Top 33 AJ Tracey Quotes

I thought, if a man has a girl’s name and he’s still scaring people, then maybe I should try doing it so I can be that guy.

I like wearing the things from Japan, because they usually get a different collection than we do.

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.

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

I have a personal relationship with Dizzee Rascal – I know him, he’s cool – so this is no disrespect to him or any other British rappers who tried to make it in America, like Wiley and Tinie Tempah, but the type of music they were making to be accepted over there – it doesn’t translate.

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.

People love to be U.K. music advocates but they don’t wanna give other types of music a chance so it can be as popular as this one sound.

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

I like to draw from experiences in my past, but that alone is quite hard and complicated, because I don’t want to say anything incriminating or too offensive, but I want to give people an insight into my life and how it was.

I’m half-white and half-black. No-one will ever say I’m white, but all the road men think because I’m mixed race that I can’t be bad because I’m light skin. It’s crazy.

I’m the least animated person I know. Even on stage, I just walk across it.

I’m not afraid to use my platform. I don’t want to preach to people; I just want to put my opinions across about things I feel strongly about.

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.

I don’t love collabs just for the sake of collaborating. It has to be purposeful and it needs to sonically make sense.

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.

I’ve never been in love, ever. I feel like I would know if I’d been in love.

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.

I want to showcase my talent, I’m not just a grime MC, I’m an artist.

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.

When it comes to politics, unless it’s an issue that’s really close to home and you feel strongly about, I just don’t think you should really talk about it.

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

At school, when everyone would sell sweets and chocolate, I’d always take it that step further. I’d hustle as hard as I could to get the new Air Forces, to go and chill with the posh kids and the white girls who were around my area.

When I was in secondary school, I cared about nothing but music.

For me, being independent is about being able to express myself exactly how I want to, instead of maximising profits.

You can’t dwell on disappointment. You’ve got to take the positives and keep looking ahead.

I have to give credit to my mum for my music taste. She’s white and Welsh but she listens to dancehall, reggae, Reggaeton.’

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.

As a kid, I loved Air Force Ones – but they were so expensive. I always had to save up for ages to get them. Now I can call the Nike guy and be like ‘can you send me ten pairs?’ and they’ll be here the same day.

Even if it’s a song I know isn’t gonna do that well, I’m dropping it as a piece of art, so I always want sick visuals to go with it.

People ask me, how was university; I say it was boring and it wasn’t for me. But if you wanna go, that’s cool. I’m not out to lead people astray, but everyone has their vices.

I’m a very vengeful person – if someone didn’t wanna get on board with me and I’m doing it well I’m gonna rub it in their face.

I used to send out emails to producers to collaborate and they’d give me nothing, not even a response. As soon as I started popping off, out they came!

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.