J Hus

Everyday I look back at my history and feel regret.

I think people can learn from my experiences, and I hope people can look at me and be inspired.

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

I like to say there's no natural genre to my music.

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

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.

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.

My absolute earliest influences would be people like Michael Jackson, R. Kelly, Outkast, 'Get Rich Or Die Tryin' era 50 cent.

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

There isn't a Skepta song I don't know.

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

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

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.

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.

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 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.

I'm not really good at talking.

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

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.

One of my biggest influences is Fela Kuti.

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

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.

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!

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