding of Girls aloud for the next number one single on your new album; how important do you think those duos were in making you the name you are now?
Sarah is a magnificent girl, I enjoyed working with her and we have grown close, you can say we are actually very good friends at the moment. I think a good song is a good song due to the combination of talents that come together, which helps the song become successful.

You also met Kanye West last month right and I hear he gave you some really good advice?
Yeah man we had a general conversation, and about how music is received in both of our regions, he’s a really cool guy and he’s very influential.

So what inspired you to get involved in the music scene?
Its like when I was young I fell in love with singing around the house, to songs from Prince, Michael Jackson and prince. And when I entered secondary school I got introduced to grime, and I started writing and I became good and started doing song’s with the grime kings. It all really started from there.

Who would you say was your biggest role model on the music scene?
Garfield! (joke/laughs), My biggest role model? In the sense of music, considering the music that I do, would probably be Tinchy Stryder , because when I was coming up his music actually fueled me to do music, and I saw him being successful which fuelled me into doing music even more, and him being from Africa influenced me even more.

Who would you say is your personal role?
Personal role model? God and my mum definitely

What kind of music do you listen to yourself?
I listen to everything really. If the music’s good, and it’s unique or groundbreaking I will defiantly listen to it, no matter the genre

OK then, KFC or McDonalds?
KFC. I love my chicken man.


Do you think an underground grime song could ever get to number one?
Hopefully you know. Right now, a lot of people can't get their head around the music we make, they believe it’s all violent and negative but it really isn’t... Hopefully one day it will happen. Underground music is what it is and it's a kind of music that works. The important thing is to be creative with your craft and keep pursuing and chasing what you want