Words matter. These are the best J Hus Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I’m just gonna be more weird and unique as possible.
Even with me going to prison, it could have put a bad stigma on my name. But you keep going. When people see you in a low situation, when people see you fight, they respect you for it.
I wanted to be an actor.
Prison, I don’t want to go back there again.
My friends used to call me ugly. Even my mum would say it.
It’s just common sense that everyone should be listening to J Hus.
I don’t like to be put into a box. I don’t wanna be given a title – nothing.
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 think people can learn from my experiences, and I hope people can look at me and be inspired.
I think I make ugly sexy and attractive. If I didn’t do music, the girls that like me wouldn’t like me, but I think I make ugly look good.
People look at kids like us and think we have no morals because we’re from ‘the street.’ I want to show that we do live by certain standards, that we are moral people.
I don’t like to believe in star signs and all of that stuff.
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.
There isn’t a Skepta song I don’t know.
I’m not really good at talking.
I wanna keep rapping, I intend to. It’s good to mix it up, but I’m still gonna stay true to rapping.
Everyday I look back at my history and feel regret.
People always say I’m shy! But I’m not even shy! Like, if you knew what I’m saying in my brain. I’m in my own mind a lot. Even though I’m quiet I’m thinking about a lot of things.
One of my biggest influences is Fela Kuti.
Everyone sounds like me now. But they know who they are. It’s a game changer. I started this sound, I’m the head of it. You can do it, but I’ll do it better.
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.’
People are always surprised when they meet me. I was in Nigeria and I went to one of the radio stations and they were like, ‘Aww you look cute!’ They were expecting me to look more rough, and I was like: ‘Yeah, I’m polite!’
Jhene Aiko, I like Zara Larsson, I like working with female artists.
To me now, I don’t really categorize music – I see music as all one.
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!
