Published: March 23, 2019
The activist and rapper, 35, on justice for Grenfell, knife crime, Shakespeare and reincarnation
Contradictory is how I’d describe my childhood. My earliest memories are performing Ray Charles’s Shake Your Tail Feather with my siblings at the Hackney Empire, and sledging down Hampstead Heath in the snow. Then Mum got sick and split up with my stepdad. Things changed. I saw someone get stabbed at 12; a shooting at a party when I was 15.
When you experience violence growing up, it changes something inside you. There was a period of my life where violence was the logical response to confrontation. As hard as I’ve tried, as much as I meditate, do yoga and do martial arts, I don’t feel that’s ever left me.
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