The activist and rapper, 35, on justice for Grenfell, knife crime, Shakespeare and reincarnation
Contradictory is how I’d describe my childhood. My earliest memories are performing Ray Charles’s Shake Your Tail Feather with my siblings at the Hackney Empire, and sledging down Hampstead Heath in the snow. Then Mum got sick and split up with my stepdad. Things changed. I saw someone get stabbed at 12; a shooting at a party when I was 15.
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