Everybody has flaws, and every country has flaws. But you can still love something even though you know it’s been so wrong before, and sometimes is now, and probably will be again. Kano Read Quote
There were eras of English music where people tried to rap in American accents and we lost our way. Kano Read Quote
We’re always going for it and trying to raise the bar and achieve more and more and just be as creative as we can. Kano Read Quote
At some of my earliest shows, we used to roll up 20 deep – if my mates can’t come in, I can’t come in. My record label couldn’t understand it: plus-19 on the guestlist?! But that was how it was. Over the years – as it is with everyone, but amplified from being in the public – it’s got smaller and smaller. Kano Read Quote
That is part of the problem, that lack of belief in yourself because you don’t see success around you. I guess that breeds defeatism, so yes there does need to be resources out there and support that will nurture talent that I believe is there, and passion that I know is there. Kano Read Quote
When we started out we didn’t expect anything would come from it, definitely not money. We’d pay to go on pirate radio: twenty quid a month just to go on and spit for an hour. Kano Read Quote
Reggae was always playing at home in East Ham when I was growing up. Loud music would be coming from the bedroom, and downstairs all you’d hear was the bass. My uncles had sound systems and we used to go to Jamaica a lot as a family. Kano Read Quote
In most of my music it’s firsthand experience, and some of the same rules apply in TV. The difference in music is the control, whereas doing this, it’s someone else’s words that you can play in your own way. Kano Read Quote
My mum and dad weren’t together when I was born. When I was a teenager, dad brought this girl round: here’s your sister. She was only two years old, and I never saw her again from that day. Kano Read Quote
