Quotes from AJ Tracey

I play 'Fortnite', I play 'FIFA', I'm trying to get into 'NBA' a little bit.

I know as quickly as people come up you can go down and I'm just trying to enjoy it and experience things that I never got to have, that's all it is.

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

I love Ladbroke Grove, but everyone knows where I live.

But my mum told me it's not good to be jealous, just work hard and keep your head down. Wait your turn.

At the end of the day, the only way that I was able to thrive was by people giving me a chance, not being close-minded.

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.

As long as everyone around me is comfortable and we have a roof over our heads and we're eating, then it's fine and I can go off and do whatever I want.

When I put my first project out ages ago, I didn't want to show anyone my emotions. Now I think it's better for people to understand how I am as a person and let them relate.

I never really do anything show-off-y, I keep it humble.

The first thing I ever wanted to be was a lawyer, because I love arguing. But I'm very lazy. I'm intelligent, but I'm very lazy, so it seemed like a bit too much.

But everyone asks me who my dad is and I will never reveal it. It's too much ammunition for the internet.

My dad used to be a rapper, he had a rap group. They did proper old school, boom-bap music. He had a high top and everything.

Everyone asks me about why I care about anime and football so much, but that's because anything dark that happened in my life, those two things would make me feel better. I just used to sit in front of the TV and watch football and breathe a sigh of relief. You know what I mean? It's another world. An escape.

American artists, Americans in general, don't take the U.K. rap scene too seriously, yeah, but thing is though, they wasn't taking Canadian artists that seriously either. And now we have Bieber, The Weeknd, Tory Lanez, Drake - massive, massive Canadian artists.

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

Yes, I'm having World Cup withdrawals; but no, this is sneaky of me to say, but I actually care about Tottenham more than I care about the England team.

A lot of my fans want easily digestible music, which I'm not really prepared to give anyone, ever. That's just trash. That's boring.

I wasn't super emo when I was younger but I'm very neurotic, my mood swings really heavily so when I'm upset I go away from everyone.

I don't want to go too deep, but football and 'Dragon Ball Z' were the two things that, when I was going through a hard time when I was younger, kind of gave me an escape.

Good on all the youths that are trying to do something different and do something positive.

Big labels can buy you radio play, they can buy you social media likes and YouTube views. I don't have any of that, but I'm still getting a Top 3 album and Top 20 singles.

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.

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.