Quotes from J Hus

I'm a Gemini, so my mood always changes - one minute I'm dance-dancey, the next I'm in the corner minding my own business.

In year 10 or 11, I used to buy packs of doughnuts for 50p from Morrisons, and sell them for 50p each. I made loads of money. So I was a doughnut hustler!

When I was growing up in my area, the worst problem for us was we never had a purpose, I'd just be looking for stuff to do, I would be bored, that's how we would get into trouble.

I don't like to be put into a box. I don't wanna be given a title - nothing.

I wanna keep rapping, I intend to. It's good to mix it up, but I'm still gonna stay true to rapping.

I wanted to be an actor.

To me now, I don't really categorize music - I see music as all one.

The women are my biggest supporters so I have to make good music for them too. Afrobeats is also often always about sexy women; we are simply celebrating the female form.

It's just common sense that everyone should be listening to J Hus.

I'm not really good at talking.

I'm just gonna be more weird and unique as possible.

I put my mum through a lot of stress; police would be coming to the house... It just seemed normal to me, to be up to no good; it's what everyone did. But then you start to see friends dying and going to prison and suddenly it's not fun anymore.

Prison, I don't want to go back there again.

Jhene Aiko, I like Zara Larsson, I like working with female artists.

I've had a million hats - snapbacks or whatever. I'm really into hats.

Everyday I look back at my history and feel regret.

I feel like I'm bipolar. I have my different moods and that. That's why my music exists in so many different worlds - this moment I'm feeling all raw, this moment I'm wanting to talk to a girl, the next moment I'm wanting to talk about spirit and be deep. Then I'm back to being angry.

I don't like to believe in star signs and all of that stuff.

One of my biggest influences is Fela Kuti.

Being ugly didn't offend me. It's like: Yeah, I'm ugly. What? Make me ugly-sexy. Embrace it.

I don't think anyone can do what I already do. I just do it and it's unique, yeah.

'Cause it's jail, everyone thinks they're bad. So this one guy was like, 'What're you gonna do, 'Lean and Bop' for us?' I was cocky, I was like 'Oh yeah? It costs five racks to see me lean and bop, It costs five racks to see me lean and bop.' But deep down inside it was hurting. It's moments like that make me hate - I feel like I sold out.

My little brother is four years old and he listens to all my music. I don't know how he finds it, but he knows how to use an iPad and he's always online. So one day my mum said: 'You know what, you have to make something for your little brother,' and that's how I made 'Lean & Bop.'

My mum used to play afrobeats, my dad used to play Caribbean, my sisters and brothers played hip-hop.