Skepta: “Don’t Care About Being Classed A ‘Sell-Out’”

Published on June 30th, 2010
Written by Rameez S Quadri (Ramz)

Skepta recently did an interview with MTV “The Wrap Up”, caught up talking about everything from his thoughts on how his new single Rescue Me will do chart-wise, to not caring about being classed as a sell-out within the grime scene for making the music he’s making now. Checkout ‘Rescue Me’ video below:

Regards to what he said: “I used to care, but I don’t anymore, it’s a bit mad. Then I realised that nobody does it like me. There are two ends of the spectrum; nobody really meets the medium like Skepta does. No-one does it. You know what I mean? No other artist, without sounding rude and big headed to them, because they’re doing well, without the people like Chipmunk and Tinchy, we wouldn’t have probably be allowed to spit right now.”

“When it comes to me, I’m doing what I love, so like selling-out, I want to sell out. I need to sell out. If what I’m doing is selling-out, I’m selling-out more cuz! You know what I mean? I’m doing more and more and even more till I sell out a tour.”

Fair enough, check out the full interview here, where he talks more on Boy Better Know, the Diddy remix, and more. And as always, tell us what you think – still hate him? Love him for embracing being a sellout? Think he just talks aload of shit?