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- This year, Skepta will release his first album in seven years, a record of “party music” — an album of bangers including “Gas Me Up (Diligent)”; “Cold Outside”, a jittery club-ready collaboration with fellow grime MC Novelist; and “Deadlines”, which turns Skepta’s immigrant upbringing into autobiography.
The story behind the album title, Fork & Knife? “I started thinking about my trajectory — how I ended up being this Nigerian, British-born artist with this outlook and this understanding of gratitude and luck,” he tells us. “Like the lottery ticket of me being Skepta to my parents. One day I asked my mum how that happened. I know Nigerian people all over the world who ended up in America or Russia or Japan. So I asked her, why the UK? She explained that her dad worked in hospitality in Nigeria. He told her that when people of a certain level sit down for dinner they use a knife and fork — how it’s set up, how it’s laid out — and he wanted all his family to do well enough to live like that.”
Fresh from winning a Brit Award, Skepta is proving he isn’t just king of grime but master of the universe. He speaks to Esquire UK for the May/June issue. Read the interview at the link in our bio.
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