57 Quotes by AJ Tracey

People need to realize that because black people have been established in the U.S. for a lot longer than in the U.K., the culture's a lot more embedded. We will get there with how comfortable they are with rap in the mainstream, but we're way behind them.

Parklife is one of the festivals I most look forward to. The crowds are wild; I love seeing that energy, those sweaty moshpits.

I'm doing super quality control. I'll have five tunes that I think are all good - before I would've put out all five tunes but now I'm just putting out that one out of the five that I think is the banger.

Once upon a time Americans didn't want to listen to Canadian rap and now Drake's the biggest rapper in the world.

I like to draw from experiences in my past, but that alone is quite hard and complicated, because I don't want to say anything incriminating or too offensive, but I want to give people an insight into my life and how it was.

It's a bit cheeky as a rapper to make a singing album.

I thought, if a man has a girl's name and he's still scaring people, then maybe I should try doing it so I can be that guy.

As a kid, I loved Air Force Ones - but they were so expensive. I always had to save up for ages to get them. Now I can call the Nike guy and be like 'can you send me ten pairs?' and they'll be here the same day.

If I had a label, everything would have been easier. But it wouldn't have been the same album, from the cover art to the songs on it.