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. Jme Read Quote
Graffiti is art, but you don’t see graffiti in the National Gallery. Graffiti is on the street – that’s where it belongs. Jme Read Quote
I didn’t understand how to make it in the music industry, I just wanted to make music. Jme Read Quote
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. Jme Read Quote
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. Jme Read Quote
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. Jme Read Quote
Music videos are like tools that young artists use to earn respect from their peers, to ‘represent.’ Jme Read Quote
